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Robert Sesek
@rsesek.bsky.social
Software engineer, infosec. Mac & Android internals, reverse engineering, FOIA. Views are my own.

https://robert.sesek.com
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"My fellow Americans: When you pay taxes, which would you rather support? Cancer research, or getting one guy a really big boat?" @petridishes writes:
www.theatlantic.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Woah, in macOS 15.4, two of my favorite syscalls are finally 'public' and documented!

"fileport_makeport(2) and fileport_makefd(2) are now APIs with manual pages"
developer.apple.com/documentatio...

Chromium has been using them for at least 6 yrs, when I implemented the IPC Channel using Mach msgs
macOS Sequoia 15.4 Beta 4 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
developer.apple.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Wrote a little thing on how I set up TLS certs using DNS-01 challenges for some Tailscale hosts that have no public Internet presence: robert.sesek.com/2025/2/tails...
February 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Unreasonably excited for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) tomorrow.
October 26, 2023 at 8:28 PM
That would be a hard pass and unsubscribe, thanks.
July 15, 2023 at 7:40 PM
The hardest problem in CS might actually be rendering Markdown beyond the strict CommonMark spec. Multitudes of inter-inoperable options and syntax that is all un(der)-specified.
July 4, 2023 at 9:52 PM
If we tweet and toot elsewhere, what do we do here?
July 3, 2023 at 7:06 PM