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Check specimen — USB-C

Specimen #2 of the canonical Counterpedia Check product, and an everyday one: does the Apple USB-C Charge Cable carry video? This page shows the full retained chain for one first-party Apple Support page — from a governed source declared before capture, to exact captured bytes, to a deterministic visible-text passage, to a dimension-by-dimension receipt — and links to the independently dereferenceable receipt address.

Everything below is retained evidence: no network call is made to render this page.

The chain

  1. 1. Governed source declaration (before capture) — the source row APPLE-SUPPORT-111750 was declared and governed on counterpedia-acquisition main@a138f691 at 2026-09-25T07:02:09Z, before the capture below.
    declaring_artifact_ref sha256:3d518307a2c46645ac47fb34b37e8e4bdf77a277156dc2e5fe77fc19c8a0bc1e
  2. 2. Retained Apple Support source — Apple, “About the Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) Cable”. open the original page ↗
  3. 3. Retained captured bytes — captured 2026-09-25T08:01:43.483949Z, HTTP 200, 159,140 bytes.
    sha256:d19d5361356027fa51c8e108aea5fd4ea133d63f1f50303f61ff0720ef70165d
  4. 4. Deterministic visible-text passage — profile acquisition.html-visible-text.v0.1, span [1374,1502].
    “is longer (2m) and also supports charging, but data-transfer speed is limited to 480Mbps (USB 2.0) and it doesn't support video.”
  5. 5. CheckSubject — the identity this Check receipt binds to (authority identity is the declaration-derived source reference; the URL is excluded from identity).
    sha256:eab90822e6eefc5a08d990b99c7ae4f5aa3144306ce77ecd4d0fc66ec35afb70
  6. 6. Dimension-by-dimension CheckReceipt — see below.
  7. 7. Dereferenceable receipt — cp:check-receipt/bfe8a7e1c6c174cc393349d4f045695a1b3bdee29ff92cda8c81c31cdfe06163 resolves independently to the exact canonical bytes this page reads.

Non-equivalences this page does not collapse

  • QUOTED PASSAGE != PROPOSITION SUPPORT
  • SOURCE PRESENCE != SUPPORT
  • MATCH != TRUTH
  • CAPTURE DIGEST != CAPTURE-EVENT ORDER
  • NOT_EVALUATED is a result, not an error to hide — this citation check does not evaluate whether the passage supports the proposition.

What this Check receipt established

These six dimensions are read verbatim from the published receipt — nothing here is retyped or re-evaluated.

authority identity
established
citation resolution
established
quote integrity
established
source capture
established
currentness
CURRENTNESS_OUT_OF_SCOPE_CITATION_CHECK_V1
not evaluated
proposition support
SEMANTIC_SUPPORT_OUT_OF_SCOPE_CITATION_CHECK_V1
not evaluated

Portable receipt

cp:check-receipt/bfe8a7e1c6c174cc393349d4f045695a1b3bdee29ff92cda8c81c31cdfe06163
sha256:bfe8a7e1c6c174cc393349d4f045695a1b3bdee29ff92cda8c81c31cdfe06163

Dereference this receipt independently — an unrelated client can recompute the same digest from the served bytes without trusting this page.

Attestation limits (verbatim from the receipt):

  • authority_identity is established by the merged governed source declaration (declaring_artifact_ref sha256:3d518307...) bound via DeclarationIndex; identity is derived only from (declaration digest, row key) and the source URL is excluded from identity
  • citation_resolution is established by the governed source-declaration binding resolving row APPLE-SUPPORT-111750 to its exact declared locator; the receipt separately pins retained source bytes via capture_ref — declaration-based resolution, not a free-text citation resolver
  • source_capture is established for the exact retained bytes identified by capture_ref sha256:d19d5361356027fa51c8e108aea5fd4ea133d63f1f50303f61ff0720ef70165d; operator-verified provenance records a governed acquisition capture at 2026-09-25T08:01:43Z after declaration governance at 2026-09-25T07:02:09Z, but capture_ref is a byte digest and does not itself identify or prove ordering of the capture event; not a fresh fetch in this runtime
  • quote_integrity is established by exact match of the deterministic acquisition.html-visible-text.v0.1 projection span [1374,1502] of the captured bytes to the quoted passage; recomputable from the capture bytes
  • checked_at is recorded-as-of only and is not a witnessed or un-backdatable timestamp
  • currentness is not evaluated: this receipt describes retained bytes, not a live re-check of the source at read time
  • proposition_support is not evaluated: whether the quoted passage semantically supports the proposition that the Apple USB-C Charge Cable does not support video is out of scope for citation_check v1; the receipt establishes only that the exact passage appears in the governed source
  • this receipt has authority_effect:none and creates no admission, standing, or certification