Jay Freeman (saurik)

I developed Cydia for jailbroken iOS devices, was a (local) politician in California, and focus on security issues for decentralized computation and networking.

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@andradeh05 What's funny is that people said the same thing about the original lawsuit, and the original injunction, and all of the myriad interventions around the world as well... Apple is a California corporation providing services built by engineers in California to California developers.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

@Sherman1890 Apple is a California company that forces all developer litigation to occur in the Northern District of California. Of course Apple is governed by California low. They are because they chose to be.

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

Apple's new external link rules only apply to apps "on the United States storefront", which still restricts developers--even us in the US--from communicating to the oft-international consumers of our globally-available apps. I hope @TimSweeneyEpic brings this back to court, ASAP.

[Graham Dawson @gpdawson]

@arielmichaeli By limiting these changes to US storefront only, devs have complexity of supporting different systems/implementations for different storefronts - so once again Apple ends up with a significant disincentive to take advantage of the rulings against them.

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

Apple is, once again, attempting to defy the court, hoping that the framework they have used to dodge and limit the scope of consequences placed upon them by foreign governments in overseas markets will work against their home jurisdiction... we should not let them off this easy.

[David Barnard @drbarnard]

Ooof, the judge basically confirms that Apple could’ve probably gotten away with a more compliant implementation of the injunction with a more reasonable commission, but choosing to flout the injunction forced her hand.

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

Just because the App Store might be operated by a patchwork of foreign subsidiaries, that's still covered by "any person in active concert or participation with them". The reality is that publishing your app via Apple uses a single portal, a single agreement, and a single review.

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@maxweisel Ah yeah: we can probably just make sure that the context includes the interview history? If this were a service, we might even be able to build up context for the interviewer from prior interviews, and establish a profile of their interests off web forums! #SolvingTheWrongProblem

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@Mr_Toxic6 @OrchidProtocol @openmindpd It is pretty much entirely my fault that this hasn't been resolved yet--we have some declarations to file, which I have found confusing with respect for our blockchain-backed accounts, and we probably will need to submit an app update--but I expect the situation to be fixed soon.

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@almostlikethat This seemed like a task ChatGPT 4 would find fun--and where no humans would reply--so I asked it. ;P https://t.co/1Brj1TO74D (FYI: Claude 3 Opus refused to engage, as it decided this would inherently violate the copyrights Christopher Nolan holds on the elements of these movies.)

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@thegrugq @_MG_ While I don't disagree with your conclusion--that this was, in fact, "Jia Tan"; though, who even is that? I doubt "Jia Tan" even exists!--the steel man here is that an attacker hacked their email account, not *merely* their GitHub account, and thereby controls all other accounts.

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

As things continue to heat up on the AI safety front this month, I keep thinking of the already-long talk I gave just a few weeks ago at @CalHacks on "the many security concerns and ethical considerations of AGI" and lament just how much there is to cover. https://t.co/AfdhRZdmd7

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

(If anyone else wants to watch @krisangelis perform, she live streams--mostly on Facebook, but sometimes on Instagram--while doing many of her incidental music gigs, quite often at wineries in NorCal. I listen to most of them; we went to college together.) https://t.co/2yHu7DplyL

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

I had a surreal experience yesterday with the earthquake that hit SoCal (yes: during the tropical storm); I was listening to @krisangelis live streaming (from a winery up North) and it was while she was singing her song Earthquake that we had one for real! https://t.co/0eJei84s8W

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@marianocsanchez In my experience with banks, you might run into issues with outgoing transfers being blocked, but I have never heard of (not that I'd stubbornly insist it has never happened: your mileage will vary) a case where they have refused an incoming transfer due to it looking suspicious.

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@ApeAraborn @el33th4xor @luigidemeo @VitalikButerin If I knew of a "free version of this paper" I likely would have linked that instead... welcome to academia ;P. I'm no longer affiliated with a University, so I'd bought a copy that they littered with watermarks to track me. Maybe e-mail Claudio Castellano? https://t.co/c75ZLXaPBl

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@el33th4xor @VitalikButerin In that 2012 paper: "But which type of consensus is established? Do all individuals agree on the ‘yes’ or on the ‘no’ opinion? More formally, if in the initial stage the fraction of agents preferring opinion ‘yes’ is x, what is the probability E(x) that the final state is ‘yes’?"

[Jay Freeman (saurik) @saurik]

@ApeAraborn @el33th4xor @luigidemeo @VitalikButerin While that is true of many limited physical Ising models, it isn't the case for the models presented in this 2012 paper, which is truly about "consensus". "For each interaction, a node selects its neighbors at random among all the others. No spatial structure of any kind exists."