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by fossuser 5y ago
Not sure if you’re not in the Bay Area, but for a counter point many (maybe most?) of friends I know have had large payoffs (though not always with options, sometimes RSUs) - it does require some risk taking (holding onto them longer, not j
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by fossuser 5y ago
Ah yeah I think the ask for credentials for free downloads is similarly annoying. There should definitely be something just for stuff that charges your card.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Don’t they have ask to buy as a setting? You can have it ask you prior to child accounts purchasing stuff.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I don’t think Spotify wants you to be able to use your favorite app. Their strategy is to take the open protocol of podcasts and pay the hosts to turn that into centralized tracks on Spotify to force you as the user to use Spotify to listen
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by fossuser 5y ago
I gave up on Spotify because of this - and because of their hostile moves to turn podcasts into another centralized service. Apple Music is still mostly worse without discovery, but at least lossless makes up the quality difference that use
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I thought it came from the east coast? DC specifically is where I first heard it.
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by fossuser 5y ago
All we got was the entirety of human knowledge in our pockets, functionally for free. I don’t like ad tech and I’m not dismissing that modern software has problems, but I think there’s a lot to be optimistic about. On most metrics (infant m
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by fossuser 5y ago
For ad blocking, 1Blocker has been the best for a while: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-ad-blocker-privacy/id... iTunes is dead and its "Music" replacement doesn't need to be used for t
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by fossuser 5y ago
The 12 mini is my favorite iPhone since the 5. I’d definitely recommend it if you think you might like it.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think a lot of these niche products target that market - lots of disposable income and an interest in random gadgets.
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by fossuser 5y ago
That’s not the real target market. The real demographic is the Silicon Valley iPhone user that fancies themself a minimalist and has an extra $300 to spend on a second phone for fun because it seems cool. Main issue for me is missing iMessa
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by fossuser 5y ago
At the time people were showing the effect by gripping the bottom of the phone in such a way that wrapped their entire hand tightly around it. It wasn’t “one of the most widely accepted and ergonomic grips people use”. The entire thing was
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by fossuser 5y ago
The actual iPhone quote you're referring to was "Just avoid holding it in that way" not "you're holding it wrong" as it's often misquoted to. Most of the commentary on this more recent issue is similarly m
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by fossuser 5y ago
For now, but if they don’t do something like this laws can change and that change could make things a lot worse for privacy than this implementation. I suspect they’re trying to get ahead of that and solve this in the most privacy protectin
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by fossuser 5y ago
I’m not making statements about the way things ought to be, I’m being pragmatic about the way things are. We’re trusting a lot of the stack. Apple’s policy as described is reasonable. If you distrust it because of the things they could do
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by fossuser 5y ago
It only runs if you have iCloud photos enabled. Then it only runs client side and alerts if there are matches to CSAM hashes above some threshold. The other way is it runs against unencrypted images in iCloud and they'd know of any mat
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by fossuser 5y ago
That's just a separate topic. If you do it yourself none of this policy stuff matters.
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by fossuser 5y ago
To be fair - I think reasonable people can disagree on this. I don't think it's a rationalization to point out that it only occurs when the same baseline conditions are met (using the cloud). I think those constraints/specifi
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by fossuser 5y ago
For #2 actions are taken in the cloud, authorities are contacted, and all of the photos are unencrypted. Option #1 doesn’t really breach the ‘sanctity of device ownership’ because it only occurs if you’ve enabled iCloud photos on the devi
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by fossuser 5y ago
Frankly the distinction seems arbitrary to me. This is a policy issue in both cases - policy can change (for the worse) in both cases. The comparison is about unencrypted photos in iCloud or this other method that reveals less user informat
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - the sense I got was he just liked the cleaner cut policy of a hard stop at the phone itself (and he was cool with the tradeoff of unencrypted content on the server). It does have some advantages - it's easier to argue (see: the
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by fossuser 5y ago
Speculating (IANAL) - it's only when iCloud photos is enabled. I'd guess this is akin to third party hosting the files, I think the rules around that are more complex.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I agree, but it doesn't necessarily mean what they say is wrong. I like that they disagree - the issue doesn't have an obviously correct answer.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think you're wrong about the risk (the paper says per account), but even so you need to compare it to the alternatives. Photos in iCloud are unencrypted and Apple checks for CSAM on the unencrypted photos server side, they know of al
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "They've turned your device into a dragnet for content the powers that be don't like. It could be anything. They're not telling you" They're pretty explicitly telling us what it's for and what it&#x27
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think it's possible to have nuanced policy in difficult areas where some things are okay and others are not.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think the thumbnail is only when the threshold is passed and there's a hash match. The reason for that is an extra check to make sure there is no false positive match based on hatch match (they claim one trillion to one, but even i
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think the one thumbnail of the matching hash? Just to make sure there isn't a (they argue one in a trillion, but I don't know if I buy that) false positive. That's if there is enough matches to trigger the threshold in the
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yes - and I agree that that's where the risk lies. Though I'd argue the risk has kind of always lied there given companies can ship updates to phones. You could maybe argue it'd be harder to legally compel them to do so, but
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by fossuser 5y ago
Even in the child account case it's not sent to Apple - it alerts parent accounts in the family. It's also just nudity generally, more akin to garden variety parental control content filtering. The child account iMessage thing is

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