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Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by zer00eyz »

duped wrote: post #16
mrbuttons454 wrote: post #13

Papercuts like this are why I moved away from macOS. I will say, I don't love the use of LLMs to write these bug reports. It's probably fine if reviewed, but at least review for things like "worked on macOS 25", which obviously didn't exist. If that wasn't caught, how sure are you that the rest of the report is accurate? We all want the bugs fixed, but people are going to start throwing out the obviously LLM written…

Using LLMs for any kind of writing is unethical, with the narrow exception of translation. If you didn't take the time to compose your words thoughtfully then you aren't owed the time to read them.

> If you didn't take the time to compose your words thoughtfully then you aren't owed the time to read them.

Apply this argument to code, to art, to law, to medicine.

It fails spectacularly.

Blaming the tool for the failure of the person is how you get outrageous arguments that photography cant be art, that use of photoshop makes it not art...

Do you blame the hammer or the nail gun when the house falls down, or is it the fault of the person who built it?

If you dont know what you're doing, it isnt the tools fault.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by vbezhenar »

t-sauer wrote: post #12
himata4113 wrote: post #10

Still wishing for the day apple is split into the hardware and the software company. I want their silicon, but I will never use their (arguably terrible) operating system. If I can't run my own kernel and kernel modules then it's a device that I don't own. Firmware is alright in some cases, but my laptop next to me is running core boot just to prove a point.

But you can run your own kernel on Macs, no? Isn‘t driver support the issue?

Maybe Apple Hardware would write Linux drivers to sell their hardware for servers. Intel contributes to Linux kernel. AMD contributes to Linux kernel. Nvidia contributes to Linux kernel. A lot of hardware manufacturers support Linux to some extent. It's no longer reverse-engineered wild west.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by mikestew »

himata4113 wrote: post #10

Still wishing for the day apple is split into the hardware and the software company. I want their silicon, but I will never use their (arguably terrible) operating system. If I can't run my own kernel and kernel modules then it's a device that I don't own. Firmware is alright in some cases, but my laptop next to me is running core boot just to prove a point.

(arguably terrible) operating system

macOS has made some arguably poor design choices, but it makes it hard to take someone seriously when they state the whole OS is terrible.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by hbn »

nslsm wrote: post #31
ramon156 wrote: post #26

Bit off-topic. I mostly use Linux and I'm of the opinion that it's miles better than Windows, but I don't fully understand why people say MacOS looks bad? Ignoring the current Tahoe mess, MacOS felt relatively polished. I'm purely talking about UX here, as the OS is evidently buggy. The most popular Gnome themes are a re-impl of MacOS, so I can't be the only one.

There’s no “Tahoe mess”. I’ve used it since 26.0 and it’s good. Different indeed, but good. People love complaining.

There's very valid reasons to have issues with Tahoe's changes. The dock being liquid glass is fine. But curving the windows to look like iPad apps, and not even adjusting the grab target appropriately for resizing the window is bad. Getting rid of the title bar so it's not clear where you can grab a window is bad. Apple Music hiding the volume slider behind another click is bad.

It straight up broke some interfaces too

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/1/4.html

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by bombcar »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #36

I am not familiar with dnsmasq at all (is this machine-local?), but absolutely love my PiHole hardware — you can even create rules which intercept hard-coded-IP DNS request and/or httpsDNS. You can also hard-code/intercept .TLD to local service IPs. Programs like LittleSnitch never really seem like "enough" for me, because the computer has to boot before DNS filtering comes online. It also has the design error (IMHO)…

This works great (and I use it) internally but when you want things like your docker domains to work when you're on the go, it's annoying.

I have setup a VM running DNS on my laptop before ...

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by kenny_r »

neilsharma425 wrote: post #15

Has anyone found a working workaround yet? I use dnsmasq for .local dev routing and held off updating after seeing this but curious if there is a viable path forward short of waiting for Apple to patch it.

What I'd suggest is using lvh.me, which always resolves to localhost, as do all it's subdomains. If you need a specific IP you can use nip.io.

If you want valid certs you can generate them with mkcert and add them to your system trust store.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by runarberg »

r_lee wrote: post #38
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a huge difference between using an llm and just blindly dumping it's output on someone verbatim. I think it's fine to have an llm write a first or second draft of something, then go through and reword most of it to be in your own voice.

at this point I really think its better to read broken english than have to read some clanker slop. it immediately makes me want to just ignore whatever text i'm reading, its just a waste of time

I do wonder, we had pretty good (by some measure of good) machine translations before LLMs. Even better, the artifacts in the old models were easily recognized as machine translation errors, and what was better, the mistranslation artifacts broke spectacularly, sometimes you could even see the source in the translation and your brain could guess the intended meaning through the error.

With LLMs this is less clear, you don’t get the old school artifacts, instead you get hallucinations, and very subtle errors that completely alter the meaning while leaving the sentence intact enough that your reader might not know this is a machine translation error.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by vbezhenar »

ramon156 wrote: post #26

Bit off-topic. I mostly use Linux and I'm of the opinion that it's miles better than Windows, but I don't fully understand why people say MacOS looks bad? Ignoring the current Tahoe mess, MacOS felt relatively polished. I'm purely talking about UX here, as the OS is evidently buggy. The most popular Gnome themes are a re-impl of MacOS, so I can't be the only one.

It's incredibly bloated. I don't want AI engine in my OS. I don't want Spotlight in my OS. I don't want my OS to load CPU for 10 minutes after boot for who knows what. I don't want my OS to ship with Chess app and lots of other irrelevant software. I don't want my OS to ship with Music app and bother me with subscription offers. I don't want my OS to ship with iCloud app.

They also do strange choices regarding shipped software. For example they ship ancient bash 3, apparently because they hate GPLv3 or something like that. I like GPLv3 and this choice makes macos user-hostile.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by whatsupdog »

MoonWalk wrote: post #46

A couple iOS versions ago, Apple broke self-signed certificates... crippling mobile development by preventing the use of HTTPS to communicate with a local server. It makes you wonder why they were messing around in these areas at all at this point.

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