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  • Tim Cook may have met with Trump during WWDC to discuss second term priorities

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    ilarynx said:
    welshdog said:
    Trump is the unsurprising result of concepts and rhetoric that were started by Reagan. He used his phony, homespun speaking style to convince people that it was okay to dislike your government. It was okay to disassemble your government because "big" was bad. It was okay to think that helping people in need was an intolerable expense. While Reagan is not so popular with young extremist conservatives now, he and his goals were worshipped by Republicans for a couple decades. During that time you can see how each wave of conservative victories at the national level led to incrementally more extreme positions. Newt Gingrich, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, GW Bush, neo cons, the Tea Party and now the most extreme - MAGA. Reagan started the ball rolling and Trump is the result anyone paying even slight attention should have expected was coming.

    “The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened in the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe.” 

    - Frank Zappa, 1986


    To be fair, FDR is the one who really kick-started the trend towards fascism in the U.S., though there were arguably hints of it even before then.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple plans slimmest iPhone 17 & MacBook Pro designs following iPad Pro success

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    To be fair, predicting that Apple will make thinner devices is a little like predicting the sun will come up tomorrow.
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  • Man ludicrously blames Apple for his wife catching him communicating with prostitutes

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    9secondkox2 said:
    kkqd1337 said:
    I don't understand, I think his complaint to Apple is quite reasonable.

    He deleted a message. The message was not deleted.

    Due to this he incurred significant loss.

    But I agree it is ludicrous to think he will beat Apple's lawyers and T&Cs.
    If your car won’t start or you crash it into a wall, you can’t sue the automaker for your boss penalizing your tardiness or absence. 

    Best way to not get caught doing evil: don’t do evil. 

    Sure you can.  And if you can prove that the failure to start or the crash was a manufacturing defect, you might even win.

    But if you can't prove those things, you'll lose.  And this guy is gonna lose.
    9secondkox2Oferkkqd1337watto_cobra

  • Activists rally at Apple Park for reinstatement of child safety features

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    elijahg said:
    A big part of the resistance was this would enable less 'friendly' governments to add particular images they didn't approve of to the database, CSAM or not. It could potentially flag images and therefore people that had anti-government photos in their library. Imagine a pro-Ukranian Russian citizen screenshotting some article to show a friend, but Putin had screenshots of that same article pushed into Russia's national CSAM database. All of a sudden that citizen has fallen out of a 10th story window. It is a lot harder to quietly compel Apple to write spyware for iOS than it is to simply add a signature to a database.

    This part.  The scanning process would have been under Apple's control.  The database of image signatures was not.  The probability of compromise by some, at least one, tyrannical and/or fascist government approaches closely enough to 1 as not to matter.
    VictorMortimerelijahgwatto_cobra

  • Activists rally at Apple Park for reinstatement of child safety features

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    In 2021, Apple had planned to roll out a new feature capable of comparing iCloud photos to a known database of CSAM images.

    As I recall, one of the major bones of contention was that the system was going to scan photos destined for iClound, but not yet actually there, and was using resources on the user's phone itself, and not using iCloud resources, to do the actual scanning.  There were also, if I remember correctly, concerns about mistakes, as happened with some Google attempt to do the same thing flagging a file with a single character in it as problematic and locking an account.

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