Crontab

Coming next year: "A man spent a year in jail on child pornography charge that hinged on disputed Apple CSAM evidence".

> How long before before it’s dissidents, political opponents, and minorities in dictatorships?

Siri: "You seem to be having unpatriotic thoughts. We are dispatching someone to help you."

I remember reading the evil handyman story (link 2) a while ago and it scared me into using FDE. (Of course, FDE doesn't solve malware and things like that.)

Correct. I am quite disappointed in the editors.

> we don't feel like we need a release

I think a lot of users look at the release history and cadence as a sort of heartbeat; in order to tell if a project is still being maintained. That can be a problem when a program reaches a mature state.

I really dislike subscriptionware. I don't want to depend on software that I might lose accept to if money gets tight.

The thing I never expected is that corporations, not the government, would be the ones to build a pervasive surveillance system.

If it is really only to be used when iCloud Photos is turned on, why not do the hashing on Apple's servers when the photos are uploaded to the service? It is my understanding that this kind of hash-checking of files is a pretty standard thing on major cloud storage services.

I can only think of two reasons for this:

- for a future expansion into files that are not uploaded, even with cloud services turned off

- Apple doesn't want to foot the energy costs of doing it

Finally, it should be noted that this will also apply to macOS Monterey, not just iOS/iPadOS.

I have always been concerned that this system could be weaponized as a way gain access to someone's account. For example:

- Add the hash of a non-pornographic image to the database

- Using a burner email address, email the non-pornographic image to the target's Gmail address. The target wouldn't think anything of it.

- The innocent image would trigger a CP alert, giving law enforcement the pretense it needs to access the account

Indeed. The new Reddit interest is horrid.

Has ProPublica actually shown anyone to have broken the law in these articles? If not, then they are just trying to stoke the fires of class warfare.

Unless I am misreading it, you can configure this to allow some real files to be created, so it isn't all or nothing. But of course those real files will use memory.

This is a bullshit statement from a company that wanted to create their own version of iOS with Windows RT.

"The whole article is a hit piece designed to get whip people into a furor."

I've seen a lot of this lately too and it feels coordinated.

> I've heard from people close to him that that's just the way he is

I doubt this is true. I would wager that he doesn't treat those with power over him this way. He probably does it because he knows he can.

It is. I feel that people are too ready to deify Aaron Swartz and act like he held no responsibility in what happened.

I've been considering trying to wrap NFS with Colin Percival's spiped[1]. It should work if you only use TCP.

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html

Basically, abuse these days is being told something you didn't like or agree with.

I have never liked the term 'buy' on anything with DRM. This isn't really an Apple problem so much as an industry problem. I think 'license' would be a better term.

When it comes to Apple specifically, they really need to let iOS users know that they need to back up DRMed movies, shows, and books. I know some iOS-only users who are under the impression that they will forever be able to redownload these items. In reality, there is no of guarantee of that, as Apple may might not hold distribution rights at some point in the future.

I have heard people suggest that no one on the no-fly list should be able to purchase a weapon. This article points out the problem with using the no-fly list for that purpose.

(Note: IMO the way no-fly list is managed is unconstitutional)

I loved BeOS/BeFS. I remember exporting ID3 tags from mp3 files into file system attributes and querying them to create playlists.

Aside from Haiku, does anyone know if any of the open-source Unix-like operating systems support arbitrary extended file attributes?

Couldn't it be there from someone who knows you? I was under the impression that Facebook grabbed people's contacts list on mobile apps.

Thank goodness.

I had forgotten about those Intel Overdrive chips. I had updated a PC with the 486DX4/100.

I've held that opinion and I was wrong.

Thank you! I hadn't seen this.

John's usage reminded me of something I read in Rob Rike's "Uses This" interview[1]:

"I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should be someone else's problem, one I'm happy to pay to have them solve."

[1]https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/

LOL, my first thought was that you were talking about Theo.

As an OS nerd, I find this very interesting. Thanks for posting it.

Personally, I see it as a user hostile change.