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Do you mean it sounds like it could be a Yiddish word? Because it doesn't seem to be an actual Yiddish (or German) word, as far as I can tell.

This is really sad news. MacUpdater is an absolutely fantastic tool for keeping your software current and making sure you are not running outdated versions of apps with unfixed sec…

> I think vibes are underrated. The smart people can easily mislead you because they're smart. So you can cover things up with "official statistics", maliciously or by accident. > …

...and Vivaldi had vertical tabs as native functionality before Edge even existed (and about six years before Edge implemented it). The only other browser (to my knowledge) that ha…

> Presumably, Crowdstrike runs on macOS without a kernel extension? That's correct: CrowdStrike now only installs an "Endpoint Security" system extension and a "Network" system ext…

Yes, exactly. There is too much romanticizing of scary fairy tales as useful educational tools. It's important to remember that the pedagogical model behind these stories was the s…

Have you tried rebooting your Mac? Because on both of my Macs (a MBP 2020 and a Mac mini 2018, both running Ventura), the involuntary Sonoma upgrade only started once I manually re…

Exactly. Typically, exfiltrating this kind of information is only the first step. Once enough high value targets are caught in this net, the actual malware is deployed.

2b. If you have attached documents in 1Password, you need to manually add those to Bitwaren. This process is pretty straight-forward, though. To get a clean list of all items with …

> alias rm='trash -i' This can really backfire. Ages ago, I used to have exactly the same alias for 'rm'. After a year or two, I got so used to 'rm' not really being destructive th…

It sounds like you are unfamiliar with the concept of a protected class. Those characteristics that are protected by (US) law are generally the ones that companies focus on in this…

I find the language itself to be pretty clear, but since it would be absolutely insane* if crossposting the same content was prohibited, you think that they simply must have meant …

> Ex: we have a pretty clear innocent until proven guilty justice system. The high bar of "innocent until proven guilty" (and "beyond a reasonable doubt") only applies to criminal …

It sounds like you have never been a moderator for an online community of at least moderate size. If you've never been in that role, it's easy to not only underestimate the sheer a…

In this scenario, the server would have already been shut down for maintenance but the company would still be debating whether to hire someone for actually doing the maintenance.

With these cheap computers, the manufacturers typically cut corners on things that are not listed on the spec sheet, though, especially the quality of the trackpad. We have a bunch…

And you clearly need to use sarcasm in a way that is not invisible to everyone but people familiar with the subject matter. According to the OP, CS:GO is too hard for their new emp…

I struggle to understand why you are so sure of this. Traveling by train is already far, far more popular than traveling by plane in most parts of the world, but you don't see secu…

If you keep your files only on your devices and a home server, you are making yourself vulnerable to scenarios like the one discussed here very recently: https://news.ycombinator.c…

The main issue is, as the article points out towards the end, that you only receive all macOS security updates if you are on the latest major version. The two major versions prior …

T2 is indeed "safe", but there is not a consistent pattern with regard to T1 and pre-T1 Macs: The MacBook Pro (2016, 4 Thunderbolt ports, with Touch Bar) does have a T1 chip and is…

It's really disappointing how aggressively they have started to drop macOS support for slightly older Macs. Big Sur, which was released in Nov 2020, still supported the MacBook Air…

> How many professors are conservative or openly religious? At German universities the answer is actually "quite a number of professors", and being conservative or religious is jus…