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OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by kriro »

I foresee a lot of trouble as a MBP user with no other Apple products (MBP=work machine). Interoperability with Android phones is already sucky and they seem to bundle their product line even more.

Siri for MBP will be annoying, hope it can be disabled completely...which of course won't stop my co-workers from using it all day :(

It also sounds like there will be a few new attack vectors. The log in when close by sounds like a pretty horrible idea and I have a feeling the copy/paste feature will turn out to cause some issues as well.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by amk_ »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #30
mrswag wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Will they update the unix layer? A lot of the CLI tools there are positively prehistoric. They won't, they don't want to touch any GPLv3 code.

What do BSD distros use?

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freebsd

They are able to distribute GPL v3 code because they way it is packaged complies with the terms of the license.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by mikestew »

adamnemecek wrote: post #9

Does the fact that they didn't talk about UXKit mean that it's not happening?

Could be in the dev sessions. Seems to be that the keynote hasn't been direct at devs in quite a few years. So the stuff you, as a developer, care about won't be shown in the big show.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by Razengan »

bigdubs wrote: post #22
spitfire wrote: post #11

Will they update the unix layer? A lot of the CLI tools there are positively prehistoric. Maybe while they're at it they can add a real package manager too.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes is your friend.

Some may prefer Nix: http://nixos.org/nix/

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by protomyth »

School-Cotton wrote: post #20
protomyth wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to disable security by typing commands at a reboot to change system icons, so I'm not really root in the traditional sense on my Mac.

Unless they remove the ability to turn off SIP, you have full control over your machine. This is very different from iOS where you have to wait for some team of Chinese hackers to discover a security vulnerability in order to get access to your own device. Not sure why this is not "root in the traditional sense", unless you're in some environment where you don't have physical access to the machine and can't reboot fo…

I meant with SIP, root is not the all powerful account it is traditionally. I'm also sick of the idea of disabling security to do simple things that shouldn't be covered by the security.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by whatsamattayou »

kriro wrote: post #51

I foresee a lot of trouble as a MBP user with no other Apple products (MBP=work machine). Interoperability with Android phones is already sucky and they seem to bundle their product line even more. Siri for MBP will be annoying, hope it can be disabled completely...which of course won't stop my co-workers from using it all day :( It also sounds like there will be a few new attack vectors. The log in when close by sou…

"Siri, a coworker is complaining next to me. What should I do?"
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