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Supplements are an unregulated market so doses can vary wildly, even with melatonin. ‘A study published in 2017 tested 31 different melatonin supplements purchased from pharmacies and grocery stores. For most of the supplements tested, the
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Just curious where all the Apple CSAM defenders are when information like this comes to light. All the "I have nothing to hide people", don't understand they don't control when or how the information is used or if the in
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You’re splitting hairs. Feinstein was mostly alone in her convictions but not completely. Again: > In the United States, there is effectively nobody in this position. The committee hearings on anti-trust and encryption have little overla
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Just off the top of my head there are a few people that come to mind. “After the 2016 FBI–Apple encryption dispute, Feinstein and Richard Burr sponsored a bill that would be likely to criminalize all forms of strong encryption in electronic
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There is big talk of a federal anti-trust against Apple. The rumors have been swirling for months. Apples CSAM initiative might be an attempt to cool things off at the justice department. https://www.marketwatch.com/story&#x
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My iCloud is not accessible to all my friends, family, work associates, and the public. Facebook/Twitter/insta is. (Depending on your privacy settings) Scanning publicly accessible material makes a lot of sense and is within the b
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> By the time the FBI comes knocking for your devices, they have a lot of evidence, not a list of hash collisions. Not necessarily. The FBI knocks on your door when they have convinced a warrant-signing judge, that’s there is probable-ca
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> What you contribute is what you get out That simply can’t be because what you get out is based on how long you live, which is a ‘known, unknown’
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> Dropbox already does scan your files > people don’t care about that because you’re literally, voluntarily, giving Dropbox your files. Correct and I agree. I don’t upload my most personal photos to Dropbox for this very specific reas
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I really don’t understand how you can, with sound mind, compare a public facing ‘social media’ with my very personal and very private phone photos. These are two completely different things.
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> “ Before the April contract award, NASA had handed out nearly $1 billion in concept development contracts – with SpaceX receiving $135 million, Dynetics $253 million, and Blue Origin receiving $579 million.” Source: https://
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The government believes you might have information about a missing child and are withholding it. They are about to restrain you against your will and search your rectum without your consent. The reason this violation was able to take place
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> It’s all an invasion of privacy until you’re sitting on the other side of the table where you have a vested interest in getting access to the information. That’s the thing about privacy that so many don’t want to admit. “Everyone deser
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Apple: An Apple NeuralMatch Agent has positively matched images on device "Apple iPhone 12 (Red™)" geotagged at the coup attempt against Prime Minister Trump occurring on January 30th, 2024. Images and documents have been submitte
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There is no reference to fuzzy anything in any of the write ups. I don’t know how you can proclaim that this is a fuzzy hash. Where is your source?
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> So this means it is checking if you are sharing known CP images? No. NeuralMatch was “trained” using 200,000 CP images. “Neural“ is likely a reference to the perceptual matching that it uses. It is not a bit for bit match. Perceptual m
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There won’t be any collisions. It’s not a bit-for-bit Comparison. The algorithm uses machine learning to categorize images using perceptual match. There will be many false positives, they will be reviewed by people. When there’s more than a
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I’m pretty sure you don’t know what you’re talking about. Perceptual matching is not image matching. Perceptual matching is used to sort categories of images. A quick DuckDuckGo will turn up many results. No stretch of the imagination will
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You are wrong. It is not a numerical Hash of the exact image. It is a perceptual Hash of the images characteristics and perceived continent by the algorithm, that’s the “neural” in neuralmatch. Apple, for yours has been building-in machine
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> But why the hell is the Touch ID sensor _not_ in the top right corner there? It _is_? What am I/are you missing here? > apple design is in the tank right now There have been a diverse group of trolls screaming this for about 40
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US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends
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The Public: "How do you know if I'm law abiding or not?" NSO: "We checked, you're clean" The Public: "I plan to speak publicly about this violation of my privacy" Local DA: "An investigation reve
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> actively engaged in behaviors that are abhorrent to the church This is bigotry plain and simple. It’s the ‘gayness’ the church has a problem with. Saying 'If he had sex, he's immoral and should resign as priest and the religi
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You go back & forth defending then attacking the church then the priest. I really don't understand your issue. I'm clear, I have issue with the churches 1: priest obstinance policy and 2: gay policy; it's unrealistic with
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> TL;DR: "if I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear" is absolutely a correct observation False. You’ll fear losing privacy and freedom to speak freely even if you have nothing to hide. We have seen this effect in real-ti
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I really don’t know how much more clear I need to be with you. Vatican bars gay union blessing, says God ‘can’t bless sin’ https://apnews.com/article/vatican-decree-same-sex-unions-ca... This is from March 2021… You se
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Sorry. I did not assert that the church considers being a gay a sin. I insist that the church has consistently been against gays and it would be out of character for them to be different. You confirmed this with your comment
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We won’t know the depth of your guilt (or innocence) until a full investigation is concluded. Your “peers” are also suspected child predators.
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“ It's more like the Catholic church only wants virgins and people who can't be proven otherwise as priests right now.” But let’s be honest it’s unspoken that they prefer straight virgins right? Actually it’s spoken. Quite verbose
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He knows that and is alluded to the fact that the article mentions the gay bar to taint his character and create a narrative that he is lurking on the down low. Many people go to gay bars not to hook up, but to be around other gay people. G
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