LTT did the same experiment. The stupid O-faces just work

I exclusively use it for public chats, like I did IRC.

Neither had any encryption and I have no issue with it.

Startups like this aren’t known for their robust infrastructure design.

It’s most likely running on some weird unicorn setups no-one has bothered to document.

Hope the kitchen staff forgets to wash their hands

You do know why they schedule posts? Because of more engagement 😀

I have a similar one from Amazon, one of the Chinese brands that are named by rolling your face on the keyboard.

I can connect it via usb-c to my laptop, deck or Switch. The laptop doesn’t need extra power. The others can be powered through the display.

Better resolution, HDR and decent speakers.

So if a single Russian soldier enters the US, all of America must stop everything because of sanctions against Russsia?

YouTube comments become trash around the 100 comment mark, after that there is no point in having a “discussion” in there

Same with Instagram and Facebook

Samsung did it, there was a Reddit thread where one users TV used a neighbours open WiFi to connect automatically

The best bit is that Blu-ray supports “online content” so they can update the forced intros and trailers to fresh ones!

Who would ever use a social media tool like this if they’re no interested in “corporate slop”?

News stopped being news when the 24 hour news cycle started. Now it’s just entertainment.

It does now, it didn’t at the time

For those unable or unwilling to find employment, there is Basic Assistance, the United Nations’ global welfare program. Over half of the Earth’s populace relies on it for survival. Without jobs, these people have no money, so Basic provides shared accommodations in government housing complexes, meagre food in the form of Gray-tasting textured protein and enriched rice, minimal medical care in government clinics, and even recycled paper clothing, dispensed from automated kiosks with a thumbprint. All of these services are provided free of charge, but those on Basic are subject to mandatory contraception and cannot legally have children, apart from the regular “baby lottery” allowing for a small number of births each year

From the Expanse wiki.

Earth has a population of over 30 Billion with a B when the series starts.

The files WILL be scanned the second they leave your device to any major cloud.

If they don’t leave your device, then turning off iCloud (and thus the “back door”) wouldn’t have had any impact on you.

It’s not a very good back door if you have an explicit easy to use switch to turn it off.

And even without this feature on your device, they don’t need to use a “back door”. They’ll just go through your front door that’s wide open and can’t be closed because of “the children”

If you want to “own” your phone, there are other manufacturers than Apple that allow you to lock it down like Fort Knox (or whatever you deem secure)

There was no “huge privacy issue”.

First of all: You could turn off the local scanning by turning off iCloud sync - which would’ve sent the images to the cloud for scanning anyway. That’s it, nothing else, nobody at Apple would’ve touched a single super-private file on your device.

The local scanning required MULTIPLE (where n>3, they didn’t say the exact number for obvious reasons) matches to known and human-verified CSAM. This database is the one that would’ve been loaded from iCloud if you had it turned on. This is the exact same database all cloud providers are using for legal reasons. Some have other algos on top - at least Microsoft had an is_penis algorithm that shut down a German dude’s whole Live account for his kid’s pics being on OneDrive.

After the MULTIPLE matches (you can’t get flagged by “accidentally” having one on your phone, nor would pics of your kids in the pool trigger anything) a human checker would have had enough data to decrypt just those images and see a “reduced resolution facsimile” (Can’t remember the exact term) of the offending photos. This is where all of the brainpower used to create false matches would’ve ended up in. You would’ve had to create multiple matches of known CP images that looks enough like actual CP for the human to make an erroneous call multiple times to trigger anything.

If after that the human decided that yep, that’s some fucked up shit, the authorities would’ve been contacted.

Yes, a Bad Government could’ve forced Apple to add other stuff in the database. (They can do it right now for ALL major cloud storage providers BTW) But do you really think people wouldn’t have been watching for changes in the cloud-downloaded database and noticed any suspicious stuff immediately?

Also according to the paper the probability of a false match was 1 in 1 trillion accounts - and this was not disputed even by the most hardcore activists btw.

tl;dr If you already upload your stuff to the cloud (like iOS does automatically) the only thing that would’ve changed is that nobody would’ve had a legit reason to peep at your photos in the cloud “for the children”. But if you’ve got cloud upload off anyway, nothing would’ve changed. So I still don’t understand the fervour people had over this - the only reason I can think of is not understanding how it worked.

Yep, it’s a legal “think of the children” requirement. They’ve been doing CSAM scanning for decades already and nobody cared.

When Apple did a system that required MULTIPLE HUMAN-VERIFIED matches of actual CP before even a hint would be sent to the authorities, it was somehow the slippery slope to a surveillance state.

The stupidest ones were the ones who went “a-ha! I can create a false match with this utter gibberish image!”. Yes, you can do that. Now you’ve inconvenienced a human checker for 3 seconds, after the threshold of local matching images has been reached. Nobody would’ve EVER get swatted by your false matches.

Can people say the same for Google stuff? People get accounts taken down by “AI” or “Machine learning” crap with zero recourse, and that’s not a surveillance state?

We could’ve burned that bridge when we got to it. If Apple would’ve been allowed to implement on-device scanning, they could’ve done proper E2E “we don’t have the keys officer, we can’t unlock it” encryption for iCloud.

Instead what we have now is what EVERY SINGLE other cloud provider is: they scan your shit in the cloud all the time unless you specifically only upload locally-encrypted content, which 99.9999% of people will never be bothered to do.

The irony is that the Apple CSAM detection system was as good as we could make it at the time, with multiple steps to protect people from accidental positives.

But, as usual, I think I was the only one who actually read the paper and didn’t go “REEEE muh privacy!!!” after seeing the headline.