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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Some government regulators used to primarily focus on natural persons (i.e. citizens/consumers) and prioritize them above all else. Then neo-liberalism took over and they took a page out of the US’ playbook, and started prioritizing bu
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
You’re right, it’s a bit more than the App Store. AFAIK it also includes ads in the News app and apps that load articles from the News app (e.g. Stocks app). Their fine print also mentions the TV app, but I haven’t seen ads there, so perhap
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
It’s because they wanted their cake and eat it too, get as close as possible to the 4th amendment without crossing the line. Put simply, if they have knowledge of it they have a duty to report, but they can’t be compelled to try and find ou
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Non-encryption ≠ CSAM scanning That said, I could be wrong about them not scanning currently, I simply don’t have anything authoritative saying either way. Only statements that imply that they currently don’t, nothing more.
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I was looking for that! Great addition to provide more context.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
> Are iCloud Photos in their data centers not scanned? No outright statement confirming or denying this has ever made to my knowledge, but the implication, based both on Apple's statements and the statement of stakeholders, is that
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Is Google not bad somehow? Because from where I’m standing they fudge the lines between “collections” and old fashioned bookmarks and try their best to nudge people towards “collections”, only to then curate what you can and can’t save rega
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
The first and the last E are implied to be the end user in this context. Having access to your data while being the only one holding the encryption keys is perfectly possible.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Did I say dystopian? How foolish of me. A corporation unilaterally deciding to go through the information I’ve saved to ensure that my memories don’t contain any wrongthink is of course a utopian outcome. Hail Alphabet!
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
> What? Why? Are they like nuclear bombs? What happens if an iPhone screen gets into a wrong hand? Does it matter? I’m stating as a fact of matter what their interest is in a comment in which I try to describe the interests of both sides
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
> You complained about having to deal with the Genius Bar. I think you might be confusing me with someone else, I don’t recall complaining about the Genius Bar? > So 90% of the time when a customer will suggest joining the apple repai
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Who needs dystopian fiction when Google is here to have us live it in real life? Another reason why E2EE is important.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
The component level repair issue I get from both sides. Rossmann obviously wants to continue to be able to provide that service, in part because it’s arguably his specialization. Apple obviously doesn’t want it because even under the best o
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Are you sure it went the way you described here? You can’t take control of devices after deleting the account, and notifications are send out per email for every little thing from logging in from a new device to changing trusted devices and
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
These fraud prevention actions are nothing new sadly. Apple does it, Google does it, your bank does it and you’ll never receive any details because they all heavily lean on security through obscurity, out of fear that any information might
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Really? Did Netscape 3.0 have per-site options to enable cookies and specifically allow/block third party cookies? If so, that’s impressive.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Hardly comparable. One started a platform with an upfront communicated commission rate that, at the time, was literally received with applause because before that the rates were significantly worse for developers and has never raised the ra
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
The point of correlating data has already been brought up, but ultimately no answer will be satisfactory. Some people consider it a problem and some people don’t. The former is more sensitive to their data being collected and leveraged and
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
They've always split calibration between the factory and the Apple Store when it came to replacement parts. Some of the calibration offsets are device specific, so for a full calibration the unit as a hole needs to be calibrated. Early
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
They have no clue what they’re talking about. They were a genius grunt and their penchant for drawing conclusions on incomplete information is exactly why they aren’t trusted to perform manual calibration that hinges on their manual interac
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
If anything that proves it’s a calibration issue. The controller on the replacement screen has no calibration whereas the controller from the old screen has been calibrated to the old screen, apparently sufficiently close enough to the nece
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
While I can’t deny that people, including the media, have a general disliking for him, there’s plenty of puff pieces to be found, especially by corporate friendly outlets. Business Insider in particular likes to publish articles that are ei
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That was… breathtaking
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
That section was a rollercoaster ride. Founded in 1999, ousted as CEO within a year, within a year after the merger with Confinity becomes CEO again. Insists on using Windows instead of Unix based systems, which causes tensions and Thiel
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Oh man, SO, where to start. I guess I’ve always interacted with SO in a relatively passive way. There’s just too much toxicity that’s plausibly deniable. And with it, lost much of its usefulness. Every time I try to look for an answer aga
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Pretty much the entire premise in the title of his blog post is false for dramatic effect and you wonder how this man could stoop so low as to be duplicitous?
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You asked for sources, they gave you sources and now you complain about when those statements were made? 4 to 5 years isn't even that long for these kind of plans, but at the very least offer a good faith counter argument and state you
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Surely you don't mean Waterfox that states in their FAQ[0]: "Who owns Waterfox?" "System1 now own Waterfox, but Alex Kontos is still leading the direction of Waterfox and will be for the foreseeable future." And who