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Handle with care!

I just bought a portable keyboard for my iPhone - coupled with a SSH client, its quite a useful combo these days.

I had to prove the OP wrong though; my M1 Max's keyboard died this year, and I had to upgrade to the M5 max this season, after the hikes. I kissed 9k EUR goodbye for something not much better functionally than the M1 Max it replaced, bought for 3.4k Canadian dollars in the wonderful 2021 (that was barely over 3200 EUR back then).

Locked in? I routinely switch between claude and codex, same codebases, same skills, and even shared "memories" with maybe 5 minute effort to set it up. There is no lock in whatsoever.

Anthropic is giving nice discounts to volume customers these days. One can get more than 40% with a short one year commitment.

There is space in warehouses to store them in the meantime though.

Not op here, but: i have a build box i ssh to, but when on the go: planes, taxis, etc. its annoying to constantly have to connect. Slightly. Having a fallback, fast local laptop is a convenience. Tho I do travel a lot - usually >100 flights per year.

Big test suites. I have one project hitting 35 mins on m1 max, vs around 12 min on the m5 max, vs. 7 min on the linux box I keep in the basement. Unit tests, integration tests, headless browser with webgpu stuff.

Not op here, but I rewrote the file manager giving claude only two goals: cold startup below 100ms and 30mb nikon raw preview also below 100ms. One night in a loop and it hit around 20, 30ms respectively. My macs now feel uber fast.

Just one? I think you will see him on a dozen channels, saying more or less the same thing he always says.

Frontier!!! I will now write a small script that keeps track of your github to see when it lands. Good luck, I've spent countless hours as a kid playing and also modding the game in various ways.

You are doing something wrong.

I am routinely using swarms of agents, with complex sequencing between them and agents watching other agents, and then triggering forks and/or new design cycles. My normal flow is to have a few design tasks open per codebase during the day, with each design agent aware of the other sessions, and having an unattended nightly build which sometimes takes 8hrs and also requires coordination for tests, merges, and so on.

I'd say its more likely they provided the inspiration for those hacks.

Two problems.

PDFs may need to be further forwarded or edited on user's machine(s). Doing this in VM might save your device, only to pass the problem further down the road to a more vulnerable system.

The safe thing to do is to disarm the file - convert it in a blast proof VM. The conversion can and probably should be further tuned to explicitly disable some of the crazier, more moronic features of the format, sacrificing compatibility for safety. The same should be done with all other binary formats. It costs next to nothing, considering how crazy OP are today's phones. I wonder why it has not been done yet.

The other problem: I am not 100% sure if a clean rewrite would yield a safe viewer. As others have mentioned, PDFs can contain scripts. You'd always have to run them in VMs.

Its not just IOS. PDFs cause security problems everywhere where they are collected, and have been - for years.

We are running a service which collects documents from our consumers. We have a content disarm service which is basically a blast-proof container without any access rights, fed a stream of source bytes and outputting clean PDFs. Not a month passes without a burst of attempts at poisoning our systems with malicious PDFs. I don't remember when was the last time that we had attempts driven by malicious jpegs or pngs, just PDFs. Its one of those uber-shit Turing-complete file formats that should die long ago.

Would you care to elaborate? Grok is the only major model that I haven't tried. Was it that bad?