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mm983on Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

Again, you don't appear to know how this works. Look up fuzzy hash, i even mentioned it in the comment.

mm983on Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

>That being said, my solution is to continue to follow the process that law enforcement is currently using.

If you knew how they approach this you wouldn't be satisfied either

mm983on Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

Yes, that's exactly it. It uses a database compiled by NGOs and specialized firms comprising of file hashes matching child porn. These lists are handled by humans.

Fuzzy means that it takes compression and the like into account, because even if just one pixel out of 20 thousand is different, the hash is different too. Fuzzy hash still recognizes it as the same image, so using an algorithm to alter the color etc. won't work.

mm983on Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

This is painful to read with the arrogant undertone while you don't actually know how CSAM scanning works.

It's fuzzy hash, not ""AI"", based. Cloudflare uses it too, and last time i checked the web is still functional.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004610611...

How about we turn the tables and have the complainers suggest a solution. Because every single time an approach to targeted child porn takedowns has been suggested, such as datacenter raids which would not affect as many people, someone is screaming about their privacy.

Child abusers evolve and are very happy if law enforcement doesn't.

mm983on Affinity 1.10

Affinity Designer is absolutely fantastic. Very polished, better UI than Illustrator imo and incredibly cheap for what it offers.

mm983on Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code

why don't they start a partnership with a security company like they have with a server monitor and google? many security vendors use python somewhere (1), so I'm sure there would be someone willing to cooperate. scan all packages uploaded and all updates, when there is a detection put a warning on the page and in console put a warning like "this package might contain maliscious code. continue regardless?" so that typosquatting and code hijacking is mitigated

1 https://github.com/KasperskyLab?q=&type=&language=python&sor...

https://github.com/CrowdStrike?q=&type=&language=python&sort...

https://github.com/intezer?q=&type=&language=python&sort=

mm983on Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code

there once was an adblocker called nano which was open source and quite popular. the developer sold the ownership and the new owners injected malware which was then shipped to all chrome users with the extension.

so i don't see why the same shouldn't work for pypi packages and i also don't understand why noone saw this coming. with how many companies have adopted python there surely will be a security vendor willing to provide free package screening for the repo

mm983on The Future of PrivacyTools

which stock photos

mm983on The Future of PrivacyTools

you can also save it as a pdf with cntrl + p

mm983on No-code startup Bubble raises $100M

also it's not just the industry that's going to fail if it hits the fan, but also all the other companies which rely on the no code platform. and if those companies are saas, they'll cause damage too somewhere else. or am i missing something? this seems like domino

mm983on TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant

they are building one in japan

mm983on Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam

i think they had free .ml at some point which has become a decent domain because of machine learning

mm983on A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale

they didn't "validate" anything, they just opened the csv. also i'd be interested in their take on the second column, that looks like clubhouse's scoring system (which they ran without telling anyone, likely for marketing purposes, according to this* article). if so, you can in fact tell which numbers are more significant than others.

*https://futurezone.at/apps/clubhouse-leakt-38-milliarden-tel...

mm983on A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale

They are done for this time. Leaking peoples' number who haven't even signed up yet because of their economy flame approach for literally anything, oh boy...

mm983on EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable

Yes, Revil and Co clearly are technically illiterate and chose Bitcoin for their RaaS campaigns because they don't know anything about anonymity

mm983on Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups

yes, double extortions are getting common because people rely on backups

mm983on Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

might be tempting to get one but hear me out: you can't imagine the amount of bloat and adware on miui. it depends on your region because they don't legally get away with the same intrusion everywhere. I configured it in a GDPR country (which disables some features) and when I checked the DNS requests, it made a tracking/ad request several times per minute.

Also the pre installed apps like file manager and browser have ads. The browser, which additionally has a bunch of bloaty games integrated for whatever reason, can't be uninstalled. Not going to get one again, my mate's pixel seems like a delight in comparison

mm983on AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and are ready to hire

https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2

https://github.com/keithito/tacotron

https://github.com/NVIDIA/WaveGlow

mm983on EleutherAI One Year Retrospective

they did both, tpu is provided by google and coreweave offers gpu runtimes

mm983on Nvidia Canvas

First time I've heard of this. Is it for tabletop games like d&d? Or for game development? Looks really cool

mm983on SkyTransfer – Free, Open-Source, Decentralized and Encrypted File-Sharing

Why did my submission on this, with the exact same title and 7 hours earlier, only get 3 upvotes and this one got 80?

At least pick an original title dude

mm983on Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the floor

this isn’t anything new, there have been projects like this, including guis, around for years in github

mm983on CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand

i'm really sorry for the devs. imaging spending a few years on developing an engine and game, just for all your competitors to get it for free

mm983on How Homogeneous Is Japan?

"Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black, official promises" (2019)

https://japantoday.com/category/national/tokyo-public-school...

"According to a new survey published by Tokyo news outlet The Asahi Shimbun, 57% of public high schools in the city require students to prove that their hair color is natural."

https://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-students-hair-color...

mm983on Ask HN: What do you read to stay up to date with economics?

Yahoo Finance, Seeking Αlpha, Benzinga, Reuters

mm983on Facebook WhatsApp privacy outrage front page ads in Indian newspapers

can someone explain why people are outraged? i thought it only affects conversations with business accounts