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Every Mac since 2022 ships a pair of daemons to build a graph about you (8rank.ai)
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[–] 55 points 1 day ago (9 children)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403613

The author says it's mostly AI. "In my defense, only the technical parts are AI. But, thanks for the feedback; I thought I had unsloped it enough..."

Also at Git, in the readme for the tool to explore the data, "iKnow is fully LLM-generated and may not be 100% accurate."

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    so this whole story is bullshit?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    No, it is definitely there and real, I deleted the databases and blocked them from being rebuilt on my mac yesterday. People can use LLMs to do useful work, especially if they already know what they are doing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Maybe so, but if someone can't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Automated messaging systems that send us important or relevant information have been around for quite a while now. Ignoring a message simply because of the way it was created is rarely wise.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    Automated messaging systems have been deterministic but indeed, if more than just a short notice have been routinely ignored by most since the rise of e-mail and automated spam.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    How does one do this?

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  • [–] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    Delete ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform (or back it up to a different directory if you're worried about things breaking and want to be able to put it back) then make an empty file in place of the directory with touch ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago*

    Good advice. Also for passer-bys if you get hit with the Operation not permitted bullshit, just make sure the app you're using has Full Disk Access since this is considered a "protected folder".

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