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I guess the list of things keeping me off catalina (and, by extension, new Mac hardware) just got one item longer. I recently bought a new System76 laptop as a stopgap, but it might end up becoming permanent. Kind of a sad end for 25+ years of Mac use.
Much easier and better to just stop using it all and move to a system like Linux or BSD. 99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow.
This must be a blacklist, since it doesn't block my own random scripts which it has never seen before. If it's a global blacklist on apple servers, it should instead be downloaded to the client, and be a local blacklist. Too big? Use a bloom filter. Now you only end up keeping less than one byte per blacklisted item. Update the bloom filter with an autoupdater. Any positive hit you can check against the server just i…
Doesn't a blacklist also work only until the malware authors figure out how to randomize 8 junk bytes every time they serve an executable?
My guess is that it's strictly for banning app store apps that they pull from the app store, but would like also to cripple retroactively on installed machines. But that doesn't explain why it had to run against random shell scripts? This is all still confusing. We don't have all the info.
I guess the list of things keeping me off catalina (and, by extension, new Mac hardware) just got one item longer. I recently bought a new System76 laptop as a stopgap, but it might end up becoming permanent. Kind of a sad end for 25+ years of Mac use.
What are the other problems with Catalina for you? I ask because every time there is an OS X update someone posts this exact sentiment but then over a few months the issues get resolved. Please don’t interpret this as an attack; I am genuinely curious and want to see if Apple ends up fixing things. I my self have a maxed out 16 MacBook Pro and a for the first few weeks after the upgrade it was literally in usable bec…
I guess the list of things keeping me off catalina (and, by extension, new Mac hardware) just got one item longer. I recently bought a new System76 laptop as a stopgap, but it might end up becoming permanent. Kind of a sad end for 25+ years of Mac use.
What are the other problems with Catalina for you? I ask because every time there is an OS X update someone posts this exact sentiment but then over a few months the issues get resolved. Please don’t interpret this as an attack; I am genuinely curious and want to see if Apple ends up fixing things. I my self have a maxed out 16 MacBook Pro and a for the first few weeks after the upgrade it was literally in usable bec…
1. Upgrades are not optional. The system will relentlessly nag me until I upgrade even if I don't want to upgrade.
2. Upgrades are crap shoots. An Apple upgrade nowadays is as likely to break things as it is to fix things.
3. Upgrades are difficult and sometimes impossible to revert. If an upgrade breaks something, I'm just screwed.
So I'm still running Mavericks. It works. It's reliable. It does everything I need it to do. And I can count on that still being the case tomorrow. If I upgrade, all bets are off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-RXqNafscs
And if something breaks on your MacBook Pro, most likely you will have to replace the entire motherboard or display.
PS: I own lots of Macs but sad to see the direction Apple is heading in.
I guess the list of things keeping me off catalina (and, by extension, new Mac hardware) just got one item longer. I recently bought a new System76 laptop as a stopgap, but it might end up becoming permanent. Kind of a sad end for 25+ years of Mac use.
With issues like this and the 4000 series Ryzen mobile processors, top specced MacBook Pros are very noticably slower than $1k alternatives.
There is so much confusion here. The OP and most others are missing one of the biggest points: Look at the packet trace. There is _no data_, not even a hash, being sent. It's a TLS negotiation and then the connection ends. I have to suspect it's a bug...
The TLS negotiation is enough to send quite enough info.
I guess the list of things keeping me off catalina (and, by extension, new Mac hardware) just got one item longer. I recently bought a new System76 laptop as a stopgap, but it might end up becoming permanent. Kind of a sad end for 25+ years of Mac use.