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Some Mac software has made it all the way from 68K to M1 - here's why
CPU instruction set architectures barely are relevant, that’s what compilers are for (sure, in times of slow computers, there were pieces of hand optimized machine code here and there for better performance, but hardly anyone is still doing that)
the big transitions are:
Mac OS 9 => Mac OS X ++ (proprietary to Unix based)
Carbon => Cocoa (utterly different API)
big endian => little endian
32bit => 64bit (software can break because data structure sizes may change)
These changes matter A LOT more than if there’s some Motorola CPU or another, some intel, sparc, MIPS, hp-pa, or ARM chip in there.
NeXT had a quad-fat OS with quad-fat binaries, and it was “just normal”.
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Apple could begin producing its own car with a 'next level' battery in 2024
The only “next level” battery technology worth talking about is one without lithium.
It makes me want to puke when self-righteous “environmentalists” drive around in their stupid BEVs pretending to save the world, while they destroy a unique eco system and the livelihoods of many indigenous people.
BEVs based on lithium batteries are a disaster, lithium batteries in general are a disaster, but the sheer volume of those going into cars make them particularly unsustainable.
EVs are not bad per se, that’s why there are either FCEVs, which would be best, because they also get rid of the charging problem, or BEVs with non-lithium batteries.
I strongly hope that Apple isn’t the next billion dollar company greenwashing BEVs with lithium batteries.
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Apple releases iOS 12.5, bringing Exposure Notification to older devices
It would be kind of useful, if you could get into the habit of listing build number along with version numbers.
This is important, because sometimes Apple sneaks in a minor revision, only noticeable by looking at build numbers, and developers and others with access to prerelease builds often get release candidates no longer marked as beta software. It’s then key to know if one has actually the released version installed, and not just something “relatively close to it”
So, please!
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iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3 now available with ProRAW, Apple Fitness+, AirPods Max support
It would be kind of useful, if you could get into the habit of listing build number along with version numbers.
This is important, because sometimes Apple sneaks in a minor revision, only noticeable by looking at build numbers, and developers and others with access to prerelease builds often get release candidates no longer marked as beta software. It’s then key to know if one has actually the released version installed, and not just something “relatively close to it”
So, please!
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macOS Big Sur telling Apple what app you've opened isn't a security or privacy issue
Who cares if PRISM is shutdown, they have a new program that everyone will deny until the next whistleblower comes forward.
Echelon, Topsail, TIA (Total Information Awareness), TIA (Terroism Information Awareness), PRISM, etc. these programs come, get public awareness, get defunded, just to be resurrected under a different name, to get shut down and defunded, moved to private industry which then must cooperate by means of national security requests that make it even illegal for them to admit or talk about getting such requests, which means they are legally obliged to lie to your face and say they aren’t collecting data for the government.
That said, I don’t see these OCSP requests as troublesome, what is, however SCANDALOUS is the existence of a non-user-modifiable ContentFilterExclusionList.
This is a gaping security hole, and one that allows Apple under “government coercion” to selectively (based on AppleID) install non-blockable spyware on a user’s computer. In Germany the BND is actively pushing the use of Trojans to combat end-to-end encryption, and Apple is holding the door open for them!
