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sshff | 2 years ago | on: Apple Vision Pro developer kit

As in apps that have porn as one of their specific uses that will be for sale in the official App Store? You’ve got more chance of Tim Cook announcing that the full line of Apple hardware will be switching to Android as a base operating system and only releasing with pink flocked finishes from now on.

sshff | 2 years ago | on: Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law

Apple tried to come up with a method to still do e2e and also scan for CSAM, a noble goal if grossly flawed. It blew up in their face so they did the right thing and canned it.

Before that this sort of legislation was just straight asking for a skeleton key or a ban on e2e, many laws still do. Apple trying a thing and failing didn’t fundamentally change anything because these laws aren’t asking for a specific technology, they’re asking to be able to see all your messages no matter the method. That’s literally the politicians level of understanding “want read read messages”.

If Apple had never thought up the CSAM scanner concept they’d still be pushing to just break the encryption. Hell they may even stumble upon the “well just send us a copy or scan it for all these fingerprints before you encrypt it” concept themselves, it’s not really a tough concept.

sshff | 2 years ago | on: DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats above your controller

Well, there was a clear and specific product driving it in the Apple camp. Not just to get it ready for the dev kit for VisionOS devices but to get their dev teams a constant flow of useful data from any AR apps created in ARKit along the way that have likely fed into the design decisions and roadmap of the entire project.

I’m pretty sure ARKit has been 99.99% in existence as a way of getting as much real world data as possible for the headset design and ‘spacial computing platform’ project.

sshff | 2 years ago | on: Yes, Picopad runs DOOM

Linking to tweets isn’t likely to get much traction for the while with rate limits for Twitter users and them just straight up not being available for people without an account or not logged in. If you have a website or GitHub that may be the better link at the moment.

sshff | 2 years ago

Because the news stories that are linked came out less than half an hour ago and it takes a bit

sshff | 2 years ago | on: “Military AI Needs Its Manhattan Project”

An “AI Manhattan Project” sounds like “SKYNET” with extra words.

sshff | 2 years ago | on: Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see, Elon Musk announces

Breaking: Twitter by the look of it