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Almost like Apple was the last holdout to not give up customers’ privacy, and eventually had to cave. So they came up with a sophisticated system to handle the scanning on-device, and only for data that’s already destined for their servers.

They’re scanning for it as it enters their system. It’s only scanned if it’s set to go to iCloud.

> …your phone is constantly scanning your photos to check for signs of homosexual behaviour. Forgetfully take a selfie with your boyfriend, it gets flagged…

Except that’s not what this is doing.

For all intents and purposes, “scanning” is just hashing content before it’s uploaded and comparing that hash to a known database. So, unless your picture had been hashed and flagged before (And if you just took it how could it have been?) then there’s nothing for it to match.

Don’t just conjure FUD from a contrived worst-case scenario.

I agree with the Mods’ assessment when this was posted to /r/Apple that “This appears to be unsubstantiated rumor.”

Yeah… the press loves the term “hacked”. Remember when Voicemail PIN guessing was “phone hacking”?

I’ve been seeing this sentiment since the late 90’s. All signs point to the market staying irrational longer than I stay on the market.

Not in 5 minutes’ time.

Given its deep integration with their RTX APIs, I imagine even if the source code were open, the only way to get at the RTX ML-specific stuff is via their Windows driver.

What good does suppression of opposition do?

Keeping the humans alive should be sufficient.

Terraform is—as a colleague described it—a combination very-sharp-knife and fully-loaded foot-seeking gun. Very powerful, but also requires a sufficient amount of respect and care.

e.g. You’ve defined a nice, fully-functional end-state, which was generated n time ago, but now you need to make a change to that state, so you run your

    terraform plan

…and it wants to destroy your entire infrastructure and recreate it all from scratch just to e.g. add a new hostname to the certs generated by certmanager.

That may be okay, but you should probably measure at least 3 times before you cut.

You don’t think that those third parties would move their apps to be exclusive to their stores?

The way it is now is very straightforward. If you want an app, you know where to get it. You know who’s vetted it. You know who’s handling your payment info. You (now) know what information about you is being gathered and disseminated.

Can you imagine how terrible a world where every App thinks it needs its own store would be?

Can those things be had cheaper, while being guaranteed interoperable and directly integrated into a trusted hardware security enclave without any further integration headaches?

This isn't a particularly good analogy.

Microsoft didn't build those computers.

Microsoft didn't sell those computers.

Microsoft didn't ship those computers.

They merely licensed their OS to the manufacturers and/or end users.

The X Box would be a better analogy, and MS does get a 30% cut there.

"Do nothing"?

No curated/moderated/policed App Store?

No storage/distribution network for applications?

No vetted and trusted secure authentication and payment systems?

No meticulously-created hardware in the first place?

Yep, that sounds about right. They're just "doing nothing" and don't deserve to be able to run their businesses while other people build on top of their platforms.

My "listening space" seldom exceeds an inch from my head. Either AirPods Pro or Sennheisers right in/on my ears. That's going to be the target audience of the majority of these changes.

I choose 'phones because my music taste diverges too much from my wife's to make open air play an option, if I want to maintain peace.

Seems like I've bern hearing "Eth is switching to PoS" for like a couple of years now.

What's the actual timeframe for that move?

And a lack of time and effort put into the committee led to the expense of having to buy out 1/3 of the staff.

Wonder how that balances out.

If you think a party planning committee doesn't have real power and influence, bring nothing but carrot cakes and oatmeal raisin cookies to your next party.

It's a committee. Not their primary job focus. You seem to be willfully misunderstanding that.

I was making a parallel point about language. Your "well aaaackshually" derailed it.

Who stands to profit from FOSS, self-hosted password management solutions (e.g. Keepass) then?

Generating long, high-entropy, unique passwords and then not relying on your brain to remember (and your fingers to type) is always going to be more secure than doing it the hard way for its own sake.

That's exactly my point.

The "noobs" will always outnumber the knowledgeable in-crowd. They are the ones who will—ahem—coin the generic term.

Nope. That's still an in-context word.

The generic word will be whatever John Q. Public with zero knowledge or care calls it.

After being here for 12 years, I'm used to it. ;)

There's a generic word for facial tissues, too. Language doesn't care about the semantics.

All proof-of-work is. Because the "work" being "proven" isn't actual work. It's just waste.

It seems inevitable that "bitcoin" (as opposed to "Bitcoin") is destined to become the "kleenex" (as opposed to "Kleenex") of crypto.

Etherium fits the bill: it's a digital (bit) currency (coin).

I would hesitate to call it a scam, but it definitely seems like they're inspired by Ready Player One at least a little bit, and may well be overzealous.