We are slowly loosing ownership (and in many cases we've already lost) of the tech that we think we own (mobile devices, laptops, gadgets, etc). And the thing is that is hard to make people aware about this issue, especially elder people. I have just helped an old lady with her own new laptop and I was completely shocked the number of steps that we had to go through to get her Windows 10 working for her brand new Acer laptop (asked for PIN number, fingerprint, Microsoft account and don't know what else mumbo jumbo just to get it running). Proprietary software definitely is going in the wrong direction and people generally are ok with it. 15 or 20 years ago you got a CD and that was more than enough to get things running. Sometimes I think how lucky I'm to be able to put a FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux in my computers and do whatever the f* I want with it and get rid of all the nonsense and bs that multi-billion companies are putting in front of us to consume.
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
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Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
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I will be a full on linux junkie when that happens.
It IS, though. SmartScreen on Windows doesn't check binaries created on the same machine, but you'll get flagged if you move the untrusted binary to another machine you own.
Unsure if this is new, but as recently as September 2020, Windows definitely SmartScreen'ed an executable created on the same machine.
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#524I always wonder about the after action in a situation like this. Obviously, it makes Apple look bad but it isn't like they are going to flog the responsible team (and I mean responsible in the sense that various teams are in charge of the components of the overall system: the os service that issues the request, the website responding to the request, etc.)
I'm sure some devops folks were getting screamed at while running around with their hair on fire, but what's the cause and response. Hopefully they'll issue a public after action report that isn't jammed with marketing talk like "we were unfortunately caught by surprise and due to the unprecedented massive interest in the latest macOS with its great features for users and developers, blah blah".
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> macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... Idk, the several Linux distros I’ve used recently, and Windows, have a much longer list of “shit _I_ put up with”
Can you really think of a single thing worse than this?
Why wouldn't Windows update deleting the user's files be worse?
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My understanding is that if you're offline, it skips this check and everything works fine. The reason this is a big deal is that the problem's on their end, so you're not offline, so it keeps trying and waiting instead of just letting you skip the check.
I experienced this a couple of weeks ago. My wifi was up, but my internetprovider was down. My Macbook came to a halt. Nothing worked anymore. The whole machine was extremely slow. When the internetprovider came back up again, everything was fine again.
So you can't use a computer on an airgapped network? That seems counterproductive if the objective is security.
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I started panicking mildly thinking my drive was failing or something. And just before this, I finally managed to fix Spotlight pegging one core at 100% constantly. Next thing, I reboot into a laggy system. macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... it's basically an abusive relationship at this point.
Same. Panic attack. Thought the SSD was dying. I ran Disk Utility diagnostics and started coming up with plans to reformat and restore as a last resort. Apple folks in this thread, this was terrible
My condolences friend. Next time, be more lazy :)
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#529Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#530You've got to be kidding me. When Apple's servers are down, all Macs worldwide start freezing randomly? My XCode is hanging during builds, is this why? This code signing enforcement stuff has gone way too far. Heads should roll for this.
"Heads should roll for this" - careful with the language. Nowadays you may get banned for preaching "beheading".
There's a non-zero chance that this bug has caused at least one death.