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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by gruturo »

raesene6 wrote: post #126
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

I agree, the good thing about Apple and Microsoft is I know what they want to sell me. Apple want me to buy relatively expensive devices on a regular basis and ideally a cloud subscription. Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS. In both cases the value for them is fairly clear and they have limited incentives to do anything that might jepordise those reven…

True for Apple, not for Microsoft. Windows 10 is stuffed with tracking and telemetry and puts ads in front of you (screen saver, start menu, etc). They are absolutely NOT famous for respecting your privacy or wishes.

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Post by Tepix »

vetinari wrote: post #116
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

In Android, it is not mandatory to use Google apps - you can use your favorite browser, mail or maps instead of the Google ones. Firefox, Nine or Here, for example.

Your typical Android phone calls home around 1200 times per day. Getting that number down to zero means making it pretty much unusable.

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Post by pivo »

seanalltogether wrote: post #142

I'm assuming apple file system is only enabled if you do a fresh install right? Or is there an option to switch to it during the upgrade process?

My understand is (haven't tried it yet) that the conversion happens automatically but only if you have an SSD.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by symlinkk »

seanalltogether wrote: post #142

I'm assuming apple file system is only enabled if you do a fresh install right? Or is there an option to switch to it during the upgrade process?

your filesystem will be automatically changed to APFS, no need to reinstall (Apple did this already with the iPhone as well)

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by davidbalbert »

4ad wrote: post #42
Tehnix wrote: post #21

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You have problems with iOS 11? Anyways, it's definitely stable, honestly I feel like it's the most stable .0 release I've been on (have been going beta -> GM on almost all releases).

I experience lagging on iOS 11 on both iPhone 7 and the 10.5 inch iPad Pro. There was no lagging on iOS 10. Basic things like swiping across home screens lags and feel jittery. Also when you unlock and the apps come into view it's annoying laggy.

I had similar problems on my iPhone 7 when I upgraded to iOS 11. This included apps totally freezing, sometimes for what felt like a minute, with very laggy input, as well as other issues, like not displaying the playing podcast controls for Overcast on the lock screen or in control center. Yesterday I did a fresh install of iOS 11 and then restored from a backup and my problems seem to have gone away. At least for me, it seems like there may have been something wrong with the over-the-air upgrade process. Perhaps this will help you.

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Post by majewsky »

mirimir wrote: post #100
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #87

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There definitely still is ambiguity if you're unfamiliar with the format. Show someone "2017-07-06" and they still might be unsure whether that's June or July.

If you have enough examples, you can see which field goes over 12. In undocumented datasets, that's the only option.

That assumes that the dataset is consistent with itself.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by majewsky »

seanalltogether wrote: post #142

I'm assuming apple file system is only enabled if you do a fresh install right? Or is there an option to switch to it during the upgrade process?

Don't know how it works for the macOS upgrade, but the iOS 10.3 upgrade converted all existing filesystems to APFS in-place.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by acdha »

robert_foss wrote: post #98
CodeWriter23 wrote: post #95

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SIP is protecting you from rootkits. And it’s pretty trivial to turn off if you want to do that.

And from being productive!

Details? Unless you’re developing malware or low-level system extensions SIP should have no impact on day to day work.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by majewsky »

Tehnix wrote: post #26
charlesdm wrote: post #20

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Speed ups? Where are you seeing speed ups? I'm on a Macbook (last gen) and have been using High Sierra for the last month or so. Aside from my changed desktop background, I haven't actually spotted (any / many?) changes.

General animation things because of Metal 2. APFS is awesome when copy pasting (instant), Safari's faster, and general performance increase (subjective of course). There are tons of small changes here and there!

What does a filesystem have to do with copy-pasting?

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Post by benashford »

delinka wrote: post #125
mvdwoord wrote: post #91

Does anybody have more information on this claim of a keychain vulnerability in High Sierra... just saw it fly past on Twitter. https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/912254053849079808 >on High Sierra (unsigned) apps can programmatically dump & exfil keychain (w/ your plaintext passwords) vid: https://player.vimeo.com/video/235313957 #smh

I’d like a bit more detail. Instructions to repro ideally. Too much is left out of the video (show me the items it will access and the access permissions for those items) and I’m inclined to think it’s staged or Mr. Wardle didn’t understand something fundamental (e.g. if you built/debugged the app on the same system where you made the video, you may have already authorized the app to fetch items from the keychain.)

It showed the "unknown developer" warning box when running the app, would that have been shown if the app was already authorised to access the keychain?
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