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there are json stream decoders that allow you to deocde large objects without using a lot of memory, but they are harder to use

because twitter just blocked the API keys to the most popular third party apps, without any messaging whatsoever.

If you don't trust the person that wrote the software, it doesn't matter if it's E2E encrypted or not. There could be a back-door

it's a lot more complicated than it sounds:

https://youtu.be/M67YP-f-LyI?t=592

It's an episode of a podcast, going though an episode of JRW, and pointing out all the stuff he gets wrong.

here you go: https://www.lttstore.com/products/screwdriver

it even has pictures!!!

seriously, how are Hungary and Poland ranked higher than Romania?

if you have an Android device, Apple created an Android app for this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...

for 2006 that's actually not bad.

When I joined my first company in 2010, to my horror, they were using plain text passwords for users

if I run an online service, and you login with web3, if you're an asshole, I can still ban your "indelible" account

according to rumours, the upcoming Mac Pro chips will have 2x to 4x the core count of the M1 Pro/Max

on the other end of the spectrum, James Thomson created a driving game in the about screen of PCalc, a calculator app: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/pcalcs-delightfully-insan...

just a quick note here, most of that traffic was probably served from your ISP's network and never reached AWS: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

who is saying people that have had COVID shouldn't vaccinate? because they're wrong.

Maybe not the second shot. But if you've had covid, you should 100% get vaccinated.

some think they wanted to add this, so that they can enable e2e encryption with iCloud at a later date.

it was a joke.

if you don't trust the switch, then why trust any switch on iOS. Why do you trust that they're not already doing it?

why are you using an iPhone?

the photos are only scanned just before being uploaded to iCloud. If you have CSAM on your phone, just turn off iCloud sync

no and no

the hashes are also shipped with every device and can be inspected.

A few bytes changed in a binary blob that would enable a backdoor would be almost impossible to detect.

but they do have it. pretty much all image hosts are already doing it as well

what's stopping them from doing that now?

and what's the next step? FBI breaks down my door because I said something bad about Biden?

Don't really care about HN at this point, down-vote me to hell.

My arguments seemed obvious. Yet the all the top comments are "OMG, apple is looking at my photos".

I'm not an Apple fanboy. They are doing some horrible stuff, especially for developers. For example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/iphone-keyboard-...

But I think this is honestly a good thing Apple are doing with respect to CSAM. And before we get on the "slippery slope" band-wagon, read about what kind of pictures are on that database, and then get back to me.

this is a very weak argument. The MAGA crowd has been posting images all over social media.

My understanding is that there is a threshold that needs to be met, and then an Apple employee with a very difficult job will need to confirm the image. So even if NCMEC get pressured, I don't see what the result can be.

The main concern seems to be that people are afraid that other governments can use this technology to have iPhones scan for other types of images. (The "Tank Man" photo is often given as an example)

Apple say they won't do that, but it's perfectly healthy to not trust Apple on that aspect.

But the fact that they're scanning for CSAM images doesn't change the above in any way. If they back down and stop scanning for CSAM images, that won't have any effect on the above. The governments can still pressure them to add this to their phones. Or even worse. Maybe they have.

It's like people disabling exposure notifications because they don't trust Apple. If that's the case, why do you trust the toggle to actually do anything?

You either trust Apple that they won't bow down to pressure, or you don't, in which case, buy a phone from a company that you trust more.

As someone said on a podcast recently, this isn't a technological problem, it's a government problem. The solution is to vote, not to change your mobile phone.

can someone please explain to me what is this scary scenario where this is being misused? Am I the only one that isn't seeing it?

I user to come to HN for interesting discussions.

Now it's pretty much all BS.

"Apple is looking at my pictures, I'm switching to Android."

Nobody stops to think before saying something stupid.

it's 1am, and this has been discussed to death. Good night

they are both going to space. but not in orbit.

Yes, one is only going 80km up, for all intents and purposes, that's space

birbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar

https://github.com/matryer/xbar

it's also an iOS client