This reminds me that a two OS market isn’t a healthy one for consumers. We could use more diversity.
Okay, but in a n OS market the companies behind them would still be pressured to implement CSAM detection. There's still a monopoly on government.
An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
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#142You guys can get outraged all you want. It's pretty clear that Apple debated this internally and decided that the backlash was worth whatever they got from this deal... By today, it's pretty clear than privacy is not the top priority of most people. See how much data people are giving fb/google every second...
A protest outside of Apple's main offices or Tim Cook's house would draw a good amount of attention to this issue.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would, but luckily that's not what's happening
Go read the announcement, the "CSAM detection" heading [0]. It is exactly what they are doing. Although they're assuring us that they don't make mistakes. The technical term for that is either going to be "blatant deception" or "delusion". Apple are impressive but they haven't developed a tech that can't make mistakes. [0] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
That isn't what they're doing at all. You have significantly misunderstood or conflated different sections.
Though I don't blame you at all: Read through the various hysterical posts about this and there are a lot of extraordinary misrepresentations.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yikes, do not engage in a defense of child pornography in these types of arguments. The opposition is gunning for that.
I'm not defending any specific point of view. I'm merely pointing out a problem of map-territory conflation.
> I'm merely pointing out a problem of map-territory conflation.
Using complicated language does not make you smart... It just makes you hard to understand. Maybe if you expressed yourself in common language, you'd understand that the points you're trying to make are bogus.
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#145I know the privacy approach Apple has been pushing was just marketing, but I didn't care too much because I enjoyed my iPhone and M1 macbook. Because of this decision (and the fact that my iPhone more-or-less facilitates poor habits throughout my life), I'm considering moving completely out of the Apple ecosystem. Does anyone have any recommendations for replacements? * On laptops: I have an X1 carbon extreme running…
On phones: I'm considering a Pixel device with https://calyxos.org/ The main limitations will be the featureset of MicroG (no ~maps~/wearOS/auto). Possible issues with important apps like those for banking. On cloud: Synology Diskstation is amazing. Only use it through a local VPN though. edit: maps work (see reply)
Are the only phone options iOS or Android? I’m also considering leaving my iPhone behind because of this privacy violation but I’m definitely not moving to Google. That seems like two steps back.
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#146This reminds me that a two OS market isn’t a healthy one for consumers. We could use more diversity.
postmarketos.org
A quick look at that website and you see it's not for normal or typical consumers. It's for a technical crowd who is in to technical things and tinkering.
It's like telling an average person to use GNU/Linux for their desktop OS and then watching them struggle to get printing to work well (I have been through this).
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#147I know the privacy approach Apple has been pushing was just marketing, but I didn't care too much because I enjoyed my iPhone and M1 macbook. Because of this decision (and the fact that my iPhone more-or-less facilitates poor habits throughout my life), I'm considering moving completely out of the Apple ecosystem. Does anyone have any recommendations for replacements? * On laptops: I have an X1 carbon extreme running…
> On laptops
My XPS 15 does about 6 hours (it's a maxed out i7) on Linux and 3 on Windows.
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#148I'm glad people are sticking their necks out and opposing this. Typically people keep quiet because they don't want to be branded as "pro child-pornography" and that opens the door for this sort of surveillance.
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#149I know the privacy approach Apple has been pushing was just marketing, but I didn't care too much because I enjoyed my iPhone and M1 macbook. Because of this decision (and the fact that my iPhone more-or-less facilitates poor habits throughout my life), I'm considering moving completely out of the Apple ecosystem. Does anyone have any recommendations for replacements? * On laptops: I have an X1 carbon extreme running…
On phones: I'm considering a Pixel device with https://calyxos.org/ The main limitations will be the featureset of MicroG (no ~maps~/wearOS/auto). Possible issues with important apps like those for banking. On cloud: Synology Diskstation is amazing. Only use it through a local VPN though. edit: maps work (see reply)
> no maps
I don't experience any issues using mapping apps on Android with microG instead of Google Play Services. Closed source navigation apps including Google Maps, HERE WeGo, and Magic Earth work just fine. Open source navigation apps like Organic Maps and OsmAnd also work with no problems.
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#150I know the privacy approach Apple has been pushing was just marketing, but I didn't care too much because I enjoyed my iPhone and M1 macbook. Because of this decision (and the fact that my iPhone more-or-less facilitates poor habits throughout my life), I'm considering moving completely out of the Apple ecosystem. Does anyone have any recommendations for replacements? * On laptops: I have an X1 carbon extreme running…
I have a Lemur Pro from System76 and it has insane battery life. I feel like I never charge it b/c it's always got juice. I run Pop_OS! on it b/c at my age I just want to get work done and not tinker with a distro.