Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

You should always follow innovations in criminal and student surveillance, because they often serve as proving grounds for tech that ultimately finds its way to the rest of us.

My biggest worry about Apple crossing the Rubicon with client-side searches is all the other vendors that inevitably copy Apple innovations, but poorly. Even if Apple can keep their promises, others won't. Imagine a home (and car) full of devices searching for crimes. ⁨#privacy⁩

Criminals and students always face the bleeding edge of surveillance tech, because neither group has enough agency to resist it. ⁨#privacy⁩ ⁨https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-prison-idUSKBN2FA0OO

@keverets I did even go to the trouble of making a bolt for that purpose to screw in to the mill in place of the arm but this time decided to just do it by hand. I'll probably get my drill next time though!

This double IPA is an opportunity to use up leftover hops from past beers. Here's the hop portions for the boil. There's another 180g besides this for dry hopping.

Brewing a double IPA today and opted to save money by buying grain in bulk. Didn't think about the fact that meant I had to crush 16# of barley by hand with my grain mill. #armday

@jameshjacksonjr I put my smartwatch in a drawer a few months ago and went back to an analog watch and it was amazing the effect the smartwatch had on my brain. I'm much more peaceful now, but it took a few weeks to fix all the impulses my smartwatch trained into me.

@leimon I did enjoy the first season! In particular I liked not only the pre-crime elements, but also the overall surveillance of mental and emotional state, and their plot device of linking police use of force with real-time mental and emotional state.

Yet an Entourage isn't just an assistant. They also *monitor* their human, warn them when their behavior falls outside of society norms, remind them of rules, and report them to the authorities.

So the Entourage is simultaneously a very helpful assistant *and* a tool of the state to keep a person in line. It's hard not to see parallels in Apple's client-side scanning of Photos, messages, and search queries for contraband.

While I don't watch much anime, I'm a sucker for anything in a cyberpunk universe. I'm rewatching Ergo Proxy and this week's Apple Child Safety news reminded me of a concept in the show.

There are androids called "autoreivs" in this dystopian future. One type is called an Entourage and it is assigned to a particular human. They are a personal assistant and follow the person around, chauffeur, and even act as a bodyguard.

“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail – its roof may shake – the wind may blow through it – the storm may enter – the rain may enter – but the King of England cannot enter.” https://puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-your-castle/

I wonder whether China will compel Apple to add hashes of "tank man" to their contraband database for iPhones sold within the country.

I was going to write something up about Apple's new child safety features, but the @EFF post on the subject covers what I would have wanted to say, better than I could say it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life

Apple protects residents' privacy by having robots strip search them first. Humans only do strip searches after the robot finds something suspicious.

iPhone users don't live in a walled garden, they live in a digital nursing home. They are well taken care of, but Apple controls the property, activities and visitors. Apple plans to search residents regularly for contraband. #privacy https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

Every time I work with Fedora's anaconda installer, Baby Got Back goes through my head. Every. Time.

If I were still writing for Linux Journal (or had an equivalent outlet today), I'd write a long form piece on why years ago, after a successful career as a sysadmin, I pivoted my career over to security. https://s.usenix.org/acton/media/2452/lisa-community-announcement