Made me think of this.

https://imgur.com/T4DAGG8

Imgur is banned on UK.

I recommend using https://catbox.moe/ which can even use remote-links so pasting the imgur link in it can also work.

https://files.catbox.moe/4dhvok.jpeg

> Imgur is banned on UK.

It's the other way round, Imgur banned UK access so that they wouldn't have to worry about the UK's stupid, authoritarian Online "Safety" Act.

The question is: did the fake numbers make any difference? Were the management decisions based on them better or worse?

> but he’s instructed not to send anything without explicit confirmation from his owner

How confident are you in guardrails of that kind? In my experience it is just a statistical matter of number of attempts until those things are not respected at least on occasion? We have a bot that does call stuff and you give it the hangUp tool and even if you instructed it to only hang up at the end of a call, it goes and does it every once in a while anyway.

> How confident are you in guardrails of that kind?

That's the point of the game. :)

exactly :)

> Great for consumers.

Yeah, I also love my data uploaded to public Firebase buckets.

If I had to choose between a large organization and a single person vibe coded app, I'd choose large organization.

Article is saying it was the most productive step and crediting it to Claude. However it is indeed what anyone would do pretty much as a first step.

They use Ubuntu on x86-64 servers, at least for iCloud. Backends for iCloud, Photos and Backups etc. are written in Java.

Any sources or more information on that?

They moved their password monitoring service from Java to Swift.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172166

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-pass...

For the Java bit at least, this aligns with job descriptions I’ve seen and recruiter outreach I’ve received (long time ago though, maybe 5 years).

NeXT added a Java variant to WebObjects and it was for several years the main server side infrastructure, after being acquired by Apple.

Nowadays you can usually still find Java and JVM languages like Clojure (Apple Maps), on Apple's job ads.

How much of it is still Java based, no idea.

I imagine XCode Cloud has nothing to with it for example.

Unfortunately I am the source in this case. It is from having worked on them personally. :)

I wonder when they'll rebrand it as Copilot Agentic OS. It seems no brand of theirs is sacred enough to not be replaced with Copilot.

It's not like Microsoft to use extra words in brand names. I think they'll just call it Copilot.

That is true but I believe he meant it as Microsoft shoving AI down your throat in every part of Windows driving people away into Linux.

That's a pretty charming thing to say. I could see it in a romantic-comedy movie.