Links for category: apple

Dec 23, 2021

(mac)OStalgia — A reimagination of Chrome, Slack, Zoom, and others if they were running on MacOS 9 (via)
#retro #nostalgia #apple

Nov 26, 2021

Quick Look extension for Markdown files on macOS — A very simple but useful tool: preview rendered Markdown files with Quick Look
#productivity #apple

Nov 3, 2021

On Desktop Productivity — Very complete list of advanced productivity hacks for your keyboard. Focused on Karabiner and Keyboard Maestro but you can adapt it to almost any setup (via)
#productivity #apple #keyboards

Sep 25, 2021

Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities and critique of Apple Security Bounty program — What a mess. Three extremely serious 0-days which leak private user data go unpatched for more than 6 months. Hopefully the disclosure will make Apple expedite the fixes. (via)
#apple #security

Sep 14, 2021

FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild — Everybody update your iOS devices to 14.8 (via)
#apple #security

Aug 6, 2021

Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life — Apple will install a back door to Messages and will scan your photos on-device against an inscrutable and unauditable database. Extremely bad news. Others will follow (or are silently doing it already) and there is still no good alternative to Apple/Google’s ecosystems.
#privacy #apple

May 26, 2021

M1RACLES: M1ssing Register Access Controls Leak EL0 State — The first hardware vulnerability of Apple Silicon: a system register can be accessed directly from EL0. Two processes can cooperatively exchange data using this register. However, this is more of a curiosity. You shouldn't worry. (via)
#apple #hardware #security

May 19, 2021

Using AirTags to detect stationary iPhones · Łukasz's website! — We're moving towards a world where we will need to constantly "scan" for listening or tracking devices in our surroundings. Is this the future we wanted? Worth a thought. (via)
#privacy #apple

Feb 23, 2021

A retrospective look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard — "Well, if you dislike the current Big Sur UI and Mac experience, what’s an example of Mac OS UI and experience you DO like?". Great review on how macOS interface design is going further down the drain with every release. (via)
#apple #design

Jan 23, 2021

How We Ported Linux to the M1 — Very accessible technical writeup on the particularities of M1 macs and how the work started by porting the kernel to the A10 processor early last year. (via)
#linux #apple

Jan 6, 2021

Asahi: Linux on Apple Silicon — Great initiative to port Linux to Apple Silicon Macs. Let's hope it has a bright future. (via)
#apple #linux

Nov 16, 2020

Safely open apps on your Mac - Apple Support — In 2021, Apple will encrypt OCSP traffic and introduce a way to opt-out of these checks. This is the right thing to do. (via)
#apple #privacy

Nov 15, 2020

Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur — The more I read about this feature the more I'm convinced that Apple slipped big on its design. Just imagine if this had happened to Microsoft instead. Apple deserves more flak for it. (via)
#apple #privacy

Nov 14, 2020

macOS unable to open any non-Apple application — The more I think about this, the worse it seems to me. I'd rather Apple ran everything sandboxed by default, with an option to disable it, than having libc phone home. (via)
#apple #privacy

Oct 12, 2020

Self-Hosting Part 5: Finale — Good series of articles, extensive and functional, on how to self-host as an alternative to using iCloud. Same route I'm taking.
#privacy #apple

Oct 10, 2020

Apple Tells Secure Messaging App Telegram to Take Down Protestor Channels in Belarus — Couldn't find a better source, so take this with a grain of salt. If true, this is a scandalous overreach of Apple's power. Policing user-generated content is not acceptable. (via)
#privacy #apple

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