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Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error

I managed to get my Homebrew installation back into shape today. The first problem I was having is that it complained that macOS Sequoia was unsupported:

you’re getting attestations by default probably because you have developer mode enabled; those kind of rate limiting issues are why it isn’t in GA yet Homebrew added a feature recently that checks cryptographical "attestations" on downloaded packages. I frequently have rate limiting problems with my GitHub account, so my hunch is that these were causing the command to fail.

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