Safer, Thorn’s flagship software product, was launched in 2018. Backed by Microsoft’s PhotoDNA technology and with technical support from Amazon Web Services, Safer is designed to detect child abuse by matching hash values of pictures or videos uploaded by users with a database of millions of known CSAM images.

I don’t really understand how this works. Are the hash values like meta data? Is there a way to maintain privacy but also check for illegal material?

3-4

Lose count?

Risky wank

True. But their business model is auctioning ads to the highest bidder when we search for relevant things, they just nailed search when people were still using Yahoo and AltaVista.

I remember using metacrawler.com a lot before Google came along

It’s just a newer form of publishing. A quick Google, which is just a yellow pages with search, says 1488

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwabe_(publisher)

From what I’ve gathered from others who’ve been bothered by them, they are a ‘tankie’ who fantasises about communism and thinks China is still a communist state. That they do so while living in a western democracy using all the tools of freedom of expression is an irony that’s lost on them

I was wondering the same, does not apply to UK journalism style apparently

Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an initialism): BBC, CEO, US, VAT, etc; if it is an acronym (pronounced as a word) spell out with initial capital, eg Nasa, Nato, Unicef

https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a