crossroadsguy

Lawyers, essentially the exorbitant and freeloading self-appointed gatekeepers of the deliberately arcane, unaffordable, inaccessible, and patently unequal legal systems all across the world, will now have even their routine/rote, repetitive, menial work done by cheaper LLMs for cheap.

Or sandbox-exec (or container/VM) with 1. first denay 'everything', then 2. grant access carefully.

I moved to sandbox-exec (safehouse) and now I am trying to setup a lightweight container/VM. Though of maintaining a new user but didn't seem like a great idea. How much are you paying that claude worker server?

Ah, the triggering at mere mention of an iFan.

> oh maybe using a Mac

If that’s what you get reading that comment then maybe ask your lawyer to pump some grey grease into the upper few inches next time you two are at a petrol err gas station.

> usually only needed for applications like FreeTube

No, looks like that won’t be sufficient. Pumping grey won’t be sufficient. Ask the lawyer to also do a “recent top posts on hn” search for you, assuming their marbles don’t yet melt at first sight of fruit company criticism/rant.

> you will struggle to find a need to do so.

Right. A member of the “you are holding it wrong” + “this is how it’s supposed to be used” genus spotted. Not your fault then. Here you go: yeah, you are right. Consider yours truly enlightened and in your immense intellectual debt.

But then if it still runs "out of capacity" you will be billed, right? Or you put on the credit card and then set some kind of charge limit as 0 or something?

They kill those instances for both abuse and unuse. Mind was killed for the latter.

> make shit up

When it's about the fruit company, is there a difference? Unless it's for the eyes of the beholden i.e., le iFans.

Not on Linux. But if that is a safe variant then yeah great. Also, I see https://flatpak.org (is this the one you meant?) has Telegram has one of the showcases apps on the homepage so I guess they would have done their due dilligence.

You mean a website A can have login/auth cookies of website B, D, Z, HK… etc? SOP doesn't work? Or is there some sort of exploit on top of third party cookies? (Just curious. I don't know anout browser dev/etc).

By the way, they don't have just one web apps. They have A, they have K, and apparently a Z – subdomain is webz, or maybe that's actaully A. Not sure.

One of the challenges with Telegram is - they regularly re-enable settings inside the app/account that you had specifically disabled. So at any point you don't know what is happening and what is not. Meaning, even if you didn't see a thing, a malicious file might be sitting all warm and fuzzy on your computer - among possible other things. I used to like the snappiness of this app (and it is still snappier than almost all other IM apps combined, by a margin), but after a while I realised it was a ticking time-bomb (to keep it installed on the desktop) and possibly a scammer safe haven, nothing else.

I won't be surprised if you will have to boot into recovery, disable SIP, come back to user-space and run those unsafe 'ls' and 'cat' commands you were trying to live dangerously with on '~/Library', and then go back to recovery again to renable SIP to stay safe. You may also have to do that to install every software you want to install and use on your (is it?) mac other than the ones that are from companies that had tied up with and signed Apple's USA certificaiton (i.e User Safety Alliance™; involving non-publicly disclosed deals), or from the smaller devs who were not small enough and could pay a few thousand dollars annually and sent Apple 3 kidneys annually to publish softwares with very reduced scope and access on the device/OS. The data transfer between your mac and those app endpoints will be so protected that even your own self-destructive hands and insufficient intellect won't be able to gather what is happening beneath the Apple's hardware hardcoded encryption. All for safety beyond the UNIX way. So not all surprising.

Yeah. I know zero people from HN or, say, Reddit, and even from the tech/coding world (and past workplaces; not that they were a Signal weilding crowd even by a stretch). I have friends I can count on the fingers of one hand, at most both hands. I will never have to reach for the toes :) So if that's the opposite for you, then it might be the case. Or, honestly, even if that's not the case, it might be so. And since I don't have empirical research other than what I see "around me," I can't just say that's how it is "generally," even though that's exactly what I see :D

(PS. There was a time when WhatsApp ended up having really bad press a few years ago and I was abl to make almost 30-40 of my contacts to Signal but Sigal being Signal and its team/leadership successfully pushed them all away, a lot were crashes and what not. Even I was frustrated. It was the first time I was "using" Signal beyond "trying" it which is like an annual or half-yearly ritual now)

It seems your courtship survived the shutdown :)

I don’t miss IRC at all. All I remember is harsh treatments and general harassment I received in those places as a kid/teen when I was trying to learn things, figure things out on the Internet. A lot of them were non-subtly targeted at my geography and race. I can never forget that. In fact those days taught me how people from different places look at racism in different ways and how for some there’s good racism and bad racism and then acceptable racism, including here on hn. It seems the “good early Internet” is a phenomenon experienced by very small subset of people even considering only the West.

There’s a difference — (essentially) everybody was on Google+ and no one is on Signal.

When Facebook arrived Orkut was dying as it was essentially left to die and Google+ absolutely had no chance. Even this new Orkut, if it happens, will be DoA if it tries to become everybody’s social network. “Everybody” wants doom scrolling.

That limitation is what stops me from using Pi for anything serious. I may have to configure it and then configure it and it will eventually become a codex, a claude code or so. I recently heard the maintainers added mcp to it (in stock, not via plugin), I wonder what stopped them from adding subagent function, and decent loop capacity to it.

DSH is listed as a https://opencode.ai/docs/go/#known-problematic-clients :)

> and 23 000 for deepseek

How did you calculate it? Based on per 5 hours max request allowance?

I have asked OP that question but I think there are providers who are not in China and they just host the model/inference.

What is the cost of access like for DeepSeek-v4.1-flash, compared to GLM-5.3-flash via ZAI's Coding Plan? Because that's what I use; and often hit the "wait". I wouldn't mind trying a new model subscription or even API access which hits around glm-5.3-flash level weight class (which seem to be enough for me; with quite some human suprvision and nudging) but gives muuuuuuch moooore tokens for the same price.

(And what are the preferred providers?)

I did somet math and completely gave up on the idea of trying any worthwhile local model and figured I'd rather pay the 15-30 USD per month via subscription and/or API key combos for years than buying a local setup which might go out of date very fast, if it doesn't goes kaput just out of warranty. I won't be surprised if RAM scarcity is an concerted effort to herd people towards the remote models :)

In my genearl observations of office desks/cubicles around me I have noticed that the only people with carefully stacked books, often more than one or two, were the ones who didn't really read.

With the advent of LLMs my one true hope for humanity was the final death of the "JS/ilk things" like Electron, React Native, other things like that, and the culture of "everything is TS/JS or can be turned into that". Looks like it's rather growing exponentially.

Code means a bit of mental engagement, more than yaml, json etc. You either review that or not review that, but it's an addition. While I am not touching anything made by docker-the-bloater anytime soon, I could think that at least.

Are we doing chicken and egg now? :) Though it's strange to see the disparate number of Guthub stars

Only if they haven't already fainted twice just by the first two glances of the brand new Apple logo marking.

> but a lot of people won't

The point is if a Linux distro setup isn't feeling 10x better than MacOS then that person can actually go ahead and either tweak that distro, or pick another one, and tweak that to possbily make that 1000x beter than MacOS. Even if they don't know how to do it they can seek help in a forum and they will find hundreds who are already doing that. Unlike in a Apple forum where they would be first booed and then told they are holding it wrong.

Which model is it? And what's the RAM/VRAM it ships with or can be extended upto?

It's 28GB for me. For the same Mac for two other friends it's 14 and 18GB each. So yeah, if this alone hasn't told you a part of "why", then I suspect you didn't really come here to know the "why". But I will write further, assuming you are not here as representive of "but why won't you just buy a new pair of AirPods instead of trying to repair it" crowd.

- They don't really work. Yes, they are really bad (almost pathetic).

- They take up RAM - somtimes lots of it. RAM matters, more so on a Mac. This matters more if you want to use and try local models (I suspect even a 500MB to 2GB model might work infinitely better than whatever one or more Apple ships). Also because a lot of "Apple" things start and remain started and can take whimsical amount of RAM at any given point (and you have practically no control on it whatsoever).

- And did you by any chance miss that they take anythiing from 10-15GB to 30GB or so.

- Then Apple being Apple it might downlaod another 30GB or more as part of next update and then forget deleteing the old ones (or, again, Apple being Apple, they might not have left a way to delete the old ones - this has higher probability).

- I also don't remember signing up for this (but probably that doesn't make sense for you, ignore this point).

- Did you notice the UI? You clearly switch OFF Siri and it still isn't switched off.

- Then you have to go to Screen Time and then you have to first set it on as classic and disable all kinds AI feature there and then there's word on the street that even that is not enough and you have to go to inidvidual apps and disable every feature there. Even after that one is not sure it's disabled. Or it might get magically reenabled in then next patch/update.

- There are other places where you have to disable it - in notifications, in email… I lost clount.

- In case the second last point didn't hit home, let me try again: there's a global settings option and you turn Siri off (it doesn't turn it off), then there's in Screen Time and there's marking it "Not Allowed" doesn't disable it either).

And I am sure this is not the end of it. (Yes, I am tired of Apple's pretty shite software and other OEMs' shite or almost shite hardware).

For me once it redownloaded and the next time xcode just refused to work and didn't even redownload. So it seems it has changed (or for me). The problem is, with Apple you don't even know it was done hostilely or it was just their, now well-establisehd, software incompetence. Because in their case both are aplenty.