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“You wouldn't reverse-engineer a car, would you?”

>Did you mean "making AI cloning illegal would be meaningingless"?

This.

My two cents, making AI cloning would be meaningless for two reasons:

1) First, AI models will eventually be able to do clean-room reverse engineering by just looking at how the program works at the user level ("Oh, if I click on X menu, it's supposed to happen", writing documentation, etc.).

2) From a practical point, the whole "you can't reverse engineer by looking at the code" was only held in court because back in the day, reverse engineering wasn't as easy or cheap as it is nowadays. You literally could prevent people (large companies) from doing it because it was expensive and hard, and companies that could do it were afraid of lawsuits. This is not the case anymore. So the sheer numbers and the scale will make any law preventing reverse engineering by looking at the source code meaningless from all practical standpoints; it was never so cheap to reverse enginer and to "launder" the code you decompiled from such proprietary software binaries.

For those without an X account: https://nitter.cf/davepl1968/status/2107875089446580273

Unlike previous bans, this one seems to be tied to phone numbers. So even users with non iOS/Google Play versions of the app can't access the blocked groups as long as they have a german number. There is a more in-detail article about the nitty-gritty on how the blocking seems to work:

https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-demands-telegram-censorshi...

As far as I understand: many people use Telegram channels as a sort of Twitter-like social media, since you can set the channel to publicly available and anyone with app can read what you wrote, and even interact with you through, like voting through giving your post an emoji or commenting on it (if you enabled comments).

The article is written in German, but with a Google Translate you can understand the just of it. Apparently Telegram added a new blocking system based on phone numbers, sorta a geo-blocking thing, and people with German phone numbers registered on their Telegram accounts aren't able to access those blocked channels.

Also, unlike the previous block this one applies even to the users who are using the app downloaded directly from Telegram site and not the iOS/Google Play version.

The blocking happens after German minister of interior had a meeting with Telegram directors a few days ago.

Too many jargons and catch phrases and few precise definitions/example on how this OS or concept would actually work :\

We are also having this discussion here in Brazil, some supreme court minister is all fussy and triggered because telegram doesn't bans ""misinformation"" and ""hate speech"".

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the 1 million dollar question, and there is: who fact-checks the fact-checkers?

>make products/services more secure

>sue others to make them stop trying to hack your products/services

Chooses the second one. I'm pretty sure this is just a PR stunt for Apple to try to appeal and brand themselves as "oh, we stand for security" and all the other bullshit.

It is just a coincidence that not allowing sideload and making Apple the sole gatekeeper of what gets installed on all iPhones ends up – surprisingly – benefiting Apple and making then trillions of dollars every year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think many services nowadays end up offering a worst user experience in the name of "simplifying their interface" (I imagine this must be the only reason why Spotify wouldn't add this option).

Not only on this case but, for instance, it would be nice if spotify easily allowed someone to import their playlist from other services, or even from some text playlist. But they don't add these options. And I don't understand why.

Like, technically I assume it make sense for them to make as much of a pain in the ass to EXPORT your spotify playlists to other services, but they should make as easy as possible for the user to bring their favorite playlists and yadda yadda to Spotify.

Seems some BS excuse for them to justify their control over what the user installs on his phone as well as their 30% commission.

Hell, they could at least offer RSS support to twitter.

I fully agree with you. I'm absolute skeptic about anything Facebook and Twitter and other multi-billion dollar tech companies support. Especially because, the whole project of a decentralized social network, if this succeeded, and really became mainstream, these same companies would loose A LOT of power.

It would be easier to compete with them, they would lose their role as being the gate keeper of acceptable debate on a huge part of the internet, so there's a huge down scepticism from my part, thinking "they will find some way to taint and contaminate this whole project... somehow". Twitter would never actually embrace this idea, certainly voluntarily.

Apple is like "over my dead body!!!"

Somewhat morbid, but still interesting.

Truly frustrating, well done!

The problem is not the Apple tax. It's apple app store, they should be able to charge the commission fee they wish. The problem is not allowing other app stores/sideloading on iOS.