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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • The Nazis praised the US’s “scientific” approach to racism and eugenics.

    Measuring people’s heads; IQ tests served in a person’s non-native language and relied on specific knowledge of American culture; Plain old racist rhetoric like calling people “dangerous”, “criminals” with no evidence. (Sound familiar?)

    Anything to prove that black and foreign people were inferior and should be exploited, in a classic “we know the answer and we must cherry pick the data to reach that conclusion”.

    A lot of these tools were taken up by the Nazis for their persecution of Jews, and now they’re coming right back around.

    This is an educated meme.



  • I’ll repost my comment from the other post:


    For people who have not read the article:

    Forbes states that there is no indication that this app can or will “phone home”.

    Its stated use is for other apps to scan an image they have access to find out what kind of thing it is (known as "classification"). For example, to find out if the picture you’ve been sent is a dick-pick so the app can blur it.

    My understanding is that, if this is implemented correctly (a big ‘if’) this can be completely safe.

    Apps requesting classification could be limited to only classifying files that they already have access to. Remember that android has a concept of “scoped storage” nowadays that let you restrict folder access. If this is the case, well it’s no less safe than not having SafetyCore at all. It just saves you space as companies like Signal, WhatsApp etc. no longer need to train and ship their own machine learning models inside their apps, as it becomes a common library / API any app can use.

    It could, of course, if implemented incorrectly, allow apps to snoop without asking for file access. I don’t know enough to say.

    Besides, you think that Google isn’t already scanning for things like CSAM? It’s been confirmed to be done on platforms like Google Photos well before SafetyCore was introduced, though I’ve not seen anything about it being done on devices yet (correct me if I’m wrong).


  • Are you sure about that?

    I’ve read both articles and they both seem to say they are stopping production of Blu-rays, plus three other formats.

    We will end production of all models of Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes as of February 2025

    It mentions that consumer recordable Blu-rays were already dropped last year.

    Mid-last year, the Japanese multinational conglomerate revealed that it would stop production of consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs (BD-RE and BD-R)

    Still, this might just mean that Sony will no longer make games distributed via disc. Sony does not have a Monopoly on making Blu-ray discs, and I do not believe they can unilaterally decide that no more will be made by others

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_disc_manufacturers

    Regardless, it is a sign of the times, with Blu-ray reader production being recently stopped by LG. It’s likely all downhill from here, as much as I am sad to say.

    I will resist this as much as possible, as I like owning my media. If you give me no means to own my movies, then I will find other ways to acquire them.