seriously though, if people actually applied what the bible said in the context that it is said I think we would all literally be in a better place.

glad getting back to a normal weight worked for you. This is awesome.

so now what? go back to landlines? stop using a “smart”phone?

The turn off icloud argument also does not work. Who tells you they’re not going to keep pulling stunts like this? So the solution is: stop using Apple. Now what?

Okay. But immediately after…

> In fact, if there had been 24 deaths in the vaccinated group the efficacy reported would have been 3%! Because it was looking at rates over time, 24 deaths would have been the death rate over time similar to 36 in the unvaccinated group. But clearly, among those infected, 36 in 84611 is a far lower death rate than 24 in 1066!

If? Now we’re onto hypotheticals. Here is an idea, you have so few because they were vaccinated!

Also the mental gymnastics of saying: “it’s better to not be vaccinated in case you get covid because you are less likely to die” is worthy of a mental gymnastics olympics gold medal.

I understand that the CDC guy may have worded things differently but directionally he is right.

But, again, one cannot just ignore the hypotheticals of Dr. Gator when it provides validation for your anti-vaxx stupid attitude.

technically you could not update to ios 15 or disable icloud, but it's not opt-in by any means.

I'm not saying you trust someone for all the possible things under the sun.

I'm saying if I trust you for X and you mess it up I no longer trust you for X.

Stuff running on your device OTOH, you have the illusion that you control it. It's YOUR physical device and technically you should be able to do whatever you want with it. Now, enter closed source software + walled gardens => you don't really control your device. You don't get a say on what's going on in it. Up until know we believed Apple would do the right thing. Well... Myth busted I guess.

At that point you have uploaded the pictures to icloud. The evidence is in icloud. You cannot destroy your device to get rid of this.

- this is going to be out in ios15

- Apple will build and push a database of hashes with every update

- these hashes will be used to verify against the pics before they are uploaded to icloud and generate a "voucher"

- once a certain threshold of vouchers is passed, Apple will be able to decrypt the pictures in questions (all this discussion seems to assume Apple does not have access to icloud pictures - so maybe they are preparing to rollout full encrypted backups???)

- the crypto stuff is interesting

- the scary part is that there is nothing preventing Apple to do the same thing with other thing on your phone (assuming there is a way to generate a good enough matching hash - I can see how this could be easily extended to basically anything that's stored on the phone)