Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent

I just visited the Lesser Antilles for the first time, specifically the island of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, during the first week of December 2024.

As a certified Hacker News addict (like Slashdot before it), I see a lot of open source projects get publicly announced.

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.

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”.