john_alan

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by john_alan 11mo ago
this is completely false, compile a binary strip the signature and see for yourself. AS requires code sign with adhoc, minimum.
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by john_alan 11mo ago
Anyone still using Windows for anything but gaming is an idiot.
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by john_alan 11mo ago
your spelled iTerm2 wrong :)
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macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf](opengroup.org)
221 points by john_alan 1y ago|194 comments
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by john_alan 1y ago
who uses browser level Adblockers anymore? Just use Pihole. Traveling? VPN home then Pihole
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by john_alan 1y ago
lol. I work in Applied cryptography and I don’t know a harder distributed system built on such a broad spectrum of primitives which has seen such high uptime. Are you qualified to speak on this topic?
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by john_alan 1y ago
Shock: company selling quills says printing press bad for humans.
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by john_alan 1y ago
right, plus the anonymity set size, plus the original trusted setup (now largely resolved)
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by john_alan 1y ago
I work in applied cryptography and XMR is my preferred cryptocurrency.
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by john_alan 1y ago
Heya, is it possible to detect the worm on iOS / macOS? Does the fix in latest OS just remove the worm if unknowingly infected? Reads like a zero click infection leading to arbitrary execution of long running code. Seems fairly insidio
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by john_alan 2y ago
Does quantised MLX support vision though? Is UV the best way to run it?
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by john_alan 2y ago
If all code is written by AI or by "vibe coders" then what happens when companies are selling products they don't themselves understand? - sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. I think it's pretty obvious that generat
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by john_alan 2y ago
Pretty slick, I've been using Ollama + https://github.com/kevinhermawan/Ollamac - not sure this provides much extra benefit. Still love to see it.
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by john_alan 2y ago
hey sure! Not an exhaustive list but some simple recent examples: in Messages on macOS across 3 Macs I own, turning on and off the global 'read receipts' setting has no effect, not even from the perspective of iOS. The iOS setting
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by john_alan 2y ago
Using macOS since Tiger as daily driven. Never been worse. Needs a “Snow Leopard” year.
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by john_alan 2y ago
Gotcha but a restart every IP change and you’re good.
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by john_alan 2y ago
How is this better than DDclient + WireGuard?
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by john_alan 2y ago
So are the western ones, just in different ways.
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by john_alan 2y ago
Yeah I don’t understand why
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by john_alan 2y ago
aren't the smaller param models all just Qwen/Llama trained on R1 600bn?
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by john_alan 2y ago
Yes I agree his points seem bathed in virtue.
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by john_alan 2y ago
Why do you strongly resist products by Musk? He runs highly competent firms.
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by john_alan 2y ago
Isn’t this only required for App Store distribution/hardened runtime? You can build local open src software without this.
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macOS Sequoia is certified to Unix 03(opengroup.org)
26 points by john_alan 2y ago|50 comments
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by john_alan 2y ago
macOS is still certified POSIX UNIX EDIT: maybe not anymore, Sequoia isn't listed yet, https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/xy.htm
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by john_alan 2y ago
“Apple Intelligence in 15.1 just flagged a phishing email as “Priority” and moved it to the top of my Inbox. This seems… bad” Report don’t bitch about it.
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by john_alan 2y ago
this isn't driven by OpenAI, it's part of Apple's core models
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by john_alan 2y ago
breaking news:Beta is beta
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by john_alan 2y ago
what are you talking about, it's literally the fastest single core retail CPU globally, and multicore is close too - https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks
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by john_alan 2y ago
They are powerful, but I agree with you, it's nice to be able to run Goliath locally, but it's a lot slower than my 4070.

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