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.

This kills the power.

If the search algorithm is any good, it will also index the community description. That’s where you put your keywords for search matching.

If the search algorithm isn’t any good, then it doesn’t matter what you name the community or what you put in the description because the search won’t match the community to people who are actually looking for it anyway.

I think it’s a good idea to only do alphanumeric characters in the name though, no special characters.

Read “SexualAssaultInformation” as if you didn’t already know anything about the community, but were just seeing the name for the first time. What is this, an instructional community? Do they have a how-to guide?

For critical systems, reliability, predictability, consistency, and long-term performance data are more important than modernization. It makes perfect sense that a system like this would lag the leading edge of technology significantly. It is ok if the technology has problems, even if it has high failure rates, as long as the failure rates are predictable - then you can write procedures around them. Floppy disks don’t exactly offer bulletproof reliability, but they are well understood - and also you can generally just toss them on a desk or in a drawer without worrying too much about incidental damage.

You want this kind of technology to be so simple and dependable that you don’t have to think about it, it just works as expected. It also massively simplifies staff training and procedure documentation if the relevant bits of technology don’t change very often - until of course those bits become so outdated that the procedures for getting them to interface with newer systems becomes its own mess.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

That name definitely requires more thought.

Buckle up folks, they’re going to do as much damage as they can over the next two years.

Nonsense, computers are pure logic! Nothing can possibly go wrong!

I know, let’s just have computers run the world! Surely then we will have a peaceful, stable society!

“Witch hunt!”

Oh, no, take it to court now and let him pardon the fall guys. Then call them up to testify against the big players. The pardon acknowledges their guilt, meaning they can no longer plead the fifth.

By the time that gets through the courts and we move on to trials for the ringleaders, it should be too late for Trump to parden any of the real responsible people.

Dude has been on message for 60 years.

Also, we believe that we shouldn’t still be having this discussion, and the people who keep dragging us back into it are wasting everyone’s time.

No no, it smells like 2000 incidents of an 8-year-old puking up soda and birthday cake, which was then cleaned up by someone making minimum wage.

I’ve been procrastinating on buying their full subscription too. Now I’m glad.

First rat off the sinking ship?

The technology has improved, so the device is more complicated than the early prototypes. That’s why I included the diagram above.

how hard could it be?

Well, how much mass does it need to move, if it’s 100m long, and is fully loaded with people? To keep it simple, we’ll be generous and assume an average 80kg human, spaced evenly every 1m, so that’s 8000kg of mass that the motor needs to be able to move, constantly. We don’t want the system to change speed under load, but keep a constant speed, so we’ll actually want to be able to handle more than the average load, with room to spare, so call it 12000kg. That’s… a lot of torque.

We’ll also need a compensation mechanism to keep the speed steady as the load on the motor changes, and we’ll need an emergency stop braking system. We’ll need shock absorption to handle the impact of people stepping onto the walkway and potentially dropping any objects they’re carrying, so that the constant load/unload doesn’t cause additional wear on the drive system. We need the mechanism to move the hand railing along with the walkway. We’ll need to run electrical wiring to each unit. We’ll need to dig a hole in the ground to fit the mechanism for each unit. We’ll need to safety check each unit post-install.

This simple-in-theory device is pretty complicated in practice. We haven’t even talked about weatherproofing.