Here’s one for HN readers, you can now find jq in /usr/bin/ in Sequoia.
Whoa, you're right. How did you know? The developer notes only seem to talk about API changes
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#92Window tiling! If you drag a single window to the top does it maximize, and unmaximize when you drag it away? That's been my most wanted feature in macOS since forever (yes I have tried the third party ones). I don't really care about tiling multiple windows, but I've always hated the macOS full screen behavior, and before that the old green button behavior, so an alternative that finally works well (the way Windows…
Raycast has window management and it has been amazing. Very easy to move windows between displays and different configurations of window size and placement.
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#93> With many of the Apple Intelligence models running entirely on device, as well as the introduction of Private Cloud Compute — which extends the privacy and security of Apple devices into the cloud to unlock even more intelligence — Apple Intelligence introduces an extraordinary step forward for privacy in artificial intelligence. They've said this in every mention of Apple AI since the WWDC, but they haven't mentio…
You seriously can't disable Private Cloud Compute or Apple Intelligence on iOS??
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#94Weird how the title says, "macOS Sequoia is available today, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and more to Mac" Then you look at the paragraph for this and it says, "Coming Soon: Apple Intelligence" They announced this in June, and it's just loosely coming "this fall." I have a feeling they are finding it very difficult to do anything with any kind of consistency or value on their 8gb RAM phones / Macboo…
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This is such an Apple brainwash, like how many apps in background you think has everyone else, my linuxbox has almost none, the rest is just non-linux from third party, unless you only install apps from Apple and like having a subpar experience, everything you install is just from third party on which they have no control on. And killing apps doesn't mean anything for AI, it doesn't run anything useful on 8GB, doesn't run anything useful on 8GB, no matter if you kill all the processes. I wish I could just have a conversation where people doesn't cyborgically repeats Apple's marketing bullshit and turn on the human brain
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#95Honestly most of the time I download these, it's just to get new wallpapers The recent live wallpapers feature is really cool, hopefully they've added more
They did to tvOS. I’m not sure about macOS but it would be nice.
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#96Here’s one for HN readers, you can now find jq in /usr/bin/ in Sequoia.
Is it the BSD jq from 1995?
Jk, thanks for the info! It's nice to know it's available on the system by default when writing scripts for my team.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah I really wanted this too but it seems like it's not available in the EU. Does anyone understand why? Is it apple having a flap about recent DMA/Whatever regulations they don't like or is there an actual technical reason why what's probably a fancy version of VNC can't work without breaching European regulations?
It's DMA. Certainly part of it is punitive, but it makes sense, too - building and especially supporting interoperability for these protocols is a burden that they can avoid by not shipping features to the EU. They're free to change the key exchange, APIs, wire format, etc. without having to deal with documentation, key issuance, etc. outside of their walls. And, being forced to open up Screen Mirroring would reduce…
> supporting interoperability for these protocols is a burden
Also an unprecedented and unacceptable privacy and security risk.
You would be allowing third parties the ability to continuously record your iPhone's screen. Which includes websites you browse, apps you open, health information, text messages etc.
And the Mac is so much open that you could do this, have a local model to transcribe it and ship it to a remote server without the user noticing.
There isn't a government or advertising company on this planet that wouldn't want to get at this information.
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#98A long time ago I started dreading major updates from corporate providers. They push features they want, not features I want. It got so bad with Microsoft that I fled. Apple's updates have been aggressive in resetting my preferences and pushing things like iCloud and their login to the point that they are on the Microsoft path. I am forced to use mac for work but only because of work.
I always take a full disk snapshot before full upgrades like this (boot into recovery and this is straightforward with a usb disk, or use carbon copy cloner) but yep updates in the Apple eco system are (knock on wood) very painless.
Back in the day before things like homebrew it was far worse... the days of macports and mod_python to run your Django app are fortunately behind us.
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#99I’ve already upgraded everything in my home. All our phones, our watches, our HomePods, our laptops, and our iPads, and the AppleTv.
It’s pretty cool! Still playing with things but upgrade went smoothly and I like the customizability.
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#100Most likely the second last version of macOS supporting Intel Macs.
That is what Apple is not telling you with this announcement.