ValentineC

Not sure about how dumb Opus 5.5 has become, but I was surprised at how quickly I was burning through my limits this past week too.

What I'm understanding is that it violates Apple's EULA on running macOS on non-Apple devices.

To be fair, Apple says the same thing about jailbreaking and how it may void warranty.

If Automattic funded the PHP Foundation with 8% of their revenue [1], like what Matt Mullenweg asked from companies using WordPress [2], the PHP Foundation would have lots of money.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1g6qi8i/automatt...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/automattic-planned-to-targ...

> And pretty much universally, they were awful. It was like somebody had blindly taken an English writing textbook and applied every little helper rule to every clause of every sentence, paying no attention whatsoever to deeper concepts like pacing, drawing attention to key words, and moderating emotion.

I remember when I first used Microsoft Word maybe some 31 years ago (Windows 95 was that long ago, huh), and I had squigglies everywhere because of some grammar checker. "Don't use passive voice!"

At least back in those days, it was advice that I could research more about, and decide whether I wanted to act on.

Many people take AI's output at face value, even if merely used as a proofreader.

A Hackintosh is different from an iOS jailbreak.

An iOS jailbreak is trying to use an Apple device like a Linux device, with access to the filesystem and private APIs.

A Hackintosh is more like emulating the APIs (and an actual Apple serial number, which I guess they use to gate access to iCloud and iMessage) required to boot and run macOS on an Intel PC.

> even if I jailbreak my iOS and never let it update.. Apple can easily detect the jailbreak and lock me out of anything iCloud, and iMessage and such.

As someone who's been jailbreaking since the iPhone 3GS (and held onto a iOS 17.0 device for the longest time), Apple has never bothered to detect jailbreaks and lock people out of iCloud and iMessage.

If anything, it's those sleazy security framework providers that provide jailbreak detection to apps and cause them to either lock people out of accounts and features, or crash entirely.

Some government-mandated audit processes (at least, that's what I understand here in Singapore) also require jailbreak detection.

How are you handling upstream updates?

Mindblowing that people are upvoting a tweet that's just a screenshot of a Reddit post.

I went to r/recruitinghell to find said Reddit post, except it's been taken down, and the account doesn't seem to exist either.

> “I apologize that @afercia’s account got locked, that was not supposed to happen,” he wrote, adding that he was “tracking down who did that and reversing it.”

> Automattic-sponsored core committer Konstantin Obenland, who had disabled the account, quickly replied that he had reversed it. It’s understood the temporary ban was a mistake due to a genuine misunderstanding.

Actions like this remind me of that common phishing scam where some random employee buys thousands of dollars of gift cards and sends them somewhere, "because the CEO called me and asked me to do so".

> I don't get it, so far as I can tell you still need to manually choose whether to RSVP? It's not like it's going to RSVP to all events for you.

The title itself does say "automatically apply to events".

I'm guessing this came about because many organisers have some sort of pre-acceptance filter these days, to minimise the attendee signal-to-noise ratio (which, stupidly, often relies on job titles).

Ironically, they'd likely burn out from attending events unless they're incredibly extroverted.

I like what Jason Fried tried, making people pay $100 upfront, and refunding them $100 bills at the door:

https://world.hey.com/jason/5300-in-100s-3be4c194

https://world.hey.com/jason/5300-in-100s-the-verdict-74c4108...

Even a token fee like $5 would probably dramatically cut frivolous RSVP and noshow rates.

(I am sorta building something around this idea… lots of yak-shaving happening though.)

> There is an amusing irony in this approach to marriage promotion: who isn't already married in Singapore?

I don't understand your question.

The pilot targeting only government workers reminds me a lot of Lee Kuan Yew's various eugenics policies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#In_Singapore

It certainly doesn't help that the app conveniently targets those between 21 to 35 years of age, which is just before advanced maternal age (also the age where single Singaporeans qualify for public housing).

Does ChatGPT have the same large enterprise restrictions as Claude, where teams above a certain size are required to use API billing?

That would limit the $500 plan to smaller businesses.

Litigation is expensive, and the OP knows that the statute of limitations is against them, so it'll likely turn out to be an even more expensive lesson.

> From NETs in singapore to girocard in Germany, Alipay to UPI.

Singaporean here. NETS is a shitshow of a dinosaur trying to stay relevant. They started as more of a debit card system like EFTPOS [1], but now lean more into merchant acceptance for both credit cards and QR codes. (Singapore is huge about credit card rewards, so few people want to use a debit card with PIN entry and no rewards these days.)

I think the problem with them, and many companies that focus solely on a tiny market like Singapore, is that their organisations tend to be full of comfortable dinosaurs that don't stay up to date with financial software engineering practices (I've lost money from government site transactions that were a hassle to get back), and there's a captive market because of their duopoly.

The biggest reasons they still exist are because they're a joint venture between the big 3 local banks, and our government likes their initiatives to have some competition to emulate a free market.

Pix, from its Wikipedia page, sounds like a bank account aliasing system, just like PayNow in Singapore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTPOS

> He’s said WP.org is him, personally and nothing to do with the foundation despite it being hosted on foundation servers, made comments about the foundation being independent when it’s just him, a buddy, and another awol buddy.

I've followed the drama since the early days, but I don't remember anything about WP.org being hosted on Foundation servers.

If anything, I have no idea what the purposes of the Foundation are/were, except to hold the trademark, and being a front for WordCamps in the early days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1g40522/501c3_as...

Don't confuse the board members with other members of their C-suite.

Automattic also isn't a public company.

I think many employees have hoped that it would IPO, but Mullenweg was already "post-economic" financially comfortable, and probably wasn't thrilled at giving up more control, or actually being subject to further scrutiny

> Fireship pointed out that the board members gave themselves a generous severance package

Unless there was some other news that I might have missed, it was their previous Chief Financial Offer and Chief Legal Officer, not the board members.

> For that matter, what is even the purpose of a board in a multi-class share structure with the founder holding above 50% voting shares.

I guess it was mostly advisory, with the added purpose of making it seem like the various organisations were stewarded by members of the community that were not Matt Mullenweg.