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macOS and security updates in detail

Major macOS releases from Sierra to Ventura, with full details of each release and security update. Also updates to XProtect, MRT and Gatekeeper.

May 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

M-series Macs

For a systematic compilation of links to articles here about Apple silicon Macs, M1, M2, M3, M4 and […]

January 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Didn’t macOS have a GUI?

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For the first 17 years, Macs got by perfectly well without a command line. Apple’s server admin apps featured extensive GUIs, and saved admins from using Terminal. But now even Apple tells folk to practise for ClickFix.

April 26, 2026 Macs, Technology

Painting Pandora and her box: 1550-1882

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A strange ancient Greek myth of the creation of woman was hardly ever painted until the 19th century. Even then, only one depicted the crux of the story until it became popular late in the century.

April 25, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 357

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: John’s afterword […]

April 25, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Network file systems

How AFP and SMB enable access to shares on servers, early problems with SMB on Macs, printer access, and limitations with APFS special files.

April 25, 2026 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 250 Winged sandals

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The talaria fashioned from gold by Vulcan for Hermes as messenger of the gods, and lent to Perseus when he was sent to bring back the head of Medusa/

April 24, 2026 General, Life, Painting

The secret life of the xattr

Introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 to extend resource forks, they have flourished since. Explains their storage, how they persist or don’t, with an appendix explaining their flags.

April 24, 2026 Macs, Technology

Naturalists: Education

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How the introduction of secular, free and mandatory education in the French Third Republic was depicted at the time, from cradle to doctorate.

April 23, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you.

April 23, 2026 Macs, Technology

On Reflection: Hodler and Klimt

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Unusual use and manipulation of reflections by Ferdinand Hodler in his Parallelism, and by Gustav Klimt painting through a telescope on his summer holidays.

April 22, 2026 General, Life, Painting

The macOS Natural Language framework and Nalaprop

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Since macOS Mojave, macOS has had deep support for natural languages beyond English. Although Nalaprop demonstrates some of its features, it could do much more now. Should it?

April 22, 2026 Language, Macs, Technology

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