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It’s nothing to do with CSAM and all about surveilling who has which files and when, and who they send them to.

Even ADP in iCloud sends the hashes of the plaintext to Apple, non-e2ee. This allows them to see who has unique files, and when, and the networks of users to which they spread, and when.

No. Lots of people have never heard of FAA702 (which has been well-documented in mass media) much less Carnivore or ECHELON.

The default email provider for most people in the west is Gmail.

GPUs aren’t scarce. There is just a lot of demand, so prices have gone up.

Anyone can get GPUs right now and build out what they need; it’s just a matter of paying more for them than the next company. I’ve been looking at building a multi-TB HBM system lately and they’re readily available - they just cost $400k.

It’s not just HN. The USG has been manufacturing consent for war with China (trade or otherwise) in the US population for decades. Same goes for Iran.

The amount of solar power available to the square area on top of a trailer is negligible compared to the energy required to haul it long distances. Regen braking would probably only be worth it in some limited circumstances.

It works via the same mechanism as an incredible drug called Repatha (generic name evolocumab), but Repatha is quite expensive, requires refrigeration, and must be injected subcutaneously every two weeks. The news here is that this is administered orally.

The APIs for the frontier models via the US hosters do the exact same thing wrt saving the requests and responses for data mining. Let’s not pretend that pervasive surveillance is an eastern thing.

It’s still >$300k for the hardware to run this model locally at anything resembling a reasonable speed. The weights also have not yet been released, though that is scheduled for about a week from now. It’s not actually an open model yet.

It says right on it when you enable it:

Dictation sends information like your voice input, contacts, and location to Apple when necessary for processing your requests.

OS-native dictation on iOS requires uploading your address book to Apple on every request, even if you don’t use iCloud. I unfortunately have to leave it disabled for this reason.

State-based regulations on tech are largely irrelevant. See CCPA for an example.

Right now, there is a LOT of shrill propaganda from the tech bros, who call themselves “privacy advocates,” about how mandatory age checking is the gateway drug to comprehensive identity checks on the entire Internet, and ridiculing the valid civic concerns governments are trying to address as merely “think of the children” strawman arguments.

Oh, it’s not a slippery slope. It’s a single step: age verification IS identity verification, and it abolishes anonymous publishing on the internet, allowing on day one for violent retaliation against political speech.

If you think that authoritarian governments won’t be abusing this instantly, you are sorely ignorant of history.

The article is not about video quality.

Wait until you hear that the chats aren’t end to end encrypted.

Though the primary way of installing Xcode is via MAS (requiring Apple ID login), Xcode can be downloaded from the Apple Developer website without an ADP membership, though you do have to log in to the website with an Apple ID. You don’t have to log into the Mac with an Apple ID though, you can then install and use it on a Mac without an Apple ID (though you will need one inside Xcode to sign apps to get them to run on an iOS device).

You still have to open Xcode (to get the certs), and you still have to accept the Xcode EULA. Title is quite misleading if not outright false.

It was easy, via Airdrop, but the CCP doesn’t like people being able to share files in a decentralized manner in groups, and Apple ceases to exist as we know it if they don’t do whatever the CCP wants, so it was nerfed.

They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen – that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (that’s what happens if CPR is done right).

I have been seeing so much anti-LUCAS-machine content on the internet lately; it is far too prevalent to be anything but an astroturfing campaign. From whence this meme?

With what money? I don't think you have looked at OAI's valuation lately.

Nah I mostly don’t use AGPL software because I consider it nonfree, the same way I don’t use any other source-available nonfree stuff.

The issue I have with it is the hypocrisy, not the code. They pretend that it’s free software but it’s just an anti-commercial use restriction EULA.

Anyway, most AGPL stuff is a 48 hour Claude rewrite away from having a free clone these days anyway. (In fact I have done just that several times recently, without even cloning/downloading the AGPL “upstream” repo, just with a vague mental model of what the db schema might be.)

I don’t use iCloud, so I don’t know.

Supervised devices cannot be backed up and restored to supervised devices. You can only backup/restore to an unsupervised target. If you want supervision, you have to abandon your backup.

It sucks.

Yes, and you consent when you enable iCloud.

What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, as well as emails via Google’s Gmail and Apple’s iCloud.

They are already allowed to do this, and already are doing this. When you provide data to the service provider in a non-e2ee fashion, it's their data as much as it is yours. They can scan it, data mine it, analyze it, whatever.

Don, you’ve got me wrong. I’d love to have a civil discussion with you to clear up your misconceptions.

My email and phone number’s in my profile. Do please get in touch.

You’re confused. The author chooses to gift their software to the world when they choose a free software license.

Presumably people who choose the AGPL choose it because they believe it is a free software license. Either they should use an actual coherent free software license instead of one that is trying (and probably failing) to also be a EULA, or they should stop pretending that they are releasing free software.

Did we all forget that GitHub’s military-industrial complex owners over at Microsoft made sure to send the “business as usual” signal to the USG when they refused to stop helping ICE violate human rights en masse?

This was during the kidnap-and-rape-kids-in-cages days and before they started a general policy of kidnapping and/or summarily executing law-abiding citizens in the street. There are more reasons now to disassociate with collaborators with the US federal government than ever. I guess I could say I dropped GitHub before it was cool?

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-and-us...

https://github.com/sneak

Microsoft is a morally bankrupt and despicable organization, just like Meta, Amazon, and modern Google and Apple. Anyone still doing ongoing business with them in 2026 is, imho, a fool.

Now do Freetype and libtiff/libpng/etc.

I have privately wondered for years, pre-AI, why Apple hadn’t paid some engineers to go off and write some comprehensive test suites and then port these to Swift. It would shut down entire swaths of memory safety bugs they have been coping with for literally decades. SO MANY of the zeroclick iOS exploits can be traced to a few fragile and vulnerable foss libraries, xkcd 2347 style.

Agree 100%. Almost everything I have written with AI is in Go, and strong typing is really really nice (as is go vet and golangci-lint to keep the generated code in line).

I imagine writing plain js or python with it would be much much riskier.

Running a SaaS does not “fork users away”. You can’t fork a SaaS because services are not software and software are not services.