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You’re right, it appears that NPU hardware was introduced in the iPhone 8, in 2017, and I say this typing away from an Apple device. Sounds like I’ll be busy this weekend with that rusty spork.

However, it’s the recent generation of NPUs that provide the processing power needed to run the expanded scanning services implemented by these OS’s. That’s why Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15, and Microsoft is hawking Recall laptops.

While I admit the pins-and-string-on-a-corkboard tone, I don’t think we actually disagree on anything here. Eventually, an open source platform will become the only way to avoid this kind of hardware enabled surveillance.

In the words of my forefathers, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.” 🖕

Whether it’s actually the concentrated evil turning them ugly, or the evil they do that makes the money they use to pay for the plastic surgery, does it matter?

Spiritually, aren’t those the same thing anyways?

“The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.”

Set us free, R*/Remedy

Oh good, while they’re there maybe they can help build housing or provide food for the homeless people Trump wants to get rid of.

Can’t be homeless if you got a home!

Once, I nihilistically mentioned to my friend that “I welcome the coming inevitable nuclear holocaust.” His reply was something that I will never forget: “I don’t think you realize what nuclear war entails.”

I haven’t wished for the end of the world since.

Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all quietly integrating NPUs into their devices, and implementing the software infrastructure in their operating systems to do on-device classification of content: Windows Recall, Google SafetyCore, and Apple Intelligence. These services are obsequiously marketed as being for your benefit, while all are privacy and surveillance nightmares. When the security breaking features of these systems are mentioned, each company touts convoluted workarounds to justify the tech.

Why would these companies risk rabidly forcing these unwanted, unpopular, insecure, expensive, and unnecessary features on their collective user bases? The real reason is to capture everything you do and store on your device, use the tensor hardware you may or may not even know that you purchased to analyze the data locally, then export and sell that “anonymized” information to advertisers and the government. All while cryptographically tying the data to your device, and the device to you, for “security”. This enables mass surveillance, digital rights management, and targeted advertising on a scale and depth previously unseen. Who needs a backdoor or a quantum computer to break consumer-grade encryption when you can just locally record everything everyone does and analyze it automatically at the hardware level?

Each of these providers is already desperate to scan, analyze, and classify your content:

Microsoft has been caught using your stored passwords to decrypt archives uploaded to OneDrive.

Apple developed forced client side scanning for CSAM before backlash shut it down. They already locally scan your photos with a machine learning classification algorithm whether you like it or not. You can’t turn it off.

Google recently implemented local content scanning with SafetyCore to “protect you from unwanted content like spam”. Then why is it scanning your photo library?

I would rather saw off my own nuts with a rusty spork before willfully purchasing a device with an integrated NPU. I fear that in the next 5-10 years, you won’t be able to avoid them. We are paying for the edge hardware being used for our own unwilling surveillance. Then, our tax dollars are paid to these tech companies to purchase the data!

Do you trust the rising fascist regimes and their tech lackeys in America and the UK to use this power morally and responsibly?

Do you really believe that these features that you didn’t ask for, that you cannot disable, and are baked directly into the hardware, are for your benefit?

I can hear every sound referenced in this thread in my head.

Same here - I was on Reddit for close to 20 years. After the purge, I had to stop because it literally became unbearable. Reddit is now fake dead pet pity posts, brain dead relationship outrage baiting, unintelligible post titles and comments, and barely obfuscated advertising.

Apparently, it’s more profitable than ever; a monument to enshitification.

The sad part is Trump could single handedly end homelessness in Washington DC and still be one of the richest and most powerful people in the world, but he is literally and physically incapable of even having that thought.

Malignant narcissists are literally insane.

As a professional fartographer, is that your official fartographical ANALysis?

I don’t know much about MMA or Ireland and I could have told you that.

Sickness is health… War is peace… Ignorance is strength…

What a great way to prepare students for our AI enabled social media and digital surveillance society. Take note kids, trust no one!

Nothing. If people are protesting invasive bloat with by saying they’d rather have Clippy, I’d rather go back to Notepad.

However, it appears that Windows 11 notepad has fallen prey as well? Maybe then I need a profile pic of a needle and a magnetic plate…

Predatory software has become so bad that now we have to use the previous generation’s intrusive hated features to protest the new ones.

Here’s my protest profile pic.

I cannot imagine anything more narcissistic than projecting your own rabid sexism and authoritarianism on to “God.”

There is no god, it’s just your own ego Pete. You don’t strike me as a true believer either, and so I think you know this.

I have a theory that narcissistic projection is the core mechanism of fascism. That is why fascist leaders are almost always malignant narcissists, and tyrannical narcissists are always fascistic in their relationships. It follows that if you don’t like something, there would be no concept as to why you couldn’t just delete it. Why wouldn’t you?

I never thought I would need to save a backup copy of the Constitution…

Who actually benefits from this? The only “goal” I can see here is intentional depopulation. But when the next pandemic hits, and there’s no vaccine for 3 years because research funding has been gutted, who will be left to work for all these rich assholes and sustain the economy all their money depends on?

I just cannot fathom that RFK is such a demented narcissist so high on his own farts that he actually believes the shit that comes out of his mouth. There just has to be another endgame I’m not seeing. But what??

Either they’re trying to kill us all, or the inmates are running the asylum except they think the asylum should be run like a business.

I would roll my eyes at this, but if I were to do so it would be so hard as to pop them out of my head. We flew off the “Orwellian” cliff months ago, and we are free falling into a canyon of insanity deeper than the Mariana’s trench.

To call the trump administration “Orwellian” is an understatement almost as insane as Trump itself. Does language even exist anymore?