Nice try at dodging the point. Is advocating for Nazis to be killed the only manifestation of being anti-Nazi (which unless you are being sought for murder, I guarantee you're not acting on), and any other action is pro-Nazi? If not, why choose a test that, aside from its anti-Nazi message, might run afoul of site moderation rules?
So for the battery company, is the work... selling them batteries? Like, is this list supposed to be a list of companies actually directly performing military work for the CCP, or just vendors?
Also, unless they're in violation of e.g. the ban on use of forced Uyghur labor in Xinjiang (like tons of US companies have been caught being), why would they be sanctioned? We're not at war with China, nor actively sanctioning their military just for existing.
My god, what a bad faith "test". Why not say something like "all Nazis are garbage pieces of shit"? Probably because you're hoping that the mods will remove your comment for the call for violence, so you can claim they're pro-Nazi/ anti- anti-Nazi.
For those interested, the reason it’s not the same as a backdoor is that the result of the computation done on HE data is itself still encrypted and readable only by the original owner. So you can effectively offload the work of a certain analysis to a server that you don’t actually trust with your keys.
Do iPhones have a BYOK system for people to supply their own keypairs? Or is their OS open-source so that people can see how the keys are being handled? Because if not, it just sounds like all it takes to break this is for Apple's OS that it controls to ship the private keys that it generated up to its servers?
Where there’s object detection there’s csam detection.
This is not true at all. A model has to be trained to detect specific things. It does not automatically inherit the ability to detect CSAM just because it can detect other objects. The method it previously used for CSAM image detection (perceptual hashing) was killed for bad privacy implementation, and the article specifically notes that
Tsai argues Apple's approach is even less private than its abandoned CSAM scanning plan "because it applies to non-iCloud photos and uploads information about all photos, not just ones with suspicious neural hashes."
So even images that the local detection model doesn't match to CSAM would be being uploaded to their servers.
Apple killed it’s last version in August 2023 because it didn’t respect privacy.
I would be interested to see what lines you read between, because "identifying landmarks and points of interest" doesn't sound like anything capable of identifying CSAM. I think you're giving a big corporation a bunch of credit there is no reason to suspect it is owed, for an excuse they never professed.
This guy makes several key mistakes, and doesn't understand the relationship between (or difference between, for that matter) developers and publishers / executives. He pivots in one sentence from talking about number of layoffs to talking about failed games, but those are not direct corollaries. Big publishers and large studios laid off teams with games that performed incredibly well. Lots of teams that were mid-development were killed. Remember Tango Gameworks? The studio that everyone liked, and didn't have any flops? That was completely laid off? It had nothing to do with their games, and was entirely about Xbox forcing its 1P studios to release on Game Pass, which doomed their sales. It was bad executive management at MS, not bad games, choosing to buy Bethesda and Activision at the expense of budgets for its existing studios. Obviously Redfall and Concord were huge flops, but they were a tiny fraction of the layoffs across the industry.
He correctly points out that Gaming is a subset of the software industry, and that the trends and decisions being made by executives across the industry are the same, but just sort of hand-waves that away by saying it's not just gaming, and that "people are facing economic challenges right now" in general. Yeah! And guess that those challenges are? Short-term P&L gains via mass layoffs, in order to claw back money from acquisitions, stock buybacks, and executive pay-gouging. But it's not developers doing that, it's publishers and executives. No one writing code is like, "I've decided to make live-service schlock". But they're the ones losing their jobs, not the dorks who did decide that.
"What is unique in gaming, is that this is largely self-inflicted." (6:40) My brother in Christ... stahhhhhp.
He then turns this into some kind of attack on game journalists, who have been rightfully calling out the game industry layoffs, as though they're... supposed to only report on things happening uniquely in gaming, and not also in other industries, even if it's also happening in gaming? The narrative that "if a studio is laid off, it was their fault, or just the economy forcing them to be laid off", is the false narrative of the publishers, and this guy is (whether he realizes it or not) helping bolster that narrative.
Lastly, this dude is dropping right-wing dogwhistles left-and-right. Listing "ideological soapboxes" alongside "bloated projects" and "garbage games" for failing games tells me everything I need to know. And if you check the comments, his fans definitely heard the whistle too.
Here's his brilliant take on thousands of line-level developers being laid off for decisions made above their heads by millionaires:
"As a customer I'm going to be honest, I just don't care or feel anything for any of these internal struggles that these companies go through." (7:10 in the video)
Big "stop picketing and deliver my Amazon package I paid money for" energy right here.
It allows processing data without decrypting it, which is great in terms of preventing someone else from snooping on it, but doesn't change that Apple is retaining the ability to analyze the data content, which is the actual issue here.
the concept of the social market economy... in the late 1940s
I feel like we're glossing over important parts of 1800s European history, and it being the literal birthplace of Socialism and Anarchism as philosophies, to just go to the 1940s emergence of the postwar Western Europe economies. The backlash against Monarchism and mercantile economies saw a lot of support for all sorts of new forms of government in the 1800s, and various forms of Socialism were chief among them and incredibly well liked and influential among citizens.
That it took 2 world wars shattering the remaining vestiges of the mainland European monarchic powers (who were very anti-Socialist for obvious reasons), and allowed Socialist ideas about the responsibilities of government to its peoples to actually take hold at a government level, is a story about Monarchic influence clinging to power against the will of its people until being forced out, not about citizenry being anti-Socialist.
And yes, that reticence is very much a thing of the past now, and most Europeans are vocally proud of their social programs and their societies' focuses on social welfare and community.
Sure, but the difference is that they (European countries) do not profess to be staunch Capitalists (and staunchly anti-Socialist), whereas by large America does. That is a big difference, because it informs policy drastically. There's a reason we're much much closer to a corporate oligarchy than European nations are, and it's our idealization of a system that literally is based around Corporatism.
America is the one dealing in absolutes. "Are you or have you ever been a member of...", "better dead than Red", etc.
This is a government policy failure, allowing misuse of the H1B program. Be angry at the company and the government, but don't blame the worker who is inherently in a worse position than the domestic worker, both in and out of work, for taking the job.
Our danger right now is not an armed uprising, it's an authoritarian government with populist support.
If the US didn't have a single (legal) privately-owned firearm the danger would be even worse, because Trump could hand them out just to his supporters, and then they'd be the only armed ones.
Ah yes, the rise of fascism and populist authoritarians and oligarchs is definitely a uniquely American thing that hasn't happened and can't happen anywhere else because they don't have privately-owned guns... how silly of me.
I do what? Think Nazis deserve to die? Or think that you're a bad-faith-posting dork who thinks you're much more clever than you are?
Yes.