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  • Internal Apple memo addresses public concern over new child protection features

    leehericksleehericks
    Um, how do they look at the pixels if they don't examine the image? Do you have any idea how this technology even works? It doesn't appear so. To look at the pixels compare them to pixels in reference images, they must open both images. If they are opening the image and reading the pixels, then they are examining personal pictures.

    To explain this quickly, this “scanning applies only (for now) to photos before they are uploaded to iCloud Photos. If you don’t use iCloud Photos, then this will never happen (for now).

    Your device scans your photos and calculates a photo “fingerprint” ON YOUR DEVICE. It downloads fingerprints of bad materials and checks ON YOUR DEVICE. 

    If by some chance you had a match, it would put a kind of safety token with the media while uploading it to iCloud Photos. If you reach some number of safety tokens someone will be tasked with checking up on your media (presumably in a very secure way which logs everything they do during the check).

    The big question is who creates/validates the media fingerprints that get compared. Example “what if” concerns include a government like China giving Apple fingerprints for anti-government images.
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  • Apple uses Messages colors to bully Android users, says Google

    leehericksleehericks
    iMessage has been unchanged since it debuted and colors were necessary for mixing SMS with a modern message service.

    There is no Apple campaign promoting blue bubbles  :D

    so silly.
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  • Apple's ultra-thin OLED iPad Pro fails to spark sales surge

    leehericksleehericks
    The new iPad Pro is a phenomenal piece of hardware but as many say the software is limiting.

    Honestly I think there should only be an iPad, iPad mini and something at the iPad Air price level. Too many models and pro products have gotten really expensive lately. 

    Really the storage upgrade prices are the worst part.
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  • Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air: Rumors, and what to expect

    leehericksleehericks
    MacBook Air was called Air because it was significantly thinner than laptops of the time.

    We don’t need an Air moniker anymore.

    Just a MacBook 13/15 and MacBook Pro 14/16

    I don’t know why we couldn’t just get the two sizes with the screen size as the main differentiator…
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  • A clever hack fixes the new Mac mini power button's awkward location

    leehericksleehericks
    The power button is such a non-issue. It’s probably there because of pulling out the bottom for repairability but as usual everyone is over-reacting about something new they haven’t seen in person or touched. 🤷‍♂️
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  • A clever hack fixes the new Mac mini power button's awkward location

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    rob53 said:

    As for the button being on the bottom, that's actually a stupid move for Apple. When these go into server racks, and they will go there immediately after the M4 Mac mini Pro is released, data centers will complain. Sure they will only turn them on once but they will need the easy ability to manually power cycle them when needed.
    Since they won’t fit existing data center racks they will have to come up with something new anyway. The power button is on the back corner so I imagine they will be very accessible when on their sides in a custom rack. 🤷‍♂️
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  • Apple shareholders sue over Siri delays and massive losses

    leehericksleehericks
    Isn’t the point of buying stock that you take a risk on supporting the company? How can you sue them?
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  • Why the iPhone 12 Pro is worth the upgrade cost

    leehericksleehericks
    This article adds a lot of fluff. The only improvement is the cameras and extra 2GB of RAM. 

    The trade-offs are heavier stainless steel which is really shiny and shows off finger greasy because of the flat sides. The frosted back is less grippy. 

    Both phones have the same processors. It just comes down to those cameras. I upgraded from 7 Plus to 12. I’m pleased with the design but I miss the telephoto lens and I dislike the reach of always accessing the control center and Face ID...wish they had put Touch ID in the side power button. 
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  • Apple admits to using Google Tensor hardware to train Apple Intelligence

    leehericksleehericks
    “Admits” is such an unnecessary loaded word here. 😂

    “Reveals” would be more appropriate haha.

    I think it’s no surprise given that Chris Lattner went to Google and worked on TensorFlow and created Swift for TensorFlow so….seems logical to me to tap into the leading APIs for machine learning.
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  • How the new Mac Studio fills a crucial gap in Apple's desktop lineup

    leehericksleehericks
    Like we've said before, this isn't the mythical minitower that the devout have been clamoring for, for over 20 years. It doesn't have PCI-E, nor vast user expandability.

    Doesn’t Thunderbolt does offer vast user expandability?

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