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iOS, The Future Of macOS, Freedom, Security And Privacy In An Increasingly Hostile Global Environment

This post by a security researcher who prefers to remain anonymous will elucidate concerns about certain problematic decisions Apple has made and caution about future decisions made in the name of “security” while potentially hiding questionable motives. The content of this article represents only the opinion of the researcher. The researcher apologises if any content is seen to be inaccurate, and is open to comments or questions through PGP-encrypted mail.

TL;DR

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Why

Ripgrep is a fast search tool like grep. It's mostly a drop-in replacement for ag, also know as the Silver Searcher.

helm-ag is a fantastic package for Emacs that allows you to display search results in a buffer. You can also jump to locations of matches. Despite the name, helm-ag works with ripgrep (rg) as well as with ag.

How

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import graphviz as gv
import sys
import json

graph = gv.Graph(format='svg')

lngraph = json.load(sys.stdin)

for node in lngraph['nodes']:
    nodename = node['pub_key'][-6:]

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list of links for quick copypasting when debating on forums, also useful as a reading list

summary / the fundamental tradeoff

a trip to the moon requires a rocket with multiple stages by gmaxwell https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/438hx0/a_trip_to_the_moon_requires_a_rocket_with/

bram cohen, creator of bittorrent, argues against a hard fork to a larger block size https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a85e39f#.558vetum4

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# shortform git commands
alias g='git'

# cherry pick range of commits, starting from the tip of 'master', into 'preview' branch
git rev-list --reverse --topo-order master... | while read rev; do git checkout preview; git cherry-pick $rev || break; done

# create tracking branches for all remote branches
git branch -a | grep -v HEAD | perl -ne 'chomp($_); s|^\*?\s*||; if (m|(.+)/(.+)| && not $d{$2}) {print qq(git branch --track $2 $1/$2\n)} else {$d{$_}=1}' | csh -xfs;

# git reset newly added files

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Giants' Shoulders Trodden Upon
# Based on the xcode auto-versioning script for Subversion by Axel Andersson
# Updated for git by Marcus S. Zarra and Matt Long
# Converted to ruby by Abizer Nasir

# Improved? By Jonathan Zhan

# Appends the number of commits on the current branch and a short git hash to the version number set in Xcode.

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# This is an Applescript to trigger the Detect Displays functionality quickly on OS X
# 1. save this to a file with a `.scpt` extension
# 2. make sure that the Displays menu is set to display in the OS X menu bar
# 3. use your favorite quick access app (Spotlight, LaunchBar, Quicksilver, etc...) to call the script
#
# See: http://top-frog.com/2010/05/29/automatically-download-chromium-nightly-builds/ for a 
# caveat if you have trouble and are using AppleScript when you have Adobe applications installed
  
to click_menu_extra at menu_list
     tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"'s menu bar 1

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# original source: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

# Using
# ---------------------

# Allow text selection in Quick Look
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true

# "Enable full keyboard access for all controls (e.g. enable Tab in modal dialogs)"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleKeyboardUIMode -int 3

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//
//  BaseViewController.m
//
//  Created by Peter Boctor on 5/4/11.
//
//  Copyright (c) 2011 Peter Boctor
// 
//  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
//  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
//  in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

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#!/bin/bash
#
# (Above line comes out when placing in Xcode scheme)
#

API_TOKEN=<TestFlight API token here>
TEAM_TOKEN=<TestFlight team token here>
SIGNING_IDENTITY="iPhone Distribution: Development Seed"
PROVISIONING_PROFILE="${HOME}/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/MapBox Ad Hoc.mobileprovision"
#LOG="/tmp/testflight.log"