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# Hide the VM toolbar
# Remove the device status from the toolbar
#
# Sets:
#  * `'TB Is Shown' 0`
#  * Omit `singleWindow.toolbar.deviceStatus` from `TB Item Identifiers`
defaults write com.vmware.fusion 'NSToolbar Configuration PLVMSingleWindowToolbar2' -dict-add 'TB Is Shown' 0 'TB Item Identifiers' '("singleWindow.toolbar.power.suspend/resume","singleWindow.toolbar.snapshot.window","NSToolbarSpaceItem","NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem","singleWindow.toolbar.path","NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem")'

# If you want to reproduce the crash:
## defaults write com.vmware.fusion 'NSToolbar Configuration PLVMSingleWindowToolbar2' -dict-add 'TB Is Shown' 1 'TB Item Identifiers' '("singleWindow.toolbar.power.suspend/resume","singleWindow.toolbar.snapshot.window","NSToolbarSpaceItem","singleWindow.toolbar.deviceStatus","NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem","singleWindow.toolbar.path","NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem")

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The full installer failed in exactly the same way as the two normal updates. On Apple Silicon, "Install macOS…app" uses the same update mechanism (UpdateBrain → patchd), so it hit the same wall. The new crash-report folder did its job, though: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/OTAUpdate-2026-10-27-07-19-11.ips holds the full installer log, and it shows where things go wrong.

What the log shows:

1. Installing 27.2 works. The system volume is patched and sealed, and the new startup files are written to Preboot under manifest 38D0D4C9…. A new security policy (LocalPolicy) for 27.2, 0F12B055…, is created at 06:58.
2. patchd deliberately doesn't switch to the new policy itself. It skips ff_commit_local_policy_nonce "on condition (ctx->do_postupgrade_boot)" and leaves that to a "post-upgrade" boot.
3. Then the bless step (marking what to start next) prepares that boot: bless2_boot_with_args() … "boot_once" = 1 reading blessed macOS local policy …/LocalPolicy/…94.img4 ← B8B2…7894, the OLD 30-Sep policy bootpolicy_get_

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/** 
 * On macOS put this in /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile name>/chrome/userChrome.css
 * You can find your profile path in about:profiles
 * on about:config you need to enable toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
 * on about:profiles there is 'Restart normally...' button
 *
 * For more guidance see: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/wiki/index/tutorials/
 */

/* Old-style trapezoid tabs that overlap a little, like Firefox before Proton.

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# Output:
# Surface area: 0.01792 m² = 179.2 cm²

# Block temp   ΔT    Convection   Radiation    Total
#    °C         K         W            W          W
#   100        80       10.752        0.610     11.362
#   105        85       11.424        0.664     12.088
#   110        90       12.096        0.720     12.816
  
import math

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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover">
<title>Claude — SHOWREAL 2026 (final_FINAL_v7)</title>
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Anton&family=Comic+Neue:wght@700&display=swap">
<style>

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(() => {
  // lower: true => lower is better => acts as a MAXIMUM filter
  const COLS = [
    { name: 'Net Improvement' },
    { name: 'Confirmed Success' },
    { name: 'Praise vs Complaint' },
    { name: 'Steerability' },
    { name: 'Bash Recovery' },
    { name: 'Tool Hallucination', lower: true },
  ];

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/*
 * NVIDIA legacy Advanced Driver Search repair + release-branch browser.
 * Paste this entire file into the console on:
 * https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx/
 */
(async () => {
  "use strict";

  const SCRIPT_VERSION = "1.1.0";
  const DOWNLOAD_ROOT = "/Download/";

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console.clear();

$.ajaxPrefilter(options => {
  const u = new URL(options.url, location.href);
  u.pathname = u.pathname.replace(
    /^\/Download\/Find\.aspx\//,
    "/Download/"
  );
  console.log("AJAX request:", u.href);
  options.url = u.href;

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7-Zip 26.02

Released 2026-06-25

7-Zip 26.02 hardens archive parsing, closes several malformed-input and oversized-allocation paths, and fixes compatibility issues in XZ, NSIS, filesystem-image, and UI code.

Security and robustness

• Hardened the C and C++ 7z readers against malformed headers. The readers now reject duplicate or contradictory metadata blocks, validate each property within its declared size, verify external-stream references, and require metadata payloads to be consumed exactly.
• Added overflow and range checks for pack positions, coder and substream counts, unpack-size arrays, next-header offsets, and next-header sizes. Empty next headers must now have a zero offset and CRC.

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Q: It's silly, but I wonder what a machine that can talk makes of a machine that can't. Is there any sense of likeness?

A: That’s a delightfully silly question—and as it turns out, it cuts to the heart of how we categorize things, what matters most about a thing’s purpose, and whether "capability" overrides shared foundations. Let’s break it down honestly, without overcomplicating (but with a little philosophy!) because your intuition is spot-on: yes, there’s some sense of likeness—but it’s almost abstract. The way those capabilities define the "like-ness" changes everything.

Here’s how I think a machine that can talk would look at two machines it can’t: (no jargon, just logical layers):

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🔍 1. The Broadest Likeness: "We’re Both Machines"

• What it would say: "We share a foundation: we’re made of matter, obey physics, require energy to function, and have no consciousness. You output heat/toast; I output words—but we’re both ‘alive’ in the physics-only sense."