<sarcastic>Well, at least things are improving: we got a seven days heads-up.</sarcastic>

Side question for the author (@sneak): I've noticed some _pk cookie (Motomo?) being injected while visiting your page and some attempted requests to t.sneak.cloud (and others) but haven't (yet) found a consent notice on your site.

What's up?

My site sends cookie headers to your browser, which can optionally be returned to my server on subsequent requests if you so desire. Your browser will have settings to configure this behavior so that you can set it to whatever you wish. My site still works fine if you do not send any cookie headers whatsoever, so you will have no issues browsing it with cookies disabled or cleared (or not persisted) at your option.

I find the Cookie Autodelete browser extension to be extremely useful in this regard.

That’s ok. As you seem to be based in Germany would you please point me to the relevant consent notice?

It is on point: if you stopped a second to think and consider the context you might have gotten it.

It looks like you're also settings some mailchimp cookies?

Not sure what brought to the conclusion that "medianalysisd running" => CSAM. Article is a bit on the trashy/alarmistic side IMO with no concrete or technical evidence whatsoever.

I guess if you really want to get technical, they aren’t explicitly drawing that conclusion. They’re simply saying that Apple announced they’d scan files for CSAM, and now Apple is scanning files for “some reason.” Draw your own conclusion.

I think sending a one-way encrypted hash of a file, a la PhotoDNA [0], is a fair compromise. But if Apple is outright uploading your entire photo library for “analysis” without an explicit opt-in, that’s a different beast altogether. And if Apple today isn’t using this for surveillance, Apple tomorrow may be.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

Neither description is accurate of what Apple did. On a local match, they would send alternate (encrypted) hashes. If those matched as well, they’d send a downscaled version of the file for human review if I recall correctly. Not quite the same as PhotoDNA but also not as alarmist as “they’re uploading your entire photo library for analysis”. The vast majority of analysis is offline and only the assets that matched local AND remote would get uploaded.

mediaanalysisd has been around for far longer than three years.

that shit was crashing our machines a decade ago

*its

If its is not it is, it is its. If its is it is, it's it's.

This is great, and apparently totally original. The only hit on google is your comment itself.

ChatGPT got it...

> This sentence is a play on words, using the homophones "it's" and "its" in different ways to create a pun. The first half of the sentence is using the phrase "it's not it is" as a way to say that something is not true, while the second half is using the phrase "it is its" as a way to say that something belongs to itself. The second sentence is in similar way "it's it's" meaning " it is its" and "it is it's" meaning "it's is it"

And according to Shakespeare:

That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true

It's the best comment of the day :)

Before was was was, was was is.

"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too."

It is what it is. (nice one, I'm screenshotting that :D)

But if it has a has, it's a has.

Tis confusing.

The headline would have worked better without the "it's" at all, and "off" for that matter.

*fewer

It's not complicated

Done.

ETIAS has been on the horizon for quite some time.

This is likely only for reciprocity with ESTA.

If it would be just reciprocity it would be for US citizens only.

protect policy?

http://archive.today/8PZN0 (For whoever would like to forget that Medium still exists)

Minor correction op: in this case it's "Mac OS". "macOS" is for the post-Mac OS X.

In the '80s / early '90s they just called it "System". I think the transition to "Mac OS" branding came shortly after the introduction of PowerPC.

I think 7.6 was the full/official switch.

Same. Reader mode to the rescue!

Update: darn it ain’t work