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If I browse internet and accidentally load a page with all images from this CSAM database => are these images automatically saved somewhere on my filesystem on iOS? So if this software was scanning not only iCloud but all images on my phone I would be reported automatically?
Hypothetical question.
Why wouldn't they delete them directly, but rather send report to the government?
Why wouldn't they go even further and if image detected on the webpage that is problematic => It doesn't allow it to get to my filesystem either, so that I don't get into trouble if for some reason police decides to search my laptop.
All relevant questions. Answer is the only one: so that when police knocks on your door you were blissfully unaware.
Quite honestly this is all too sad. Again this argument about CP that everyone will buy, but which doesn't work in the wild. There are some bad people out there, but if these people are into buying or creating CP => they will rarely upload it into iCloud. Especially now, when everyone knows Apple is looking for it. So they will go even deeper into hiding, while everyone else will have to live with devices that are spying on them...
I want my home server to work as my personal cloud: music, photos, movies, files collections. And everything should be end-to-end encrypted so that no one has any way to look inside it. With 5G and broadband this might even work without much optimization. Someone knows about such solution?
Now I tried it and don't see the reason to. I mean there is no rush. Regular house/flat will give you 80% of value of multimillion dollar mansion will give. Cars are all +- the same given that you can drive only so fast. Travel when you need to work is too hectic but if you are retired it can be very inexpensive. In order to push past this middle level it is not clear what to do i.e. difference between 1M and 10M is not that big in terms of your lifestyle but ability to accumulate so much is completely different beast.
The true happiness comes from other things: friends, family, free time, the business you love, curiosity etc.
UPD: This is all of course if you were able to get into good career/small business path. If you are stuck with some low-pay job you still have some work to do to jump to another industry.
I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Middle East and it is sunset at 6-7pm pretty much throughout the year. And I must say when I traveled north to Netherlands/Germany in the summer - the experience was almost psychedelic.
My dream is to be able one day to travel between north and south to follow longer day time(and summer) throughout the year.
TBH it is hard to believe that it is required to have 8 $/h to have autonomous vehicle. Once we have the technology Google will build efficient data center with custom chips and the price will go down to X $/month. On top of it - I think the model will have to run locally, so it would make sense to pay upfront for extra hardware they put in your car and not that much for maintenance.
We are just not there yet, we don't have autonomous driving - we have better driver assistants.
The problem is that EU itself is closed due to COVID(we can't get visas renewed) + we have internal ban on transit through ground borders due to COVID(but most likely to prevent people from moving out permanently)
So essentially, with this ban it is hard to escape if situation goes south.
I'm sorry, but 1 sec is not fast...
1. Main advantage of it is that it can't be stopped.
2. Since it can't be stopped - it allows to evade any regulation from the government or the bank. If it replaces banking system - you can move around the globe with your capital and spend it the way you like. This is not the case at the moment
3. Bitcoin could become a currency if it was fast enough and fees were low enough. Which was quickly discovered to be not true since the complexity increased, transactions slowed down and no one agreed to upgrade block size since this is additional costs to mining.
4. Since bitcoin now is slow and expensive industry found another way to use it - store long term value without risk of government to inflate currency and steal your money. point#2 is still valid. Recent surge in prices is caused by this reasoning in my mind.
5. Since everyone earned enormous amount of money in past months people will keep hodling expecting the growth to continue, but it will slow down. Once it slows down - people will start selling to get their profits and there will be huge correction.
6. In the very long run bitcoin can go through multiple cycles of such growth and decline and either will become more predictable (community will come up with some rules on how bitcoin fees and speeds are regulated etc.) or will stay this a bit more dangerous but a but more free way to transfer value geographically and also over time.
It probably could be more dangerous to world governments if point #3 realized
Facebook content should drop in value to where it belongs: personal updates from friends and funny videos;
People need to start voting on actual policies each politician/party proposes, not based on Facebook information from unknown accounts.
Will that be enough?
Buy international insurance within an app and have a list of local hospitals I can go to
Be able to "download" integration with local pharmacies like it was with maps.me These can be sold. If I'm in India and got Delhi Belly I would pay 2-5 USD to find nearest pharmacy/hospital or order drugs to my hotel
If it is b2c: make an app for the phone.
Screen1: human body, where you can choose places where you feel unrest.
Screen2: describe what is wrong
Screen3: "based on your answers and your geolocation you can get these 3 remedies which are safe" or if something extreme is going on "please see the doctor, in the mean time you can use aspirin to relieve your pain"
*I usually call mom when I have headache, temperature or diarrhea cause I constantly forget which one should I take. I'm 30:-( I would use such app for these hints. For anything more serious I would go to doctor and wouldn't self medicate.
Monetization(Hard): Subscription for extra features like tracking of drug dosages and keeping track of your home stock. Would probably be beneficial to someone who takes a lot of drugs all the time.
Monetization2(Medium hard): deals with local pharmacies to be able to provide recommendations where to buy a specific drug advised by the app.
Based on screenshots what he built is b2b app for doctors?
Anyway, the ability of governments to identify their citizens is technological problem. Overall during our history we agreed to potential of being identified by governments. Tech brings new tools to them. I wish they could adopt them quicker.
Overall we shouldn't be afraid of new tech and more reliability. But what we need is the system that will be future proof in terms of balance between individual and big entities even if their technological ability to identify you is near perfect.
Anyway, this is how I think about it.
All this crying about tracking - how else the owner of the place can make product better? If I own a store - I can see where people go, how they shop, how they walk around, which basket size they prefer, what they buy. If I don't collect data on my website - I can't THINK about how to make my service better. I can only GUESS. What about data collections for simple functionality - like, when you come back to the half-filled form and I remember the values you already submitted by matching your cookies. Are you against this as well?
Sorry, but if this is the alternative - I would rather have Google know everything I do online and hope that they honestly don't store data on my Incognito browsing. If they do - worse for them.
I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.
Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it refusing to accept discount or a free subscription.
I don't trust many other companies. Especially if all my interactions with them are virtual and they are not specialized in information technology. At least big tech is quite rich to afford to think about users.
Each bank got their app and added some obvious features there: pay for utilities, for your phone etc. I want more progress here. I want to be able to see all my fees upfront in a clear format. I want to know my credit score. I want to be able to take this credit score to different organizations. etc. etc.
Big hope that fin tech will blow it up, but unfortunately start ups didn't deliver. There are some successful ones, but I think finance is too regulated for them to have a shot at a serious scale. Apple and Google have a shot at that and they will create a road for smaller companies.
The situation in Belarus is bad. And believe me I know. I was concerned as well about my device security. But to be honest at the end of the day it can't be Apple's problem. Belarussian government must be replaced by Belarussian people and Apple has nothing to do with that. And on top of that - what choice do I have. Android devices in Russia are preinstalled with Russian software while Apple's aren't. That's more important sign for me.
If Apple were able to copy some app and in return mention your name as a co-author of some sort/tip you - that would probably be a life changing experience for most developers out there.