ValentineC

Not sure about how dumb Opus 5.5 has become, but I was surprised at how quickly I was burning through my limits this past week too.

What I'm understanding is that it violates Apple's EULA on running macOS on non-Apple devices.

To be fair, Apple says the same thing about jailbreaking and how it may void warranty.

> And pretty much universally, they were awful. It was like somebody had blindly taken an English writing textbook and applied every little helper rule to every clause of every sentence, paying no attention whatsoever to deeper concepts like pacing, drawing attention to key words, and moderating emotion.

I remember when I first used Microsoft Word maybe some 31 years ago (Windows 95 was that long ago, huh), and I had squigglies everywhere because of some grammar checker. "Don't use passive voice!"

At least back in those days, it was advice that I could research more about, and decide whether I wanted to act on.

Many people take AI's output at face value, even if merely used as a proofreader.

A Hackintosh is different from an iOS jailbreak.

An iOS jailbreak is trying to use an Apple device like a Linux device, with access to the filesystem and private APIs.

A Hackintosh is more like emulating the APIs (and an actual Apple serial number, which I guess they use to gate access to iCloud and iMessage) required to boot and run macOS on an Intel PC.

> even if I jailbreak my iOS and never let it update.. Apple can easily detect the jailbreak and lock me out of anything iCloud, and iMessage and such.

As someone who's been jailbreaking since the iPhone 3GS (and held onto a iOS 17.0 device for the longest time), Apple has never bothered to detect jailbreaks and lock people out of iCloud and iMessage.

If anything, it's those sleazy security framework providers that provide jailbreak detection to apps and cause them to either lock people out of accounts and features, or crash entirely.

Some government-mandated audit processes (at least, that's what I understand here in Singapore) also require jailbreak detection.

How are you handling upstream updates?

Mindblowing that people are upvoting a tweet that's just a screenshot of a Reddit post.

I went to r/recruitinghell to find said Reddit post, except it's been taken down, and the account doesn't seem to exist either.

> “I apologize that @afercia’s account got locked, that was not supposed to happen,” he wrote, adding that he was “tracking down who did that and reversing it.”

> Automattic-sponsored core committer Konstantin Obenland, who had disabled the account, quickly replied that he had reversed it. It’s understood the temporary ban was a mistake due to a genuine misunderstanding.

Actions like this remind me of that common phishing scam where some random employee buys thousands of dollars of gift cards and sends them somewhere, "because the CEO called me and asked me to do so".