i'm making a personal promise to myself right now: i'm never typing an apple id email address or apple id password on a mac ever again.
you have to do it on iOS, because without identifying yourself to apple you can't even install free apps on your tablet or phone. i have throwaway, disposable email address apple IDs for that purpose there, which of course serve as permanent unique tracking identifiers. i'm not doing it on the mac, ever.
oh the irony: ungoogled-chromium for macos is built using github actions (which means it's built by microsoft, on microsoft servers).
the builds are, of course, not reproducible.
https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases/macos/85.0.4183.121-1.2
https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/
why is this so difficult
yo @containsliquid@mstdn.io did you ever find a solution to your webhook question?
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/8890
that link that @rinsuki posted in the thread is dead
In the recent macOS Big Sur release, Apple placed 56 of its own apps, such as FaceTime and Apple Maps, on an exclusion list allowing them to bypass firewalls and certain VPNs without users’ knowledge. This seriously undermines macOS users’ security and privacy.
After thorough examination, we confirm that on ProtonVPN’s macOS app, no traffic is excluded from the encrypted VPN tunnel when Kill Switch is enabled (including Apple apps’ traffic). More details here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/big-sur-exclusion-list/
oh, at least activity monitor shows the architecture of the running processes. interesting that apple lists the architectures as "Intel" or "Apple".
intel didn't invent the x86_64 ISA (also known as amd64), and apple didn't invent the ARM ISA.
when and how did the term "architecture" come to mean "processor manufacturer"?
I triggered the rosetta install by duplicating terminal.app and doing a get info on the new one and checking "open using rosetta" per the instructions here:
one critical bug: after duplicating terminal, both icons had exactly the same name, no "Terminal (1)" or "Terminal copy": just two identical "Terminal" programs. Def a security issue there...
If you try to run x64 apps in cli without rosetta installed you will get:
(sekey is from github, x64 bin):
user@MacBook-Air ~ % file $(which sekey)
/Applications/SeKey.app/Contents/MacOS/sekey: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
user@MacBook-Air ~ % arch -arch x86_64 $(which sekey)
arch: posix_spawnp: /Applications/SeKey.app/Contents/MacOS/sekey: Bad CPU type in executable
after install:
user@MacBook-Air ~ % arch -arch x86_64 $(which sekey)
user@MacBook-Air ~ %
now for the good stuff:
the m1 is insanely fast, and as predicted, the keyboard/screen are unparalleled and flawless. even *with* huge marks off for the fact that the OS actively fights you on privacy and it's a huge pain in the ass to mitigate, the m1 macbook air is the best laptop ever made, and i don't say that lightly.
apple has stopped selling the last intel retina good-keyboard macbook air (the one immediately before the m1 air released this month), and that's really the only contender.
@sneak I've honestly lost track of how many times people have linked Jacopo's blog post to me after I made a video about yours without bothering to read your reply
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