[HN Gopher] Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale ...
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Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online-If You
Know Where
Author : mandatory
Score : 44 points
Date : 2024-08-11 20:29 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.wired.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com)
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| https://archive.is/4mxX1
| krackers wrote:
| >chaining together a dozen dilapidated second-generation iPhone
| SEs and harnessing Apple's Live Text optical character-
| recognition feature to find possible inventory tags
|
| This is the second time I've read about an iPhone OCR rack
| https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...
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| Is this still state of the art in terms of local OCR?
| talldayo wrote:
| I think Tesseract is the smarter/faster/less obnoxious choice
| if you're not trying to parse weird meme text like the blog is
| doing. There's almost certainly a better paid option available
| in our enlightened AI age, but I don't even think you'd need AI
| for this use-case.
| j45 wrote:
| I have seen some models mix LLM with ocr to improve both.
|
| Considering what apps like Notes can do low key on iOS... I
| wouldn't be surprised if there would exist more capability.
|
| Iirc, Apple was holding back improvements to Siri and other
| techs.
| kergonath wrote:
| The Apple framework is much, much better than Tesseract, and
| quicker as well. It is really good. Of course if you don't
| need on-device processing, then there are cloud services that
| are better.
| mandatory wrote:
| It's just because I did this talk and made FindThatMeme :) so
| not a popular method, just what I used to do large scale OCR.
| krackers wrote:
| Oh I completely missed that you're actually the same guy!
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Looks like the software was looking for labels like this:
| https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
| mandatory wrote:
| Yep, that's an example of what the automated scanning looks
| for. You can see a very similar example in the slides:
| https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2032/DEF%20CON%2032%20pre...
| jamesy0ung wrote:
| A lot of prototypes can be found on a Chinese website called
| xianyu
| jfdjkfdhjds wrote:
| the only things anyone ever wanted to know from apple is their
| aggressive business tactics... and most of that is already public
| thanks to the many processes they lost along the way. from labour
| salary fixing across industries to pushing obvious monopolies in
| the face of the publishing industry.
|
| I think the only piece I'd pay to read is how they negotiated
| with spotify.
| rbanffy wrote:
| The ones I'm interested would be the ones donated to Berkeley. I
| hope one day they make it to a proper museum.
|
| Or, at least, catalogued, scanned, and photographed.
| epakai wrote:
| Some of these developer devices get 'destroyed' and sold as
| scrap. dosdude1 has restored some of these kinds of devices to
| working order. There's pretty neat video of the restorations:
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| ARM Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQq8fx4D0Q iPod Touch dev board:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLCt6oHPTQM
|
| The PCB repair technique for the DTK is pretty cool on its own.
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