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cormorant··on What the heck is /pkg?
So if it's about that WWDC content, it would only be for a new type of MDM managed app installation (declarative management). No new first-party Homebrew ;)

Transcript (@ timestamp) for convenience:

> 10:33 > Next, packages. macOS 27 now gives IT administrators the option to remove all the files and directories that are installed by a declarative management package, when the package configuration itself is removed. > 10:48 > This ensures unwanted data and files are not left behind on devices when no longer needed.

cormorant··on Linux 7.3
I think you're off base regarding the speeds attainable by Thunderbolt (and/or the speeds of hard drives). Feel free to peruse e.g. https://www.sonnettech.com/product/thunderbolt/pcie-card-exp... ; https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12353459 (on PCIe and SAS bottlenecks).

Besides that, whether a throughput limit defeats the point depends on what the "point" was to begin with, as well as what the alternatives are.

cormorant··on Linux 7.3
The point would be to have an enclosure of several/many SAS HDD's that you want to connect. The Thunderbolt to PCIe enclosure holds the PCIe card only, and a separate SAS enclosure holds disks. (The spinning rust type, surely.)

People also connect LTO tape drives using this interface.

cormorant··on Linux 7.3
You can still have an external Thunderbolt-to-PCIe slots box too.
cormorant··on Linux 7.3
Thunderbolt external SSD, would be the only Apple-ish thing. (Formerly of course, FireWire.)

To be absolutely complete, I could mention that at least one SAS HBA PCIe card exists on the market with support for macOS 27, even. Sometimes bundled with other products...

cormorant··on Linux 7.3
They recognize NAS, still, though for instructions they refer you to the manufacturer: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102423#nas
cormorant··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
the article pasted into reddit comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1wpt6ye/comment/pby...
cormorant··on .name Termination
According to Wikipedia, "Verisign was the outsourced operator for .name since the .name launch in 2002". That makes the reasoning yet more puzzling.
cormorant··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
I want the opposite. I want links to the best quality information - even if I have to hunt down a copy.
cormorant··on I'm becoming AI-blind
Corrected link is https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975017/a...
cormorant··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
They evade judicial enforcement and try to stay anonymous. They've certainly already been sued (and lost by not even turning up). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive#March_2026_pu... (Contrast to Sci-Hub trying to defend themselves in court, in India, and that leading to no new articles since several years ago.)
cormorant··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
archive.org itself reminds me of the Library of Alexandria. It is irreplaceable, and this is a disaster waiting to happen.
cormorant··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
"State libraries" such as the Library of Congress. (Which is not regularly destroying books, AFAIK.)
cormorant··on Recycle – Floppydisks
"Reuse" ranks higher than "recycle" in terms of best things to do with an item, if it's reasonable to do so.
cormorant··on I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
nice double entendre on "dictate", there.
cormorant··on I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Never mind "how could this go wrong". How could this go right?
cormorant··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
> five seconds to Google this and discover

...(after much longer) that it's a rabbit hole with nuance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18481910

cormorant··on Never Give Them Your Face
I feel like HN should ban linking to the domain. After all, no good-faith commenter intends the result that happens.
cormorant··on Never Give Them Your Face
> ...jwz.org...

Holy fuck, man, visiting that with a HN referer serves up a rather NSFW rude image, and evidently sets a cookie to make sure it happens next time too.

replacement link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260401175031/https://www.jwz.o...

cormorant··on What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
I absolutely despised the game "Mafia" when my friends played it in college. Now I know I'm not alone in that.
cormorant··on What happened to nerds?
When I first heard of "Hackers" being equated with startups (viz. this very forum's name!) I was disgusted. A hacker, to me, was personified by Richard Stallman, or a phreaker, or Neo from the Matrix. But here we are.
cormorant··on Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
It still (again?) loads for me.
cormorant··on Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
> and existing third level domain names will be terminated

Wow! The risks of being esoteric

cormorant··on Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
Some similarities to *.<lastname>.name -- one of which is that the Public Suffix List thinks you're part of a single site with others you have no control over. Another is the weird registration procedure, but this one is weirder!
cormorant··on Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
Source publications cited in first sentence but not linked. https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/05/05/telus-uses-ai-to-ch... , https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-telus-ai-ac...
cormorant··on CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers
It's not faster than userspace, it's much slower normally. On special boards with crypto accelerators it can be faster, and there can be compliance reasons to want it. References: [1] https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/ch01s02.html [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/410763/ [3] https://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/linux/encryption#PerformaceC...
cormorant··on iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
Who's to say the business that issued the ticket will accept your homemade imitation? with "adjustable styles, images, colors, and text fields"?
cormorant··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
missing a ? character. https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%...
cormorant··on Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
To a young enough audience, you will sound like you exclusively use ChatGPT instead.
cormorant··on Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
Howard Oakley has made more effort to understand what macOS is doing (and blog about it) than practically anyone else ever.
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