skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think it will result in a loss of market share if it comes to pass, if, for the simple reason that Apple will likely lose the Privacy Moat.

Upcoming contenders like Purism [1] and the Pine Phone [2] will start gaining a great deal more traction from this. Other SV firms will sense business opportunity..... If merely 5% of the TAM around mobile is willing to prioritize non-spying features that would be enough to stand up very healthy businesses.

It isn't like an iPhone is very customizable, repairable, or that usable with all the App restrictions Walled-Garden stuff.

[1] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

[2] https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
There are pockets of ex-Moto software engineers that have splintered off from Libertyville and/or Mart that still continue to contaminate the tech scene in Chicago.

I worked with a group of them a few years ago. Their skills were shit but they all walked around expecting managerial positions.
https://vim-adventures.com/ is a fun way to flesh out your vim understanding. I've only been through the free bit and balked at the price tag, but very much enjoyed what I played and if I weren't already well versed in vim it would probably be well worth it to continue.
Desktop OSes can't be fully locked down for the simple reason that people use them for programming and thus need to run unsigned arbitrary code.
I don't know what you mean. Linux containers don't contain operating systems. They contain processes. POSIX describes operating systems.

Every Linux process can read environment variables. They are contained in its address space. "cd" is a shell built-in. When there is no shell, there is no "cd". Not providing access to a shell sounds like great security practice tbh. Your applications shouldn't be using it anyway (they should create new processes directly).
AQ: Al-Qaeda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda

IC: Intelligence Community - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_community

AFG: Afghanistan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency

CTC: Counter Terrorism Center - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterterrorism_Center

KIA: Killed in Action - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killed_in_action
Oh I'm definitely oversimplifying, and I think we're generally saying the same thing. My only point of clarification is that getting the reward causes dopamine levels to decrease. Dopamine isn't the reward, it's what makes you chase the reward.
It's a been pretty weird experience sitting comfortably here in the Mojave desert while my family in the PNW is suffering in the heat.
About your third paragraph: You seem to think this isn't already happening. I think you're several years late.
Wrong answer, Apple.
Russia funding the Taliban. Ok.. run that playbook again for how the US funded the muj to undermine Russian investments in Afghanistan. Many thousands of young Russian conscripts died in Russia's Vietnam war. It fundamentally undermined the integrity of belief in the USSR and led directly to the end of soviet rule along with Chernobyl.

I'm not really sure I can make Russia funding the Taliban work. Do you have any actual evidence because this would be like the CIA funding Al queda, in many ways..
Take a look at what happened earlier in the summer in Portland. Extreme heat events are becoming more common in places where homes often don’t have air conditioning.

Also, I feel like this should go without saying but the climate has changed perceptibly since 1999 and will continue to get warmer for the foreseeable future, so relying on past trend lines like this is a mistake.
You can't blame corporate media and the scientific establishment, and big tech's active suppression of this topic on Trump. That's on them.

Do you think corporate media is giving the recent information the weight it deserves, given the fact that 4.3 million people died so far, and untold damage was done to the global economy and mental health?
There is also the issue that closed door arbitration of heinous crimes are the perfect tool to put away dissidents. A very convenient excuse to avoid proper checks and balances. "No, you cannot verify, because you aren't allowed to look at the illegal material that proves their guilt"
> See, your talking but saying nothing.

You might want to use that edit button yourself. Then again the issue might be a general lack of command of the English language rather than a typographic error, as demonstrated by your demonstrated inability or unwillingness to use a dictionary.

> "A is A" has no value. It's not an axiom, it's a tautology. It is true by virtue of being itself. You're saying "zealots are zealots". Which, ok. But it doesn't tell us what zealots are. Or what you think they are.

Thank you for the succinct demonstration of ignorance of both logic and the purpose of dictionaries. It sounds like you once "lost" a debate and your interlocutor used the word "tautology" and now you think it's some kind of magic I win button.

> And it's not a logical error. It's what you did with your edit. If not all who downvoted you and him are zealots, then you can't use the fact that you were downvoted as proof of zealotry. Which you did. Downvotes only go to like -4 around here.

What? Study some basic first order logic please. Also, consider adding the word "germane" to your lexicon. Oh and work on your reading comprehension.

> Besides your claim that "the zealots are after you".

You do realize that using quotation marks around a fabricated quote is dishonest, don't you? And since I'm feeling charitable, for that matter the word you're looking for is once again "you're." And if you really want to expand your mind look up "gerunds."

> You do not discuss in good faith. And the evidence is in your posts. You think using words like axiom and pragmatic means you're making good points. You're not. Because you apparently don't know what they mean.

Thank you for the case study of a midwit projecting his own intellectual inadequacies on his interlocutor. Sadly, I don't think further discussion with you is going to satisfy my, or anyone's, intellectual curiosity.
First you wipe the keys, then you wipe the drive... then you physically destroy it just to be sure.
> Aside from that, what does an embassy bombing in Tanzania/Kenya have to do with Afghanistan or 9/11? Was it done by Al-Qaeda?

Yes, the embassy bombings and the attack on the USS Cole were carried out by al-Qaeda.
Fingers crossed it is
Kwenta – trustless trading of equities and derivatives
A backdoor is a backdoor.
You have far more faith in a system of secret courts and gag orders than I do.
I think they mean it runs as native code.

What libraries that native code uses is a different issue - but it's still native code.
You can walk into a city. You have to be judged to be in the top 1% of intelligence to work at Google.

People like me are untermensch to folks like you.
+1 for vim. I also spent a lot of time resisting it. Now it's all I use because it's just so much better.
Scott Galloway – No Mercy/No Malice – Hunger
First of all, I have no affiliation with Apple, not do I own any Apple stock.

Do you have any affiliations we should be aware of?

Secondly, I haven’t ‘defended Apple’ in any comments. Indeed there are comments in which I make a judgement about this topic where I say that what Apple is doing is distasteful and offensive.

Elsewhere I have pointed out that if Apple wants to scan people’s devices they have many other mechanisms at their fingertips than this narrowly tailored tool.

What exactly do you think I’m ‘defending Apple’ from? Quite a few of my comments are critical of false or immaculate characterizations of what Apple is actually doing.

If you consider that to be a defense of Apple, then I disagree.

For the most part there just seems to be a lot of confusion about what Apple is doing, and general frustration about the state of computing.

Do you really think of these as ‘attacks’ on Apple?
Because this is likely not about making money, it's about expanding surveillance. Once this becomes accepted they can ratchet it up bit-by-bit. Each the the outrage will be less and less.

For example imagine creating a new tax for 1% of purchases. People would be outraged. Now imagine raising sales tax instead by 1% (ex 7% to 8%.) Sure some people would be upset, but it would be a smaller number than the "new" tax. The reason is because people are already used to paying a sales tax. What is "normal" is more easily accepted.

If Apple can get past the initial outrage (like when sales tax was implemented in many countries in history) they can increase the surveillance once scanning local files becomes the "new normal".
IMO it should be illegal for a company to make hardware, software, AND online services. Any two yes, but not all three. It should also be illegal to make any public keys and server hostnames unchangeable by the end user.
> WAP

WAP made sense for its time: limited computing power, limited bandwidth, super low data caps.
And... Apple misses the point of the criticism completely.

This problem is the capability, not what it's used for. Any such capability will be abused by new use cases be it terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking or whatever. Plus there will inevitably be unauthorized access.

The only way to prevent all this is for the system not to exist.

I don't buy into theories that Apple is being pressured or coerced on any of this. I believe it's far more likely this is just tone-deaf but well-intentioned incompetence. It's classic "why won't anyone think of the children?" and we've seen it time and time again with encryption backdoors and similar.

The big question for me is how and why Tim Cook and Apple's board signed off on a plan to do huge damage to Apple's reputation and user trust. If they didn't know, it's a problem. If they knew and didn't realize the inevitable backlash, well that's a different problem.
Not everyone who thinks you're flat-out wrong is an idealogue or a zealot.
I wonder if the false positive rate of this system is equal among races. This depends a lot on the algorithm being used and what's in the database, but we know there are significant racial discrepancies in image classification.

for example:

Are a black parent's photos of their own children more likely to be falsely marked as CSAM than a white parent's photos of their own children?
Gotta love the old style of writing where they prime you by explaining the underlying theory. These days technical documents like this (both government and private industry) just say "do X because we said so, trust us".

>if the drum is tipped over at this point, a greenish liquid slag flows out. This quickly hardens to a cement-like mass.

Knocking the drum over with the forklift was probably the highlight of that private's month.
Trust lost last week. This doesn’t matter.
It's a mix according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive_platter
“Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.” -Colin Powell

Note that Powell was a real-world leader of an extremely large organization, which pretty much delivered extremely difficult and complex real-world results (victory in Operation Desert Storm) on time and within budget. (Yes, I know about his role in whitewashing My Lai. And later moral failures. Not. The. Point.)

Also - how much are anti-intellectualism and anti-elitism grounded in repeated experiences by groups of "ordinary people" with intellectuals and elites who are oblivious (at best) to the concerns and problems of ordinary people? If not busy using their intellectual and elite status to justify or excuse treating ordinary people like crap, for their (intellectuals and elites) own benefit? Marie Antoinette probably never said "Let them eat cake" - but that phrase and the surrounding French history sum up very well how things often work out, given human nature, when society contains self-absorbed elites.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory unless you provide more explanations with some evidence. For example, who are these handlers? What are their motives?

The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. The simplest explanation would be some director in Apple wants to get promoted to VP so he or she started this project, pitched it, and very few people opposed it because who wouldn't to prevent harm of children?
It looks like the whole Greek alphabet is accessible in the pop up window

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iCloud is already available for lawful intercept. It's not E2EE because the FBI requested it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
> (^_)

Confusingly, this is actually not a ctrl (^) shortcut at all. It is alt-g.
> No Right click menus anywhere
Just wanted to add that I think that's going to be added soon, I see there's a pull request[0] to get those in. Seems like development on this is pretty active

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[0]: https://github.com/emilk/egui/pull/543
> unfortunately, it will disproportionally affect the poorest/most vulnerable people.

There isn’t much that is bad that this doesn’t hold true for.
I enjoyed your pedantry :) that’s fair enough, but I maintain that without Maps it would not exist in its current state as a reliable alternative to it. Just like I maintain that without Google Search we would not have Bing.
I agree. Further, is there any doubt that these “CSAM”² hash databases aren’t already shared between countries? Because if there was doubt, there shouldn’t be, because agencies do share across borders.

² - reason for the scare quotes is because I have first hand knowledge of non-CSAM content being in NCMEC’s database (most likely via data entry errors, but I can’t be for sure).
In Polish it's singular "błąd" and plural "błędy". Today people also often refer to them as simply singular "bug" and plural "bugi".
lol, so first it's "at least 30 images", then it's "multiple nations" (how many? which pairs are allowed?)

Soon your pictures will be subject to a 3-week review period to decide whether they 're fit to be scanned
Is that consistent with the amount of time this feature took to implement?
Bending is generally considered safer, as it prevents rotating the drive, making any recovery attempts prohibitively slow and expensive.
I deny most of the lies mainstream media pushes. I'm sorry that having your spoonfed worldview challenged is so hard for you. Wish you all the best! Hundreds of millions if not billions share my views. Not too special. Hurry up and get off the computer! You're missing Anderson Cooper 360!
I skimmed this, and don't see anything that says the DB contains non-CSAM.
The US Embassy in Afghanistan is absolutely massive. From July 6 2021:

> the embassy is currently down to 1,400 U.S. citizens and about 4,000 staff working inside the compound the size of a small town.

It's a huge complex and those are the reduced staff numbers. Granted they may or may not actually be evacuating all the local staff (the US has been... not great about getting people who risked their lives to help the US in Afghanistan).

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-kabul-445f33e7bba08c382...
This is yet another "controversy" that I don't get. We're very strict about our children (and ourselves) wearing masks during public activities and around any people we know to be unvaccinated (i.e. other kids).

Our kids still see other people's faces all the time. They see our faces, they see other kid's faces during meals / snacks, they see adult faces from a slight distance when we're outside.
Xoogler is a term. How many other companies have a term like that? They even have a website internally for people who leave and they call them “alums”. Nobody thinks I’m impressive or worthy of respect because of where I work, but people like OP continue to promote an elitist view of the world.
> Most readers will find Gadberry’s readings dazzlingly innovative; other less attentive and open-minded readers may view them as outlandish.

This kind of rhetorical gambit really bugs me. So if I find Gadberry unconvincing (or possibly even full of it) I'm close-minded and inattentive, am I?
Your problem is trusting evil people at face value.
Hahaha an NSL can do more than that.
`sudo vi` runs vi as root, which means 1) it won't have your users configurations, and 2) it's probably way the hell over-privileged for what you are trying to do.

`sudoedit` (and equivalently `sudo -e`) makes a copy of the file that you can edit and then copies it back as root iff it's changed.
But how can you pick just one gay seaman?
Another in a long line of US military failures since WW2. I suspect when history looks back at the fall of the US/rise of the East, a common theme will be how much of a lead the US blew as a result of multiple, unnecessary and excruciatingly resource-intensive wars of attrition
tons of foreign support from Pakistan and most likely Russia/China for the sole purpose of bleeding the US dry

every major war since WWII has been a proxy war between the US and Russia/China. Korea, Vietnam, Middle East, Latin America stuff, etc.
Yep. Though they don't have a concept of communities/subreddits. They rely on tags instead.
Easy there, rewriting history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

> It was first announced on 12 December 2006.

> It is the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen.

> The LG Prada was announced shortly <<before>> Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPhone on January 9, 2007.

> After the release of the iPhone the head of the LG Mobile Handset R&D Center was quoted saying he believed Apple had stolen the idea from the KE850 after it was announced as part of the iF Design Award.
The primary security theater was the military personal that popped up around airports around 9/11 that carried guns but no ammunition because guns with ammunition could hurt people.

The TSA checkpoint is mostly a security theater. It stops people who don't try to hide and people who are unable to think of a way to get past it. It also limit the amount of weapons that airline personal need to see so that when they see it they can assume ill intent.

The "random" checks and blacklists seem to have mixed quality. According to some they actually worked when good investigators identified high risk people. According to other it was mostly just racism and personal vendettas. Hard to give it a definitive grade.

Locked doors and strict policy against people getting access to the cockpit seems to have worked.
This does not address the issue of perceptual hash collisions and false positives at all, nor does it address the issue of on device scanning nor their claim that, according to Apple[1]:

> This program is ambitious, and protecting children is an important responsibility. These efforts will evolve and expand over time.

People don't want their property spying on them and reporting them to the police. They don't want people looking at their photos or thumbnails. It's patronizing, invasive and embarrassing to have your privacy violated like that.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
"Generate chit-chat until the intent classifier gets what you need" is an interesting idea. Should work especially well in therapy where asking the same question for different angles is pretty well tolerated.
In the late aughts, I found myself at the keyboard of a Solaris system that only had ed. I was there to get the network configured and it didn't have an optical drive, so there was no way but forward.

More recently, I've found myself inside a container which didn't have any editors. I got the job done with echo, head and tail. Delightful.
I think the go comment is kinda of like the infamous slash dot review of the iPod: “I don’t think heat deaths will be a thing in the next decade” - uh huh
I think this is (quietly) already happening: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-tech-g...

Instead of hashes looking for sexual abuse images, hashes look at signs of white supremacist behavior. Instead of reporting such racism or behavior to the government, it is shared with all the major tech companies, including AirBnB and Paypal.

So, if Facebook deems you to be a political outcast, based on your conversations on their platform, you may find yourself without access to hotels or online payment platforms. The bogeyman of the day is the white supremacist, and coordinated snooping by big tech is the quiet part.

> Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos - often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence - and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.

> The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share "hashes," unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it.

As a company to become part of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, you have to pledge your support to expanding from terrorism towards all online extremism. If you can't accept that, they will still send a speaker to educate your company.
It did enough to make the point; but in any case, what matters is not the outcome in any one particular case, but the statistical outcome in the long run.
If we don’t respond to climate change now and aggressively, like we are fighting a war, humanity is toast. Climate change will quickly wipe out most life on earth. The IPCC “code red” report doesn’t even take into account several enormous feedback effects such as methane off gassing from rock formations.
Yeah, that's the point. Since they are both tools, I'd rather see more tool war posts regarding languages. At least people will quickly deviate to language theory or quirks in languages so that we can learn a lot.
Potentially unpopular opinion, but here goes. Would an acceptable level of presence have been just to keep Bagram? It was a pretty key base for so many operations in the Middle East and could have been a huge force multiplier. Moreover, it could have a deterrent effect. For precedent, the US has a variety of bases across the world in Europe and Asia and many of those bases are not political nightmares. To just maintain Bagram could seemingly be done without really risking many personnel and serve as an air support base with faster response times to Afghan military requests for aid. Bagram could also be a strong piece in preventing this unrelenting push of the Taliban.

Right now we are sending 3000 troops in for evacuations, and I don't think this is the last time we'll have troops in there. If the Taliban completes a significant enough takeover of Afghanistan then (in my opinion) it's just a matter of time before some action prompts US or some coalition of forces to return.
> Overthrowing governments is awful foreign policy. This was never going to work, just like it didn't in Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, the Congo, Guatemala, Syria and elsewhere.

IIRC, the US didn't overthrow any government Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam#Founding_of_Sout....

There's probably some parallels that can be drawn between US support of South Vietnam and US support of South Korea.