Is MacOS sending these hashes to check whether they are revoked? That sounds like an insane excuse. Are there really so many revoked hashes that it is not feasible to mirror the database to every device for offline querying?
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#772So many comments in here, but I haven't seen a single one mentioning a simple solution: Vote with your feet.
For years now, I've seen a large portion of the HN crowd praising Apple for its (alleged) respect of privacy and cursing at Microsoft for Windows "calling home" all the time. Now that this has happened, the only comments I see are "heads should roll", and "we must complain and be heard by high-level execs", but never "let's move away". This just reinforces my impression of the Apple ecosystem as something akin to a cult: Once you get in, you never get out again.
There are good alternatives - many people, including software engineers, use non-apple solutions on a daily basis and they are still productive. Why not give Linux a shot, or gasp even Windows? The age-old argument of "MS is evil, Apple good" is moot. Companies are generally not good or evil, they are profit-oriented. If the market demands privacy, they care about it, otherwise probably not so much.
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#773Earlier quoted context omitted.
So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058952 And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple…
It's hard to say who is now Apple's target audience. It seems like their products are ideal for people who don't know much about IT and just want to watch a video or edit their holiday photos and maybe create a CV and will probably never go beyond that. Other people still enjoy Macs from 2012, but things are moving on when you look at desktop PC and what you can do. Apple looks more and more dumbed down.
It's like being trapped in a beautiful plastic cage. I used a MacBook Air (2012) for years as my primary development machine and really loved a lot about it, and it had some fantastic apps in the environment like QuickSilver, especially since it just worked compared to some of the Linux distros I had before that. But I'm glad I jumped ship when mine went obsolete.
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#774There is also
ocsp-lb.apple.com.akadns.net
which looks like does the same and should be blocked too!
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#775A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer. Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going t…
I'm not sure that using Google as a cautionary tale is a good idea. Given their continued growth and success...
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#776Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago. Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail: https://mobile.twitter.com/llanga/status/1326989724704268289 > I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so,…
So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058952 And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple…
> their keyboard + trackpad alignment is wonky (it's off-center in a lot of cases! How weird is that???)
Buy something without a number pad. Unfortunately most 15" laptops do have one.
If anybody from HP is reading this, I'll pay an extra for a keyboard without number pad on your 15" ZBooks with 3 buttons on the touchpad. Space bar and touchpad aligned with the center of the screen please.
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#777Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago. Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail: https://mobile.twitter.com/llanga/status/1326989724704268289 > I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so,…
So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058952 And this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple…
Wow, the way Craig is laughing at the question and so dismissive of it is really insulting. Maybe it's the more casual nature of the interview/discussion, but this really is the crappy icing on the cake of Mac users' continuously-declining control over the machines they spend their hard-earned money on. "Where do you even begin to come up with that theory"?? I mean, maybe we're seeing the gradual hampering of control over our computer with every OS X release in the past 5-10 years?
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#778And so we demonstrate too much corporate control -out of user control- is not a nice thing.
We have the Apple Big Brother here, I am sad to say.
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#779So many comments in here, but I haven't seen a single one mentioning a simple solution: Vote with your feet. For years now, I've seen a large portion of the HN crowd praising Apple for its (alleged) respect of privacy and cursing at Microsoft for Windows "calling home" all the time. Now that this has happened, the only comments I see are "heads should roll", and "we must complain and be heard by high-level execs", bu…
> This just reinforces my impression of the Apple ecosystem as something akin to a cult
That's very uncharitable. Suggesting Windows as a potential alternative also sounds slightly comical given their history with Windows 10 and many people's required workflows, required because of work or other outside influence, make Linux less tenable.
A lot of people seem to suggest that if you have something to complain about then you should be moving on to something else, a vibe of 'appeal to perfection'. I think this is the same mentality that drives the distro hopping phenomenon. I'm not brainwashed because I live with the flaws of my OS choice and complain when things are changed that I don't like.
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#780After AMD released their Zen 2 lineup and the prospect of considerably faster compile times became attainable, I re-evaluated my relationship with MacOS.
I bought a new AMD PC and initially hackntoshed it. This actually worked out great but after some time I decided to jump over and see if I could live with WSL under Windows.
Windows is not as nice as MacOS, but WSL1 (tried WSL2 for a few months but still prefer WSL1) has allowed me take advantage of affordable high performance hardware and maintain support for the software I use daily.
I may buy a low powered MacBook laptop in future (because there are no Windows laptops with a trackpad that compares) but I don't think I will ever use it as a primary desktop environment again.