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  • New MacBook Pros are coming Oct. 18 and the design remains a mystery

    rcfarcfa
    Speak for yourselves! Form follows function, and as long as Apple doesn’t introduce new functionality, like a touch screen and pen input, or something like that, I absolutely WANT NO DESIGN CHANGE.

    The current design is nicely optimized, and minimalist. Any significant changes would just be tacky and ornamental in nature. 

    You’re not going to redesign an airfoil “because it looked like this for a few generations of airframes, it’s starting to look old” ߤ氟ﻦzwj;♂️

    There’s also nothing “controversial” about the Touch Bar, what was controversial was the lack of a physical escape key, something long since fixed.

    Why do people get messages to close apps? Are apps trying to wire down memory, or has Apple given up on virtual memory and paging with Apple Silicon, otherwise, even with significant slow downs due to swapping, one should never run out of memory unless also running out of disk/SSD-space 
    docno42rezwitsanomemichelb76dewmewatto_cobra

  • Researchers demonstrate new methods of bypassing macOS security

    rcfarcfa
    digitol said:
    Mac OS Security is a joke. They heavily heavily rely on obscurity, and deploy mechanisms that simply are not well structured, or fully checked all the way up the chain.  Sigh. 


    sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs /dev/disk
    Targetdisk /nonroot

    Codesign —force -deep -sign targetApp

    And the problem is where? If you’re allowed to sudo, then of course you should be able to do the rest, that’s the whole point of being an admin user: you’re supposed to know what you’re doing!
    tokyojimumuthuk_vanalingamFidonet127FileMakerFellerwatto_cobrajony0

  • Apple explains security & privacy risks of side-loading in detailed new paper

    rcfarcfa
    Apple can’t have it both ways:

    1) For legitimate reasons they want to control what apps are associated with an Apple branded AppStore, as they affect the Apple brand. 
    OK, so then, since Apple has no right to act as a private industry censorship authority, they must allow users to install what Apple considered unsavory apps some other way on the devices the bought and own.

    OR

    2) Apple wants to control privacy and security, then it must allow for more fine-grained access to resources (e.g. access to MAC addresses if the user confirms and the app can demonstrate a legitimate use during the application process) and permit all apps to be listed in their AppStore.

    Also, there are some restrictions, like the ban on emulators, which in the context of sandboxed apps makes no sense. If someone ports e.g. Previous to iPadOS allowing legacy NeXT apps to run within a sandboxed emulator, exactly what are privacy implications supposed to be?

    As it stands, sideloading aka installing apps, should always be possible; Apple can warn against the potential risks, but the decision must remain the users’.

    I’m glad Apple doesn’t manufacture cutlery: it would be spoons only, because knives are dangerously sharp, and forks and chopsticks might get someone’s eyes poked… 
    williamlondonlibertymatterselijahg

  • Apple drops new Safari bookmark end-to-end encryption

    rcfarcfa
    Might be a simple case of documentation being completed before the feature was rolled out.

    There’s also the question of how older versions of iOS and macOS would handle that in a compatible way. E2E would presumably require some protocol changes, and while Safari on macOS can be updated independently from the OS, i(Pad)OS can’t do that for baked in apps.

    So this may have to wait until the adoption of iOS 15 is high enough, and then be announced as a feature available only to users who have all their devices up to date…
    williamlondonFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Android executive offers to help Apple deploy RCS messaging

    rcfarcfa
    It’s time Apple opened up iMessage/FaceTime to be cross platform.

    The only reason I have to keep using crap like Instagram, WhatsApp, Viber, SMS, etc. is because like it or not, a majority of people don’t have Apple devices and because some owners of Apple devices don’t use iMessage “because it costs money” (meaning they haven’t understood the difference between iMessages and SMS/MMS.

    In other words the superior Apple user experience goes down the drain due to suboptimal Apple customer communication and the network effects inherent in telco standards.

    RCS isn’t the solution, because it’s security can’t be trusted.
    watto_cobra