20250222 Thought-terminating cliches

February 22, 2025•58 words

Aka semantic stop signs

It is what it is
Boys will be boys
Everything happens for a reason
Try to look on the bright side
This too shall pass
It's always darkest before the dawn
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Time heals all
It could be worse

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20250122 Refuse to comply in advance

January 22, 2025•49 words

"Refuse to comply in advance." YES… and realize that the ability to follow this directive is proportional to one's privilege. Those with more privilege should lean into it to protect those of less privilege, while the latter should compromise as needed to survive. Above all, stay alive and intact. ...

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20250224 Mac firewall issue in Sequoia

February 24, 2025•73 words

This took me hours to troubleshoot. Maybe it will save you time. There were deep changes in MacOS networking between Sonoma and Sequoia (I'm on 15.3.1 now). If your firewall was enabled before upgrade then your app lost access to local disk after upgrade, you can't solve this in the firewall UI (changes don't take, or not reliably). You can restore access in a Terminal window: /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Application.app e.g.: /usr/libexec/ApplicationF...

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20250222 Thought-terminating cliches

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