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I have found it curious how this has gotten zero traction in the press. Earlier today, I was naïvely sure this would cast a pall over the product launches.
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https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/12/21563092/apple-mac-apps-...
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What's worse is the number of other posts with the top comments being vociferous defenses of these companies as if they needed these people to defend them or cared one iota for their welfare. It feels like it's Stockholm Syndrome on a mass scale. I worry for Gen Z because they're tiny-mobile-device native. And the only usable tiny mobile devices are walled gardens. They scream outrage when they're not allowed their t…
> I worry for Gen Z because they're tiny-mobile-device native. And the only usable tiny mobile devices are walled gardens. Without the ability to grow up playing with system level software, combined with the software industry's unwillingness to pass on institutional knowledge to younger generations, I fear we are already on a path towards a civilization that loses a lot of the technological capability we currently en…
This 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.
Also keep in mind Apple's M1 looks pretty awesome against Intel, even the i9. Not so much against the AMD Zen3. One of their biggest bragging points was single thread performance, which Zen 3 is rather close on.
It's just the nature of things, don't worry, healthy competition for the M1 is already in the pipeline.
> I’ve one on order, and I will investigate and report on this blog.
This computer is an outrage! I've rushed to give the manufacturer a lot of money!
Yet 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…
I'm not. Since the last few iterations of Apple hardware and OS software, I've decided to switch to something else. I'm also advicing all friends and collegues to do the same. There is simply no reason to stay with Apple anymore as a professional. It used to be stability and ease of use, but Windows has since closed that gap, and Linux is a close second (and a must for programming). Most likely that means I'll run a…
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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?
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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)
Can the owner of the computer fix this by turning off SIP?
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How would that change anything?
By nature RISC-v machines will tend to be more open, have an open bootloader, and be friendly to running an open OS. Much less likely to block installing Linux, like Apple has done. Much less likely to block running linux, like on the Microsoft Surface. Sure some Apple like company could make a fork of RISC-v and then lock down the environment, spy on a user's network traffic, what binaries they run, etc.
What we poor souls didn't understand all these years is that we're effectively helping other companies to steal from Apple by running software that isn't distributed via their app store [1]. I think now that Apple has learned from iOS how profitable a walled garden business model is they are trying to bring that model to the PC world as well. Shipping hardware with their own processors is an important step in that di…