crossroadsguy

i think that was sarcastic or should have been sarcastic :D

Isn't OMP sort of Claude in Pi's clothing? I tried it and it seemed like I was using Claude. But if tweaking is needed there then why not stick to Pi and add/strip as needed?

> Anthropic forbids its use on their subscriptions

This! How are these companies even allowed to do this while they anyway charge for either API access or limit usage in the generic plans. It's blatantly just "I don't want you to spend less per generic task!".

Pretty sure their decade old iCloud Tabs bug, that leaves phantom tabs from other devices stuck, isn’t fixed.

They also allow an app to start backing up their data in your iCloud quota without your explicit apoorval or enabling. In fact when you notice, you go ahead and uncheck it, and next time you check it again, you’d see Uber again happily backing up 500MB (or lord knows what) into your iCloud account, a massage and home chores booking company app backing up 650MB data! It’s just pathetic - and that patheticity lies on Apple’s side that they let it happen.

But no, this is a historic release, like every other release, all hail the fruit. I used to think Apple does not care about such issues. But now I suspect they have really been incapable of making these things better for years (in some cases even more than a decade).

Not only that. I also question how they pick new features to implement. For example usernames - I am not going to trust another "private" IM app username feature same as what Telegram and WhatsApp questionably chose. Compromise on this? Well, then even WhatsApp and Telegram are good enough with compromises.

Separate usernames completely from phone numbers. Period.

There's a reason Signal is still "US based". No, I am not talking about some CIA/NSA/DoD/tom/jerry funding conspiracy, just good old human obstinacy and hubris. They don't give a f about who uses it, it's about who makes and maintains it all.

Even reddit bans any netlify.app url in messages or posts (at least for me). Never checked for comments.

> in a form the non-technical public can use.

That happens when public uses it, en masse, in the first place. And as it is today the "public" has no reason/incentive in switching to it and that naturally keeps the "non-technical public" away from it.

So who is this serving eventually? A very few, mostly "technical public", in complete contrast to what you have said.

I suspect Signal's goal is something entirely else. For them it's just two things:

1. Some sort of shallow ideology (started with the founder and the flame kept alive by the later leaders who often come across ideological groupies; the last bit is a bit strong but whatever)

2. Executing based on that for the sake of executing that because they can

What their intention is not: Signal ever becoming IM app of choice anywhere and possibly they might have their reasons for this. One of those reasons could be affordability as you have said it.

Note: in case this wasn't clear, the moment you attach a "phone number" you make it inherently unsafe for most, like 99.353959353%, of "general non-technical public" to use Signal and remain really unidentifiable. Once they are identified - in most countries (and now even in places like USA it seems) only thing needed after that is being "picked up" and rest will be just sung even without a device. I mean it's so absurd to even not think about it is that it's ridiculous. So no, it is DEFINITELY not "non-technical public can use".

I am seeing a clear divide where people see their livelihood being adversely affected by AI.

Also when they start dealing with payments there might be regulatory requirements like record keeping for a certain period.

And apparently, just like Telegram, just like WhatsApp, they readily merge the username with your number if numbers are already saved.

I don't know what you tried but I tried to do something in Pi what I'd have usually done in Claude and it devoured tokens (much more than Claude) and I wasn't even close to finishing the task. Mostly because the barebones Pi was/is very inefficient at anything with any weight.

Then I began to customise it to be as good as Claude but eat less taken. I got tired and I had not even scratched the surface. Gave up.

I finally realised, at least for me, Pi's best use case is - strip even the little "extra" Pi comes/starts with and then use it just like that if you have a task/work that is appropriate for that bareness.

The trick to use Pi is you use it in N ways if you have N use-cases. You need N set of shortcuts/plugins/aliases etc for that. Can get tiring at times.

So I keep Pi for just one case - when I have to easily strip everything out for some work. Anything heavier and OpenCode or Claude are ones. I am sure I can make Pi behave as I've suggested above the "N harnesses within 1 harness" and I even tried but it simply started getting out of hand and using the harness started becoming the frustrating hobby.

As for OMP, I just don't understand why would anyone use that not Pi or other "full-fledged" harnesses.

This looks like such a nice cli/tui talking/chat harness - an agent with which I can work on non-coding tasks (where it literally doesn't need any tool - maybe a read tool for few files in that folder, or not even that) - writing critique (w/ strict strict for on generation/suggestion), analysis, summary etc.

I've been so far using pi like this:

> pi --offline --no-extensions --no-skills --no-prompt-templates -nc -nt --thinking low --system-prompt "$(cat <custom purpose path for system/role prompt>)

Purpose was to reduce token usage to an absolute minimum (zero extra token) as often I use this per use API keys (and not my GLM key, which let's say, is a bit "different" when it comes to conversations).

Are there any other tools specifically designed for such tasks? Even though hax looks like the absolute bare minimum one can go while still being usable.

I wish there was also tools that would refuse and reject (or prevent) models from inserting "thinking" messages into responses. They keep appending those and that very soon that part starts snowballing on steroids.

Few of the biggest reasons for "migration" to the likes of React Native, and web-views et cetera, were "lack of talent", and not getting that talent fast, and for cheap, et cetera, while of course terming that as innovation, embracing the future, and "that's where the game is at" et cetera. Now with the LLMs that is mostly sorted. So if anything I'd be able to see the eradication of the Electron infestation in my lifetime. But then I see the very tools these LLMs are accessed with i.e harnesses (and of course mostly made by the LLM houses) are made of Electron or similar things (sometimes a Frankenstein like mix). And even today Claude Code shows up as `2.x.yyy` for process name ffs! So if anything, this is getting worse.

Then they say:

> We decided to switch from native to React Native in 2020 for three reasons:

> Stop building the same features twice

> Allow developers to work across the stack

> Spend less time chasing feature parity and more time shipping value

Totally!

Is there some kind of shame in just saying:

- we didn't want to hire more people

- we didn't want to pay those salaries

- we fired a lot of engineers with move to react native/hybrid in mind

- we could reuse the frontend devs (aka "full stack" folks) with or without some extra whippings ensuring they grok the bare minimum they'd need to build for mobile and test in on mobile.

Well, good for Apple — at this point if they released an actual brick (I mean an actual clay brick), wrote a few Applesque things on it, showed it on stage, said stuff like "First Ever Apple Brick™," and priced it at, say, $399 (that's a conservative estimate), they still wouldn't be able to keep up with the demand. So, your loss.

> A phone that fits in the hand for those

Right. I must revisit the "What It Means For Something to Fit In a Hand" chapter from my UG's Common Sense 101. It's been a decade.. more actually.

Wouldn't a more traditionally appropriate question be: "but are those Apple"?

Yup. They just works. So satisfying. Now, Apple, shut up and take my money! Actually that is satisfying part. And please make sure I need to pay that money again in a year or two. Thank you. Happy to be an Apple user. Best company.

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/how-credit-car... probably this

Pix, UPI, and a few more

Phablets are still bad, and yes, I am aware that a lot of phones today are just phablets. Everyone uses them, doesn't mean they're not bad.

True. Also heard one guy in gym was thinking of Apple releasing devices with things like replaceable batteries. He got a heart attack next day. It's very unhealthy what PC is suggesting and yes I agree with you.

That might send wrong signals that Apple has started following standard/common specs.

But is that an Apple? If not, then how is that good?

Something like this:

same..

> nurse is able to oversee and accomplish more

.. and work with more patients in the same shift.

> She can spend more time talking with patients

.. we mean the talking will be through the "ClaudeMedTalker Nurse" billed per patient, per second (depending upon tokens used and if any translation need, depending upon patient nationality and accents)

Is Holland that good at containing this "there's a huge problem with makeshift bombs" news pieces coming out in the open?

That's what I was wondering - how does one even read a book on that tiny X3. X4 looks like the perfect size though, proper pocketbook size.

The average person, on either end of political or cultural spectrum, or anywhere on anything for that matter, is fine with wherever they are. Also, the last thing they want is an overtly opinionated and often increasingly hostile population on alternative platforms and apps, sometimes actually moderated by, spearheaded by, benevolent admin overlords. They are less worried about migrating their data, or preserve it, than the hn crowd, criting cron jobs and backup and migration scripts, whenever the need comes. That’s why they won’t migrate, they will just start using the next service and then the next and next. Until then they are not interested and it shows. Serves right for the economic and governance models we as a collective society chose — it applied in everything, there’s no picking. Not that this is how it should be or should not be, but this is how it is.

> making self-hosting accessible to everyone

This happens with making many small to medium level resource hungary apps, for personal usage, run on one VPS which is not a heady duty machine costing heavy duty money. I have tried this on similar machines 2GB RAM and 1-2 VCPU and after 2-3 apps it starts swaying like a drunkard in slow motion even in that SSH session. But at least this one seems to be better than something like PikaPods, in combo pricing regard (I am not saying one is generally better over the other), where the pricing is rather per app.

Keeping the good, bad, and evil aside for a moment, is it possible that the very reason this company makes billions consistently is because they ruthlessly (or stupidly as per "us") drop things they don't want to do, don't need to do, irrespective of whether we think those would have been profitable, or even very nice of them?

Sometimes I feel it's a blessing that for even a minor change my banks make me visit the branch and ask for my real Govt issued IDs (often more than one) while also make me do the online auth (Govt ID; needs OTP and biometric) and still make me submit self-attested print-outs and then add a delay to it (and even reject once in a while if they feel the signature didn't match..and then the cycle restarts :D). I know, I know - there is a solution of this on hn and it will even scale handsomely. But I'd rather have my hard earned savings safe.

Well people will still pay to watch a human player play tennis even if a robot could play infinitely better than that human. Try something like that with an employer and software engineer combo (and no, you don't even have to imagine that).