The title should be "Your apple computer isn't yours".
Your Computer Isn't Yours
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Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Open Terminal run sudo echo 127.0.0.1 oscp.apple.com >> /etc/hosts restart
In macOS 11.2, /etc/hosts magically becomes a protected file such that: * only Apple's apps can write to it by default * only signed third-party apps from the App Store linked to developer accounts in good standing can request permission to write to it * you can lose your good standing by "abusing" write permission to /etc/hosts (e.g., by blocking access to Apple services)
What's the source for this? Or is it a dystopian extrapolation?
Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours
#53Yet despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth - both in the article and in the comments here in the various threads - people are still making excuses for continuing to use Apple/Google/Microsoft/et al products because the alternatives are a bit rough round the edges. These companies have repeatedly shown that they don't respect people's privacy and people have resoundingly responded that neither do they. I would…
Don't hold your breath. Majority of people would trade security and openness for convenience and profit.
I think we are handing over the future of tech to these few tech giant megacorps.
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#54Thanks for summarizing a bunch of changes that make me depressed about modern computing. Now Android, 'privacy apple' macOS, iOS & Windows all act in similar way. The only thing left is bad user experience linux.
why is the user experience bad in Linux? I use Ubuntu at home and Fedora at work and no, it's not without frustrations, but neither was macOS when I used that for 8 years at work or Windows whenever I have to use that for something or another. Computers are fussy and irritating. Modern Linux is pretty alright, even on the desktop.
"bad user experience Linux" feh. Even nearly vanilla Gnome is pretty decent.
Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've opted to purchase the new MBAir, and will only use it in conjunction with a travel router, on which I have root, and can default-deny all network traffic from the laptop except for the stuff I explicitly permit. Dual-Wi-Fi, small travel routers will run for quite some time on a USB battery pack. I've been meaning to do this for some time anyway, due to the pervasive spyware that's embedded in most iOS apps, whic…
> Hopefully Apple can find their way back. It's not going to happen. Apple talks up privacy and security but the truth is they don't care about those things. What they care about is having a locked-down platform because locked-down platforms make Apple $hitloads more money than open general-purpose computers. Let's take another example: Remember back before 9/11 and you didn't have to show an ID when you boarded a pl…
> It's not going to happen.
I'm allowed to hope, I've been using macs continuously since I was 4 years old, over 30 years.
Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours
#56This doesn't apply to Ubuntu,right? As in Canonical isn't doing something like this, right??
Ubuntu hasn't done anything nearly this bad, although the amazon fiasco was pretty rough.
I would still recommend getting comfortable enough with at least one or two other distro's that you can jump ship to if necessary.
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#57This doesn't apply to Ubuntu,right? As in Canonical isn't doing something like this, right??
With how canonical is behaving with things like snap and such, I wouldn't be surprised if you find similar things. They just don't have the power of their own superior hardware platform to leverage it further.
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#58This doesn't apply to Ubuntu,right? As in Canonical isn't doing something like this, right??
Ubuntu doesn't run on the fastest/most efficient laptops that were announced this week.
Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours
#59For most people, if there computer was ‘theirs’, it would be that way for about 10 minutes until it was pwned by a bad actor.
The general issue of other people (I.e. Apple et al) having a lot of control over your computer, is entirely valid even if some of the points in the piece are exaggerations.
The problem is that people want it that way.
They are in fact correct that computers are scary and too complex for them to manage, and they want someone they can trust to do it for them.
Stallman may have predicted the issue, but he really didn’t do much to solve the real problems.
The presence of open software isn’t enough without a way for people to know what is trustworthy without being experts.
Until we provide that, this situation cannot change.
Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours
#60Thanks for summarizing a bunch of changes that make me depressed about modern computing. Now Android, 'privacy apple' macOS, iOS & Windows all act in similar way. The only thing left is bad user experience linux.
Why call linux a bad user experience when you are depressed at the state of what you can do on mac/windows? Doesn't user experience account for what you can do on your device and with how much ease?
Good point. I would say that it's because it's common for UX to be used colloquially as if it's a synonym for UI.
So while Linux's UI may be worse (in an individuals opinion) the UX could be better (in an individuals opinion).