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  • Apple provides detailed reasoning behind abandoning iPhone CSAM detection

    CalamanderCalamander
    blastdoor said:
    appleinsideruser said:
    Maybe UK people will get different coloured iMessages to denote unencrypted? They could be transparent maybe, to illustrate that anyone can see them...
    No, they need to protect their users in other countries — they will need to pull out completely. 

    I’m glad apple is fighting the good fight. I hope they win. But if the EU follows the UK, it could become very hard. And if the US were to fall, that would be the end of it. 

    Bottom line is, apple can’t do this alone. Citizens in democracies need to advocate for their rights. 
    If people don't fight for their rights, they will lose their rights. 

    It's that simple. 

    I like that Apple would pull out - in western countries this can actually work. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple provides detailed reasoning behind abandoning iPhone CSAM detection

    CalamanderCalamander
    Apple did the right thing - you can't be privacy orientated and simultaneously scan everyone's pictures. 

    Pretty amazing they listened and turned around.

    I would love to say they did it because it was the right thing to do - but Apple's marketing makes a big deal of privacy and they see it as an important differentiating factor to Google and obviously if they start getting into everyone's stuff they couldn't say that anymore. 


    watto_cobra

  • Apple Silicon M2 vs M3 - looking at the future of the Mac

    CalamanderCalamander
    canukstorm said:
    How do you know they reached out to Gurman and instead Gurman isn't just guessing?
    Gurman is Apple's inofficial - official intentional leaks channel.

    These leaks build excitement while not promising anything - since it's not Apple official official - and they could also be "wrong" in case Apple can't deliver on whatever was leaked. 

    It's pretty clever. Gurman's track record is near 100%. If Apple wanted to shut down that channel they would have. 

    It's all under plausible deniability as all sides work together but no official contract exists. 
    muthuk_vanalingamtenthousandthingswilliamlondonAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Apple Silicon M2 vs M3 - looking at the future of the Mac

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    Chris_Pelham said:
    I find it hard to believe that Apple might debut the first M3 3nm chip in the 13" MacBook Pro and thereby outclass the 14" and 16" MacBook Pros, which are surely much more popular with professionals, or in a Mac mini rather than the Mac Studio or Mac Pro, because it would make the product line specs look funny. I can believe they might try reinvigorating the iMac line with the new chips, especially if they simultaneously launch a larger iMac or bring back the iMac Pro.  I guess the main reason to believe that Apple might start with more consumer oriented machines would be that Apple would want to wait until it has the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips ready before updating the higher-end machines.  They could wait and update all of them at once, but maybe they need to start pumping out the basic M3s first to get the manufacturing process down. 
    They did it with the M2, they'll do the same thing with the M3. 

    Reason: The M3 is ready and goes in this machine. 

    The M3 Pro / Max are not ready. 

    So Apple could either hold up shipping the latest tech just to not outshine its flagships, or ship it when it's ready. Apple is shipping it when it's ready, since, over its own long history, that was always the better course of action. They got decades of experience with this exact "dilemma" and they have their MO down. 
    tenthousandthingswilliamlondonAlex1Nwatto_cobramacike

  • Twitter imposes limits on readable tweets to beat 'scraping'

    CalamanderCalamander
    Government censorship apparatus apparently scraping Twitter day and night to analyze trends, and combat them with their bot armies. 

    Any truth the government doesn't like appears, they take counter measures that's how they got 22M Tweets banned for "misinformation" back when Twitter was still under Jack's control.

    You guys really need to read the Twitter files to realize how badly the government was interfering with free speech - and no, it's not "a private company can do whatever it wants". Not when said private company works closely together with government task groups who actually set up an AI based censorship mechanism to remove all information that didn't fit the narrative presented in mass media. 

    It's all out there. There is proof. Plain as day. What everyone considered conspiracy theories a few years ago was actually happening on a mass scale in the 2020ies...

    Ministry of Truth should be a bit of a giveaway for those who've read "1984". There is no difference between the behavior of the US government and those they like to criticize, Russia, China, North Korea - all have repressed information, all label said information "misinformation", all pretend to censor said information "to protect the people". And so on. 

    An interesting take on the scraping was - the ones screaming the loudest about this will be government agencies who use Twitter for creating their AI models for narrative control. Other social platforms are private, so Twitter was their go-to. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra