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In the PPC - x86 transition the binaries were all ‘universal’, with code for both platforms.
Yeah fat binaries use twice as much disk space
> Safari … the world’s fastest browser I actually kind of like WebKit as an engine that so many small independent browsers can be based on, but to me this is an interesting example of just how grounded in reality this marketing copy is.
> “Big Sur has been engineered, down to its core, to take full advantage of all the power of the M1 chip” Does that mean that all of the OS code has been recompiled for Apple Silicon / ARM? And if so, does that mean Big Sur has two binaries: 1 for ARM (new M1 Macs) and 1 for Intel (existing supported Mac devices) and there is a flag at boot-time to determine which mode it runs in?
Why would there be a runtime flag and not just the appropriate binary installed?
I think that’s quite a corner-case.
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Yes, there's a few features of WebExtensions that Safari chose not to implement. I'm having a hard time finding the article and discussion about this. The missing features prevent ad blockers like uBlock Origin from working.
This was a complete deal breaker for me. Half the internet is unusable without a decent ad blocking implementation these days and a decent one is virtually impossible with the charred remains of the API they left behind. This was actually one of the (many) things that motivated me to migrate away from OSX.
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Yes, there's a few features of WebExtensions that Safari chose not to implement. I'm having a hard time finding the article and discussion about this. The missing features prevent ad blockers like uBlock Origin from working.
This was a complete deal breaker for me. Half the internet is unusable without a decent ad blocking implementation these days and a decent one is virtually impossible with the charred remains of the API they left behind. This was actually one of the (many) things that motivated me to migrate away from OSX.
Please tell me it is more stable than Catalina. I have to reboot my machine every day or two just to keep it going.
Yes; absolutely.
The first couple of Catalina releases were a hot mess—my Apple USB keyboard refused to work reliably; I could only use the Bluetooth keyboard that came with the iMac.
By the time we got to 10.15.7, it was rock-solid.
I've been running the release version for a couple of days now and it's been rock-solid as well.
Will iTunes disappear in Big Sur - is the alternative equally good? I originally put off installing Catalina because I didn't want to lose iTunes.
I believe it's called Music and a lot of the functionality has been stripped out to other apps like Finder.
(This is a potential thread hijack, but if there is anyone here who can point me to the difference in drag-and-drop protocols between Catalyst apps, e.g. Music, and traditional Mac ones, e.g. iTunes, I would really appreciate it. I have an app that is often expected to open audio files by dragging them from iTunes, but it doesn't work at all from Music - nothing in the drop handler logic ever gets activated, even though the user is hanging over the app with the new extra-big drop icon.
This seems like something that should be well-known, but I've had terrible trouble trying to find any documentation for it. I am something of an imposter Mac developer, so maybe I just don't know the right people to ask.)
Reminder that with Big Sur, Apple is now bypassing Little Snitch and VPNs for their "services": https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318437929497235457
I believe you can still block the specific destination IPs with pf using murus if you want, but yes it's quite bothersome. You can find the full list of apps that bypass it here: /System/Library/Frameworks/NetworkExtension.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist under ContentFilterExclusionList.
https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it....
But regardless, it's absurd that they're doing this and opens up an opportunity for malware to bury themselves undetected in one of these processes.