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I've used Claude for debugging system behavior, and I kind of agree with the author. While Claude isn't always directly helpful (hallucinations remain, or at least outdated information), it helps me 1) spell out my understanding of the system (see [1]) and 2) help me keep momentum by supplying tasks.
From one of his comments on his post:
> I wish whoever takes that project on, every success, even more so at working out how those processes can be disabled completely while keeping the SSV intact.
That blog, Howard Oakley at eclecticlight.co, is consistently the most informative on the internet about macOS behaviors and internals, that Apple does not explain. He is also the author of several useful tools [1] to help observe and understand some of its underlying details. It's maybe the closest we have to a SysInternals for macOS.
That said, I've always stuck for Dell's upper-range Ultrasharp (U prefix in models) monitors, being slightly wary of their cheaper series which the S in your S3221QS implies.
> "The crazy stat is that Europe makes more from fining US tech companies than they do from taxing their own technology companies."
That's one way of saying it. Another way is that US companies are so extravagantly huge and violate EU laws so much that the fines are correspondingly huge.
They really, absolutely, are not.
It's not about "will there be a new hardware", it's about "is their order quantity predictable"
Veering offtopic a bit... Google lost its (search) way years ago. See the "The Man who Killed Google Search" [1], and the room they left for alternatives like DuckDuckGo.
At work, we have full access to Claude, and I find that I now use that instead of doing a search. Sure it's not 100% reliable, but neither is search anyhow, and at least I save time from sifting through a dozen crappy content farms.
How does it get out of hand?
FWIW, I just do `use v5.32;` or similar to opt-in to everything from that version.
https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/use#use-VERSION
Of course, if you instead want to pick-and-choose features, then I can see the list growing large.
So plugging a RasPi into a 5090 is "just" swapping the horse for one 10,000x bigger (someone correct my ratio of the RasPi5 GPU to the RTX5090)
> There's also tailscaled-on-macOS, but it won't have a TPM or Keychain bindings anyway.
Do you mean that on macOS, tailscaled does not and has never leveraged equivalent hardware-attestation functionality from the SEP? (Assuming such functionality is available)
It's important to take the perspective that the Silicon Valley isn't an incubator of technology, but of business models.
Yahoo Pipes being free is exactly what killed them. Without a sustainable business model, they could not last.
But this results in chasing a new paradigm every few years to elicit new excitement from the developers. It'll always be more newsworthy to bring in a new framework than add incremental fixes to the old one.
React has had tremendous success in the web world, so why not try and get those developers more comfortable producing apps for your platform?
(Tangentially, see also the mixed reaction to Mac native apps switching from AppKit to SwiftUI)
https://simonwillison.net/2021/May/2/hosting-sqlite-database...
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
aka "thermal soaking"
It was announced recently (https://lwn.net/Articles/1044496/) that Apt, the Debian package manager, would require Rust by May 2026.
It does look like LoongArch is a supported target of Rust at Tier 2: https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support/loonga...
In fact, Rust's targets page is much bigger than I remembered! Good work
Here, I'll emphasize the words that elicit the tone:
> After some basic reversing of the Tapo Android app, I found out that TP-Link have their entire firmware repository in an open S3 bucket. No authentication required. So, you can list and download every version of every firmware they’ve ever released for any device they ever produced: [command elided] The entire output is here, for the curious. This provides access to the firmware image of every TP-Link device - routers, cameras, smart plugs, you name it. A reverse engineer’s candy store.
Highlighting (repeatedly) the ease and breadth of access is a basic writing technique to illustrate the weakness of a security system.
On the other hand, what're the economic incentive to run relays? If there are economies of scale, we swiftly go back to the oligarchic model.
Apple has invested in Swift, another high level language with safety guarantees, which happens to have been created under Chris Lattner, otherwise known for creating LLVM. Swift's huge advantage over Rust, for application and system programming is that it supports an ABI [1] which Rust, famously, does not (other than falling back to a C ABI, which degrades its promises).
[1] for more on that topic, I recommend this excellent article: https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/ Side note, the author of that article wrote Rust's std::collections API.
if only due to the Lindy Effect