Anatomy of Apple's Personal Knowledge Graph — Eighth Rank
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Every Mac since macOS 13 (2022) ships a pair of daemons whose only purpose in life is to build a graph about who you are, who you know, how those people are related to you and to each other, how you communicate with them, where you go, what you do and when. In this post, we look into how this system works and give you a tool to peek into your own graph.
    • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
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      45 minutes ago

      Is it? I know there’s ai in the domain, but I don’t get that vibe from the style, and I just checked out the claimed authors and am confident they’re real people who’ve been writing since before LLMs could do it well.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    2 hours ago

    We know Amazon’s doing practically the same thing, and Google, Facebook, etc. are doubtless doing it too.

    The difference—for better or worse—is that Apple’s using your own machine instead of their servers.

    • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      51 minutes ago

      I got you. Just add this to your hosts file:

      127.0.0.1 8rank.ai
    • 667@lemmy.radioEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Would a crontab running every minute to kill the relevant deamons work?