skygazer

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by skygazer 5y ago
Text transcripts, not audio, unless a user opts in to donating their audio. It’s disassociated from the originating device after six months or when requested by the user via settings app. But you’re right it’s all deleted after two years.
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by skygazer 5y ago
While the real world tests after release essentially always bear out Apple’s battery life and performance estimates as reasonable and fairly typical, I don’t fault anyone for generally holding product claims with skepticism. Apple is somewh
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by skygazer 5y ago
It seems the letter from Apple that the dev posted on Twitter (which was cropped, excluding the date) was actually from 2019 and not sent recently -- it was his initial rejection before the app was finally approved. A bit misleading, whethe
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by skygazer 5y ago
I paid for and use FlickType on the watch. It’s clever, but it always sucked it was a stand-alone app. It was a very limited and cumbersome workaround for an obviously missing OS feature. Copy and paste isn’t even a thing on the watch, so t
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by skygazer 5y ago
A “major win for Epic” that apple is rejoicing over and Epic is protesting and appealing. It’s headlines like that that reveal modern publications are merely blogs with no fact checking or editorial standards that just uncritically repeat u
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by skygazer 5y ago
So it could be just a coincidence that the damages she awarded Apple were specifically 30% of Epic's in-app VBuck sales, the exact same amount Apple would have been entitled to via IAP. I guess that's plausible and I read too much
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by skygazer 5y ago
One thing that's bugged/occurred to me. People keep acting like Apple will no longer get to charge 30% to developers for in-app purchases, but it seems like they may still be entitled to their 30% and even in this ruling Epic stil
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by skygazer 5y ago
I like this analysis and categorization. Does it originate with you?
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Certainly, equality is an overloaded term, so it's useful to note the context. He's not talking about economic equality. He's talking about bringing a simplified interface to an otherwise complex and confusing process, partic
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by skygazer 5y ago
You are a delight. Thanks for brightening my day.
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Well, I can't know if you're invoking it properly, but it's true of modern browsers. That's the whole purpose of private/incognito mode, to not share your previous cookies with the visited site, so if it doesn'
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by skygazer 5y ago
It’s a soft paywall, protected only by cookies and JavaScript, bypass-able by using private browsing/incognito mode. Most news sites are — they give you your first N articles free and try to upsell, with the assumption that few will kn
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by skygazer 5y ago
Yeah, I don’t have that answer, of course. But nothing prevents them from changing that secondary algorithm yearly, or at whatever rate the CSAM database owners would tolerate full rehashing, or chaining together multiple hashes. They can
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by skygazer 5y ago
I can’t tell what would prevent a jailbroken device from pairing an illegal CSAM image with the safety voucher from a known-innocuous image, since the whole system depends on the trustworthiness of the safety voucher and that it truly repre
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by skygazer 5y ago
Thanks for that reference to Pillow. I presume it's from "Understanding and Preventing Image-Scaling Attacks in Machine Learning" [0] which mentions secure scaling algorithms immune to the attack. I wish I could mention this
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by skygazer 5y ago
my aim was to point out that the above reverenced "image scaling attack" is easily protected against, because it is fragile to alternate scaling methods -- it breaks if you don't use the scaling algorithm the attacker planned
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by skygazer 5y ago
This attack does seem easily defeated, even naively, by downscaling by three different means (bicubic, nearest neighbor, Lanczos, etc.) and rejecting the downscale that most differs from the other two, since the attack is tailored to a spec
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by skygazer 5y ago
iMessage link preview images are generated by the sender. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2444...
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by skygazer 5y ago
FWIW, Apple says that’s not even the NN hash function they’ll be using. This one has been buried in iOS since 2019, so it may have been a prototype. Although dumping the NN image seems straightforward, so this seems a faithful copy of that
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by skygazer 5y ago
It does seem overwhelmingly likely to me that Apple intended to clear a path to E2EE of iCloud Photos with this, however, I'm utterly stumped why they haven't made any announcement nor even suggested it as a motivation. It is clea
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by skygazer 5y ago
I agree that distorting focus is often a propaganda tool and diversionary tactic, but it goes both ways. Sometimes the category of problem really is larger and more widespread than the single cited instance, and it’s necessary and reasonabl
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by skygazer 5y ago
I don’t suffer insomnia, but when I do notice I’m not falling asleep, because I’m ruminating, I shift my attention to the random noise of the visual field of my closed eyes. I “observe” the patterns: sort of a dull swirling, shifting static
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by skygazer 5y ago
FLOC and differential privacy are very different. They may seem to overlap because they both detect behavior on device, and with some measure of anonymity transmit some kind of derived data off device, but their purposes are entirely differ
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by skygazer 5y ago
Pity that Google’s amp “host page” breaks reader mode on iOS Safari. It’s why I use Duck Duck Go on my phone, so I can actually read the pages undistracted. I don’t like the DDG search results as much as Google, but Google ruining my web ex
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by skygazer 6y ago
https://archive.is/XQ9Jn in case you change your mind and want to read the article you're commenting on.
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by skygazer 6y ago
Not addressing the moral relativism of the article, but I’ve seen arguments over dungeons and dragons and Tolkien that share so much in common with religious and political arguments, to the extent that I now suspect political and religious
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by skygazer 6y ago
He was clearly dissuading widespread mask use back in March, but what he said specifically was: "There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a litt
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by skygazer 6y ago
I think you two are in agreement that the function is lacking.
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I’m sure there’s nuance I’m not appreciating, but my natural instinct as a person who votes is that minority rule doesn’t really feel like an improvement over majority rule. Sure, minorities need protection from majorities, but at the same
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by skygazer 6y ago
I think e-ink requires a side-light rather than backlight, as the little spheres are opaque, with a dark side and a light side that physically reorient, meaning illumination from a backlight would have to somehow shine through the dark side

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