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by noptd 5y ago
Yeah, this reminds me of a product you'd find in a spy museum. Cue the chilling effect of having to worry about being recorded whenever you're talking around someone wearing Raybans in public. And before the claims about it not be
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by noptd 5y ago
At least there is some level of accountability and transparency potential for elected officials. I don't see how we would be better off by having a small number of private individuals making these decisions for us.
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by noptd 5y ago
I'd hope not. We should normalize less surveillance, not more.
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by noptd 5y ago
They sure do. For anyone interested, NewPipe and Youtube Vanced are solid alternatives that allow you turn the screen off during playback without a monthly charge.
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by noptd 5y ago
So if you knowingly open a store in a neighborhood "protected" by the mafia, it would be unfair to characterize a protection payment as stealing? Sure, they're providing a service but that service is only necessary because of
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by noptd 5y ago
>You won't learn anything, because you're a deranged wingnut with a trapped prior. But maybe the cognitive dissonance will be enough to get you to shut up. Stick to attacking the idea instead of the individual. Personal attacks
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by noptd 5y ago
... and Instagram was just a photo sharing app - how could it ever compete with Facebook?
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by noptd 5y ago
Same here. All it takes is one person who projects their voice when talking to someone a few feet away for productivity to suffer for everyone in a 20ft radius when working in an open floor plan. And if that person loves the sound of their
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by noptd 5y ago
>2.2 GitHub Enterprise Server is behind GitHub Enterprise Cloud: GitLab ships the same code to GitLab.com as it does to our self-managed customers. Kudos to Gitlab for not utilizing the GHE model in order to convert users to their hosted
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by noptd 5y ago
Considering the choice is still essentially pay a sizeable sum of money or be physically monitored, I'd say the parent's point still stands.
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by noptd 5y ago
When squash merging, all commit messages are added to the extended description in the editor, which makes it far easier to remove useless comments and add in any necessary info as needed. All of that context can then be viewed via git show
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by noptd 5y ago
Exactly, and given the amount of information Apple knows about you and your device (home country, current location, etc), testing those hashes against different datasets specific to each governmental jurisdiction is trivial.
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by noptd 5y ago
I have experienced both outcomes and offering to sign an NDA hasn't seemed to make much of a difference. YMMV
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by noptd 5y ago
To put it bluntly, because whataboutisms do not compose a valid argument for accepting a new client-side system with a high potential of abuse.
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by noptd 5y ago
Exactly, and even if it's already occurring in some fashion, that doesn't mean we should sit idly by and allow it to get worse.
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by noptd 5y ago
True, but that's tangential to the issue at hand. To continue the physical home analogy, let's say you're a renter and your landlord has the ability and access to install something in your home at any time without you knowing
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by noptd 5y ago
I agree, and I'm concerned about the divide and conquer-type of impact it's having in societal discourse. This effect seems way too convenient (and beneficial) for the ruling class, and in that respect, I'm afraid academia ma
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by noptd 5y ago
Here's an interesting thought experiment for anyone who disagrees that the proposed system is problematic. Let's say the police installs a new device in your house. This device could be capable of seeing or hearing anything that h
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by noptd 5y ago
>In Apple's implementation, the device never knows if a particular picture is a CSAM match. That's a distinction without a difference w.r.t the end result but I'll offer a more apt analogy regardless. A better analogy woul
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by noptd 5y ago
>I don't think the NCMEC shares numbers about how many of their reports result in actions by law enforcement agencies. I'm not surprised. Quantifiable accountability can be extremely problematic if you aren't actually maki
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by noptd 5y ago
Ironic considering you posted this replying to a comment that you already replied to ten hours earlier. If one was paranoid, they might wonder if you forgot to switch accounts /s
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by noptd 5y ago
In that example, you phone is still a snitch but it's snitching to Apple in order for them to then snitch to the "appropriate" authorities.
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by noptd 5y ago
Let's not be pedantic. In the parent's example, this is a distinction without a difference.
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by noptd 5y ago
See for yourself - https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
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by noptd 5y ago
Exactly, it's (sadly) a temporary victory at best. Ten bucks says they take a page out of our politicians' handbooks and sneak it in as a small, vague footnote in a much larger, unrelated announcement once the initial bad press bl
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by noptd 5y ago
Agreed, and now they're charging up to $21 per user per month for large enterprises to use Docker Desktop for Mac after years of ignoring the community on issues like this. Granted, you can still build and install the docker cli and us
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by noptd 5y ago
Having to forward a link to family members every so often seems well worth it to me.
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by noptd 5y ago
Those links don't refute the parent article's claims at all.
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by noptd 5y ago
> has received more than $100,000 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an informant > as an informant What a clickbait headline...
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by noptd 5y ago
And? These whataboutisms are a distraction and in no way support the idea that people shouldn't be worried about Apple implementing a new client-side system that's ripe for abuse. If things are already bad, we should be working to

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