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  • iPad mini 2021 review: Delightfully small with few caveats

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    Haven’t seen Stephen do a video before.  Really nice job, sir.  Appreciated the honest perspective and use case analysis.  Considering one for my mother.  

    Thanks!
    muthuk_vanalingamstephenrobleswatto_cobra

  • Russian opposition leader slams Apple for acting as Putin "accomplice"

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    factsonly said:
    DAalseth said:
    's not like they had a choice.
    They always have a choice… but they choose political and monetary profit over freedom of speech. 

    "Free Speech" is an American concept.
    Apple has to obey the laws of the country it is operating in -- in this case Russia.  

    Just as it should not and does not invoke Russian law on Americans it should not and does not invoke American law on Russians.
    Yup; that’s a fair statement.  But then they need to get off their pulpit about how much they care about human rights and data privacy.  Because they don’t.  They use them as marketing tools…and it’s duplicitous.  
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  • Open letter asks Apple not to implement Child Safety measures

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    crowley said:
    iadlib said:
    FUD.

    It's a private method for comparing an image hash against a specific database of image hashes.  

    No indication that it'll become a generic API, or a feature for anyone else to use.
    No indication that there will be any way for it to be hijacked, short of rooting the entire phone, in which case all bets are off anyway.
    No indication that it could be used to search for anything other than images, or more specifically the hashes of those images.
    No indication that it couldn't be shut down any time Apple wanted to shut it down.
    ”No indication” seems kind of naive.  Just because there’s no indication now, doesn’t mean this doesn’t change in the future.
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  • Senators want to make social media liable for spreading health misinformation

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    lkrupp said:

    But even the truth can be manipulated. The news media is now reporting about breakthrough infections, side effects, etc. that are being used by the conspiracy theorists to claim the vaccines are useless.
    I think the “conspiracy theorists” would just like to understand what percentage of people who have contracted this new strain were also vaccinated.  That statistic would decide whether those asking the question are “conspiracy theorists” or not. 

    Either it works, or it doesn’t work. And if it doesn’t work, it sounds like we’ll be playing a cat and mouse game between variants and updates vaccines for the rest of our lives.  For a virus that 99.9% of people recover from.  

    Disclaimer: I have nothing against vaccines and have been vaccinated.  
    muthuk_vanalingamandrewj5790

  • Senators want to make social media liable for spreading health misinformation

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    amar99 said:
    Ministry of Truth at work.
    It is certainly amusing that it’s usually the same people that want “Net Neutrality” with the telecom carriers who also want more censoring of “misinformation.”   

    In short: Telecoms can’t be allowed to prioritize Internet traffic based upon fair market, but the US federal government is allowed to filter what “information” can be shared on the internet.
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