alwillis

> That said, in the case of Apple, they're historically followers not leaders despite the public image they like to present about innovation

While its true Apple usually isn't the first in a product category--not the first mp3 player, not the first smartphone, not the first tablet) but once they get there, they're quite innovative.

When the iPhone 5s was released in 2013, it was the first smartphone with a 64-bit processor, which caught Qualcomm off guard. Even when Qualcomm released a 64-bit processor the following year, it kinda didn’t matter because Android was still 32-bit.

Um… that's already a thing [1]:

    TL;DR: What is C2PA in 60 seconds

    What: An open technical standard for embedding cryptographically signed provenance data inside digital media files.

    Who: Created by a coalition founded by Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic in February 2021.

    How: A C2PA Manifest (also called a Content Credential) travels inside the file and records who made it, when, and what tools were used.

    Why: Deepfake incidents surged from 500,000 to 8 million cases between 2023 and 2025. Provenance gives media a verifiable chain of custody.

[1]: https://c2paviewer.com/articles/what-is-c2pa

> It’s almost certainly possible to fool v1 of this system, for some images, in some contexts. It would be shocking if the first implementation was completely perfect.

Knowing Apple, they've been working on and testing Apple Reference Image for years.

It being perfect isn't the issue; it's that random people on the internet who are just learning about this assume Apple's engineers haven't already thought about everything (and more) mentioned in this thread.

As someone who listened to Mobb Deep in the 90’s, the way he used that line was impressive, I must say.

> Where are our regulations on Kali Linux, to prevent people from bruteforcing weak WPA passwords?

Brute forcing WPA isn’t an existential threat to humanity. It’s not like a biological weapon created using an open-weight model is less dangerous than if it had been created with a proprietary model.

> I would argue that even if JPEG XL isn't the best choice for Web images, if browsers don't support it then that will widely hinder its adoption for its non-Web use cases.

Both Firefox and Chrome [1] have committed to shipping JPEG XL later this year. Safari has supported JPEG XL since 2023, though their implementation doesn't support progressive images yet.

So the major web browsers will support JPEG XL later this fall.

[1]: "Intent to Ship: JPEG XL" - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/08/intent-to-ship-jpeg-xl/

Pretty sure Claude's classifier is aware of the "for my game" style of potentially dangerous prompts.

Some features using the Neural Engine:

* Face ID since the iPhone X released in 2017

* fall and crash detection

* Live captions in videos, calls, and spoken audio

* facial recognition in the Photos app

* voice isolation in calls

There's more, but I'll stop there.

It doesn't save a recording of someone speaking; it's 15 seconds of a transcription.

To get close to the same functionality as the Duo, you'd buy an iPhone 18 Pro ($1199) plus an iPad mini ($599); that gets you to $1,798. If you want more storage than the entry level iPhone 18 Pro or iPad mini, you're going to surpass $2000 pretty quickly.

We'll have to see but it has a titanium frame with Ceramic shield front and back.

Obviously Apple knew where other foldable phones fell short; they clearly planned to overcome those shortcomings.

> I worry this will suffer from the same lack of developer interest as the AVP did

Pretty sure that developer interest is not to be a problem. The Duo will sell more units in a month (or less) than every AVP ever sold.

Apple told developers in June at WWDC to not assume fixed screen sizes. Well-written apps will work on any screen size thanks to Apple's APIs.

Some apps will need to be tweaked to take advantage of some Duo features no doubt, but I suspect that's not going to be a deal breaker.

Hyperfocus is great until it's not.

People with ADHD have "time blindness"; we don't process time the same way most people do.

We often don't realize 3 or 4 hours have passed and there were other things we needed to get done.

Claude Code has output styles; one of the predefined styles is Concise [1].

    Concise: Claude leads with the result, skips preamble and narration, and
    keeps responses short by default, while doing the engineering work as
    thoroughly as in the Default style. When you ask for an explanation or
    more detail, Claude answers in full. Claude always keeps the complete
    content of error reports, security warnings, and confirmations for
    destructive actions. Requires Claude Code v2.1.237 or later.

[1]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles

Claude Code has output styles; one of the predefined styles is Concise [1].

    Concise: Claude leads with the result, skips preamble and narration, and
    keeps responses short by default, while doing the engineering work as
    thoroughly as in the Default style. When you ask for an explanation or
    more detail, Claude answers in full. Claude always keeps the complete
    content of error reports, security warnings, and confirmations for
    destructive actions. Requires Claude Code v2.1.237 or later.

[1]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles

The godfather of AI himself, Geoffrey Hinton, believes LLMs are conscious.

I get it; when Safari was available for Windows, the font rendering was different from the Mac version.

> And I can't test the new version of Safari on my Windows or Linux devices because Safari isn't available for them.

You can download three Linux-compatible WebKit-based browsers from Apple's WebKit page:

Epiphany Technology Preview: https://webkitgtk.org/epiphany-tech-preview

WPE: http://wpewebkit.org/download

WebKitGTK: http://webkitgtk.org/download

>> JXL was dead. Apple is who brought it back to life

> No, it was actually the PDF Association.

The PDF Association didn't adopt JPEG-XL until September 2025. By then, Apple had been shipping JPEG-XL in Safari for two years [1]. So there's that.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/14205/news-from-wwdc23-webkit-featur...

> LLMs are also terrible at these new standards. If they even know about them, they often think they're not baseline yet…

It doesn’t have to be that way.

You could create a Skill [1] that tells the agent to use modern css; the newer models like Opus 5 are probably much better with modern css.

Google released a set of skills at I/O called Modern Web Guidance [2] that steer coding agents to use modern css and best practices.

[1]: https://www.skills.sh/paulirish/dotfiles/modern-css

[2]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/modern-web-guidance/get-st...

> The common advice now is to only use CSS that is supported in the last two major versions of each major browser.

There's a much easier way—Baseline: https://web.dev/baseline

CSS features that have been available for 30 months for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari are "Widely Available" and are safe to use.

Commonly used tools like Browserslist and Stylelint support checking for Baseline compliance.

An excellent list of modern CSS: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce.

There's also https://modern-css.com/.

There's a newer MacDown--MacDown 3000 [1]. It's a universal binary, so it'll keep running once Rosetta goes away.

[1]: https://macdown.app

Feature requests:

* YAML support So many of my markdown files have YAML front matter, it would be nice for Scriptum to render it properly.

* Definition lists MultiMarkdown[1] and Kramdown[2]support definition lists which are pretty useful when authoring markdown

[1]: https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/

[2]: https://kramdown.gettalong.org

> That would be a very Apple thing to do.

That's something Steve Jobs would have done.

He left in 2019 and formed his own company, that did design work for Apple until 2022.

He "took" several Apple employees with him when he left and there's been a steady stream of Apple employees going to OpenAI.

Ive isn’t responsible for all of them obviously, but the articles about lawsuits says there are 400 former Apple employees at OpenAI.

Definitely not slow.

> I mean, the point stands. The models are beyond expert level in many areas at this point.

It's not that the models aren't smart or whatever; we know they're extremely capable.

There's always going to be value in being able to clearly communicate what you want the model to do, especially when the context is lacking.

> Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?

Of course not.

Pretty sure this isn’t the secret Jonny Ive project.