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New comment by jshier in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

jshier — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:53:37 +0000

No, that's not AI in the context you were claiming. They use ML techniques and ML-optimized algorithms for their image processing, which can be claimed under the general AI umbrella, but they certainly aren't generating elements of the images captures by the camera app, which is what you meant. The leaf example given in sibling comment has long been debunked, and it's literally the only example of generative content injection claimed for the iPhone camera.

New comment by jshier in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

jshier — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:31:54 +0000

iPhones, no, there's no AI replacement or synthesis of objects from the camera. There were Android phones doing this (famously I think it was Samsung where it would replace images of the moon with a different image of the moon), and the Photos app has AI manipulation features. And most of the time, Apple's noise removal algorithm actually removes detail from images, most notably making text and straight lines wobbly.

New comment by jshier in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

jshier — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:11:20 +0000

And another was about origami.

New comment by jshier in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

jshier — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:24:34 +0000

You say that, but Cloudflare just rewrote their WARP / Cloudflare One clients in Flutter. It really sucks, but they are using it.

New comment by jshier in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

jshier — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:48:54 +0000

I do wish they'd used some more objective criteria. Simply being preferable one of the things LLMs have trained for since the beginning, hence its sycophantic nature.

New comment by jshier in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

jshier — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:43:59 +0000

Not especially relevant, as the obvious use of AV1 on the AppleTV is streaming, and the OS frameworks don't request AV1 without hardware decoding. Services which provide their own video decoding (are there any?) don't seem interested providing their own software decoder for the ATV, despite the bandwidth savings.

New comment by jshier in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

jshier — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:41:39 +0000

Update from 26.3 to 26.4 for the Studio Display XDR was 2.4GB. And that's for a variant of iOS designed for screens.

New comment by jshier in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

jshier — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:05:28 +0000

Seems like it was never digitally stored in the first place, and the printed text was barely readable due to age. Not really a big win for paper.

New comment by jshier in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

jshier — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:07:11 +0000

Generally, yes. If you make a mistake in your return, the IRS is perfectly happy to accept an amended return, and you pay (or get paid) the difference (perhaps with a penalty fee). They usually only go after you criminally if they think you committed fraud.

New comment by jshier in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

jshier — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:21:38 +0000

Autarky requires imperialism to grab the resources needed to be fully isolationist. So it's really both, until they hit the tipping point to become fully isolated. But this is something else. This is just the anti-science ignorentsia coming together with the xenophobic white supremacists to screw America. They say Trump can't bring people together, but he's done a great job of uniting all the worst people in the country.

New comment by jshier in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

jshier — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:40:34 +0000

No need for a default, you can set that in Finder’s settings.

New comment by jshier in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

jshier — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:14:27 +0000

That happens at literally every company I contract with (that requires I use their equipment). At my current gig I couldn't start until they had a laptop for me, and then it took another month to access to the code. Every year they auto delete contractor credentials, unless the director in charge of your contract says no. One year he missed the email and I found myself without access to the code for days while I was reinstated. Only I wasn't completely reinstated, I had been deleted from one of their systems, so I couldn't log into some systems for multiple weeks, until I got a new PKIM card, since a new card was the only way to add credentials to the right system.

So please, it's never been accurate to say the government is mismanaged while corporations aren't. The same things happens in bureaucracies of similar size.

New comment by jshier in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

jshier — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:13:38 +0000

Like trvz said, they use different memory. M3 Ultra uses LPDDR5X 6400 MT/s, M4 Max uses LPDDR5X 8533 MT/s, while all the M5 models use LPDDR5X 9600 MT/s.

New comment by jshier in "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

jshier — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:09:59 +0000

Also Paradise on Hulu, or at least the setup there as well.

New comment by jshier in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

jshier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:05:29 +0000

What format is the destination drive? My ideal is APFS clone backups to a remote drive, but I don't know if there are any network setups that support that, even though you can do it to a local drive.

New comment by jshier in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

jshier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:02:57 +0000

Nah, classic Macintosh OSes aren't compatible with modern AFP.

New comment by jshier in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

jshier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:00:49 +0000

Classic Apple engineering. I would there is technically a "single responsible individual" assigned to Time Machine, but it covers the whole product, so the UI component falls by the wayside as the work on other products or the low level portion.

New comment by jshier in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

jshier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:23:24 +0000

Unlike Google, Apple makes you jump through the hoops of their small business program, if it's available, before they'll drop it to 15%, otherwise you're stuck at 30.

New comment by jshier in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

jshier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:20:21 +0000

Except Jobs approved the design of that screen, which hasn't fundamentally changed since early versions of iOS (iPhoneOS). And it's that way because quitting apps isn't supposed to be something you do very often, if at all. Nowadays people clear the app history by habit, but it was really only supposed to be for misbehaving apps that were burning your battery, so having an affordance to make it easy was never the point, despite how people use it today.

Also, please stop doing this, it breaks apps. It's unnecessary and just forces your apps to cold launch every time you use them.

New comment by jshier in "When the cheap one is the cool one"

jshier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:12:20 +0000

Ridiculous. First Mac mini was a 1.25GHz G4 with 256MB RAM in 2005 for $499. There have many models since there, ranging from $499 to $799 for the base model. 2018 was indeed the highest at $799, but that was mainly Intel's fault, and Apple's poor refresh timing. Current M4 mini starts at $599, which is over $1000 in 2005 dollars, so the value has largely increased through the model's entire history, especially once we hit the Apple Silicon era.