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  • macOS Sonoma update fixes USB hubs, Java crashes, and more

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    Other users were seeing problems with printing. For some users, the update process removed the core CUPS software, leaving no way for the printer and Mac to interface. It's not yet clear if this has been fixed, and we will update this post as more information develops.

    OMG stop already. This is at least the third article in which AI claims that the update may remove CUPS. That doesn't happen, ever. You original article on this linked to a bunch of complaints on Apple's forum NONE of which actually said that that happened. They all mentioned error messages about the CUPS *socket*, which just indicates a problem with the socket - in fact, it appears to be a problem linked to MS Defender in all cases so far, and in all those cases, CUPS was still present and running, and turning off Defender restored functionality.

    To repeat, nobody EVER claimed that CUPS was being removed, except you.

    Now, knowing if the printing issue with Defender is fixed would be interesting.

    (BTW, to go out on a limb, I'm going to speculate that someone at Apple screwed up somewhere in the kernel and the semantics for AF_INET and AF_LOCAL are being confused somewhere that Defender tries to "protect". Should Defender *ever* be looking at local sockets?? Or possibly, MS is messing with filesystem access control where they shouldn't be, and Apple removed a safety rail by accident? Either way, it's a pretty bad bug.)
    watto_cobra

  • Apple TV+ secures deal for 'Murderbot' sci-fi series starring Alexander Skarsgard and helm...

    JustSomeGuy1JustSomeGuy1
    coolfactor said:

    In a world filled with so much violence and negativity, I'd like to see a different name chosen.
    Yes, a lot of people will likely skip it because their expectations based on the name will be wildly off target. And if the show were actually good, that would be a real shame. As it is likely to be... just as well.
    williamlondonravnorodom

  • Apple TV+ secures deal for 'Murderbot' sci-fi series starring Alexander Skarsgard and helm...

    JustSomeGuy1JustSomeGuy1
    This is a likely tragedy in the making. Foundation is one of the worst SF productions of all time, with virtually no connection to the original source material at all. Worse, the sheer level of stupidity and internal inconsistency in the plot is difficult to fathom. So I don't hold out much hope for Murderbot.

    This is really sad. Murderbot is such amazingly good source material. But since Murderbot's inner life, replete with sarcasm and humanism, is so much of what makes the books great, it's hard to imagine it ever translating well to the screen. It's a near certainty that we're going to get another senseless action-SF dud with empty characters.

    Oh well. I can always read the books again.
    williamlondondanox

  • Steve Jobs $4.01 check to RadioShack sold for $46,063 at auction

    JustSomeGuy1JustSomeGuy1
    AppleInsider said:
    RadioShack played an important part in the pre-Apple days, as co-founder Steve Wozniak bought the TRS-80 Micro Computer System at the retailer, which he then used to build his "blue box" to make long-distance calls for free. In the early days of the partnership between Wozniak and Jobs, the pair made and sold around 200 of the boxes for about $150 apiece.

    The check was written just four months after Apple was founded, showing how RadioShack remained an important resource even as Apple began.
    Excellent journalism work, blindly parroting the lies told by the auctioneer. At least show some grace by revising your article. (MacRumors, sadly, did not show such grace.)

    Steve Wozniak did not buy a TRS-80 to build blue boxes. Blue boxes are tone generators. A TRS-80 would do nothing for that. But more to the point, the chronology is stupidly wrong. The TRS-80 came out the same year as the Apple II. It could not have been used to build blue boxes that then financed the development of the Apple 1. Sources? Check Wikipedia, for example.

    It's interesting that we talk about the Steves building and selling blue boxes like that's an OK or admirable thing to do. It was commercial-scale theft, even though the target (Ma Bell) deserved whatever it got.
    watto_cobrajony0

  • USB4 Version 2.0 to offer up to 80 Gbps data transfer

    JustSomeGuy1JustSomeGuy1
    "Once again following USB tradition"

    They certainly are following USB tradition with that brain-dead name.

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