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Apple doesn’t need to spin anything. EU consumers will be pissed about having to travel to another country to buy an iPhone. And Apple will make the revenue anyway.

Sounds like you’ve never designed a public vs private API before. The difference is night and day.

No it’s not.

So far they’ve chosen to go with a simple feature flag but eventually it may require a pullout. Especially if the EU fines them for not releasing features in the EU.

Sounds like you are out of touch with consumers. EU consumers would not be happy if they had to travel to another country to buy Apple devices.

Apple has far more leverage than the EU in this case. Millions of unhappy EU consumers are a much more powerful motivator than a few billion lost in revenue for a company as rich as Apple.

Apple would recoup most of the lost revenue through black market and secondhand sales anyway.

The Apple press release does say “potentially be forced to stop shipping our products in the EU”.

This is more than just about revenue. There is massive engineering cost and complexity involved to support the EU’s demands. Interoperability is not easy to build. It slows down worldwide development pace too.

I don’t think it’s a bluff. This is more than just a revenue calculation, this is about giving up control of how your hardware and software can be built. If the EU can dictate what features should be included in a software release, that has massive engineering implications for an ecosystem as vast as Apple’s. Simple features like Live Translation or iPhone Mirroring become 10x more complex to build when you need to test and support other vendor devices. In fact some features become downright impossible if you require interoperability. I’m with Apple on this one. If a country could dictate to me that I need to make my engineering 10x more complex to support their whims and can’t build certain features, then I would seriously consider quitting that country regardless of revenue. This is about slowing down the pace of development and adding engineering complexity to everything worldwide, not just revenue.

Now I understand what Chomsky was saying when he said most mainstream news media in the West is just propaganda.

Hmm, so if structured output affects the quality of the response maybe it's better to convert the output to a structured format as a post-processing step?

Brilliantly engineered but this is solving all the wrong problems. The author implicates that this is supposed to be a better GraphQL/REST, but the industry is already moving towards a better solution for that[1]: data sync like ElectricSQL/Turso/litefs/RxDb. If you want to collapse the API boundary between server and client so that it "feels like" the server and client are the same, then sync the relevant data so it actually IS the same. Otherwise DON'T pretend it is the same because you will have badly leaking abstractions. This looks like it breaks all of the assumptions that programmers have about locally running code. Now every time I do a function call() I have to think about how to handle network failures and latency?

What this could've been is a better way to consume external APIs to avoid the SDK boilerplate generation dance. But the primary problems here are access control, potentially malicious clients, and multi-language support, none of which are solved by this system.

In short, if you're working over a network boundary, better keep that explicit. If you want to pretend the network boundary doesn't exist, then let a data sync engine handle the network parts and only write local code. But why would you write code that pretends to be local but is actually over a network boundary? I can't think of a single case where I would want to do that, I'd rather explicitly deal with the network issues so I can clearly see where the boundary is.

[1] https://bytemash.net/posts/i-went-down-the-linear-rabbit-hol...

Occasionally articles like these remind me how I’ve completely let my guard down after being spoiled living for years in a place where theft and burglary are not a concern. Whenever I go back to a Western metropolis I have to learn to be alert again.

The difference is fundamental. A product where the hardware and software is built by the same entity will always work better in the long run. It all comes down to decades of iteration and low-level optimizations that aren't easy to do any other way. This is why you'll pry my Apple devices from my cold, dead hands. Even if a super magical alternative device manufacturer with the perfect open source OS appeared tomorrow they wouldn't be able to replicate the decades of compounding interest that have been invested into the Apple ecosystem. The value of that compound interest far outweighs any other concerns I might have about Apple devices, such as "lock in" or declining software quality (valid concerns, still worth bearing the cost). Apple devices are objectively and measurably better not just on metrics like battery life. Linux nerds like DHH and his heroic Omarchy effort are simply wasting their time because they hate Apple.

Owners of land that blocks access to significant amounts of other public land should be required to maintain public access roads or lose ownership (of a path of the states choosing).

If there's one good thing to say about Microsoft (not about Teams), it's that they strive to keep good business relationships with their clients, including backwards compatibility. I don't think I've ever heard of a story like this about Microsoft.

Static IPv4 is easily achieved with either Cloudflare or Tailscale or Ngrok. Cloudflare also provides strong firewall/DDOS protection.

Also a longtime customer. I think Apple nailed it with this update. I love Liquid Glass, and not just because it’s sexier, it actually works better. The in-place context menus are far better mobile UX. Previously these were dropdown menus inherited from desktop environments which didn’t translate well to small screens (lots of fat fingering potential). The best part of the update was EMTE or the memory security feature. That’s exactly the kind of deep hardware and software integration with privacy protection that I expect from Apple alone.

It's all fun and games to host a blog, but Ukrainian home garage drone manufacturers actually defend territory with these kinds of projects.

This is very doable nowadays and in fact may be cheaper, more reliable, and faster than renting a VPS with unpredictable noisy neighbours. Just grab a mini-PC from Beeline for $200 and you've got a 16 GB RAM powerful baremetal server for the price of renting an equivalent VPS for 2 months from DigitalOcean.

Backup power is easily achieved with a UPS, and backup internet connection with an LTE router (or two).

But the feeling of being able to tinker with something physically in your own space? Cannot be beat. You can do so much that isn't possible over SSH, just because it is there.

Yes sort of like Platonic Forms and ideas. Where do your ideas exist? Can you isolate it to a part of the brain?

I would add a fifth fallacy: assuming what we humans do can be reduced to “intelligence”. We are actually very irrational. Humans are driven strongly by Will, Desire, Love, Faith, and many other irrational traits. Has an LLM ever demonstrated irrational love? Or sexual desire? How can it possibly do what humans do without these?

There is a theory known as "morphic resonance" which suggests that events and objects exist in the world as something analogous to radio waves. So when you "recall" a memory it is not because it is stored in the brain anywhere but rather you are picking up signals from the universe like a radio receiver.

The readme keeps using the word “manage” but what does it actually do? Does it create and start new VMs? Using dockerfiles? On the local host or other hosts? I don’t understand WTF this thing does.

Why does Eastern Europe have much lower rates of skin cancer compared to Western Europe despite having a culture of NOT using sunscreen?

https://landgeist.com/2023/07/22/skin-cancer-prevalence-in-e...

Nah, Laravel is proof that over engineered abstraction can sometimes be done right. Laravel works beautifully in production and I have never regretted using it.

Can I use this as an alternative to VibeTunnel? Throw this up on a server and control remote SSH sessions of Claude Code over Tailscale?

Just a few days ago I spent some time to sign up for Groq (not Grok, not Musk!) to implement fast code suggestions with qwen3-32b and gpt-oss-20b. Works handily with Jetbrains integrated AI features. I still use Claude Code as my "main" engineer, but I use these fast models for quick, fast edits.

Interesting to watch the explosion of projects, even whole startups, which are just a feature addition to Claude Code. Shows how beloved it has become.

This is a pre-cursor to a dystopian future where reality will be a game generated in realtime at 60 FPS and streamed to your brain over Neuralink.

This is what Apple Intelligence should’ve been.