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May I ask what phone? I am not here to criticize.
I’m a cheap bastard so I got a Pixel 2 used for ~$55. I’m sure people will tell me Android is no better and I’d be open to hearing that but they don’t scan your phone as far as I know. I also have the option to install things like Calyx OS, Graphene OS I believe.
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"So stop the circulating." Good idea. Any ideas how we could do that? Perhaps one thing that would help is to implement a system that hashes circulating images to ensure they aren't known images of child sexual abuse. Just a thought.
A lot of unwanted kids out there that end up in broken homes or on the street. There are also a lot of kids born in abusive families. Good ideas to stop the circulating would be to increase birth control education and access, increase foster care funding and access, implement common sense policies for adoption, and increase funding for Child Protective Services.
Apple's mistake is that they seemingly believe there is pushback because people misunderstand how it works. The reality is more nuanced: People understand exactly how it works, and how it works is that it is turn-key onboard spyware, that Apple pinky-swears isn't being used wrong today . For example if the scope/mission expands (e.g. foreign governments), suddenly you've created a drag-net for whatever "badness" is o…
Hm. Seems like a good attack would be take a celebrity, photoshop some nakedness, and put that in the database. Output: real photo of said celebrity.
This is not acceptable.
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If I learned anything in my lifetime, it’s that “slippery slope” is not, in fact, a fallacy at all. Rather, it’s a rule of thumb.
There are plenty of examples where it is fallacious though, often absurdly so. The important distinction is: does A abstractly "lead to" B, or does A directly enable B, but for some will to use it that way. For one example, it was always absurd to suggest that gay marriage would lead to legalized pedophilia, bestiality, or marriage to objects.
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Now that I think about it, is there any good, viable alternative for Windows 10 on a new ThinkPad? One that ideally is able to run MS Office (or at least Excel...)? Any recommendations regarding decent, and ideally user friendly, Linux versions?
Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop_OS!
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Ok but PhotoDNA has been doing this scanning for a decade, I believe, and none of these things have happened despite how easy it would seem to be? Or have Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, etc., been doing this with such stealth that no-one has actually noticed it happening yet?
Those aren't run on edge devices. Apple's model saves them money and creates a capability - local scanning - which didn't exist before.
We do have international institutions and media that can handle this.
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They make the premise so innocuous that it would seem unreasonable to object, eg who would object to keeping kids safe? However it's what comes after this, the slippery slope of what to enforce and not. The genie doesn't go back in the bottle.
Exactly. It's the same argument when Corona contact-tracing was discussed and later implemented. First using paper forms and later using apps. Why would you object to limiting the spread of the Coronavirus ? Fast forward to the present where law enforcement in Germany, Australia and Singapore have used contact-tracing for other purposes. So no to this plan from Apple, they must discard all plans of client-side scanni…
I don't understand how people were so naive to install those applications. I did the exact opposite: whipped my phone and bought two cheap ones so I can separate my calling phone (which I leave home), from my media phone (no connections), and my GPS phone (no connections aside from GPS and turned off most of the time).
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There are plenty of examples where it is fallacious though, often absurdly so. The important distinction is: does A abstractly "lead to" B, or does A directly enable B, but for some will to use it that way. For one example, it was always absurd to suggest that gay marriage would lead to legalized pedophilia, bestiality, or marriage to objects.
Instead it lead to things like being sent to jail for calling his daughter she: https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/man-arrested-for-discussing-ch...
Also, that father violated a gag order, and acted against the decisions of the both custodial parent and his child's medical professionals. You're being disingenuous to misrepresent that as "for calling his daughter[sic] she".
Unfortunalty if our experience from the past with such events teaches us anything, it's that a minority of us will stop using apple products (or keep not doing it) but the rest of the world will quickly forget and carry on as usual. Worse, if your decision to not use an iphone makes others people life slightly anoying for 2 seconds a week, many will bash on you. As a FOSS user with no FB nor whatsapp account that ask…
There is no viable option if you want a quality smartphone. Androids spy on you already. Apple will be spying on you. The dark side of economies of scale.