The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they’ve done is regarded as embarrassing
The point is to remove day/month ambiguity that would be present in numerals. Also, that French is always present, c'est toujours très important. The machine readable one is YYMMDD or YYYYMMDD
I’d say the spectrum goes from local ML, that seems fine, to recordings being made, leaving the device and being potentially seen by other humans (even “anonymised”), that’s much more problematic.
Everyone’s losing their shit over an additional sensor. Does everyone think their phone is constantly recording video because it has a camera on it, the same with the microphone? Laptops?
Maybe if it was Meta? I don’t think Apple’s business model incentivises personally identifiable spying or keeping any recordings outside of their standard analytics and “improvements” model.
They have been caught being pretty ham fisted with using third parties to process this data (eg. Siri recordings), so I wouldn’t put it past them for any of these anonymised recordings to fall into anyone’s hands really, but that’s why you can now turn them off.
Which I would immediately do. I would never buy these anyway, and it sounds like a terrible idea, but some of this freaking out is giving them way too much credit.
Even if it had existed and replied with an answer, we all know it would be a giant fucking gamble. To rely on it you have to be a giant fucking moron, although who else sings “I am genius” to themselves
It’s the problem with something that relies on belief. They resent being asked to prove it because their own doubt may make it stop working. Generally religion is a mental health aid
The trouble with a placebo is you have to half believe it might be working, so they don’t want to think too much about it, and get sad (expressed as anger) if you ask them to, in case you harsh their buzz / rain on their parade / piss on their chips etc.