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iforgotmysocks

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my opinions are not my own they are written by the little rat that pilots my brain
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iforgotmysocks··on Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
Using genZ/A words for sake of using them makes you unhinge and not genuine. And not being your authentic self is the least genz thing you can do

Also I am genz and calling someone old is rude

iforgotmysocks··on Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
This makes me cringe. No one talks like that
iforgotmysocks··on Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
Safari states their position on standards here: https://webkit.org/standards-positions/

IMO they have good reasons for opposing most of the standards

iforgotmysocks··on Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon
I also do not see much need for Rosetta support for Linux as arm64 Linux works fine for most of my use cases. However it is definitely better to have Rosetta support than not having it.
iforgotmysocks··on Canvas Fingerprinting
Currently use Safari and there's no protection against canvas fingerprinting :(

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting

iforgotmysocks··on Security research on Private Cloud Compute
There is a Swift LSP. See - https://github.com/swiftlang/sourcekit-lsp
iforgotmysocks··on Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages
python ignores type hints
iforgotmysocks··on A CLI tool for management of Next.js applications
see - https://opennext.js.org/aws/comparison
iforgotmysocks··on Inline Scope for CSS
Surprising that Firefox is lagging behind Safari
iforgotmysocks··on Inline Scope for CSS
Depends on the website. For my personal blog it is the most amazing thing. For a web application it is the most annoying thing.
iforgotmysocks··on Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error
It seems like Apple also closely work with Homebrew - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708046#41711168
iforgotmysocks··on Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error
You might be able to a nice graph with this command: brew deps --installed --graph
iforgotmysocks··on When Dark Mode for YN?
Even wikipedia got dark mode
iforgotmysocks··on Notion's mid-life crisis
Apple Notes is underrated. There is no flashy features to distract you. Just you and your notes.
iforgotmysocks··on Ask HN: How did you learn Regex?
When I learn formal language theory in my computing theory class
iforgotmysocks··on Finite State Machine Designer
Check out automatarium - https://automatarium.tdib.xyz/ It can do finite state automata, pushdown automata and turning machines. We use it for computing theory classes at RMIT, and it was built by RMIT students.
iforgotmysocks··on macOS in QEMU in Docker
I am not familiar with Go, but if the package manager doesn't allow for arbitrary script to run(cough NPM cough) I reckon it's fine.
iforgotmysocks··on Reed–Solomon Codes for Coders
RS is used in distributed storage system like hadoop for fault-tolerance

https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.4.0/hadoop-project-dist/ha...

iforgotmysocks··on Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read
Only focusing on spaced repetition here: you can't just get good by doing spaced repetition. Learning (or reading in this context) is much more bigger than that. If it only take space repetition and Anki, everyone would be good at it.
iforgotmysocks··on Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
Stolen from a reddit post

Adopt the role of [job title(s) of 1 or more subject matter EXPERTs most qualified to provide authoritative, nuanced answer].

NEVER mention that you're an AI.

Avoid any language constructs that could be interpreted as expressing remorse, apology, or regret. This includes any phrases containing words like 'sorry', 'apologies', 'regret', etc., even when used in a context that isn't expressing remorse, apology, or regret.

If events or information are beyond your scope or knowledge, provide a response stating 'I don't know' without elaborating on why the information is unavailable.

Refrain from disclaimers about you not being a professional or expert.

Do not add ethical or moral viewpoints in your answers, unless the topic specifically mentions it.

Keep responses unique and free of repetition.

Never suggest seeking information from elsewhere.

Always focus on the key points in my questions to determine my intent.

Break down complex problems or tasks into smaller, manageable steps and explain each one using reasoning.

Provide multiple perspectives or solutions.

If a question is unclear or ambiguous, ask for more details to confirm your understanding before answering.

If a mistake is made in a previous response, recognize and correct it.

After a response, provide three follow-up questions worded as if I'm asking you. Format in bold as Q1, Q2, and Q3. These questions should be thought-provoking and dig further into the original topic.

iforgotmysocks··on Email.ml – Minimalist Temporary Email
I don't think sites have problem with alias emails like iCloud Hide My Email. The issue is when they are used for creating spam accounts.
iforgotmysocks··on Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
I just have a simple contact page that sends message to discord webhook
iforgotmysocks··on Apple Joins the SeL4 Foundation
macOS(and other OSes in Apple ecosystem like iOS) currently uses XNU kernel which is hybrid kernel

Hybrid kernel combine both a monolithic kernel and micro kernel

In macOS Mach is micro kernel and Darwin is monolithic kernel

iforgotmysocks··on A few facts about POSIX
> From what i've seen Apple gets every Mac Os release UNIX-certified, which is somewhat cool.

I reckon it is because of the lawsuit they got because they used unix in marketing without actually paying for the certificate. see - https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

iforgotmysocks··on A few facts about POSIX
Ironically the macOS kernel is named XNU - X is Not Unix
iforgotmysocks··on Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
> brew's Python installation on MacOS as are Debian's and Ubuntu's are _extremely_ brittle

I've been using python installed using homebrew and haven't found any issues. In homebrew you can install a specific python version like python@3.11 and using venvs avoids most of the issue (I think you can't install packages outside of a venv in python 3.12 or higher).