remember when a big tech company could release a new product and you could think about anything other than surveillance, planned obsolescence, vendor lock-in and e-waste
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Commodore Amiga announcement, black tie event.
Andy Warhol using an Amiga to do a realtime color portrait of Blondie.
On prototype hardware.
The designers knew the "fill" function had a bug.
Andy used it, did not crash!
Stuff of legends.
Photoshop didn't even exist yet.
Folks in 2026?
Can they even understand?
(That black tie gala affair was in 1985 if I remember correctly. Stuff about the bug and not crashing were learned from the Viva Amiga documentary. I was not there in personal attendance and didn't buy a used Amiga 2000 until 1994 [and bought an Amiga 1200 later that same year.])
@aparrish no, can't remember that mythical time. Must have been before 1977.
@TheOneDoc i dunno, i feel like the first person who pounded a clay tablet flat from the mud of the Euphrates was probably thinking "how can i turn this into passive income"
i also don't understand the point of apple's "secure exclaves." okay, so you can't access the audio or video data directly. but you *can* access records of the individual people who are using the device, tied to their apple account, and what they're talking about, presumably with timestamps? how is that any better at all
@aparrish "secure exclaves" is what i call the domes with laser turrets on top that were erected on the moon for mining. in act 2 it is revealed that there are carnivorous moon worms that can simply dig up through the floor of the domes, bypassing the laser defense
@aparrish my thought about it: This setup is ideally-designed to let Apple respect the letter of the law in places like the EU (where they sometimes attempt to constrain ad-based surveillance) while ignoring the spirit
lawmakers are forced to choose some arbitrarily-bright line between 'personally-identifying' info (PII) and non, for the sake of it being enforceable... which means as a tech company you just need some argument for how e.g.: your DCT results identify ppl without being 'personal'
@sprawlbug yeah, I guess I can take some solace in the fact that apple is at least *pretending* that it provides some kind of security, instead of going full joe rogan "[monster truck voice] we're really sticking it to those EU freedom-hating pencil-necks with this technically compliant but totally useless feature"
[me, after i've archived all of the images in your camera roll] oh no no no no. I don't have your data. I just have blocks of discrete cosine transforms *derived* from your data. it's all very secure
@aparrish this is how we get πfs
@aparrish I tend to think of it as a control mechanism. It ensures no one can decide what is done with the gathered data other than Apple. Not the government, not the user, no one. Apple is the one who decides which sorts of data may be preserved and acted on and which must be locked away and reserved for the agents of the Trusted Party (Apple). Through this preservation of order a peaceful world society may be reached
@aparrish oooh also also! in what terrible way are they going to use my data in a monetization ploy in some medium range future?