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If we’re engaging in straw-man arguments, why don’t they just force such detectors directly in safari? And in your camera feed? That should solve issue even faster, so why stop at half measures?

Following laws in countries that one is operating is expected.

However, following laws that contradict one’s marketing materials will lead to some understandable questions about those “values”.

I’m saying that Apple is going to do what is required by law, there is no speculation.

This is true for booting an app from App Store, because it was required by a government, or looking through your data on your iPhone, due to a requirement from a government.

So, same for Apple then, which would be under a threat from a government if they do not submit to whatever CSAM requirements, regardless of “pinky swear” promises?

That’s not going to happen.

Lots of people are making a buck on disfunction and overly complicated tax laws. Those same people know how to lobby lawmakers. Who’s lobbying for a simpler tax system?

People were commenting about acquisitions in other thread: some wouod be unexplainable ones, until you realize that management just wanted to hang out with hip/stylish/trendy people…

> You can't kill them

I welcome you to the real world: “trans panic defense”.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense

> the Court does not find that Apple is an antitrust monopolist in the submarket for mobile gaming transactions. However, it does find that Apple’s conduct in enforcing anti-steering restrictions is anticompetitive. A remedy to eliminate those provisions is appropriate.

Were they not acquired by SiriusXM a few years ago?

Which would mean that they weren’t doing too well anyway.

There are career government employees that are apolitical and carrying out orders from political appointees at the top, which are mostly replaced with each incoming administration.

From what I can tell previous administration was trying to sabotage civilized transfer in every possible way… and the fallout is on display, including AF withdrawal.

However, is/was there such setup in AF government? For all I know, everyone just packed and went home/abroad…

I’m genuinely wondering, is there a “career bureaucracy” to handle such change?

I imagine they sit somewhere in government building, look out the window and “oh, wells, here goes last plane out of Kabul! Time to switch flags!”

Are there seriously 5 XML parsers available in iOS? Are they all written in C? Do they validate all of them whenever a bug is found in one? I can’t tell if this is some sort of defense in depth or just swiss cheese copy-paste…

It appears that 1.16 is available in testing as different package. Chance is high that you will be able to install it without much hassle, since they shipped current stable like a week or so ago.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/golang-1.16-go

Wait, who’s running that site now?

Are they just going to switch some logos and keep it up?

Hard to tell: were movies right or were they used as manuals? Either way it will not end well for us…

The reality is that most customers do not care about security, which allows companies to basically ignore it until there is a high-profile case directly attributable to a flaw in os. Which might be then individually fixed, with no fundamental changes to a general approach.

Somewhere at the end they even added a “contrarian” opinion which basically said that people like being surveilled and more productive when under surveillance…

*head-desk*

Some of tidbits are just painfully comical:

> Afghans are the most hardcore libertarians on earth. Not only do they firmly believe that taxation is theft, the US couldn't even convince them that a central government was necessary. Some State Department officials couldn't help but agree.

> Afghans learned early on that the easiest way to eliminate a rival or to grab a piece of land was to tell the Americans that he was a member of the Taliban.

> Others learned how to make money exploiting US aid efforts. One guy had his brother blow up a bridge, the Americans rushed in to get it fixed, hiring a construction firm owned by the first guy to do the job.

30 vouchers, more or less.

> Board of Trustees took action in February 2020, approving a contract with Social Intelligence, a third party company from California.

> The district says the company will flag both original content created by the employee as well as materials friends and family have tagged them in.

What is the chance that people without much social media presence will be discriminated against?

Ha, wait until you visit a house where there are surveilling devices blinking at your in every room.

Also, sometimes I expect a Tesla to go full “Assuming Control” mode and continue aggressive behavior of previously encountered one. Surely they record/analyze everything encountered and pass it onto central server, so no issues “remembering” me…

It was an item on goals page and is listed under “Core components update” on release page.

Unless there is some particular feature that someone wants or a device enablement that only possible starting with a kernel version, do most users care?

[1] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/releases/goals/21.0...

> Privacy is a set of curtains drawn across the windows of our lives. And technology companies are moths that will chew through more of the fabric every year if we let them, and especially if we encourage them.

That bright future and empowering innovation that most of us expected from tech companies was really a mirage…

Maybe it’s naive to think that that we can legislate those two options into existence where a company can pick an option (and maybe even switch between them under some circumstances), but it would be nice to see a “free market” finding one that most efficient without everyone being forced to just use one.

For Visa, wasn’t the latest OnlyFan thing that payment networks almost forced them to self-destruct due to some morality rules? That would be a bit too restrictive for “carrier” case I think…

One issue that people brought up is that “curation” (or moderation even) is not really possible with a “carrier”-type hosting platform, but I think that specialized or niche forums are a good thing.

On the other hand, it is clear that heavy handed suppression is not good either, especially when all major platforms do that.

Is it possible to have both alternatives available somehow?

> By using historical data and a Bayesian structural time-series model we can predict what the count of questions asked on Stack Overflow would look like after February 2020 sans pandemic.

And average predicted is literally flat at cut out point whereas there was constant growth beforehand. Is that a reasonable estimate?

There was a big spike at the start of pandemic, but we’re now where we would be without pandemic (which author acknowledges). That prediction was way more pessimistic than warranted, it appears.

According to the article they have decided that the way forward is by going with “bigger and better” models, which necessitated the need for more resources.

I’m going to trust them on their reasoning, but with that premise what are the options here if they lack required resources?

If they to avoid what is dubbed a “sell” option to private money, the other option is to get some public funding or to be honest about the issue and close the shop.

I think that article does explain that it was basically a “sell” out of necessity:

> OpenAI was an AI research laboratory. But its ambitions were simply out of reach for the resources it had access to.

> OpenAI had decided to put emphasis on larger neural networks fueled by bigger computers and tons of data.

So is the answer here both?

> AT&T cannot inspect our packets for 'bad words'

I was under impression that they actually can inspect, but should not be able to deny/degrade or prioritize service based on whatever they might find in one’s packets.

Inspection part is going to be moot if everyone is using encryption though.