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This is the reason I needed to switch to a Linux laptop. I cannot be beholden to Apple’s - or anyone’s - servers when it comes to running applications on my own machine. Any recommendations? I’ve heard good things about System76.
A 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…
After 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…
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Yeah so basically in the windows world, a lot of the good laptops are under the "business class" of the various manufacturers: Dell Precision, HP Elite Book, MSI Prestige In the consumer world the Dell XPS, Asus Zenbook, Asus Pro Art are the way to go for a designer. Dell Precision is probably the overall best laptop. MSI Prestige is targetted right at you though, with color accuracy and a good display. The only bran…
> In the consumer world the Dell XPS [...] are the way to go for a designer I have to use a Dell XPS 9560 and had two issues with it, most people never realize: 1. The Intel Thermal management driver is buggy so the device shuts off on very high-load tasks. You have to find the old driver on the internet and install it, and prevent windows from reverting to a new driver. 2. Only after two years of hanging connections…
Unbelievable. 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…
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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.
If I do any simple math calculation in Spotlight it pegs all cores at 100%. Its easily reproducible and really annoying because I've used spotlight as a calculator for years.
After 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…
Unbelievable. 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,…
ocsp.apple.com also has an IPv6 address. Firefox connects to it even with 0.0.0.0 in the hosts file and a flushed cache (you need to also clear firefox's internal cache if you're testing with it), so I'd assume that trustd could connect to the ocsp site as well. I don't think this will work without ensuring there is no IPv6 traffic on your network, or otherwise dumping both IPv4 and v6 packets to ocsp.apple.com. Disa…
Last time I played with a Mac they also had the BSD `ipfw` command for kernel packet filtering [1]. Could try something there if it still exists.
Sincerely and without any intention to troll or be sarcastic: I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a big no-go, from a systems design point of view. Even beyond unintentional glitches at Apple, just ima…
Apple gave a detailed explanation. It was a server misconfiguration combined with a CDN issue which caused the OCSP certificate check to stop working, which caused Apple's system for ensuring certificates haven't been revoked to stop working:
“We have never combined data from these checks
with information about Apple users or their
devices. We do not use data from these checks
to learn what individual users are launching
or running on their devices,” clarified the
company.
“Notarization checks if the app contains known
malware using an encrypted connection that is
resilient to server failures,” says Apple,
further emphasizing, “These security checks
have never included the user’s Apple ID or the
identity of their device. To further protect
privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses
associated with Developer ID certificate checks,
and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses
are removed from logs,” details Apple.
A 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…
And there are A LOT more than what is just happening here. They have burnt a lot of good faith post Steve Jobs. But judging from current Apple management, they wont act until Sales numbers decline. As shown by the MacBook Pro Keyboard fiasco. And to make it worst, they seems to think most of these problem as PR and Marketing problem and dial up the marketing instead of actually fixing it. ( You can see that with Appl…