Oh, good catch! I have to say I don’t usually look at what specific tls version websites use. I’ll be paying attention to this for a bit

1. private, secure dns, so they don’t know the domains you’re visiting
2. https everywhere, so they can’t see any of the data you’re sending or receiving

All that’s left is what ip’s you’re connecting to. Which is useless half the time, especially since most websites are behind cloudflare or some other anti-ddos proxy already.

Also, don’t use the web browser that came with your phone. Some manufacturers and isp’s might enjoy adding tracking into those. Some, like Apple, even got caught not encrypting amy of that.

Side note:

• https everywhere is pretty much the standard in modern web browsers
• an adblocker can still help a lot in blocking trackers
• a secure dns you can find in your browser settings

Oh nice! I only knew about the chrome one. I might just switch as my current browser is not getting maintained for long anymore

a chrome extension called WebScrapBook does the trick. Install it on a chromium based browser, such as kiwi or one that isn’t getting discontinued

it comes up with very different routes compared to google, that much I know

I think it might be to do with the layout of the roads here. It’s not simply long highways and simple grids

Organic maps doesn’t appear to know public transport exists where I live. We have been trying out different apps for bicycle trips

What the pizza?

Hola Facilmaps works! I’ll be trying it out some more soon

Organic maps takes next to forever to plan a route for me, if it manages at all

Fair, but I don’t know what exactly I’d be hiding here

And why is that an issue? It’s typing data sent to a language model. What nefarious info might they be looking for? Learning to imitate humans? Fingerprinting? Making the best virtual keyboard asmr?

A large portion of humanity’s poop is hidden in sewers, and about as good for you as FB

I recommend: don’t

I wasn’t impressed. Apart from the they provide for the demo, it found none of my photos.

Perhaps it gets better next time you repost?

Unfortunately, ye

Had it for quite a while, in case you didn’t notice

1. The end user can access the resulting tags, Apple cannot. However iphones do automatically report if they see something Apple does not like (in the usa).
2. Whatever lack of incentives may be, this is what is happening. I just explained it a bit simpler than the article did.

Yep, machine learning is nice

If you read the article thoroughly you’d know that a smaller model runs locally, to get an guess that a landmark might be in a spot in the image. The actual identification and tagging is done in the cloud. The tag is then sent back.

Because you took two selfies in a restaurant near there, made a huge stunning collage of a duck below the tower and a couple photos from a while away to get the whole tower in view.

I’m running this tech at home, because we had the same use case. Except for me it’s running on a nas, not Apple’s servers. The location solution doesn’t quite work as well when you’re avid photographer

It let’s you type “eiffel tower” into search and get those pictures. Rather than all the other unspeakable things you did in Paris that night

Their chips are pretty good at not drawing much power. But then you also get to the balance of power cost, computing power and physical space.

Google and Microsoft are already building their own power generation systems for even faster AI slop. That would make power a lot cheaper, and super efficient chips might not be the best answer.

I don’t know which way Apple will go, except further up their own behind. But either way, these are some really cool approaches to implementing this technology, and I hope they keep it up!

It’s a cool idea: certain approaches to encryption still allow math to be performed. Here’s one example: say you encrypt data X with algorithm Z. then you could multiply Z by four, which would also multiply X by four. So you can run computations on the encrypted data without decrypting it.

It would be quite complex, but I suppose you could run a machine learning model this way to tag images without ever seeing the image, or knowing the resulting tag. Only the decryption key can be used read the results (which is on the user’s iphone, I suppose).

However… I don’t know how much compute cost this adds to an already expensive computation. The encryption used might not be the strongest out there. But the idea is pretty cool!

Lemmy isn’t promoted by Apple

Tried it, it’s a couple of belgiums off, but not bad

Yep, they basically copied Google’s approach. It’s good, but has got some flaws.

That includes that stuff, yep.

That does not matter, cookies and other local web storage can though

Cookies and other ways of keeping a session upright are kept by the browser. So unless you’re mad enough to copy cookies between devices, they prove you’re on the same device.

Using a password every time you log in, and letting your browser wipe everything on shutdown does not show websites wether you’re on yhe same or another device.

Just like a pc, you can wipe your phone. Albeit with a couple more steps. When I think I’m dealing with a compromised system, I wipe it and restore the backup.

…you do have a backup, right?

…as long as you are blocking tracking cookies, and aren’t on a session with a website that’s tracking you.

Otherwise, you just have a nice unique hash in your cookies. A password manager could help here.

Interesting, this is a cool test! Unsurprisingly, my setup is rather unique.

One thing that stood out to me is that it failed to detect my adblocker. Also, my screen size alone is unique: 1 in 181697 of this 181697 browsers tested.

What are you still doing on reddit?

Gud gud

Didn’t Pavel get arrested in France?

I think that might just be to scan qr codes. And unless you’ve got a very shitty phone, that camera can’t run without the app being active.

You do close your apps, right?

Oh nice, no contacts or internal storage stuff!

Yep, but there was some news about that recently. Apparently their security doesn’t quite work as it should. Perhaps that’s been fixed by now, but then again, Apple does not have a great reputation there.

Yes, and phones have up to 1000gb of storage nowadays. It’ll take a minute :p