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There are a lot of other host names that need blocking, too, pancake.apple.com and xp.apple.com and *.push.apple.com among them The amount of spyware in macOS these days is absolutely astounding: https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/
Thanks, again something I wasn't aware of. The problem with the push one is that blocking it will also block some legitimate stuff unfortunately :( I'll keep an eye on your blog! Excellent info.
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Thanks, again something I wasn't aware of. The problem with the push one is that blocking it will also block some legitimate stuff unfortunately :( I'll keep an eye on your blog! Excellent info.
Like what?
The problem is, if the Mac can't reach APNS, it won't get informed when there's update to things like MDM profiles. If I push a new MDM profile it happens immediately on a Mac that receives push notifications. On a Mac that doesn't, it can take more than a day!
This is something I'm fighting with our network team about because they're not allowing that traffic right now. Understandable, but for proper management it's necessary to make changes quickly sometimes when a user needs to get an exception applied. It's also necessary for things like iMessage but we don't allow that in work anyway (at least not for work purposes)
We're running an internal proxy but APNS doesn't work through a proxy, they need to make an exception for it so it can go out direct.
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One can already see it in some areas with the popularity of containers, with many developers choosing Linux as other operating systems have poor to no container support (often nothing more than running them in a Linux VM). Stupid anti-developper practices of proprietary OS vendors will result in only more developers migrating to Linux distros.
Microsoft has pretty much solved this with WSL/WSL2. I hate the obsessive stalking and much of the redesign of Windows 10, but at it's core, it's better for many general consumers. As a developer, I run into Windows' superior dealing with low-memory situations quite often. My work dev machine has 16GiB of RAM, but my full-stack development work is pushing my system past the 16GiB mark easily now. Coworkers using Wind…
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Just FWIW it's a 15% cut nowadays. (Unless you are doing >$1million a year of sales, which anyone quibbling over a $100 annual fee isn't.)
That is correct, but that is a special discount program you have to apply for, wait for judgement, and get approved for in advance. It's not the default. It was a great step forward, but I don't understand why they made it so complicated with an approval process, when Google did the same thing afterwards and could just say "the first million dollars a year is 15%, after that it's 30%". The total revenue difference fo…
If you are a small dev with just one developer account, you'll sail through the applicaton process.