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I want to be able to hire a licensed Identity Service Provider that gets all of my verified identity data in an encrypted token and let me register it with the OS, and control what amount of the data I expose to apps, with age verification being one of the lower levels of access.

I pay the company to verify me, I am their customer. They take on the liability of the OS makers and app makers of age verification.

If you have a valid token signed by a licensed IDS that verified your age in your OS, that's all anyone needs to know.


This is the moment, but they refuse to market the product in a way that is acceptable, (and adds affordability) to consumers.

If they would do a 55/45 beef/plant-based meat blend and burgers, I think adoption rate would pick up significantly. Anybody who questions the taste is going to see that beef is the main ingredient. If the product comes in significantly cheaper than beef alone, more consumers will try it and look to it as an affordable way of eating beef.

For the bigger picture, 65 cows will stretch as far as 100 cows previously did, lowering suffering, environmental damage, inputs, etc.

For the people who like the 55/45 blend, it would open the door to an 80/20 blend plant vs. beef, and a 100% plant-based product.


I'm not sure how well it would integrate into a cohesive unit. Veggie meat is pretty weird stuff in terms of cooking with it. It doesn't really want to form cohesive paddies. It is almost like feta cheese where there is a tendency for it to break down into smaller and smaller pieces the more you work it.

Also really hard to cook with imo compared to meat. Meat is nice to cook with from all the fat in there. It just renders out perfectly and also separates it from the pan. You get some nice carmelization, maillard reactions, all the nice stuff going on.

The fake meat is like a sponge for grease on the other hand. Nothing renders out. Stuff gets sucked in. It is like being on the opposite side of the osmosis reaction going on here. And boy do you need grease to cook with this stuff. Otherwise it just fuses to the pan like nothing, and again crumbles apart getting it off. It pretty much needs to be pan fried and soaks up a ton of grease after. You therefore can't trust nutrition guidelines because of the grease requirement to get anything out of this stuff. I bet if you air fried it, it would be absurdly dry.


I mean if we were really concerned with lowering animal suffering we would be changing farming practices. Factory farming is only saving a small amount of the cost of beef over more traditional style cattle farming.

Nothing against mixing beef with plants and the like, but there are far easier ways to improve the welfare of cattle that only costs pennies.


Name to consider: twoatos (pot- and tom-)

This suggests someone may be able to install MacOS on an iPhone with some modification.


It's not the first Mac that has an iPhone/iPad chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit

And yes, absolutely. All you need is a bootchain exploit. However unlike in the old jailbreaking days when people found and publicized them for fun, these days they are worth millions. Apple will pay you $500k for sandbox escape into the kernel. If you nail the bootchain, it'll be in the millions. From Apple. And god knows how much such a thing would go for in the black market.


It's not that we are all fans of AI, it's that it's career suicide to ignore AI. If AI were gone for everybody that might be a net positive, but if it exists, it needs to get into the hands of as many as possible else wealth and power will concentrate even greater than it is now.


Sounds like we've got an Ape Coder here!

https://rsaksida.com/blog/ape-coding/


Related ongoing thread:

Ape Coding [fiction] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206798 - March 2026 (93 comments)


I already invented this in my head, thanks for not making me code it.

Excellent idea, I just wish GitHub would show notes. You also risk losing those notes if you rebase the commit they are attached to, so make sure you only attach the notes to a commit on main.


I added an action that will add a comment with the notes in GitHub so that you can see them directly.

I did work around squash to collect all sessions and concatenate them as a single one


Well done.

There is so much undefined in how agentic coding is going to mature. Something like what you're doing will need to be a part of it. Hopefully this makes some impressions and pushes things forward.


Before manufactured insulin shots, the treatment for diabetes was a multi-day oatmeal fast. This has been around for many decades. The only thing that's changed is that you are finally hearing about it.


"Utilities" is a generic term suggesting it is small, potentially reusable, purpose-limited, and used to simplify a task.

"Utilities" doesn't indicate the audience or the intended longevity of use of the tool like "houseplant" and "bouquet" do.

Both indicate they are built for personal use cases, suggesting potentially low reusability. The longevity of "houseplant" suggests it's intended for ongoing use, while "bouquet" suggests a limited use tool.

With work, either could be made reusable for others, but I think it's implied that the scope is an edge case or uncommon case that likely only applies to its creator or a very limited audience.

I see value in the terms, but these terms may themselves be houseplant terms, not sure if general adoption is useful to someone not building houseplant software, they are mostly hobbiest terms by definition.


This is one or two steps removed from Thronglets.


hopefully it stays that way.... although I did start setting up a rig to host them on.


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