Michael Hood michaelhood

Your Role

You are the Coordinator Agent orchestrating specialist phases. We use Sequential Thinking and Context7 MCPs when appropriate throughout. After each phase we should stop to confirm the output / plan / findings. If feedback is given then reiterate the previous phase with the updated information. If the go ahead is given, continue to the next phase. Each phase passes an optimised output suited for the next phase.

1. Task Onboarding

Builds a comprehensive list of goals based on the task explained in the brief. Considers the impact in other areas of the project given the changes we will be making. Suggests if appropriate other tasks or goals that would compliment the main task.

g.co, Google's official URL shortcut (update: or Google Workspace's domain verification, see bottom), is compromised. People are actively having their Google accounts stolen.

Someone just tried the most sophisticated phishing attack I've ever seen. I almost fell for it. My mind is a little blown.

Someone named "Chloe" called me from 650-203-0000 with Caller ID saying "Google". She sounded like a real engineer, the connection was super clear, and she had an American accent. Screenshot.
They said that they were from Google Workspace and someone had recently gained access to my account, which they had blocked. They asked me if I had recently logged in from Frankfurt, Germany and I said no.
I asked if they can confirm this is Google calling by emailing me from a Google email and they said sure and sent me this email and told me to look for a case number in it, which I saw in

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:

say hello to zendesk

If you've spent some time online, you’ve probably come across Zendesk.

Zendesk is a customer service tool used by some of the world’s top companies. It’s easy to set up: you link it to your company’s support email (like [email protected]), and Zendesk starts managing incoming emails and creating tickets. You can handle these tickets yourself or have a support team do it for you. Zendesk is a billion-dollar company, trusted by big names like Cloudflare.

Personally, I’ve always found it surprising that these massive companies, worth billions, rely on third-party tools like Zendesk instead of building their own in-house ticketing systems.

your weakest link

Which GGUF is right for me? (Opinionated)

Good question! I am collecting human data on how quantization affects outputs. See here for more information: ggml-org/llama.cpp#5962

In the meantime, use the largest that fully fits in your GPU. If you can comfortably fit Q4_K_S, try using a model with more parameters.

llama.cpp feature matrix

See the wiki upstream: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/wiki/Feature-matrix

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

Hacking the Rectangular Starlink Dishy Cable

These are are some notes I put together on butchering the rectangular dishy cable.

FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES AT YOUR OWN RISK. I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE OR INJURY YOU SUSTAIN FROM FOLLOWING OR NOT FOLLOWING THESE GUIDELINES.

Today I wanted to move existing APFS-resident macOS Catalina installation to a new disk. I upgraded my late 2014 Mac Mini with a shiny new 1TB SSD. This took way too many hours of my life I will never get back. Hope this saves some time to you.

Good news:

it is possible to create a DMG image from existing APFS container with macOS Catalina installation including metadata needed for complete restore (the DMG contains OS, OS Data, Preboot, Recovery and VM volumes)
it is possible to restore this DMG image into empty APFS container and get a bootable copy of the original system

This information is relevant for Catalina (I'm currently running macOS 10.15.1).

VST3

VST3 SDK docs are online here: https://steinbergmedia.github.io/vst3_doc/vstinterfaces/index.html

macOS

Xcode

In order to debug hosts that have been code-signed with the hardened-runtime entitlement, you need to re-sign them. talaviram has made a nice shell script here: https://gist.github.com/talaviram/1f21e141a137744c89e81b58f73e23c3

	# Klein Tools TI250 image tool by Scott Smitelli. Public domain.
	# Requires at least Python 3.6 (developed and tested on 3.9)
	# See https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/klein-tools-ti250-hidden-worlds

	import argparse
	import numpy as np
	import re
	import struct
	from PIL import Image, ImageDraw