It’s a lot lighter than Postgres/supabase. I run it on a pi-5 and it works perfectly well.

I can teach you, but I’ll have to charge

I built a little hosting company atop these boxes, my neighborhood was one of the first to get symmetric DSL and I could get 10 static IPs. Http 1.1 came out the year before and was upgraded to allow name based virtual hosting… I had over 40 websites running from my childhood bedroom. I bought my first qube in late 98 from an PC mall catalog and kept buying them after they moved to the raq box before they eventually sold to Sun. Good times.

Apple SRD devices.

> The SRD is intended for use in a controlled setting for security research only…The SRD isn't meant for personal use or daily carry, and must remain on the premises of program participants at all times.

(From https://security.apple.com/research-device)

Doubtful, if you find exploits using an SRD then you're expected to disclose them to Apple. None of these shops would have SRDs.

His former employer sandbox over wifi or use stingray like devices. Apple can see that this went over the public iMessage/PushNotification channels.

As a former researcher in this space, anyone who develops commercial exploits knows what they are doing and that their work if they happen to be in the US is subject to ITAR level restrictions.

I stopped when it became a game at that level. I refuse to be a government contractor…. It’s about not using software like this to kill people like Jamal Khashoggi.

F the dipshits at NSO and the turds at Corellium.

Why can’t MSFT in their infinite wisdom get someone from the WSL team to build a native driver. It would add so much good will.

1. Because MS's support for Linux is just marketing, nothing more.

2. Because a VM can't mount a volume on the host which is already mounted. Having volumes only accessible to VMs is little use when the VM has its own native formats for that.

Have you tried doing an ACH to a friend or paid rent that way recently? Banks force you to Zelle (there are daily/weekly limits) they’re not enough to cover modern rents so you breakup payments. Meanwhile any stable coin transfer can be done in minutes and works better than any payment rail ever.

Edit: I got my landlord to open a Coinbase account because stablecoin payments are way easier (also got a signup bonus for referring a new account)

Pretty much every other developed country has solved this problem without having to transact in digital lottery tickets.

Yes and no. I can eTransfer in Canada... to a limit of $2,000 CAD daily. Rent is $2,100, so parent's point stands.

I could upgrade my cellphone and use Google Play Services, allowing up to $10,000 CAD daily, but I have no intention of doing so. I think it's messed up to tie my financial and digital sovereignty to a foreign corporation, I don't appreciate the hit to battery life, privacy, and the pre-requisite bump in hardware to run GApps, and I simply don't want to end up on the spending treadmill for new cellphones.

Canada "solved" this, but the limits haven't kept up with inflation or life in general

In Australia I can send $20k. In the UK it was similar.

These concerns seem very weird to me.

They kind of are, I'll immediately cop to that. I don't think it's that odd to say the constant upgrade treadmill is expensive though. I also don't appreciate gating features of our society behind smartphone ownership.

My specific concerns are odd. Not appreciating smartphone requirements for life feels more mainstream (if only marginally)

I’m not tied to a smartphone to do those things in the UK or Aus either.

Different geographies work differently I guess. In Brazil there’s an entire payment network (pix) that is centrally run, free and hugely popular.

My living partner transfers me money via ACH each month to share our expenses. It's effectively instant.

ACH isn't instant, but if you use the same bank they may use something besides ACH to affect the transfer.

ACH is... FTPing around flat files, at some point in the day. Or the next day. Plus time for clearing.

FedNow is closer to instant

For the purpose of making rent payments, it doesn't matter.

You've undoubtedly done this before the IRS/Treasury $600 dollar reporting requirements... try to do this with someone new.

I have never been forced to use Zelle instead of ACH. You just have to know how to arrange an ACH payment with your financial institution.

Europe just nixed the general €100K limit on SEPA instant transfers. Before that, you had to split it up or wait 1-2 days for the regular transfer to go through.

Crypto is the first viable non-nation state currency. It’s NeoCurrency and frankly it’s high time something like it should exist.

When’s your next court date against Apple? Let’s hope the California government can stand against this type of federal overreach.

I have no hope that the solution can be solved through lawfare. The ability of one company to control what the vast majority of people can do with their phones is unacceptable, regardless of what happens with this one app.

Indeed. Web app, SMS, Signal, etc. Have to decouple from centralized systems.

The vast majority of the people on this planet have never touched an iphone. Android dominates basically everywhere outside north america and, interestingly, the DPRK.

Google does the same with the rest of the population, don't they? The methods are different, but the results are the same.

They make some policies, restrictions and changes to their revenue confiscation schemes in lockstep with Apple, or they lag behind them by some years.

But yes, eventually the results are the same: the frog gets boiled.

Except the phones that aren't useing googles app store, such as many Chinese phones and grapheneos users.

I lost--not on the facts, or even on the relevant law, and not even in the district court where we were being heard, but in appeals on a narrow technicality of statute of limitations that we bet our case on (I am explicit about this as Apple didn't "win", so much as "we failed"; I even feel like our case just wasn't argued very well once we got to that level, which hurts)--over a year and a half ago... so, never :(.

Sorry to hear it, that's the justice system for you.

IMO, you're in a unique position where you can make your case to the public, not only is it intensely relevant now, but people will listen to you. Your name/brand carries good will for many.

Even a blog post that can be shared would be valuable. If that's something you'd be interested in, of course.