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Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Intel Mac owner here. The writing is on the wall...

I dug into this. Apple's incentives aside, the bulk of intel's chips in macs are no longer supported by Intel or soon won't be. The more time passes the harder it is to keep those machines secure. This is the best article I found on the topic. Note that once a mac is no longer supported for a new os the old os will get security updates for two years after that. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/with-macos-sonom…

The old OS will generally get most security updates for two years, but that is not a written policy or rule, and Apple has not patched CVEs on older OSes in the past that were well within the N-2 assumption.

Most of the time they do, but depending on the data you work with and the risk you can accept, that might not be an acceptable policy.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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One huge step closer to iOS. Damn it. I actually liked macOS but these changes are terrible for everyone but the most basic users.

Really? This is _huge_ to you? How many unsigned apps are you downloading and running? This is one of those features where the benefits seem to very obviously outweigh the drawbacks. 99.9% of users just aren't running unsigned software, so the moment that happens, it is most certainly malware. If you're developing software yourself, this isn't an issue either, since all the relevant toolchains, debuggers, etc., work…

> How many unsigned apps are you downloading and running?

For me, quite a few? Internal tools at work, open source projects which publish builds on their github, that sort of stuff.

(And no, paying Apple a yearly subscription for the privilege of letting users run an app is not a reasonable expectation of small open source projects)

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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> 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? Every month. (Which is still annoying, but not the raw level of frustration that weekly would be.)

Do you still have to quit and restart the entire application after you give the permission? Holy shit mac users are gonna become a meme in meetings. MacOS is turning into quite the poo log lately. I respect that Apple has every right to completely destroy the legacy of the Macintosh, but they are slow playing it so that it's just a little bit better than the alternatives. The end result is my life gets just a little…

Lol calm down its only for apps which failed to upgrade to their new window selector API.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Literally nothing I care about. As a web developer I'd be happy if Safari usage fell off a cliff.

As a happy user of Safari, I'd be happy if a lot of web developers just stopped trying to turn my web browser into a buggy, bloated JS House of Cards "operating system" for their crappy SPAs.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Most annoying problems so far.. 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? 2. No more sudo spctl —master-disable. Alternative way is bit complicated. 2. No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper. 3. Why tcutil reset Accessibility not working for a specific app? It works for “All” . 4. Script to convert NSURL node ref url to posix url not working. 5. Normal usb Mouse pointer acceleration is not smooth. May be…

the permission for screen access is only for apps that failed to start using the new API where the OS lets the user select a window/screen they want to share.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Thanks to the new API that comes with Sequoia, I developed a new translator app for Menu Bar that doesn’t require internet connection. If you are interested, please have a look: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/offline-translate-translator/i...

I'm probably an advanced translation user, but the possibilities of Easydict is why I stick with it: https://github.com/tisfeng/Easydict

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Most annoying problems so far.. 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? 2. No more sudo spctl —master-disable. Alternative way is bit complicated. 2. No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper. 3. Why tcutil reset Accessibility not working for a specific app? It works for “All” . 4. Script to convert NSURL node ref url to posix url not working. 5. Normal usb Mouse pointer acceleration is not smooth. May be…

the permission for screen access is only for apps that failed to start using the new API where the OS lets the user select a window/screen they want to share.

Can I do it once and for all, or will I have to do it every time?

I bet I know the answer.

Did this conveniently break Rewind AI?

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Especially for non-technical users, they've practically implemented a system where Apple decides what software you are and aren't allowed to run on your own computer. For non-technical users the choice is simple: either Apple decides what is allowed to run on their computer or cybercriminals do. After years of getting burned, non-technical users made their choice. I think it was the right one but the jury's still out…

Also, let's not fool ourselves. I'm not sure even most technical people running macOS or Linux would know if they had malware running. I probably wouldn't. It's not like antivirus is commonplace on those platforms. The notion that you can reasonably have knowledge of and control over all the software that is actually running on your machine has not been realistic for decades.

My router was pwned, not once but possibly 3 times, and the major compromise I only discovered due to the third-party DNS filtering service I'd set up on it. It is practically impossible for any consumer to detect a compromised router, due to their embedded systems and lack of meaningful logging or diagnostics. Therefore I concluded that consumer routers are the weakest link in anyone's home network, and I was pleased as punch to begin renting one that my ISP manages. Peace of mind indeed.

My Windows 10 box became so bogged down that I was convinced it was running some undetectable malware. AV detected nothing, but after a critical look at open ports I just decided to wipe and go to Windows 11.

Here are some of the biggest risks today. Running third-party apps at all, unless they are absolutely necessary. I try to do everything possible with Google-provided apps within the Google ecosystem on my Android phone and the other devices as well, which limits the third-party attack surfaces. My Windows machine runs practically nothing outside of MS or Google. I don't need to.

Other big threats are beyond personal devices at this point. Connecting third-party SaaS to your accounts is a real problem. Facebook, Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, any service that acts as a platform and runs third-party integrations, that's where you'll get bitten nowadays, and your local AV scans are powerless to shield you from footguns. Just to use HP printer features, HP wanted full, unscoped, read/write/delete access to my Google Drive!

Everyone's "hacked Facebook account" has really been just some stupid game that went rogue. Supply-chain attacks through browser extensions and the rest. Extremely difficult to police from the end-user's position, but deadly and dangerous, because they're out on the net and in the cloud.

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I'm not sure how comparing a mobile OS like iOS to a linux box is useful. iOS can kill background apps from memory outside the app developers control.

Because other OSes don't kill OOM apps? Or any app they want? It is only Apple and only possible on mobile? The only thing that apple has, is the inability to have background apps, so that if you want to use third party sync services, like syncthing, you can't and have to stick to apple products, the rest is just like anyone else

iOS isn’t killing OOM apps. It’s killing inactive apps. It’s something that wouldn’t fly on a desktop or server OS under general use, but works reasonably well in the mobile space.

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More importantly - it doesn't work on anything but apple hardware.

yeah, but at least it's not an Electron app

Think the backlash regarding 1password’s electron implementation is overblown. I’ve not had any issues with it
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