It is a self-contained runbook with explicit verification gates at every step — preflight checks, building libghidra, installing the LibGhidraHost Ghidra extension, building ghidrasql, and a first live query. Hand it to your agent and let it drive the install; intervene only if a gate reports a failure.

I was going to say as I started to read through this, it’s either brave or foolhardy, especially with the TOR integration. That sounds ripe for abuse. Even with your precautions that sounds like a risk I personally wouldn’t want to take, but good luck to you!

Are there any sickos that use black text on white?

IIRC that’s the default on macOS if the theme is in light mode instead of dark mode. So probably.

I feel like this should go to some of the programming communities also, but I’m not a programmer so I don’t know where

A swallow, carrying a coconut?

For all the breathless enthusiasm from the author, I feel like he’s overselling a lot of the impacts:

For Chief Technology Officers and IT procurement managers, the viability of Linux on Apple Silicon introduces a complex variable. Historically, engineering teams demanding Linux were relegated to Dell XPS or Lenovo ThinkPad units, which, while capable, often trail Apple in battery efficiency and thermal management. If the M3 becomes a first-class citizen in the Linux ecosystem, organizations may face increased pressure to support Apple hardware for backend engineers and DevOps professionals who require native Linux environments rather than virtualization.

Corporate purchases typically purchase new products either direct from the manufacturer or from the authorized resale channel. The M3 was introduced over two years ago and the only products I see Apple still selling with the M3 architecture are the Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) and iPad Air (M3). So any IT manager looking to procure a MacBook for an employee would need to find new old stock still in resale channel inventory or purchase a second-hand device, all for something that the article admits is still in an alpha stage of usefulness.

The progress the Asahi project is making on Apple Silicon is fantastic and important, but I think it will primarily benefit private individuals, not businesses. Perhaps in the future as the developers become more adept at reverse engineering hardware and if Apple makes fewer changes between generations then Linux could start supporting active Apple products, but it’s not there yet.

With Apple putting M-series chips in iPads and Linux gaining support for those chips, I’ll be very curious to see if we start seeing more Linux tablet support for iPads.

When I was in college I worked a data entry job at an investment advisor firm. One of the financial planners had #8 as their setup.

Were you using a VPN when you signed up?

Windows 7 Ultimate!

Didn’t some cultures do that?

Anyone know what the embargo that wound up lasting 3 months was about? I’m assuming a security vulnerability that is now fixed?

There’s a story in one of the comments about an IBM mainframe that shouldn’t be missed

Top right looks a little like Godzilla

Username relevant?

You still have Kmart in Australia? They went bankrupt in the US. I have fond memories going there as a child in the ’80s and ’90s but it went downhill in the new millennium.

Who’s out here deep frying crepes? American county/state fair vendors?

I now plan to use “the morals of a seagull” whenever I can

I’d never considered how much this applies to the general “tech bro” mindset beyond the chaos theory parts of the book

Crabgrass was once a food crop and not a weed?