solarvector
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- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 2 days ago:
That’s skipping over the fact that recovering deleted data, even if it isn’t overwritten, is not an “oops”. It it takes extra effort, and if that data isn’t being protected it would be overwritten incidentally as drives are used.
There is a big difference in a database between “flagging” data and actually removing the association of the data to the database.
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 2 days ago:
The article is being disingenuous about data not being deleted unless it’s overwritten with 1’s and 0’s. Technically that’s true, but:
Most data being deleted is equivalent to a piece of paper being placed in a trashcan, and it’s “permanently” deleted when that trash gets hauled away to a landfill (or supposedly recycling but that’s another topic). Technically it’s still forensically accessible, but it isn’t accessible by any normal means. That piece of paper may not have been incinerated, but for the majority of practical purposes, it’s gone.
Apple never hauled the trash away, even though they claimed they did. There should be no way for them to accidentally restore those photos, just like there’s no way for you to accidentally get a piece of paper back in your trash bin after it’s been sent to a landfill.
Focusing on the 1s and 0s skips past the fact they failed to complete the first, obvious, essential step. If they didn’t delete it the simple way, they would never have gotten to the 1s and 0s step. This isn’t just a simple oversight, and those pictures were still very easily accessible, just not to the people who should have been in control of them.
- Comment on The deepest sinkhole in Florida has a deadly secret. Here’s why you should stay away 5 weeks ago:
I think deepest sinkhole was already enough information
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 3’s upcoming Thrones of Decay expansion gets huge pricing change 1 month ago:
This title and article are basically press copy from CA. The relevant bits with a side of sales bullshit:
if you don’t fancy shelling out the full £19.10 for all three factions, you can grab new bits for either Nurgle, the Empire, or the Dwarfs for £7.49. If you do buy just one to start off with - say, to get a feel for the quality of Thrones of Decay as a package - you’ll get a 15% discount on the remaining two packs in the future.
The move is the latest from developer Creative Assembly in a bid to regain trust with its community after a disappointing DLC release in Shadows of Change and a series of PR blunders.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
I really hope you’re right
Also be fine if Larian just goes with Pathfinder or their own IP next time. Hasbro can fuck right off.
- Comment on Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS | Waterloo News 1 month ago:
Maybe because they’re naive enough to assume that just because they’re lying bastards they can tell when other people are.
- Comment on Legal row could finally force mystery artist Banksy to reveal his real name 2 months ago:
No argument here, but it’s point of existence (besides profit) is to shield that identity. There’s no future outside of Everything Everywhere All At Once where this suit leads to a forced identity reveal. Worst case for that company is a settlement.
- Comment on Legal row could finally force mystery artist Banksy to reveal his real name 2 months ago:
Hmmm, this sounds like click bait. No way a suit over authenticity is going to force an identity reveal.
–checks article
Yep, just a suit over a group responsible for verification dragging their feet.
- Comment on One day Star Trek will probably morph into a religion. 4 months ago:
And a much much better religion than scientology.
- Comment on Nvidia's success is making some now-wealthy employees complacent | Why work hard when you're sitting on a fortune in stock? 4 months ago:
Yep, that’s why it’s so important that people who produce value shouldn’t be able to retain it! Silly employees.
- Comment on Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users 5 months ago:
I agree those are good things to do.
But… Blaming people who are being fucked over by forces generally outside their control is not really going to help their or our situation. Expecting or demanding “people” to just change is also not realistic. Even if they wanted to, time, effort, energy, knowledge, skills, and attention are all finite. This is just one important issue or source of exploitation among a sea of others.
- Comment on A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur... 5 months ago:
Needed to make sure they didn’t have room to name the legislation.
- Comment on Who needs stars in a boring dystopia? 7 months ago:
Not to take away from anything you just said, but it’s a different thing to claim you would do something in an impossible and hypothetical scenario, than to name a currently powerful person and say you’d make them dead if you could.
- Comment on As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance 7 months ago:
There are more than two options for messaging now.
Both primary phone platforms are kinda shit though.
- Comment on [VERGE] Google’s cookie-replacing Privacy Sandbox reaches major milestone 8 months ago:
This sounds hostile to competition while locking in advertisers to dependency and not actually doing anything real for privacy.