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by noptd 5y ago
That's someone speculation whereas the actual individual who chose the term has said otherwise - https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 At least until he was bullied enough on Twitter to
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by noptd 5y ago
Precisely, and it's strikingly similar to a religious pattern of discourse. "You know the dogma so don't resist. Embrace it and live your life accordingly."
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by noptd 5y ago
And are you not using your eyes when looking at a digital photograph?
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by noptd 5y ago
And referring to something as a political meme is a shallow dismissal of the parent's point.
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by noptd 5y ago
The post you responded to already addressed that exact point. >And yes, it's true that the governments could always mandate such scanning before. The difference is that it'll be much harder politically for Apple to push back ag
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by noptd 5y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately, a concerning percentage of the population seems driven to treat it as the former when defining their core beliefs, like castles built on sand.
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by noptd 5y ago
So the only winning move is not to play? A strange game, indeed.
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by noptd 5y ago
So we should simply accept systems with a high potential for abuse because of the possibility that something bad is already being done?
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by noptd 5y ago
Sure, but Apple receives far less backlash if the system is applied to all phones and under the guise of "save the children". This would allow Apple to accommodate any nation state's image scanning requirements, which guarant
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by noptd 5y ago
So your argument boils down to since Apple can already install software without us knowing, we shouldn't worry about a new client-side system that makes it substantially easier for nation states to abuse? I don't find that argumen
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by noptd 5y ago
>In diabetic adults aspartame does Since you're stating this definitively in a response to Someone posting evidence debunking your previous claim, can you link a study backing it up?
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by noptd 5y ago
>I've tried fixing the local dev stack - all of the scripts and Docker containers in the world still can't predict the ways in which something might break when it's running on 100+ different laptops with different develope
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by noptd 5y ago
Exactly. Especially considering it's been announced publicly. Cynical take- as pedos move to other means of storing and sharing CSAM, there will be far fewer photos flagged for review which requires fewer reviewers to be paid by Apple.
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by noptd 5y ago
... says the quasi-government agency with zero accountability structure that keeps the dataset secret. What could go wrong?
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by noptd 5y ago
Even if you disagree (and I do as well), downvotes are the wrong way to signal disagreement. Either invest in posting a response or move past it- there's no need to hide the comment from others. We're better than that, or at least
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by noptd 5y ago
This heavily aligns with my experiences over the past few years. Where Google once used to return exact or close results for very specific or niche searches, I feel like it struggles to even land in the same ballpark of results. I've b
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by noptd 5y ago
I disagree. Ask anyone you listed if they'd be comfortable with Apple reviewing their photos and possibly sending them to another organization without any warning or recourse and I highly doubt any of them would be okay with it.
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by noptd 5y ago
Sticking to the apt analogy from the article, >To reiterate: scanning your device is not a privacy risk, but copying files from your device without any notice is definitely a privacy issue. > Think of it this way: Your landlord owns y
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by noptd 5y ago
I'm sure there's some engagement KPI metric that increased from forcing it in front of users. And even if it's a worse UX experience and the increase is due to frustrated users attempting to navigate away from Discover, you k
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by noptd 5y ago
Sounds like Spotify is going down Pandora's path then. It's amazing how several different stations started from the same genre will narrowly converge even after explicitly disliking different subgenre-specific songs on each statio
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by noptd 5y ago
>A situation that has the exact same effects on society...? Of all your (mis)leading questions, this one sticks out the most as being of particularly bad faith.
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by noptd 5y ago
Yeah, that article definitely reads like a thinly-veiled scare piece.
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by noptd 5y ago
If macOS is any indication, I bet the next iteration will send your picture rehashes to Apple's servers. Then all they need to do is pass some location data (if they don't already) and checking against location-specific hash datab
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by noptd 5y ago
I wonder if it was the cheapest Five-Eyes country to ship them all through.
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by noptd 5y ago
I disagree. He could have taken copies of the files as insurance before whistleblowing, allowing him to then go public if nothing resulted from the official inquiry.
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by noptd 5y ago
> As part of the suit, they share emails from the star’s management group that asked the studio to guarantee that “Black Widow” would premiere exclusively in cinemas. In response, Marvel Chief Counsel Dave Galluzzi promised a traditional
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by noptd 5y ago
There's a decently sized cohort that hasn't forgiven ActiBlizzard for what they did to Warcraft III as well. Nothing like ruining a 20 year old game by forceably replacing it with a broken, partial reimplementation.
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by noptd 5y ago
Agreed. IMO StackOverflow would be greatly improved if they implemented a rule barring these responses unless they first answer the actual question at hand. To build off of another user's example, answering >"If I eat pizza in
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by noptd 5y ago
Given most editors handle absolute imports as good as if not better than relative imports, I don't see any real benefit to using the latter.
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by noptd 5y ago
Agreed, especially for MVPs and "phase 1" projects. At my current company, it's reached a point where we flat out reject product proposals for features or changes that would need to be hacked together for an MVP without a tim

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