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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 00:00:36 JST 翠星石
   It amazes me how many people see Apple's "privacy" advertisements and believe every part of it.
   
   If I remember correctly, the catchphrase is: "what goes on your iphone stays on your iphone".
   
   As always there's a grain of truth in claims of the sort - for example, it seems that to save server processing time, they don't actually do the relatively computationally expensive process of analyzing images for spying purposes - instead they have hardware acceleration for that built into the SoC, so the processing can be done on the device and the result can be sent off to their server - while the image remains on the device (or not, as whoops, it just got uploaded to "icloud").
   
   Apple appears to not sell the spying information directly, rather they only sell access to interfaces that do things with "anonymized" spying results instead, even though you can extra data from those interfaces and a dataset built up of personal information can always be de-anonymized unless you can't tell the differences between any individuals in that dataset and in that case, the dataset is useless.
   
   Apple has also taken some steps to prevent some 3rd party proprietary malware from spying on the user in certain ways sometimes - but that's only because Apple doesn't want spying competition.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 00:53:18 JST 翠星石

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     • Zero :zt_think: :artix:
     @zero No, I don't have any pizza on my computers and rms doesn't either.
     
     The fact that you thought about that out of the blue and made an unfounded accusation, could potentially be deflection as to what illegal files you have stored - but I hope that you don't.
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     Zero :zt_think: :artix: (zero@strelizia.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 00:53:19 JST Zero :zt_think: :artix:

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @Suiseiseki he's afraid apple will find his child porn (he's an RMS fan)
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@marsey.moe)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 00:53:20 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @Suiseiseki holy shit thank you based apple
     gonna buy a macbook and an iphone asap
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     gray (gray@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 00:57:55 JST gray

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @Suiseiseki at least wait for the iPhone 15 in a couple months. Maybe M3 MacBooks soon too.
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     gray (gray@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 00:58:14 JST gray

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @Suiseiseki I’ve got the M1 MacBook Air and it’s pretty sweet.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@marsey.moe)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 00:58:15 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • gray
     @gray @Suiseiseki id like an m1 pro MacBook pro
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:00:14 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Zero :zt_think: :artix:
     He literally said cp shouldn’t be censored.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:23:21 JST 翠星石

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     @bot I'm not sure which comment you're referring to, you'll have to quote the specifics.
     
     He has made comments criticizing how minors (post-pubescent, but under 18) are criminally prosecuted and placed onto sex-offender registries forever for cp offenses for distributing unclothed photos of themselves to others.
     
     In my opinion, such behavior shouldn't happen and should be prevented via logical means, but it makes no sense to criminally prosecute a minor and place them onto such registries forever for such behaviors (thus screwing them over for life), when there are plenty of more effective and less damaging ways to stop to such behaviors.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:23:29 JST 翠星石

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     @bot I'm not sure which comment you're referring to, you'll have to quote the specifics.
     
     He has made comments criticizing how minors (post-pubescent, but under 18) are criminally prosecuted and placed onto sex-offender registries forever for cp offenses for distributing unclothed photos of themselves to others.
     
     In my opinion, such behavior shouldn't happen and should be prevented via logical means, but it makes no sense to criminally prosecute a minor and place them onto such registries forever for such behaviors (thus screwing them over for life), when there are plenty of more effective and less damaging ways to put a stop to such behaviors.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:33:07 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     This is the specific quote, in reference to cp laws. Call me crazy but I wouldn’t leave my children alone with him, js.
     
     "Even when it is uncontroversial to call the subject depicted a "child", that is no excuse for censorship. Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone, so and if you or I think it is disgusting, that is no excuse for censorship."
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:30:52 JST 翠星石

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     @bot You seem to have chopped out 2 sentences instead of including the context of the full quote.
     
     The quote is here: https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#4_June_2011_(Border_Searches)
     
     The topic was about why unreasonable searches of laptops shouldn't be permitted.
     
     
     What he is writing seems to first be about a theoretical case about two post-pubescent minors (say 17 years old), stupidly, but consentely distributing unclothed photos between each other, with one later turning 18, crossing the border, having the laptop searched, with the photos found, leading to an arrest for a cp offense.
     
     Clearly such photos shouldn't have been taken and there was some potential harm, but such offense doesn't qualify for a "heinous offense", although the 18 year old is likely going to be hit with a jail term disproportionate to the crime anyway.
     
     
     In the next lines rms's ultimate high functioning shadow autism kicks in, where he figured that having a photo of someone that happens to be unclothed, whether that's a 18 year old, 17 year old or a pre-pubiscent child isn't likely to hurt anyone (failing to realize the potential for harm) and thus he figures censorship of such photos can't be justified, even though he may find such kind of photos disgusting.
     
     In my opinion those kind of photos shouldn't be taken and there is a future potential for harm, but even so, the potential of finding those sort of images doesn't justify the unlawful searching of all laptops at the border - searches should only happen if there's a legitimate suspicion of illegal files stored and a warrant is gained.
     
     It doesn't seem that rms was writing about the most harmful and abhorrent kinds of images that do deserve long jail terms for possession, due to the very real potential for harm by sickos who want more and will produce more of those kinds of images.
     
     
     I don't have any children, but if I did, I wouldn't be worried about leaving him with them for a short while (noting that he shall talk about age appropriate topics only), as he'd just tell them about free software and software patents etc.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:34:05 JST 翠星石

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     • Phantom Palladium
     @hazlin By the way, Android happens to use the kernel, Linux, except an extra-proprietary version.
     
     BusyBox/Linux is indeed better than Android, but it's pretty sucky, so you'll probably want to install GNU.
     
     Every single mobile chipset is malicious, so maybe it's best to just get a number from https://jmp.chat/ and then you can place calls and send SMS's with only free software from your gnubooted thinkpad (requires internet connection, but if you don't go outside, you're all set).
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     Phantom Palladium (hazlin@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:34:06 JST Phantom Palladium

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     @Suiseiseki I ordered up a linux tablet, it is going to feel so good to be free from the android one.
     
     Still on the lookout for a good replacement for my cell phone
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:54:48 JST 翠星石

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     • Phantom Palladium
     @hazlin >I don't have another alternative D:
     All you really need is enough freedom enjoyers around you to setup a meshnet (say based of 802.11s) that has coverage for everywhere you want to go and you'll then be able to make calls and whatever without being tracked.
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     Phantom Palladium (hazlin@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:54:49 JST Phantom Palladium

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     @Suiseiseki oh! I didn't know about jmp. Think I'll get one of those numbers.
     
     As for the "mobile chipset is malicious", all I can say is, the phone is only for when I leave the house. As I don't have another alternative D: