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This is neat. This group’s approach of treating the devices as many weaker servers (basically a raspberry pi cluster) sounds like the most realistic way to reuse phone hardware at scale, especially with the backing of the actual hardware vendor.

It’s a genuine shame how locked down iPhones are compared to even Android. Hypothetically you could run Linux inside UTM[0] but outside the EU Apple makes it intentionally difficult, and there’s still memory restrictions and performance penalties.

My group’s senior year project was a computing cluster on phones (specifically targetting LLM inference) [1]. Instead of installing a new OS we built separate apps per OS. Our devices were older, so the Android phones had worse hardware and the iPhones had more software restraints.

[0] https://getutm.app/ [1] https://github.com/orgs/rmcluster/repositories

It's possible that Instructure's servers got compromised:

dig canvas.ucdavis.edu

    [...]
    
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    canvas.ucdavis.edu. 1974 IN CNAME ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com.
    ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.125
    ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.103
    ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.15
    ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.18
dig canvas.duke.edu
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    canvas.duke.edu. 300 IN CNAME duke-vanity.instructure.com.
    duke-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.125
    duke-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.18
    duke-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.103
    duke-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.15

This post has managed to “confuse” Google about the reverse question as well (“who named teresa t whale”):

The humpback whale known as "Teresa T" was named by Simon Willison in September 2024. Background: The juvenile humpback whale was frequently spotted in Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay, California. Method: Willison gave the whale its name through a blog entry and a YouTube video caption. Significance: The naming was a playful act, which Willison described as a way to create a "championship that doesn't exist" through online documentation.

[…]

Even with no context most humans would see that the quoted significance makes no sense.

Brave Origin 3 months ago

Interesting that it’s paying to remove features. Seems reasonable considering it’s paying to get an officially supported build, and if you’d rather not there’s probably a fork doing the same out there.

Edit: That it’s free (as in WinRAR?) on Linux is interesting; what would be the motive for doing that?

Relatedly, scrolling time pickers are also a toss up on mobile. Sometimes a single swipe on the minutes gets you from 12:00pm to 11:50am, sometimes it doesn’t.

I wish the analog clock picker where two quick taps set the hours and minutes (and one more tap for am/pm) was more common.