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Open-source documentation (PRs requested!) on macOS security & privacy: http://www.oss.io/p/drduh/OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide "... a collection of thoughts on securing a modern Apple Mac computer using macOS (formerly OS X) 10.12 "Sierra", as well as steps to improving online privacy. This guide is targeted to “power users” who wish to adopt enterprise-standard security, but is also suitable for novice users with…
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In contrast to undocumented free (open) systems? Documentation is an issue irrespective of prorietariness(??!) of a system. I welcome this initiative. (Yes I know there are examples of documentation excellence to be found in some free/open systems. You can advocate their use whilst also having well documented macOs.)
There is no undocumented open source software, the documentation is just in a technical language. This is why learning to program is important, as it also means learning how to read the documentation. I'm not being factious. We always say that documentation doesn't keep up and that the only real documentation is the code. Ultimately the only reliably documented software is free software.
OT a bit but I think still related. 8 years ago when I switch to OSX I was furious with finder. Tiny window, no hierarchical browsing and the search just doesn't do shit that is useful. I normally default to locate or find now so much that I was using it the other day I was reminded about how much it sucked. It's literally identical (aside from tags and labels) to what it was forever ago and is a terrible paradigm. I…
I enjoy living in terminal. I'm very mediocre with both find and grep but I'm getting better and it makes me feel cool ;-), heh.
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I shouldn't have to go to terminal to edit a conf file to make audio or video work. I have every single time I have tried Linux on the desktop. It does not work out of the box. You must know how to use terminal and edit Byzantine configurations, and read Linux forum posts from 2005 to make basic functionality work. It's my "subjective" opinion, but after 5+ hours troubleshooting and configuring as a power user who do…
That's it though, it very often does just work. Without vendor support and with barely any investment from manufacturers, the Linux community is still pushing on to get things to a point where your dog could install it. Your experience is an anomaly they're trying hard to eradicate.
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I shouldn't have to go to terminal to edit a conf file to make audio or video work. I have every single time I have tried Linux on the desktop. It does not work out of the box. You must know how to use terminal and edit Byzantine configurations, and read Linux forum posts from 2005 to make basic functionality work. It's my "subjective" opinion, but after 5+ hours troubleshooting and configuring as a power user who do…
Audio has "just worked" for years now, thanks to PulseAudio. Video was a mess for a while, but now it will generally work great out of the box if you've got Intel or AMD graphics. Nvidia is still a mess, but Nouveau will work fine for non-gaming stuff.
OT a bit but I think still related. 8 years ago when I switch to OSX I was furious with finder. Tiny window, no hierarchical browsing and the search just doesn't do shit that is useful. I normally default to locate or find now so much that I was using it the other day I was reminded about how much it sucked. It's literally identical (aside from tags and labels) to what it was forever ago and is a terrible paradigm. I…
A beefy windows workstation or laptop to cover Adobe & DAWs + VMWare for Linux. With fullscreen VMWare and open-vm-tools I can barely notice that it doesn't run bare metal, and i can keep different distros at hand for different purposes.
I wanted to buy that giant drafting table computer with the knob and say fuck it to the MBP. I went to look at it and bought another kinect one day, and what felt like an omen, their windows run point of sale system that tries to hide in the desks like the apple store failed so bad at taking my card that the guy had to use two different work stations and literally was "turning it off and on again" with both his card swiping windows mobile phone and the computers.
I feel like my future is in some sort of hand rolled main LXD or CoreOS or the like, that quickly composts whole systems locally and in the cloud but also easily remote desktops to local Mac and Windows machines. I have ideas in my head and a bit in code for a bare bones graphical interface that renders a graph that I can attach arbitrary points to that go to systems, API, terminal instances, containers, etc. I can weight the node connections and also record weight on paths based on frequency of traversal enabling automatic access shortcuts. Of course OSX is close to impossible to run virtualized, which is stupid as hell. Actually if it could without a larger time investment than my full time job that might solve all of my problems.
I don't know, I still need all of the systems that are out there... but I think it's time to put a top layer interface on it that gives me them and more. Setting up a springboard for something that doesn't sit around waiting for big providers to bless me with mana from heaven while they wave their dicks in my face.
Here's an example of a nerfed version of what I'm talking about as an OS supervisor UI that I'm using for a lesson series on Docker [https://www.dropbox.com/s/be4lh1015y305jr]. There is nothing about it that's clean or safe to operate, but I just wanted to prove it. In the current version you can select a node and drop to a terminal inside of a container. Also, I've added support for API nodes auto generated from graphql and REST (if you write the schema). I think it proves the concept. The next step is the pullback to whole systems I guess.
In particular, the service launcher (launchd, mentioned in the article), and various other system level things (including logs, also mentioned in the article), have so little official documentation as to be laughable. You just have to spelunk the web to find someone who has the tribal knowledge and has shared it in some form.
I gave up on the task, as the level of pain was far too high.
But, I'm kinda baffled why anyone would volunteer to provide free labor to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. I give away tons of my time for OSS, but I'm not about to get out and push if I've paid for a luxury car.
I'd rather put my time into something that is free and open for everyone, including my future self. Actually, the word "rather" isn't strong enough: I would never give my labor to an $820B corporation.
This problem is actually the reason I've fallen out of love with Macos as a platform for my home computers. There's way too much stuff that goes around, daemons that are waking up at any given point and doing a lot of I/O, for which there's absolutely no documentation whatsoever. It kills the performance on my old Macs and also doesn't inspire confidence that I'm a user/owner of the device.
...What gave you that delusion? Are you one of those people who clicks "okay" to EULAs without reading them?
OT a bit but I think still related. 8 years ago when I switch to OSX I was furious with finder. Tiny window, no hierarchical browsing and the search just doesn't do shit that is useful. I normally default to locate or find now so much that I was using it the other day I was reminded about how much it sucked. It's literally identical (aside from tags and labels) to what it was forever ago and is a terrible paradigm. I…
> and helps me murder code
"Rockstar code ninja" to boot.