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yehaaa··on FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs
qsort is part of the ISO C90 standard though.
yehaaa··on Sloth – A Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, etc.
Check out rwsnoop, included in macOS. It use Dtrace to trace the read/write syscalls. You need to turn off SIP for Dtrace though afaik.
yehaaa··on Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
Why not work to standardise an adult content HTML meta tag and do the same for DNS. Now sites that are tagged as adult content can be blocked at device and router level by the end user.
yehaaa··on FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]
Not only does macOS comply to the POSIX standard, it also is a fully certified UNIX system.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3683.htm

yehaaa··on (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
This is cool. I must say that I prefer the OS9 version of Zoom with the detached windows.
yehaaa··on FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
Nothing is stopping Nvidia from creating a N2 SoC that competes with the Apple M1. They don’t need to own ARM to do that. They can even create their own SOC with a Nvidia GPU.
yehaaa··on Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap
If the ad is an image and it’s been fetched from the server then it’s reasonable to assume it’s been viewed no?
yehaaa··on Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
True, but it’s 1-to-1 like sms. If someone were to send CP to you over iMessage wouldn’t it be more natural to contact the police instead of Apple?
yehaaa··on Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
Yes but Facebook is a communication plattform, iCloud is a backup and sync feature. Not sure how you think a ”report this message” would work.
yehaaa··on macOS 11’s hidden security improvements
But you disable SIP while booted in recover mode. Somehow Apple needs to do this anytime the system is updated.
yehaaa··on macOS 11’s hidden security improvements
Why is it not possible to disable SIP, make the desired changes, compute a new seal, then enable SIP again?
yehaaa··on macOS extensions are moving away from the kernel
You can use tmutil to create a snapshot.

Or do you want to create an app that performs a snapshot via some API.

yehaaa··on macOS extensions are moving away from the kernel
You can definitely make snapshots on APFS. It also use checksums for filesystem integrity.
yehaaa··on Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
To increase interoperability with existing libraries for example. The user group that has some kind of Apple device, and thus potentialy ALAC encoded audio is quite large.
yehaaa··on Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
The format is ALAC, it’s not proprietary but an open spec. Secondly Apple has been using AAC since forever which is a successor to mp3 and an MPEG standard.
yehaaa··on The high price of mistrust
So taxes basically. Or should this group be trusted to act out of the goodness of their hearts?
yehaaa··on SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world
Exactly, which raises the question why they are interested in buying Arm to begin with. A public statement is in the article:

"With its proposed acquisition of Arm, NVIDIA will be able to turn new AI possibilities into realities much faster."

Which doesn’t make much sense to me, unless they wish to change aspects of Arm that is currently outside of any license.

yehaaa··on Show HN: 100 LOC Ruby forward proxy using only standard libraries
Possibly a dumb question, but would it not make sense to only deal with IP for a forward proxy?
yehaaa··on ‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
That’s a bit of a stretch isn’t it? You still have Global foundries, Samsung and the off chance, Intel opening their fabs.
yehaaa··on Surge of virus misinformation stumps Facebook and Twitter
A majority of those cases are new. Just look at germany’s numbers a week ago. Presumably it takes some time for the condition to get worse and eventually lead to death.
yehaaa··on A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
GUI based file system navigation is another example where surfacing a tree works well.
yehaaa··on Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro
You rest your hands above the keboard? I don’t get most of the criticism of the touch bar except if someone miss the function keys. While it’s true that you need to take your eyes of the screen to use it, the same is true when using multiple screens, and it’s what it is, an extra screen.
yehaaa··on A Giant Asteroid of Gold Won’t Make Us Richer
Somewhat off topic, but I found the idea of different prices interesting. It reminds me of industrial diamonds vs natural diamonds. If I have understood things correctly, industrial diamonds have reached a level of quality that is at the same or even higher quality than natural diamonds. However that has still not affected the price of natural diamonds for some reason.
yehaaa··on It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion in US History
Why? A 100 dollar bill, is a reciept that promises to buy you 100 dollars worth of value. Previously that value was tied to gold, but now it’s a more flexible notion.
yehaaa··on It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion in US History
How much of the expansion comes from borrowed money though?