@nprofile1q... It's like having your autobiography ghostwritten -- why? Why would you do that? Though I suppose the answer to that informs why people use AI for writing, which is kind of depressing.

I mean... write your own artisinal, free range, organic slop! You can do that, I have faith in you, you don't need a machine to help you write badly! (OK, not *you* you, but the slop writers who have been slopping for centuries, or millennia even, and are now replacing themselves with automation)

@nprofile1q... I'm sure, but did they say what volume of fuel we'd be getting for that $3?

@nprofile1q... I admit to only having read the first few dozen pages of the report, but the takeaway I'm getting so far is there were *multiple* known, long term, systemic failures involving this kid and therefore it's the internet's fault somehow?

I may have missed something, or possibly there's nuance later.

@nprofile1q... huh. Shades of this:

@nprofile1q... that color scheme harkens back to ‘70s era minicomputers from a long defunct manufacturer, or donuts and coffee from an aggressively mediocre New England donut chain. I’m not sure which is less appealing in this situation.

@nprofile1q... Well, yeah, only three of the four basic food groups. I think you need to add chips to your diet. Or possibly cookies.

@nprofile1q... and let’s not forget the dive into several thousand years of vicious authoritarian rule by an immortal-ish guy because he couldn’t be bothered to actually govern in a way that made his society better.

@nprofile1q... I assume this dude is tweeting just to make sure there's documented proof that some human beings are entirely incapable of understanding irony.

@nprofile1q... Is it wrong that I didn't get past "a secure chat app" in the post title before I reflexively assumed they utterly fucked up their hand-rolled cryptography protocols?

@nprofile1q... I have had the thought that this launch has been done intentionally poorly, because someone knew the actual requirements were still onerous and also that Ofcom would publicly welcome the over-broad release, but the inevitable blowback would force the policy to get watered down and push the blame on Ofcom and the UK government.

Total speculation, and would be a lot of work for some potentially bad PR, so probably not, but...

@nprofile1q... I have no knowledge of whether the claims are correct, to be clear, just that they're being made. It's certainly possible they don't have to be doing this and this is a PR department's spin on what they're doing.

I assume Apple's legal team has been *extremely* clear with the engineers as to what is actually required but that's not the same as what's being publicly said.