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isn't the correct term Superellipse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipse


According to [0], for icons at least, "no, not quite", because "Apple's exact icon outline is not a pure superellipse — it is built from carefully tuned Bézier curves that closely approximate one."

[0] https://squircle.js.org/blog/math-behind-squircles


>a screen attack still works: photograph a screen displaying an AI image and you get a signed photo of a fake

you don't need to do that just photograph a screen.

This seems close to worthless in "identifying real photos vs AI" for someone actually wanting to do something bad with an AI image, although probably very useful at identifying which phone took a photo when ("the root of trust stays inside Apple's Private Cloud Compute") seen as it's not an entirely local solution a bad actor government could use their powers to completely abuse this.


its conflicting desiderata: a videographer doesn't want to constantly power a device to maintain provable continuity, but screen attacks necessitate such a scheme

a continuous stream of video from factory to customer to observation should prevent screen attacks, if there is a trustworthy framework for processing and checking the absence of screen slide-ins etc.


if geolocation data can be captured in the same signature, that would be a good enough approximation for most relevant cases I think.

GNSS signals can be relatively easily faked because the original signals are very weak so overpowering them doesn't require much broadcast power.

Jamming them is easy, replaying them so as to trick unacquainted receivers is easy, but "faking" a network of signals so as to precisely control present a specific location is not easy or feasible.

"Overpowering" (as to jam) inherently means detectable, these signals are arriving below the noise floor anyway. And if you aren't overpowering, the original signals will leak through. Also, depending on the sophistication of the receiver, your ability to present an implausibly different location may not exist at all (AGPS.)


It seems feasible for state actors, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_spoofing#Ocurrences

Yes, a motivated actor can move a naive receiver somewhere different than where it thinks it is by some small amount - ideally outside of the CEP of whatever weapons system is targeting, but that's much different than precisely controlling the location to be somewhere else arbitrarily.

ah, damn.

For “just a display” you need a computer in there anyway.

Not if you’re driving it from your iPhone or MacBook. You’ll still need chips, but certainly not a M series processor, coprocessor, tons of storage, etc.

Anecdotal obviously but clamshell is the only one I've known people using, but it's several who switched from iPhone to Android for that form factor and yeah it's all women which is what really surprised me they didn't go that route as I thought that was the foldable that was most successful, not the Surface Duo phone to phablet size.

It's a mistake when Apple does it too, they're back in the same situation they were with Google Maps in the early iPhone days.

> I reboot every night

The fact he did is probably responsible for a lot of issues with Windows installing and problems. Normalizing a reboot as a common thing.

I also suspect the fact he keeps re-iterating that the download was fast is because the teams have been using slow internet as an excuse for code speed problems.


I'm shocked "shape" isn't near the top


It's always been pretty common in programming discussions.

Here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 that uses the term shape to describe an algorithm:

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/40-wasted-resources/

And again in 2023, I use it twice in the same blog post both for data and code, and it definitely had no AI input:

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/87_absurd_success/


"Shape" appears to come from JavaScript development wherein an object's "shape" is its structure: the set of properties and methods it is expected to have.


I guess a lot of people use shape, for example to discuss frontend.


> sampling unusual ideas is something eminently automatable. We already have temperature and other settings to guide a LLM towards this kind of "weird"

This isn’t true and changing the temperature of your LLM doesn’t create weird in any way that’s marketable or interesting to people.

But what I will say anything that gives your reach the slightest advantage will just be replicated by a human when they notice it. Think of how niche ASMR content was and now every brand under the sun has done an ASMR unboxing


Means nothing though because no European country can produce the goods an impoverished European can afford to pay for the goods so the local store is just the same Chinese goods shipped to that address other than your home address.


And 5x the price


Shortchanging it a bit when it moves it to the browser so less technical people can run it and moves it to a language significantly more people understand too.


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