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@atpfm I don’t think the “pre populate phone data” idea was so crazy. They wouldn’t restore the data decrypted, they’d just put the encrypted data from iCloud servers onto the iPhone, and you’d be decrypting it on first unlock.

Apple could already do that, this doesn’t present extra danger? If there’s an issue it’s that it would be a day old backup. Maybe incremental restore would fix that issue?
I’m not saying this would be easy, but it’s totally possible!

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David Watson Jun 14, 2025

@atpfm @siracusa Already a paper in response: "The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09250

David Watson Feb 1, 2025

@siracusa @atpfm The H800s that DeepSeek trained on are technically newer than the H100, what’s important is that they’ve been handicapped with added constraints on memory bandwidth.

David Watson Jan 4, 2025

@caseyliss @atpfm Not that you needed this, but inflation is half the difference between your last car purchase and what you said you expect you’d pay for an EV (I think you’re overestimating on the cost of an EV equivalent to your last car)

David Watson Dec 21, 2024

@atpfm @siracusa for me the biggest reason not to switch my Photos library to JPEG XL is right out of the previous chapter! They’re all copied into the library from the same disk, so I’d actually need more space afterwards since it would break the references!

David Watson Dec 14, 2024

@siracusa @atpfm omg that was an obscure reference.

David Watson Aug 3, 2024

@atpfm @siracusa I think this pretty directly says that it was in response to the European Commission, not just the antivirus companies. https://web.archive.org/web/20061023112233/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39163277,00.htm

Via @carnage4life

Microsoft backs down over rivals' Vista access - Security Strategy - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

David Watson Mar 1, 2024

I think it’s plausible that the theory mentioned on @atpfm about Apple getting into cars because they’re about to be disrupted by autonomy could be a good explanation: they thought the disruption would be from AI cars that needed no central system. Once it became clear that if the disruption happens it’ll be ai taxis everywhere, they got out of the sector.

David Watson Mar 1, 2024

@siracusa @atpfm why are you always thinking about a car that can drive in “any location”
Wouldn’t coverage like this in major US cities be a pretty big change?

David Watson Jan 20, 2024

@atpfm When we got to the part about Apple requiring 7 days of tracking for IAP attribution, I thought of this meme I just made a couple weeks ago. “It's Personalized”