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I'm saying the same thing. It appears irresponsible to resort to substances that affect your behavior in non deterministic ways to fix a perceived problem.
A child with the privilege of growing up in a good community, tends to have better outcomes and socio economic problems don't have solutions at the end of a needle.
Great ending, right? Too bad he's too stupid to make the right decisions. Or maybe you're saying he made HIS decision, so fuck him anyway.
The government shouldn't be telling you how to live your life, sure. But that doesn't change reality that the vast majority of people out there are not qualified to make a medical assessment for themselves about the severity of synthetic substances (and many naturally occurring substances as well)f
It feels like the culture of family and community is steadily being eroded in the United States in favor of liberalization at any cost.
It's like : "I'm a doctor of homeopathy so i can write a headline for a story about a neural chip implant"
You will notice that both are very easy fixes that computers have perfected in retrieval over the past 5 or so decades.
Imagine if the Trump Administration had people who donated predominantly to their cause making decisions at the highest level at Social Media companies and directly affecting policy of posts being taken down such as Jim Baker asking why "don't be afraid of COVID" isn't taken down.
Imagine if employees at social media companies took the view that they knew better than abortion and lgbt activists and overruled coverage of their protests, flagged their tweets, locked their accounts from gaining any distribution.
Imagine if the Trump administration established a department within the San Francisco field office of the FBI to EXCLUSIVELY check social media feeds of their political opponents to have them reported to twitter under government pressure to take them down.
I thought all of this was implied and anyone reading this comment would at least acknowledge the severity of these revelations, but here we are.
We would see two impeachments, wall to wall news coverage, protests by employees at Facebook, Apple and Google, all asking for deplatforming everyone associated and so much more.
Its ridiculous that we're unable as a society to separate actions from political affiliation.
We may not be seeing the whole picture yet, but very concerning that the dev environment had access to Production database backups stored in a manner that was easily decrypt-able :/ The whole point of a Dev environment in a security focused company is that you reduce the surface area for access and failure.
The vice chancellor Habeck as gone on record to fanatically oppose nuclear when his countrymen(and women) are suffering through his idiotic stance made years ago.
Have a fuckton of non carbon electricity and then, sitting in that position of luxury, take the risk of further cleaning anything up you think is dangerous. Its very very very dumb to deny your citizenry near unlimited energy in this day and age , as an advanced country for cheap.
They forced France to adopt laws to cut off their nuclear plants back in 2015. INSPITE of a law that mandates lower energy production from nuclear right now, France still produces much more than that and the shortfall is from whatever the French government invested in as the replacement, which is green bullshit.
Please look up how modern French politicians sabotaged that country’s incredible nuclear rollout and replacement plan since 2015 by adopting laws that forced their energy industry to stop investing and roll back nuclear. You might break a screen or two if you aren’t familiar with those events seeing how stupid and evil it was.
1.Imagine a Robinhood user places an order to sell 100 $GME
2.Robinhood doesn't send it to an exchange first, it holds onto it for a few milliseconds.
3.Meanwhile, Citadel/Virtu or others execute orders below what the bid would have fetched a few milliseconds ago.
4.Now, the order is routed to the exchange above what the market was trading at and thus certainly goes unfilled.
5.300 milliseconds per the regulation elapses and the order comes back to the HFT firm to fill.
The bigger issue here is the nepotism in providing wholesale prices to HFT firms. The stock exchanges do this and so does Robinhood. In an open and competitive market, the playing ground should be regulated to be equal for all.
Or infact, as motorsports participants know very well, the cost of access to markets should INCREASE with size, not decrease. . . If you're the present Formula1 team winner, you pay SIGNIFICANTLY more to enter next years championship than the last place team.
iCloud CSAM scanning does not do what you described in your last paragraph, you're describing the proposed on device csam scanning. There are many "product features" with a finite set of technical building blocks. Lets break it down:
----------------------- Encryption , Storage and Transport:
-Presently, this is considered "strong" on-device where Apple claims they cannot access content on your device and it is encrypted.
-Data sent to their servers as part of the automatic (opt in) photo backup service (icloud photos) is considered fair game to scan and they do that routinely.
-This data is encrypted "End to end". What that means is up for debate since it's taken on a commercial brand shape and isn't a technical guarantee of anything.
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Explicit consent for access and storage:
-This is the point. Your device belongs to you. No one should be snooping around there.
-Apple is presently retiring the aforementioned icloud photo scanning and has simultaneously released a statement that's very obscure in what precisely they mean.
-They indicate that scanning on the server is waayyy too late in preventing CSAM and indicate that they think the best way to prevent CSAM is at the point of origin.
-Of course, what that means is : "Scan everything, when something matches, do an action"
-The "Opt-in" here is for the warnings on a child device, but it is an OS LEVEL FEATURE.
-If some media is being scanned, ALL media is potentially being scanned.
-Presently, for audio, one easy way to reduce your bandwidth costs of backing up, scanning on a server etc is to move everything onto the device itself.
-This has been demonstrated by the Accessibility menu feature i have already called out in my parent comment. You have an audio buffer on your iPhone TODAY that is ALWAYS ACTIVE. When the accessibility toggle is turned on, the contents of this buffer are regularly classified against a trained model.
-When a match occurs, the OS responds with the configured response.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS FRAMEWORK. Swap the media type to any generic type and swap what you're looking for from CSAM to a mention of a political phrase such as abortion. You're asking us to TRUST that the company will never be compelled to do that by authoritarian governments or any hostile entity for that matter? No fucking thank you.
>"Technology that detects CSAM before it is sent from a child’s device can prevent that child from being a victim of sextortion or other sexual abuse, and can help identify children who are currently being exploited,” says Erin Earp, interim vice president of public policy at the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN. “Additionally, because the minor is typically sending newly or recently created images, it is unlikely that such images would be detected by other technology, such as Photo DNA. While the vast majority of online CSAM is created by someone in the victim’s circle of trust, which may not be captured by the type of scanning mentioned, combatting the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children requires technology companies to innovate and create new tools. Scanning for CSAM before the material is sent by a child’s device is one of these such tools and can help limit the scope of the problem.”
Those quotes are a continuation of the statement from "The Company" ie Apple.
>"Technology that detects CSAM before it is sent from a child’s device can prevent that child from being a victim of sextortion or other sexual abuse, and can help identify children who are currently being exploited,” says Erin Earp, interim vice president of public policy at the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN. “Additionally, because the minor is typically sending newly or recently created images, it is unlikely that such images would be detected by other technology, such as Photo DNA. While the vast majority of online CSAM is created by someone in the victim’s circle of trust, which may not be captured by the type of scanning mentioned, combatting the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children requires technology companies to innovate and create new tools. Scanning for CSAM before the material is sent by a child’s device is one of these such tools and can help limit the scope of the problem.”
I see so many top level comments about how they're stopping on-device scanning of any photo which is more intrusive. This is not true. It appears the opt-in is limited to receiving alerts and blocking sending harmful images, but the implications here is that Apple is moving iCloud scanning of media onto the device.
If anyone is going to vote on this comment or respond, please atleast go to your iPhone settings -> Accessibility -> Hearing -> Sound Recognition. Those are on device ML models working on an audio buffer that is ALWAYS ON. The idea is to do the same for visual media. Any images you take or potentially even hit the image buffer of your device could potentially be classified by increasingly powerful ML models.
It doesn't matter if the actual content is then end to end encrypted, because the knowledge of the content is now available to Apple. This is DANGEROUS.
This quote makes it sound as though they had an AE/AM visit them every week ? Most advertisers count themselves lucky to hear from the ads teams once a quarter outside regular scripted emails.
Throughout the pandemic, I witnessed people questioning the science behind lockdowns and government overreach being banned, censored, de-patformed from social media sites and the common response in the media being "start your own platform"
"The shoe on the other foot" is such a bad place to find ourselves as a society, it speaks to us being incapable of reconciling our differences for a common good.
Since the 2016 election, the US has gone batshit insane it feels like. It was crazy before, but its incredibly hard to have any sort of a conversation about touchy issues these days without an overwhelming negative, non-critical response in the form of downvotes, aggressive bucketing into political buckets, pariah treatment etc.
I hope, at least on HN, we're able to hold discussions on political topics without such tribalism.
All these sacrifices that residents of California have had to make under the premise of a better environmental future, banning straws, forcing a specific complex fuel mix forcing refineries in state to go out of business and thus people at the pump paying a lot more for this imported complex blend etc . . . all of these are decisions that have consequences.
The premise thus far has never been challenged that the "Good" outweighs the "bad" in these decisions by the legislature in California.
Everyone in the industry tracking the privacy moves in GDPR acknowledges that far from improving privacy, they are intended to blunt US tech companies' success in the continent. And . . that's perfectly fine, i guess positioning it as a moral defense of privacy just doesn't sit well with me.
I'd rather poke my eye out than stick up for them. What i'm calling out is the dangerous series of events over the past few years which have been rooted in good intent to preserve privacy, that seem to be having the fallout of destroying the web experience.
[edit] I can't believe HN has turned into a reddit style downvote brigade so i'll just post my response to the below comments in this edit since i can't reply anymore <shrug>
And you've made my point exceedingly clear[1] That pretty much is the ambiguity left up to the whims and fancies of the EU bureaucracy to enforce.
According to noyb.eu , the entity behind famous decisions at the CJEU, consent IS INDEED required[2] for ANY cookies to be stored on a users device. It isn't about data collection , if some rando agency or court finds Github or HN use fingerprinting of user preferences (as an example) or are LIKELY TO. . . it is considered a breach.
A French agency fined Google and Facebook heavily for merely providing a more complex refusal flow for cookies than the accept flow.
[1] https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-m...
[2] https://noyb.eu/en/project/cookie-banners#:~:text=Cookie%20b....
What is the end game here, it's like watching dumb and dumber. I want a great web experience just like the next person, but not at the cost of jeopardizing the successful freemium model of the internet that has given billions of people access.
Perhaps you should read the blog first?
The German greens' leader has backed running Coal plants as an alternative[1]
The whole political position of this party rests on their fanatic opposition to Nuclear power.
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/19/energy/germany-russia-gas...
In the former, the business is solving software engineering problems that very few dare to take on and the monetization model is online advertising.
Also, CERN in this analogy would be Alphabet.
Hate it or love it, the advertising supported business model of the Internet has transformed the lives of a large chunk of humanity beyond any belief. I come from a very poor background in a country many would consider backward and yet, i had access to the wonders of human knowledge at the tips of my fingers while growing up. The generation before me were not so lucky and its incredibly sad to contrast these fortunes.