Bread and water is prisoner food, but avocado toast and cream-cheese bagels at the corner bodega are considered mid-to-upper-class fare. Pasta (also wheat) can range from kraft mac-and-cheese (poor-coded) to hand-made pasta with pesto sauce.

Rice and tea (ochazuke) is historically the "bread and water" equivalent in Japan, but people of every socioeconomic class still eat rice and miso soup for breakfast, eat rice balls (onigiri) regularly, and generally eat a diet with a lot of rice.

Even though rice is the staple food of Japan, I'd actually argue that instant ramen is much more poor-coded these days than even ochazuke.

I wouldn't be surprised if the middle class and lower class eat more-or-less identical quantities of rice.

Whether that's a big deal or not depends on the person, their finances, how much rice the family eats, etc etc.

And then they have iMessage, aka blue bubbles, which are kinda like Signal or Whatsapp or Telegram. Everyone in Europe uses whatsapp, and a lot of people in the US use iMessage. If you don't use whatsapp in europe, you'll have a rough time communicating with some social groups, and the same thing for iMessage in the US.

However, unlike every other messenger app I can think of, iMessage isn't cross platform.

Also unlike every other messenger I can think of, it comes installed by default and for some reason uses the same app as the SMS app, and also claims encryption but randomly switches to SMS and breaks encryption making it obviously the least secure of all the apps (and also backs up your keys to iCloud in a way apple can access them by default, neither here nor there).

Blue bubbles are when iMessage is acting as the iMessage app, and has encryption and can use features like sending high resolution photos, location, invites, and a bunch of other apple-specific features.

Green bubbles are when the iMessage app has converted itself into the SMS and RCS app, and has a reduced feature set, like being unable to remove people from group chats.

It's frankly a quite confusing decision to have two quite different apps built into the same app and indicate which feature-set is active based on the color of a UI element. I think everyone would prefer if apple split it into the 'Messages' app (SMS + RCS) and an optional 'iMessage' app which doesn't come installed by default, but you can download on the app store from Apple. I'm frankly surprised the EU hasn't forced apple to show a prompt for "default messenger app" on startup with the options being "Whatsapp", "iMessage", etc etc, like they do for default browser.

Microsoft was found guilty, so clearly the bar is not what you're trying to claim.

Like, for phones, I want a phone which runs Linux, has NFC support, and also has iMessage so my friend who only communicates with blue-bubbles and will never message a green-bubble will still talk to me. I also want it to have regulatory approval in the country I live in so I can legally use it to make calls.

Because apple has closed the iMessage ecosystem such that a linux phone can't use it, such a device is impossible. I cannot vote for it.

As such, I will complain about every phone I own for the foreseeable future.

Because of that, you need an apple device around to be able to deal with iMessage users.

Apple has a monopoly over the "M-chip" personal computer market. They have a monopoly over the iOS market with the app store. They have a monopoly over the driver market on macOS.

Like, Microsoft was found guilty of exploiting its monopoly for installing IE by default while still allowing other browser engines. On iOS, apple bundles safari by default and doesn't allow other browser engines.

If we apply the same standard that found MS a monopoly in the past, then Apple is obviously a monopoly, so at the very least I think it's fair to say that reasonable people can disagree about whether Apple is a monopoly or not.

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I do not think there is any money for something that trivial.

Even the irrationally exuberant VCs wouldn't put money in that.

The GPU also takes around $500-$1000 in electricity, and even then you won't be able to run a model of as good quality as anthropic.

It's also hard to justify since who knows how quickly it will be outdated, like maybe soon you'll need a blackwell chip (like a $100k PC, check out the NVIDIA DGX Station) to run a decent model.

... It'll take a lot more than a year to pay back a model capable of running openclaw with any sort of reasonable performance.

Or can you report that you've had good luck with a Strix Halo or local GPU for less than $40k up-front costs?

I can do that now with claude code and a "while true" bash loop.

Or with the built-in "/schedule" in claude code to set an agent to run say once every few minutes.

Read the section titled 'The Gamble' if you want that opinion, but the tl;dr is that our 2025 strike against Iran ceded our ability to claim dis-involvement in Israeli strikes, and so Israel was able to draw us into this war whether we wanted to or not.

Windows isn't the alternative if you're on hacker news, OpenBSD and linux are the alternatives.

The following comment in the blog post

    //go:generate stringer -type=Pill

I would find it very reasonable to commit that with 'Co-Authored-By: stringer v0.1.0' or such.

Or 'sed s/a/b/g' and 'Co-Authored-By: sed'

If you want to frame it as a life-saving feature, it should be on by default and impossible to turn off, or at the very least should be a required prompt during initial phone setup.

I'm asking for something that will make more people more secure, since I personally know plenty of people who want iMessage security, but for the web to still be functional (i.e. JIT to work).

> If they have the option to turn off the life saving measure they will

Then they'll just turn off all of lockdown mode, like they do now, to see a good friend's photo album. Great.

... I feel like we're talking past each other, and frankly with your tone of voice you're clearly not going to listen to anything anyone says on this, so there's not really any point in having this discussion at all.

Apple restricts their iDevice computers to only run iOS, with no option to install linux.

Microsoft _could_ require that lenovo or dell lock down secureboot such that linux cannot be installed, but they don't (not to mention microsoft surface pros can run linux), so apple is clearly doing more to restrict my freedom with their devices than microsoft is with theirs.

The options for an average user, who does not use steam and is not in the steam hw survey, are just macOS and windows.

The options for a serious gamer who uses steam (a tiny fraction of PC users) is clearly just Windows or SteamOS at this point, or more likely Windows + a steam deck (which is half of the 2% there, SteamOS).

Or just gaming on iOS / android, like most gamers do these days. The steam hw survey isn't really representative of gamers since the vast majority of them game on consoles and phones.

The number of users who currently know they need to toggle on lockdown, and would be confused by having toggles under it like "Disable JIT, Disable link previews", etc, is approximately 0.

The number of users who would turn on "disable link previews" and be more secure, but won't enable all of lockdown, is at least me, so that's more than 0. By that logic, it follows that splitting it out makes more users more secure, right?

Let me know where I'm wrong there. Do you legitimately think that there's risk of users knowing they need lockdown mode being unable to find it if there's additional settings added? I guess apple can't add any new settings anywhere.

Do you think that more settings means apple is more likely to introduce a bug that impacts security? I guess apple shouldn't be allowed to add any new settings anywhere.

Like "No facetime and message attachments from strangers, no link previews, no device connections", yes, please, I don't want dickpics from strangers.

"No javascript JIT or shared photo albums" no, I actually do want to be able to see friend's albums, and also want my battery to last longer due to optimizing JS.

How hard is it to keep the Lockdown Mode toggle, but also add "no link previews, no facetime calls from strangers, never join insecure wifi networks automatically" as separate option toggles I can turn on if I just want those?

Again, android phones with GrapheneOS or windows machines with linux let me use my hardware fully without creating any advertising-ridden-evil-corporate-company's account, including building and running my own apps.

I can't even build my own code for iOS, let alone run it, without an apple account (and paying apple money).