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Update to the original tweet: https://twitter.com/michaelvillar/status/1327004693361549312... > A better fix to this is: > - Turn off Wifi (to be usable) > - Add "0.0.0.0 http://ocsp.apple.com " to `/etc/hosts` > - Turn on Wifi > This is temporary, don't forget to remove it tomorrow.
Add "0.0.0.0 http://ocsp.apple.com " to `/etc/hosts` Do you put URLs in /etc/hosts now? The mind boggles at the ways of Apple
You should never, ever, install a MacOS update the moment it comes out. There is a high chance (> 30% from my experience) that something will be wrong with it. iOS too for that matter. Wait for at least one week and check out other people's experiences first.
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Every year Stallman seems less crazy.
Only in relation to the wider world which is getting progressively more crazy.
> Every year Stallman seems more correct.
In the sense that the exact risks he was trying to mitigate are in fact materializing in mainstream computing platforms.
Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago. Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail: https://mobile.twitter.com/llanga/status/1326989724704268289 > I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so,…
So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058952 And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple…
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It times out and the app runs, so the failure mode was considered. They may move to edge servers instead of centralized datacenters now though...
> the failure mode was considered Considered but not tuned. I've never noticed any delay launching or using software that doesn't require an internet connection while not being connected to the internet. (I definitely did notice slowdowns today - Zoom in particular which I tend to quit out of when I'm not using it because I don't trust it one bit but am compelled to use it for work) Seems like apple was accepting con…
Again, it turns out that Stallman[1] and others[2] were prescient. [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html [2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Every year Stallman seems less crazy.
Exactly this is happening with Apple now. Although Apple computers were fairly hackable in the past, with users being able to install Linux or Windows, that is changing. Apple is changing the hardware _and_ software to make it more difficult to do things that Apple does not approve of.
Stallman was keenly aware of this type of behaviour, and he was also aware that companies that have the potential to use this behaviour to this advantage, will often do so.
Apple wants to be in a position where they sell computers as appliances, and Apple Silicon is their step towards doing so.
By the way, I'm typing this on a Macbook pro that is no longer supported by Apple, but running Linux. I am not sure this would be possible in the world of Apple Silicon.
With things like this, docker not running on apple silicon (because it doesn’t support virtualisation) etc there surly should be a market for developer laptops running Linux but with an OS that gets out of the way most of the time. Who’s selling those?
A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer. Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going t…
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So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058952 And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple…
2012 Macbook Pro. Get the highest-spec Magsafe laptop you can find.
The 2009-2015 era of Macbooks are, not were, truly phenomenal machines.