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A Boring Dystopia

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iOS screenshot showing text "Audio and video are paused because you may be showing something sensitive. If you feel uncomfortable, you should end the call." with buttons "Resume Audio and Video" and "End Call"

note: this was in the developer beta in July last year and was disabled before the general release.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1131528

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are firmly out of the era where our technology just works for us. This is basically ChatControl.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The article is a year old. It didn't make it to production.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good point, must’ve been removed from the beta

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

No thousands of people, influencers, journalists, the fucking Woz wrote, called and organised online protest and petitions and forced the world’s biggest corporation to back off.

This is actually more of a !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social / !upliftingnews@lemmy.world story than boring or dystopian.

There is plenty of that going around these days, but this isn’t it. Yes, they might try again and I’m confident that they will fail each time they try to do this.

Collective action. Americans aren’t used to that, but even the fat cats at Apple recognise it when they’re up against it.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just reading the headline, it sounds like it's gonna freeze the frame when you drop your pants so everyone on the other side can get a good look and take their screenshots.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a feature, not a bug /s

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Updated Jul 04, 2025

Didn’t make it to production. Nice try though.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago

Still beaming live to the AI spank bank I assume