It is shocking how internalized misantropy is in some people. Humanity is uniquely cooperative and does so at scale. Natural state of things, and this is how every non-human organism behaves, is that you murder or drive out all other organisms when they possess or access resources you want. Many species even compete with their offsprings. That is how Nature behaves for millions of years. For humanity, even in the most lawless places like in Somalia, humanity cooperates a great deal more than that.

Unless they plan to only sell to stupid people, this won't be a requirement.

It's reasonable to assume that if you erase an app on a mobile OS that the system will delete the app's data.

That ought to include any data stored in OS databases that is tagged with the app. It's not at all unreasonable to expect this. I suspect it's an oversight though Apple got weird after their standoff with the FBI over the "San Jose bomber". The GPU backdoor to read arbitrary system memory that Kaspersky found is an example.

Apple should make the change and really secure-erase the flash blocks that were being used. This can be done in the background and collected into the free block map later.

The best some people can do is trust their vendor but having a secret-source platform to trust makes it harder.

And, yes, it would not be surprising to learn Qualcomm and Samsung have similar 'features'.

I just checked my Android.

I have it set to not show sensitive info when locked.

But Signal now also has an option to show nothing, name, or name and content in a notification.

It appears to have defaulted to the least secure option.

There's that inherent tension between convenience and security and the Tyranny of the Default.

What makes you say that? Especially right after all these tech companies lost court cases about making social media as addictive as possible. It might not be able to manipulate your social empathy on the spot, but the overall system, where AI kiosk is just a link in a long pressure sales chain, will absolutely be better at manipulating you.

Unless you have been consenting to everything left and right and now there is a lot of data on your profile, how would it do that without you agreeing to a credit check?

This would explain a lot of things.

Yeah, the privacy aspect of EFF doesn't align with social media in general IMHO.

Are they trying to "earn" some $ from social media? That's a silly goal, but might be a nice side benefit.

It's worse than that, because with proper skill, it isn't even a copy/pasta. It is one app that posts to everything all at once. Even the social media places that didn't make the list.

  Buffer, Hootsuite, Metricool, Robopost or Later ... just off the top of my head.

One could probably tweak posts for each platform with AI effectively.

Here is the list they are staying with ...

  Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube

So, where did the audience go? It didn't go to the existing places from 20-8 years ago. And I doubt it went to the two new kids.

What this tells me is that their audience is aging/dying off, and the younger generations aren't there in numbers. This requires little to no political inferences to understand. It is easy to mistake one for the other.

Yes, I am a Boomer. I don't rely upon AI to tell me what to think. I am also a Libertarian and interested in Privacy and been a long time proponent of Open Source. Maybe figure out what intersections to the younger generations align and go there.

I don't agree, but time will tell. I predict that a lot of Trump's base will sit out midterms, resulting in loss of control over both Congress and Senate.

Is there anything in a settlement that advances right to repair? That is, the key issue with Deere is that they lock out regular mechanical repairs with what is essentially DRM and force farmers to use only authorized repair facilities. That is, this is DMCA abused to subvert Magnusonâ"Moss.

It's not difficult - Iran must be balkanized if Israel is going to conquer the Middle East and expand its proper borders to "those promised by God". They will demand a regional empire beyond their borders as a "buffer zone".

The Eschatological Christian Zionists want them tp destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque and build the Third Temple so Jesus can come back. Much of the Senior Brass at DoD (or Department of War Crimes) believes in this.

Is it all absurd and crazy? Doesn't matter, it's what motivates the people with nukes.

That and Trump being blackmailed with Epstein Tapes. The news says it's specifically an audio tape of a phone call between those two.

This is what the people who want peace in the world are up against. We can't counter what we deny.

> when your investigative toolkit is journalism

Exactly. The English Majors went where other investigators have previously gone and ruled out.

The stack of blockchain, Merkle Trees, halvings, etc. show a level of insight a quantum above Hashcash.

There's noting wrong with being "quite good" but "engineering genius" is something different.

Besides, Satoshi would never have stood for not funding mining with txn fees. The BTC chain is in danger of being unmineable very soon.

I bought some paper books from Amazon in 1998 and they still work like the day I bough them.

Excellent support after 28 years.