Actually it says “Ocean Blindness.” And apparently it’s a real fake thing. Home-grown human-made photo fakery.

Definitely possible, but I’ve seen Apple release weirder bugs. Especially when they brought this functionality over to FaceTime.

Looks like it delegates to Meet, for me.

Yeah, honestly, spam reporting is good. Call screen is amazing. I would be loath to give it up.

“Because he can?”

I just looked, and you’re absolutely right. I had no idea that the Messages app wasn’t part of the AOSP. Very interesting (and not in a good way)

While Apple’s code isn’t open-source, I believe they’ve subjected their code to third-party audit in the past for confirmation that the data isn’t being sent off-device.

So kind of, but not entirely.

On Android devices, the apps are auditable as part of the AOSP. If they were exfiltrating data, a security researcher would already have flagged it.

Doesn’t look like it’s reading it over the network or sending up any data. It seems like it’s just doing it locally, in the process of loading the message.

Definitely just keywords. I don’t use iOS either, but I think I remember early on people were getting wildly incorrect reactions because of stuff that basically boiled down to the Scunthorpe Problem.

She’s the one who also danced weirdly on stage, right?

The animations (and this image, actually) predate the current idea of AI by several years.

iOS added animations to the iMessage app a while back. When it detects that you’ve said certain things or sent certain emojis, it shows an animation. I think one of those things is that “yay” or “congrats” gets you confetti all over the screen.

Not sure why it’s happening for “I think we should see other people,” though.

Everything you can use for a password can be escaped out of a csv. Partially because csvs have to be interoperable with databases for a bunch of different reasons, and databases are where your passwords are stored (though ideally not in plaintext). There’s no way that I can think of to poison your password for a data breach that wouldn’t also poison the password database for the service you’re trying to log into.

My wife and I have phones where we keep our shared calendars, yes. But we have four kids who also have their own lives and schedules, and they often want to know what’s going on, what our plans are, etc. They would value being able to see the day’s upcoming events, too; when the play dates are, when the dentist appointments are, when the days off of school are, what we’re eating for dinner, all of that. Currently, their only access to that information is through our phones.

Having a screen in the kitchen that only shows calendars and a couple of other pieces of data would be useful. We wouldn’t want to be able to watch videos or browse websites on it, though.

Interesting. I have not had that experience, on Tiktok or elsewhere. I do have a similar experience with tech reviewers’ videos on Youtube, though. Albeit not the sponsored ones.

There’s an archive.is link in the original post: https://archive.is/20251027141201/https://www.theverge.com/report/806797/samsung-family-hub-smart-fridge-ads-opt-out

I’m wary of running afoul of copyright laws to literally paste it here, but I think you should be able to get it there.

We’ve tried paper. And dry-erase. The problem is that we keep our calendars and todos and schedules on our phones, which don’t automatically update the paper; and by the second week, we tend to just stop manually updating it. There’s a paper calendar in my office that I just flipped to October last week (from August).

The only way that really seems to work, where we don’t forget an event, is having a single digital shared calendar.

I agree with you there.

We’re a family of six, and the kids don’t have phones. It’s tough to coordinate schedules already and it’s only going to get worse.

I recognize that I’m an edge case.

This is an amazing article. I’m serious. Very well written. This is my favorite part:

I asked Higby why they were bringing ads to the fridges. He said via email, “This pilot further explores how a connected appliance can deliver genuinely useful, contextual information. The refrigerator is already a daily hub, and we’re testing a responsible, user-controlled way to make that space more helpful.”

This is similar to the justification Panos Panay, Amazon’s head of Devices & Services, made to me last month when I asked him about advertising on its Echo devices. He said it was looking to be “elegantly elevating the information that a customer needs.”

Do these people actually believe this? Do they see advertisements in their own lives and think, “ah yes, that was useful and contextual. That was a helpful ad, elegantly elevating my information.” I’ve seen some delusional people in executive-level roles, but that would be a special new class of delusion. Nobody likes ads. I recognize that some people have higher and lower tolerances for them, but nobody is actually grateful for them. Right?! I need to believe this is true.

Both companies claim they want to offer “curated,” “relevant” ads that might “enhance the experience.” I can buy that to some extent when it’s ads for features that your smart fridge or smart display offers. This tech is complicated and capable, and most people only tap into a fraction of what their devices can do.

That’s generous. But ok, maybe I can grant the premise.

But there is no future where third-party advertisements will ever be welcome in people’s homes like this — even if they happen to show me a brand of pet food right when my dog is looking at me with hungry eyes.

Right. Exactly. No matter what, I can think of no situation in which an ad is serving the customer’s interests. Maybe in the case of a coupon? But even then, I think it’s dubious.