I was able to establish a baseline using pyperformance on a machine that will be reliable going forward.
What is coming next?
I will begin analysis of performance and warnings generated by applying compiler options suggested by the OpenSSF guidance. Should be able to have some data to go to the community with so that a discussion can be had about what options would be appropriate and how many warnings are worth addressing.
Did you get stuck on anything?
Yes several things and they were all sort of infrastructure related. Although I had a dev environment set up prior to the week on my Apple silicon MacBook it slowly became clear that using the provided Docker container to emulate x86 would be an issue. I had spun up a VM on my own virtualization server I have but generating reliable pyperformance benchmarks didn't seem to be possible in that environment. Eventually I decided to dual boot Fedora on a x86-64 PC I have and this seems to be the way forward for performance benchmarks.
I'm now paying 99 cents/month for iCloud+ so I can use Private Relay which (among other things) hides my IP address and only shares my country and timezone with websites I visit.
That seems to be the only way to stop The Guardian from sniffing my IP address; with Private Relay on it shows the weather for a city that's not mine. (I'm not even near Los Angeles.)
There's no real problem with The Guardian getting my IP address; it's just a super annoying invasion of privacy.
@jeridansky While the Guardian makes it obvious that they have access to your IP address through their weather widget, they're not actually doing anything special to get it. Any website you visit has to know "your" IP address to establish a connection. So I wouldn't call it an invasion of privacy per se. However, this doesn't take away from what you're doing. Always a good move to hide one's IP address in my opinion.
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