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Not a pi-hole user, but what is the plan for pi-hole once encrypted dns is everywhere? Will it just be dead? I can’t really think of a way for it not to be.
You could have it spoof the keys and add its keys to your OS's key store.
What key store? User-hostile apps (like Chrome) already use their own key store because they know better than the user :^)
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What is distinct about the direction of Tim Cook's Apple Inc compared to any previous Apple Inc?
Jobs' Apple created technologies which have rooted deeply in POSIX standards and standard UNIX* conventions. If you knew UNIX(Linux/BSD/whatever), you can find the same data streams on the same places. OS was obscure but, predictable. Different but, familiar. It had kernel extensions, logs and devices. Nothing was extremely obfuscated. It was a UNIX device but, shinier . Now it feels like a glorified iOS box with mor…
If you’re a native speaker, the comma goes where you’d naturally have a brief pause in speech.
If you’re not a native speaker, it may be helpful to remember that the clause with “but” should be able to be removed & what remains should still be a valid sentence: “He wanted to buy a pen.”, not “He wanted to buy a pen but.”
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Not the Enterprise/Education edition.
That you can't legally acquire outside of a commercial support contract.
https://www.trustedtechteam.com/products/windows-10-enterpri...
Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking _stuff_. For instance, during wakeup, your T2 equipped Macbook will wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyboard. Probably checking timestamps on signatures for the keyboard firmware, or something stupid like that. This only happens if it happens to have a default route. Similarly, all macOS…
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Dont pray, just dont buy Apple Products
Boycotting is not an effective strategy for addressing oligopolies. You need actual strong anti-trust regulation.
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What is distinct about the direction of Tim Cook's Apple Inc compared to any previous Apple Inc?
Jobs' Apple created technologies which have rooted deeply in POSIX standards and standard UNIX* conventions. If you knew UNIX(Linux/BSD/whatever), you can find the same data streams on the same places. OS was obscure but, predictable. Different but, familiar. It had kernel extensions, logs and devices. Nothing was extremely obfuscated. It was a UNIX device but, shinier . Now it feels like a glorified iOS box with mor…
Where I absolutely agree with you is that under Jobs, there were no attempts to make macOS behave more like a car. Lion did borrow a handful of visual elements from iOS, but it was mostly aesthetic. Jobs was also on medical leave for much of Lion's development cycle, so I wonder if he was less involved.
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Boycotting is not an effective strategy for addressing oligopolies. You need actual strong anti-trust regulation.
Hear hear. All "just use an alternative" does is temporarily shift the problem. And then tomorrow an article appears highlighting Windows 10's invasive telemetry and people say "yeah just use macOS".
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that is not how kexts work(ed), they can do completely arbitrary things to the kernel, including removing any theoretical code signing requirement.
any access? On Windows, you can write a driver that would run in kernel mode, but critical sections can't be modified[1]. I'd imagine there's something similar for mac. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection
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Dont pray, just dont buy Apple Products
What's the alternative for the typical user? Windows has its own problems, and let's face it: market forces on this sort of thing or any other practices by the two of them have not driven people to use desktop Linux instead. For most people, there's simply no reasonable option to switch to that would avoid these things or employ market forces to get these companies to change their ways.