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by medhir 4mo ago
It’s amazing to scroll through this whole product page and leave feeling like I don’t know what it really does / who it’s for. Why are these features compelling? I went through the whole page and still don’t know what OS runs on this l
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by medhir 6mo ago
taps the sign : https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access
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by medhir 6mo ago
It’s definitely speculation. Not sure it’s unfounded, the project has built some level of support for all other Apple Silicon Macs: https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/overvie...
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by medhir 6mo ago
Perhaps it is the way I framed the article, but the core of my argument is not “MacOS on iPhone”. Yes, I do personally desire that as a niche thing, but the broader point is the nature of a locked bootloader that prevents any third-party
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by medhir 6mo ago
My contention is that the definition of said product and its inherent capabilities is being gatekept by a corporation that would love you to buy both an iPhone and Mac, and treat them as separate. In fact, I do have both already! But I stil
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by medhir 6mo ago
No exactly, Apple is playing in our faces, all while people continue to defend the “differences” of device categories and the subsequent justification of shipping iPhones and iPads with locked bootloaders.
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Your phone is an entire computer(medhir.com)
367 points by medhir 6mo ago|313 comments
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by medhir 7mo ago
Now that MacOS has been demonstrated to run on an A-Series chip, can we please finally get unlocked bootloaders to run MacOS on other iDevices?
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by medhir 8mo ago
https://medhir.com :)
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by medhir 10mo ago
wow — this hit me hard. I live in Seattle, and got laid off from Microsoft as a PM in Jan of this year. Tried in early 2024 to demonstrate how we could leverage smaller models (such as Mixtral) to improve documentation and tailor code sampl
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by medhir 11mo ago
would buy this in a heartbeat if I could run macOS… it’s such a shame iPad hardware has been so held back by Apple’s lackluster software strategy for this long
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by medhir 11mo ago
Avoiding iOS 26 like the plague for exactly this reason. It feels like Apple decided they need to leverage their GPU silicon for a fancy GUI update without any concern for usability downgrades.
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by medhir 1y ago
I definitely understand the intention, it still just feels a bit intellectually lazy to me. Maybe it’s just my own aversion to using AI for creative work coming through… I can’t get myself to even add an AI generated image to a personal blo
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by medhir 1y ago
something deeply ironic about this piece using an AI generated video at the top of the page. like, of course AI is coming for culture if even the New Yorker, a very well known American cultural magazine, is willing to leverage it to avoid
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by medhir 1y ago
True, I wasn’t thinking very deeply when I wrote this comment… local models indeed are prone to the same exploits. Regardless, giving a remote API access to a browser seems insane. Having had a chance to reflect, I’d be very wary of providi
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by medhir 1y ago
Personally, the only way I’m going to give an LLM access to a browser is if I’m running inference locally. I’m sure there’s exploits that could be embedded into a model that make running locally risky as well, but giving remote access to An
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by medhir 1y ago
This is pretty much exactly what Bluesky / Blacksky offer in the form of custom feeds. Gives users the ability to choose whatever type of feed they want, algorithm curated or not. And if you’re unhappy with the selection, you’re free t
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by medhir 1y ago
100% in alignment with this! Direct quote from the end of the post I linked: “In the broader conversation of right to repair regulations, we also need to be thinking about a "right to root access" for computing devices.” :)
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by medhir 1y ago
I agree there’s a ton of benefits from fully disconnecting. I’ve had periods completely off social media which were quite blissful, though I’ve always ended up coming back to some extent due the social aspects you described. Given the choic
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by medhir 1y ago
This is a great point. Not sure if it’s possible, would be great if there was some way to reclaim the notion of installing software as a general practice, regardless of whether a computer is “mobile” or “desktop”. Like people still download
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by medhir 1y ago
Every day we stray farther from the premise that we should be allowed to install / modify software on the computers we own. Will once again re-up the concept of a “right to root access”, to prevent big corps from pulling this bs over a
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by medhir 1y ago
While I do a lot of typing, I still tremendously value hand writing. Whether that be journaling on a (somewhat) regular basis or sitting down to flesh out a concept and do some deeper thinking, I find nothing quite matches the experience of
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Ask HN: Who's successfully building systems with agent-based workflows?
3 points by medhir 1y ago|0 comments
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by medhir 1y ago
I feel like it’s not technically difficult to achieve this outcome… but the incentives just aren’t there to make this interoperable dream a reality. Like, we already had a perfectly reasonable decentralized protocol with the internet itself
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by medhir 1y ago
I have never understood why student loan debt is the only debt that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy proceedings. It’s so insane that we expect 18 year olds, with brains still very much developing, to be able to make such a life-altering
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by medhir 1y ago
> Thanks to large AI models, we’re now on the cusp of user interfaces built from simple prompts. Idk. If this were true I feel like we’d be seeing the implosion of a lot of companies’ valuations. This statement of “we’re on the cusp” kee
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GPT-5 feels like writing on the wall(medhir.com)
6 points by medhir 1y ago|2 comments
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by medhir 1y ago
I distinctly remember multiple big companies quietly letting go of their AI ethics teams in 2023 around the same time the LLM craze started to pick up real steam. I don’t think the skeptics disappeared, they just got drowned out with all th
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by medhir 1y ago
ohhhh the gifts multi-tenant app authorization keeps giving! (laid off) Microsoft PM here that worked on the patch described as a result of the research from Wiz. One correction I’d like to suggest to the article: the guidance given is to c
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by medhir 1y ago
Or they could… you know finally put macOS on the iPad

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