skybrian @skybrian@schelling.pt

@tindall@cybre.space Nicely written and well-balanced!

A caveat: on threats from trusted vendors, I'm not what would be meaningful advice. Should we judge vendors by what they're known to have done, what people suspect they're doing (but isn't proven), or what they might do someday?

Apple's CSAM plan was delayed. Perhaps indefinitely. Now what?

Once we consider open-ended threats from security updates, any response from ignoring it to extreme paranoia could be justified, depending on your attitude.

@tindall@cybre.space It’s just unusual architecture. There is no way this would ever work given the amount of food the cafeterias go through. They have small hobby gardens (or at least they did when I was there), but it wouldn’t even be enough for one day.

I wonder what sort of deals they have with local farms? There was one cafeteria, Cafe 150, whose theme was that they only serve food from within 150 miles. I don’t think it lasted long though.

@tindall@cybre.space It's a good reason to prefer a 401k to a pension.

If this looks like a straight line to you, you might be a CBA player.

@tindall@cybre.space Are you running Elementary? I have an 11-year old iMac that I should probably install Linux on now that Apple no longer supports it. Thinking about what distro to try.

@tindall@cybre.space yes it's on-device. Apple has a pretty detailed technical summary that I just skimmed, but oddly they don't say anything about the API. I guess it's a private API invoked by two of their apps when they want to scan an image?

Having a CSAM database doesn't seem inherently bad if it's under user control. I could see it being part of a spam filter, which might help people who are being harrassed.

@tindall@cybre.space did they put it into the OS? I thought it was iMessage and their cloud photo thing, neither of which I use.

Though, I guess a line was already crossed with a proprietary OS and automatic security updates.

https://youtu.be/4hnkmhDM8TU

@tindall@cybre.space Maybe this should be considered a spoiler? Like, you might want to warn a new reader that the author did some bad things so they don't go around praising the author, but be vague about the details so they can still enjoy the story.

There are a lot of older authors like that, actually.

@tindall@cybre.space Neat! What is this used for?

@tindall@cybre.space I agree that how selfish people are depends on their background and circumstances, but on the other hand, if there were no advantage to being selfish then would it count as selfishness? That would be being mean to someone else for no good reason.

What I can tell you is that based on interactions with a certain five-year-old, self-centered thinking starts early and her parents are trying pretty hard to change that.

@tindall@cybre.space What do you think of the robots.txt standard? Should getting crawled by search engines be opt-in rather than opt-out?

@tindall@cybre.space Maybe people who dislike it that much just choose to go without?

@tindall@cybre.space I think that's a deeper problem with how the web works.

Ideally we would have websites that are like a PDF in the sense that they're a single file that you can download and cache, use offline, and update if you feel like it, but not like a PDF in the sense that it should automatically reformat for your screen.

In this sense, the web lost its way very early, when they added the image tag.

@tindall@cybre.space Okay, makes sense!

I think it’s dual use in the sense that some websites use research to enable dark patterns and others might use it just to make their website easier to use.

But the low-hanging fruit on usability is to do in-person usability studies and you’re obviously getting consent for that when you ask people to come in and try your website.

Also, explicit beta tests seem fine?

@tindall@cybre.space So in summary, it's complicated, and I'm wary of agreeing to a toot-sized ethical rule because I think the ambiguities are subject to rules-lawyering.

But I'm not here to rules-lawyer. I asked because I was curious what specifically bugs you about A/B testing?