Indeed, a release Safari does not exhibit such issues.

I do dev work too; for example:

/usr/bin/openssl version
LibreSSL 3.3.6
(released: March 15th, 2022)

Whereas:

/opt/local/bin/openssl version
LibreSSL 4.3.2
(released May 25th, 2026; and I updated the MacPort for that the same day, since I am one of the MacPorts' maintainers of libressl [and libressl-devel]).

For years now, I've mostly observed my Feedback to Apple, go ignored. It's not as if they weren't made aware of the issues I encountered with the 243 Safari Technology Preview release; but they certainly didn't seem to integrate any meaningful fix with 244. I updated the Feedback. Given their past history of ignoring me? I am guessing they'll keep doing so. If they keep ignoring me? Fine. If that makes it into the next Safari release though? It's on them, not me. Maybe, someone is better at rattling their cage than I have ever been. Hopefully!

Preach.

I've also encountered a text entering latency issue with Safari Technology preview release 243, where I will be typing and then SECONDS will pass, with no text input. Not buffered either, just key strokes are completely ignored.

I filed Feedback.

I thought maybe it was fixed in Release 244 (WebKit 22625.1.17.19.1)? Yet exploring that more and encountering the same bug this morning, confirmed it's still there. So friggin annoying.

Good thing I have other browsers!

A lot of early spammers would harvest SMTP addresses from NNTP posts. ;-/

Subsequently, a lot of NNTP clients, stopped sharing SMTP addresses as a mitigation.

Idiotically, years later some blogging software dev with more readers than sense (Joel on Software probably? I no longer remember; think the sorts of dumb it.sh who advocate for "fizzbuzz" in interviews [which is the sort of programming problem elementary school students with a grasp of BASIC would have surpassed in childhood]) decided to advocate for using "email addresses as a login" and that anti-pattern became extremely prevalent in subsequent years, even though it was after there were multi, ongoing, even commercial efforts in anti-spam. It's almost as if: popular bloggers maybe don't have a clue? Or maybe: they were in cahoots with spammers? (Then again, I also remember when dip it.sh Daring Fireball blogger asserted that Johnny Cache's bug found in Apple's WiFi stack was hogwash, which incited MoAB [Month of Apple Bugs] by security researchers, in retaliation to what stupidity it was to fanboi so hard for Apple unnecessarily. I guess the Daring Fireball individual missed the reality that Johnny Cache graduated with a Masters from the CISR [Computer Information Security Research] program at nps.edu [previously: nps.navy.mil] aka the Naval Postgraduate School, where reverse engineer wizards such as Chris Eagle were among the instructors, and really had nothing to prove, nor lie about.)

Admittedly, I mostly stopped using NNTP/Usenet back in the days when Netcom moved it off of local "spool" and the latency (over dial up) seemed excessive.

Last I checked, commercial NNTP providers with extremely long retention policies seemed to be favored by some warez sorts utilizing NZBs (the professed "defense" relative to p2p is that: by only leeching from a commercial NNTP provider, there was less liability as an individual was not sharing warez with others in a p2p torrent/swarm/etc.? I dunno, I am not a lawyer and the idea of paying for an NNTP provider just to get access to a lot of alt.binaries.* hierarchy seemed like it wasn't my cup of tea.)

CC: @gmc

It was observed around April of last year that Apple switched out rsync for OpenRsync in macOS Sequoia:

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/

However, as others have mentioned elsewhere, Apple seems to be conspicuously absent when it comes to donors listed with the OpenBSD Foundation.

Michael Stapelberg did a blog write up recently exploring some vulnerabilities in rsync and contrasted that with his own rsync alternative implemented in Golang, and had some kind words to write about OpenRsync as well: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-05-24-minimal-memory-safe-go-rsync-vulns/

So that may address some trust related concerns with regards to security; yet none of that touched upon the LLM stuff vis-à-vis rsync either.

I'm curious if Apple has received error reports via their Feedback? Since presumably, Apple now have one of the larger deployments of having shipped an alternative. Alas, Apple are rather tight lipped when it comes to outsiders. ;-/

There is at least this as far as Apple's fork of OpenRsync: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/rsync

Yet I don't even see a single closed Pull Request on that repo; so whatever changes are being made, do not seem as if they are reflective of a larger community of contributors.

CC: @Samuel Henrique @Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

Yeah, Google got rid of their cache a many years ago and with it one of the fundamentally useful features they had (since archive.org doesn't scrape with as much frequency as Google's crawlers).

As if to torment individuals such as I, who remembered when it was actually not a complete steaming pile of it.sh, Google kept the cached link for a very long time though; it just: wouldn't link to anything anymore. Impressively idiotic! ;-/

Moon empties itself, just gotta wait; the full, not full cycle takes a while. Roughly 28ish days from one extreme to the other.

CC: @Tomáš

Reading this makes me think of various Erdős tales.

Or, one friend who once exclaimed something to me along the lines of: "my super power is Modafinil!"

Albeit, neither of those were utilizing painkillers specifically. Here's hoping your existence has less pain and suffering; though that seems to be exceedingly prevalent within human embodied incarnations. ;-/

Interesting question! Alas, I do not have an answer.

I have predominantly studied (albeit, formally though not to the level of ordination) Daoist and Buddhist magic (and mysticism) which is rather underrepresented in the West and probably entirely absent from DnD?

Admittedly, I never got deeply into DnD and my days of playing JPRGs more or less ceased after the SNES era (once upon a time I made some minor contributions to a ROM hack translation of one of the Famicom Final Fantasy games which hadn't at received an official release domestically back then and was really into that series, but FFVII upset me to no end and I pretty much gave up on that franchise and everything related to it ever since).

There are some pop culture explorations of such themes, e.g. SpellCaster for the SEGA Master System and Mystic Defender for the SEGA Genesis, both derived from the manga 孔雀王「Kujaku Ō」"Peacock King" which essentially focus on a protagonist who is a Buddhist monk who specializes in exorcism and devil hunting. There are some live action films too (though I am less familiar with them).

Having written as much, such rites and rituals are often interwoven with religious traditions (there are religious sects of Daoism, also rather underrepresented in the west). Another pop culture reference that comes to mind in cinema in more recent years was the 2024 Korean film 파묘「Pamyo」(known in the USA as: Exhuma) which explores shamanism, burial rites and rituals, exorcism of a ghost, etc.

If you are into 武俠「wǔxiá」films, there are some pretty incredible CGI embellished scenes of such systems of magic in more recent years too.

So, that probably doesn't answer your question?

Regardless, such things, while often mystical and religious in nature, are completely removed from stage magic; and seem rather distinct from contemporary concepts of "chaos" magick. Though, in the latter in particular, I think there may be some overlapping reliance on egregores and sigils, within my limited understanding which seem to remind me a lot of some talisman methodologies from older mystical/religious traditions as well.

Seconded. This is great to see! Thank you!

CC: @Leah Rowe ist kein Roweboter