Recently, I set up a new Mac and wanted to be more intentional about managing installations, especially with Node packages. Having faced headaches from global dependency conflicts before, particularly when developing Ghost themes for this blog, I aimed to keep my system clean and conflicts minimal.
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Several years back, I set up AdGuard Home primarily to encrypt my DNS traffic. Along the way, I realized that blocking all those trackers also meant I stopped seeing most ads. Lately, though, more and more websites are catching on and throwing up “please disable your ad blocker” messages.
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Recently, I made a small change in AdGuard Home’s DNS settings that might have resolved an issue impacting Safari on macOS. I switched from making single DNS requests to parallel requests. Since then, I haven’t encountered this message: “This webpage reloaded because a problem occurred.”
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If Developer Mode doesn’t appear on your Apple Watch, try physically connecting your iPhone to your Mac and opening Xcode. And if your Mac and Xcode can’t find your Watch, a full reset and reinstall of Xcode may be necessary.
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A friend recently became intrigued by claims that some impressive new AI models have been sabotaged by government propaganda, so he began exploring ways to reverse that influence. In his search, he encountered the concepts of model ablation and mechanistic interpretability.
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