Just a PSA: the entire article is AI generated

Wow, what the f... That's remarkably invasive.

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.

Ew gross. I’m going to find a way to block this.

I'm just gonna talk about the 4-way fork of the knight. White's a doofus for not eating the knight with a pawn

B-b-but Apple cares about privacy. They would never spy on you like the filthy Microsoft. That's why I brought an iPhone.

As soon as Asahi ships M4 support I’m relegating macOS to an as-needed partition or VM. I can’t wait, I love the GNOME UI aesthetic. Unforkable software needs to die.

I’d love to contribute to OSS but breaking in to a community, learning a codebase, its dependencies, its build systems, its docs, its community rules, its politics all at once by myself is too much.

If you install Linux on it, it fixes it, right?

Holy shit.

Same for Iphones? This says MacOs.

Is there a file or database that can be deleted now and then ?

Yeah, here is my graph

Hilariously the guy who wrote this paper also used AI to help write it. Guh.

Wow, this is insane (the mechanism its discovered, not its conclusions)

Hmm, this must also be implemented in iOS right? Like there's no way this isn't also being used on mobile devices.

Oh, yeah there it is:

And even more recently, a forensics tool went looking on the phone: in September 2026, Alexis Brignoni taught iLEAPP to read the same store on iOS, where graph.db and the ontology.db that decodes its predicate codes sit under /private/var/mobile/Library/IntelligencePlatform; he writes it up in Reading the iPhone Knowledge Graph, and Checking Its Work.

This links to https://leapps.org/blog-post?post=apple-intelligence-platform-knowledge-graph for more information.

Your iPhone runs a daemon called knowledged. It sits in the background and does exactly what the name suggests. It builds knowledge. Not files, not logs, but a graph of things the phone has decided are true about you. Who your contacts are. Where you have been. Which apps you run and who made them. It ties all of that together and stores it on the device.

Fucks' sake. Everything is Big Brother. Makes me want to give up everything and move to a rural area in Africa or India or something, someplace away from cities and big tech corpos.

Android must be doing similar things, though for Google it's probably server-side and might not be available on the local device.