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john_alan··on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
yes, and I grew up with 1.0/3.1
john_alan··on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
cause I use it 12 hours a day?
john_alan··on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
hmmm this is really bizarre.

are you running < 15.1?

john_alan··on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
this is completely false, compile a binary strip the signature and see for yourself.

AS requires code sign with adhoc, minimum.

john_alan··on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
Anyone still using Windows for anything but gaming is an idiot.
john_alan··on Warp Terminal changes pricing model
your spelled iTerm2 wrong :)
john_alan··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
who uses browser level Adblockers anymore?

Just use Pihole.

Traveling? VPN home then Pihole

john_alan··on How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir
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?

john_alan··on AI is not our future
Shock: company selling quills says printing press bad for humans.
john_alan··on De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR
right, plus the anonymity set size, plus the original trusted setup (now largely resolved)
john_alan··on De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR
I work in applied cryptography and XMR is my preferred cryptocurrency.
john_alan··on AirBorne: Wormable zero-click remote code execution (RCE) in AirPlay protocol
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 insidious?

john_alan··on Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
Does quantised MLX support vision though?

Is UV the best way to run it?

john_alan··on IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anytime soon
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 generative AI isn't replacing the need for engineering - ever.

john_alan··on Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app
Pretty slick, I've been using Ollama + https://github.com/kevinhermawan/Ollamac - not sure this provides much extra benefit. Still love to see it.
john_alan··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
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 does seem to work though.

Bugs in iOS mail where notifications just freeze the app.

Layout issues in macOS settings.

Memory leaks in WindowServer.

Many iCloud services inconsistent and non-reliable.

Apple Pay not showing correctly in Apple Account settings.

Lots of little hiccups...

john_alan··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
Using macOS since Tiger as daily driven. Never been worse. Needs a “Snow Leopard” year.
john_alan··on ZeroTier – home VPN without a public IP address
Gotcha but a restart every IP change and you’re good.
john_alan··on ZeroTier – home VPN without a public IP address
How is this better than DDclient + WireGuard?
john_alan··on DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
So are the western ones, just in different ways.
john_alan··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
Yeah I don’t understand why
john_alan··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
aren't the smaller param models all just Qwen/Llama trained on R1 600bn?
john_alan··on Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?
Yes I agree his points seem bathed in virtue.
john_alan··on Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?
Why do you strongly resist products by Musk?

He runs highly competent firms.

john_alan··on macOS Sequoia is certified to Unix 03
Isn’t this only required for App Store distribution/hardened runtime?

You can build local open src software without this.

john_alan··on Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail
macOS is still certified POSIX UNIX

EDIT: maybe not anymore, Sequoia isn't listed yet, https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/xy.htm

john_alan··on Apple Intelligence beta flagged a phishing email as "Priority"
“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.

john_alan··on Apple Intelligence beta flagged a phishing email as "Priority"
this isn't driven by OpenAI, it's part of Apple's core models
john_alan··on Apple Intelligence beta flagged a phishing email as "Priority"
breaking news:Beta is beta
john_alan··on AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors
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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