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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppFastFloat 0.0.6 on CRAN: New Upstream

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A new release of RcppFastFloat just arrived on CRAN, and has been built for r2u. The package wraps fast_float, another nice library by Daniel Lemire. For details, see the arXiv preprint or published paper showing that one can convert character representations of ‘numbers’ into floating point at rates at or exceeding one gigabyte per second.

This release updates the underlying fast_float library version to the current version 8.3.0, and also updates a number of the standard packaging details.

Changes in version 0.0.6 (2026-09-29)

  • Update to upstream release 8.3.0 (Daniel Lemire in #6)

  • Standard package maintenace adding README badge, updating URL, updating continuous integration, and adding an aspell dictionary

  • Completed help page for as_double example with @return tag

Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release. For questions, suggestions, or issues please use the issue tracker at the GitHub repo.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can now sponsor me at GitHub.

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Dirk Eddelbuettel: myman 0.1.0 on CRAN: New (fabulous !!) Package

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Thrilled to share that our new package myman reached CRAN a few days ago. The package offers sixteen hundred ninety four “My man …” posts by Kevin Kruse made on bsky during the summer of 2026. Each wave picked at one particular public persona. This package wrapse these up in the style of packages like fortunes or gaussfacts.

A sample usage illustration shows how to extract by pattern:

> library(myman)
> myman("maitre")
My man looks like he's inquiring with the maitre'd about the house curly fries.
     -- about Howard Lutnick on 2026-08-28

My man looks like a maitre'd who deeply doubts you have a reservation.
     -- about Scott Bessent on 2026-08-31

My man looks like he's asked the maitre'd to remove a party of four he finds visually
unpleasant.
     -- about Scott Bessent on 2026-08-31

My man looks like the maitre'd at a very exclusive restaurant called The Berghof.
     -- about JD Vance on 2026-09-13

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One can also subset by ‘target’, or simple sample randomly (which is the default).

As CRAN review for new package takes a little longer these days, the GitHub repo was updated once more with one (eighth !!) wave of posts since the submission was made. CRAN version 0.1.0 corresponds to the stock of messages from waves one to seven. We will update the CRAN version shortly but if you would like more posts right now consider installing from the repo.

We include the full NEWS file since the package was started, this also includes an entry for the eights wave we will bring to CRAN soon.

Changes in version 0.1.0 (2026-09-27)

  • Initial CRAN version (minus the 0.0.8 changes which were made while CRAN reviewed the package)

  • Add an aspell dictionary to aid DESCRIPTION text

Changes in version 0.0.8 (2026-09-18)

  • Data set now comprises 1694 posts aiming at eight different 'men'

  • The number of 'sample()' object returned can not be set with 'posts'

Changes in version 0.0.7 (2026-09-14)

  • Data set now comprises 1494 posts aiming at seven different 'men'

Changes in version 0.0.6 (2026-09-07)

  • Data set now comprises 1394 posts aiming at six different 'men'

Changes in version 0.0.5 (2026-09-01)

  • Data set now comprises 1194 posts aiming at five different 'men'

  • The myman() function can now now subset by target permitting more focussed randlom sampling

Changes in version 0.0.4 (2026-08-28)

  • Data set now comprises 1040 posts aiming at four different 'men'

Changes in version 0.0.3 (2026-08-19)

  • Data set now comprises 916 posts aiming at three different 'men'

  • Csv file, processing and display extended to three columns also showing post creating date (in UTC) and 'man'

Changes in version 0.0.2 (2026-07-30)

  • Updated with full week of posts leading to a corpus of 698 posts

  • Added support for simple regular-expression lookup ability

Changes in version 0.0.1 (2026-07-19)

  • Initial release

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.

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Ludovic Rousseau: macOS Golden Gate and smart cards status

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I will compare this version of macOS with the previous one, Tahoe, which I presented in macOS Tahoe and smart cards status.

/images/2026/09/macOS-GoldenGate.png

CCID

    $ grep -A 1 CFBundleShortVersionString /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle/Contents/Info.plist
            <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
            <string>1.5.1</string>

There has been no change since the release of macOS Sonoma in 2023. The version of my CCID driver included in macOS is still 1.5.1.

Apple Open Source

The Open Source components included in macOS can be found at <https://opensource.apple.com/releases/>

The Open Source components for Golden Gate 27.0 are not yet available.

The SmartcardCCID software is available at https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/SmartcardCCID. The git history shows that the code has not been modified since September 2024.

New readers supported since release 1.5.1

Since the release 1.5.1 of my CCID driver in November 2022, many new readers have been added. The latest version is 1.8.4 (released in September 2026).

  • 1.8.4

    • THALES PKI Transaction Pad

  • 1.8.3

    • Broadcom Corp 58200 0x5884

    • Broadcom Corp 58200 0x5885

    • Broadcom Corp 58200 0x5886

    • Broadcom Corp 58200 0x5887

    • Circle CIR135 ICC

    • DigiFlow LLP. KAZTOKEN

    • HID Global Crescendo NFC Reader

    • HID Global OMNIKEY Plug

    • HID Global OMNIKEY SE Plug

    • Neowave LinkeoC-PRO

    • Swissbit iShield Key 2 Pro

  • 1.8.0

    • GLSolutions NM61 PC/SC

    • Identiv uTrust FIDO2 Security Key

    • Kensington VeriMark NFC+ USB-C Security Key

    • MARX CryptoTech LP Tokey 3 FIDO

    • mCore Contact-Reader

    • mCore Contactless-Reader

    • mCore DualSlot-Reader

    • Pol Henarejos Pico Fido

    • Pol Henarejos Pico HSM

    • Pol Henarejos Pico OpenPGP

    • Richmond Technologies CO. LLC AEGIS PRO4 Smart Card Reader

    • SCR Prime

  • 1.7.1

    • ACS APG8201-B2

    • BUDGET E-ID BUD001

    • CHERRY Smart Board 1150

    • CryptnoxCR CryptnoxCR

    • Diebold Nixdorf PN7362au CCID

    • FT BioPass FIDO2 Pro

    • Nitrokey Nitrokey Passkey

  • 1.7.0

    • GIGA-TMS NFC CCID Reader

    • Identiv Identiv SmartOS Reader

    • SEC1210URT, single slot variant of SEC1210 serial

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0013),PIN+ Mini with OTP + PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0014),PIN+ Mini with FIDO + PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0015),PIN+ Mini with PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0016),PIN+ Mini with OTP + PGP + FIDO

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0023),PIN+ Series with OTP + PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0024),PIN+ Series with FIDO + PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0025),PIN+ Series with PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0203),Bio3 Dual with OTP + PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0204),Bio3 Dual with FIDO + PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0205),Bio3 Dual with PGP

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0206),Bio3 Dual with OTP + PGP + FIDO

    • TOKEN2 Molto2 (older version)

    • VIX TECHNOLOGY SECURE READER

  • 1.6.2

    • Arculus AuthentiKey

    • BHDC Reader-HHD02

    • CHERRY Smart Terminal 1150

    • HSIC CCID-Reader

    • Ledger Flex

    • SYC USB CCID Reader

    • Thales RF CR2000

    • TOKEN2 FIDO2 Security Key(0026)

  • 1.6.0

    • Aladdin R.D. JCR SecurBio

    • AvidCard CAC Smart Card Reader

    • FujitsuTechnologySolutions GmbH Dual Smartcard Reader D321

    • Ledger Stax

    • NXP Pegoda 3

    • authenton #1- CTAP2.1

  • 1.5.5

    • Alpha-Project ANGARA Token

    • Broadcom Corp 58200 (idProduct: 0x5864)

    • Broadcom Corp 58200 (idProduct: 0x5865)

    • Imprivata USB CCID

    • KAPELSE eS-KAP-Ad

    • Kapelse inSide

    • KAPELSE KAP-Care

    • KAPELSE KAP-eCV

    • KAPELSE KAP-GO

    • KAPELSE KAP-LINK2

    • Kapelse KAP-Move

    • Kapelse Ti-Kap

    • rf IDEAS USB CCID

    • SIMHUB pcsc reader

  • 1.5.3

    • ACS ACR1552 1S CL Reader

    • ACS ACR1552 CL Reader

    • ACS ACR1581

    • ACS ACR40T ICC Reader

    • ACS ACR40U ICC Reader

    • ACS WalletMate 1S CL Reader

    • Aktiv Rutoken SCR 3101 NFC Reader

    • CIRIGHT ONE PASS U2F

    • Dexon Tecnologias Digitais LTDA eSmartDX

    • Excelsecu Card reader

    • GHI NC001

    • Identiv uTrust Token Flex

    • SpringCard M519 with idProduct: 0x6212

    • SpringCard M519 with idProduct: 0x621A

    • WCMi SD5931

  • 1.5.2

    • KAPELSE KAP-LINK

    • LDU LANDI

    • Sensyl SSC-HV Reader

    • TOKEN2 MFA NFC Reader

    • TOKEN2 Molto2

    • Thales RF Reader

Due to SIP (System Integrity Protection, https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secb7ea06b49/web) it is difficult to update the configuration of the installed CCID driver (version 1.5.1).

If you have one of the 96 readers listed above, and the Apple driver is not working for you, installing an updated version of my CCID driver is the only option.

Apple CCID driver

$ defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.smartcard.plist
{
        Logging = 0;
}

The Apple CCID driver is used by default.

If you want or need to use my CCID driver instead, simply follow follow the instructions at Apple's own CCID driver in Sonoma.

Known bugs

The page listing the bugs I found in macOS Sonoma can be found under macOS Sonoma and smart cards: known bugs.

Apple has not informed me that any of these bugs have been fixed in Golden Gate (or Tahoe). I therefore assume that the bugs are still present.

I have just verified that the issue involving SCardControl() (macOS Sonoma bug: SCardControl() (part 2)) is still present. Its behaviour is slightly different now though, so I assume Apple has changed some of the code. If you have a pinpad reader and want to use the Secure PIN Entry feature, you should switch to using my CCID driver.

Conclusion

As I mentioned in my article about macOS Tahoe, if you encounter any issues with your smart card on macOS Golden Gate, I recommend switching from the Apple driver to my CCID driver and checking again.

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