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Rahul Gaitonde
Personal blog · rahulgaitonde.org/bloghardwaresystems
Rahul Gaitonde's personal blog at rahulgaitonde.org covers hardware and systems. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on Apple M1 Macs and macOS restrictions, such as whether unsigned binaries can run on them. The comments cite the posts as background on that topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Yes, it's different. You can read more about it here[1]. There's no option to run unsigned binaries on M1 Macs on macOS. [1] http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/blog/2020/11/12/apple-m1-and-th...
Comment linking /blog/2020/11/12/apple-m1-and-the-ultimate-closed-system-part-1/
on “FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website”Submitted Why you (probably) won’t be using Firefox a while from now as a story · 8 points
HN discussionInteresting. I was under the impression that M1 Macs had the OS completely locked down: http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/blog/2020/11/13/apple-m1-and-th...
Comment linking /blog/2020/11/13/apple-m1-and-the-ultimate-closed-system-part-2/
on “Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon”