I have documented and published, for the first time, my personal code style guide. It is a living document (which is why it’s in git) that I will update periodically as I consciously notice more of my longstanding habits and techniques. I estimate it’s 70-80% complete (at least for Go) presently; the other languages included are just stuff that’s...
I have a theory that I believe is supported by enough evidence for you to believe it, as well.
Preface: I don’t use iCloud. I don’t use an Apple ID. I don’t use the Mac App Store. I don’t store photos in the macOS “Photos” application, even locally. I never opted in to Apple network services of any kind - I use macOS software on Apple hardware.
In the current version of macOS, Monterey, on every system update on a system containing an M1 chip, such as all the new shiny/fast ARM (“Apple Silicon”) macs, the update process phones home to Apple to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a “ticket”.
Unstoppable payments are coming. Society must integrate this inconvenient fact.
I’m a photographer. I care a lot about pixels and image quality and resolution. My main workstation has three 5120x2880 5k displays that run at 218ppi. I’m also someone who really likes music and audio engineering who has been known to DJ occasionally. I also come from a network and storage engineering background, so I’m not entirely ignorant of the considerations...
I found a small vulnerability in American Express today. Nothing major, but something they’ll definitely want to fix.
Yesterday on 1 Feb 2021, Apple released macOS 11.2 (Big Sur .2), which removes the ContentFilterExclusionList that prevented user content filtering applications from blocking Apple first-party apps from accessing the network. This misfeature, originally introduced on 12 November 2020 in macOS 11.0 (the only OS available on the new M1/ARM “Apple...
Modern Apple computers can no longer be fully used and maintained in 100% offline environments, or in ways that will reasonably ensure that the computer is free of state-ordered tampering.
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