Given the current political climate, this is incredibly unlikely. Reference the situation with TikTok and the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" which became US law earlier this year.

This says more about the cost of rent than it does the compensation of FAANG.

Probably not news to you, but those are completely different departments within the company with opposing goals.

That still sucks and is prohibitive for indie developers. As the post mentions, in reality this program adds very little value for any of the involved parties.

This modal pops up when you enable Bouncer on iOS 18:

"The developer of 'Bouncer' will receive the text, attachments, and sender information in SMS and MMS messages from senders not in your Contacts. Messages may include personal or sensitive information like bank verification codes."

This doesn't scream "privacy preserving".

Let us know if you're actually using it in a week or so. (I tried it a couple of times in the beta. It is slow. It is clunky. It is an impractical way to interact with your iPhone.)

Well, it's basically VNC over Wifi with a custom layer for touch events and other special iOS cases, so yeah.

VNC over wifi is worse than RDP'ing a server across a country if you have good wired fiber connection. But I guess in a pinch if you don't want to look for your iPhone and need a quick interaction.

But I agree that in any case it's largely a gimmick and mainly something for marketing reasons around the ecosystem and all that jazz. It's just like the failed attempt at porting iOS/iPadOS apps to the Mac: makes for a great release announcement/keynote, in practice barely worth using.

How do you upload content to R2? Someone else mentioned Dropshare, but it is iOS/macOS only. I need a cross-platform solution.

https://rclone.org/ works great

Unusable in what way? I don't personally find the macOS app to be "unusable" at all.

Also, you may be underestimating how buggy Swift and the rest of Apple's stack are. It's hard to get those bugs resolved unless you happen to work at Apple. Thus, a lot of time is spent working around bugs up the stack. So I don't find it surprising that a company moving fast like OpenAI ships _some_ bugs. The mac app just came out this month? Give it time.

If you use the shortcut currently and paste any decent size prompt the app eventually grinds to a halt. Seems like a memory-leak like issue

I wouldn't say "most phones", but perhaps most of them in China:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/24/1091740/chinese-...

I'm just curious, why would you want to run unsigned code on a Juniper device? What is the use case?

I was doing a number of unholy things at the time, effectively monkey-patching and syscall interception of some of the daemons for "seemed like a good idea at the time" reasons.

Also, sometimes, you just want to throw a tool on there to test something.

Today, I'd love to run stuff like tailscale for access to the control plane remotely.

Mostly, however? I did it because they said I couldn't.

Custom collection daemon or other type of agent.

Considering how annoying SNMP is to use and how terrible the alternatives are, that would have been a very good use case.