Agreed. The world has reached a point of "fear" over so many things, that it's downright unhealthy. I fear for the human race if we keep on this trajectory. We live in a snowflake world...
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Agreed. The world has reached a point of "fear" over so many things, that it's downright unhealthy. I fear for the human race if we keep on this trajectory. We live in a snowflake world...
Yes.
No.
But that’s not the scenario this is trying to protect against.
It doesn't report back to Apple.
It uses software to detect objects and shapes. It has been done for a decade and now we have enough computing power to recognize objects on mobile devices.
I'm all for this.
But for balance, I'm also all for an option to access an uncensored app store.
I'd actually like an option to access a completely uncensored damn well everything in the world. Having other people's moral standards imposed on me is pretty damn insulting.
These comments are weird, like they didn't even skim the two sentence article.
Let me rephrase it:
iPhone iOS can optionally blur dick pics that are sent to your phones messages.
People bypassed the blurring filter by putting dick pics as their contact photo or in message stickers.
iOS 7.2 is updated to block more dick pics where people were sneaking them in.
Any questions?
Let me rephrase it:
iPhone iOS can optionally blur dick pics that are sent to your phones messages.
People bypassed the blurring filter by putting dick pics as their contact photo or in message stickers.
iOS 7.2 is updated to block more dick pics where people were sneaking them in.
Any questions?
Now this is more like it. Allow users to decide if they want it or not (and parents to make that decision for their children) and don’t self report flagged content to the government or any other third party entity.
How about less censorship and more bug fixing?
If they let the censorship team go maybe they'd afford to have their computers start at more than 8 Gb ram
If they let the censorship team go maybe they'd afford to have their computers start at more than 8 Gb ram
Hopefully Apple will include an option to turn off incoming call posters entirely. Who at Apple thought it was a good idea from a security standpoint to fill your screen with the name of the caller and a random picture?
and who the hell actually adds photos to their contacts? lol.
maybe it's just me but i've never done that. so all that comes up is their name and initials. it's an absolute waste of space and useless.
If you’re worried about that with you kids, they are too young to have a phone in the first place
Also when I was a “young impressionable child” if a grown adult would have sent me a “inappropriate picture” 99.9% chance me and my fiends would have laughed at it and made fun of them to the point they needed a shrink 😂
Folks are waaaaayyyyyy too soft these days
Trusting a publicly traded company who zaps their products batteries to sell more, yeah they’d never do anything naughty
Apples better than others, but you’d still be silly to trust them more than gas station sushi
It doesn't report back to Apple... It uses software to detect objects and shapes. It has been done for a decade and now we have enough computing power to recognize objects on mobile devices
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That may be true. Wouldn't we all find ot more relaxing to take Apple's word for... well, anything?
However Apple brands or explains such features, and despite Apple's claims not to collect, share or expose any findings, we will never know until it's too late.
It's more in line with the human condition to accept that If they can, they will. It's inevitable. Though perhaps not for their immediate corporate benefit.
There is no length to which a nation-states will not go to make such surveillance tools available. Who knows what they'll "Screen" for next? Pictures of fertilizer, diesel and starter fluid? That's every farm I ever supported. Pictures of small gas engines? Cars with LS swaps? Smoking? Books on your shelves about Madisonian Democracy? It won't be illegal, because government will make it legal.
This is not an accusation, per se, because that implies proof (of which there will be none). This is merely a thought exercise. Everyone must assess the extent to which they trust the Gizmo Industrial Complex.
Personally, I can't spare the energy to behave all OCD about it. I likes me some Apple gizmos, and I'm itching to get an iPhone 15 Pro and a new MacBook M3 Pro. Soon as I can spare the cash. I like youtube videos picking them apart and arguing over it all. Plus I work in cybersecurity, and business is good.
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That may be true. Wouldn't we all find ot more relaxing to take Apple's word for... well, anything?
However Apple brands or explains such features, and despite Apple's claims not to collect, share or expose any findings, we will never know until it's too late.
It's more in line with the human condition to accept that If they can, they will. It's inevitable. Though perhaps not for their immediate corporate benefit.
There is no length to which a nation-states will not go to make such surveillance tools available. Who knows what they'll "Screen" for next? Pictures of fertilizer, diesel and starter fluid? That's every farm I ever supported. Pictures of small gas engines? Cars with LS swaps? Smoking? Books on your shelves about Madisonian Democracy? It won't be illegal, because government will make it legal.
This is not an accusation, per se, because that implies proof (of which there will be none). This is merely a thought exercise. Everyone must assess the extent to which they trust the Gizmo Industrial Complex.
Personally, I can't spare the energy to behave all OCD about it. I likes me some Apple gizmos, and I'm itching to get an iPhone 15 Pro and a new MacBook M3 Pro. Soon as I can spare the cash. I like youtube videos picking them apart and arguing over it all. Plus I work in cybersecurity, and business is good.