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Month: February 2023

Amazon Queens

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Hippolyta murdered for her girdle, Penthesilea killed by Achilles at Troy, Hippolyta abandoned by Theseus for Phaedra, and Thalestris impregnated by Alexander the Great.

February 12, 2023 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Children, animals and TCC

Never work with children, animals or TCC. Its interface sprawls over two sections in System Settings, and its command tool can only wipe out its settings, forcing you to start from scratch.

February 12, 2023 Macs, Technology

Amazons at War

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They fought the Greeks in one of the three major wars of ancient times, before that against Troy. Paintings by Rubens, Feuerbach, von Stuck and others.

February 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 190

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Windows controller on […]

February 11, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Permissions, SIP and TCC: who’s controlling access?

There’s a lot standing between your app and what it can edit and save: POSIX permissions, ACLs, SIP, TCC, and maybe the sandbox too.

February 11, 2023 Macs, Technology

Not Like That: Reynolds’ ill-fated experiments

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In his attempts to emulate Rembrandt and Rubens, he experimented with thickened oil paint that has led to poor structural integrity, and severe damage to the paint layer.

February 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Privacy: what TCC does and doesn’t

Untangling what in Privacy & Security is controlled by TCC, what resetting it really does, why you should do that before selecting it database, and what TCC does for iCloud.

February 10, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 34 Picture in a picture, stories

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From the tribute to a dead colleague, and a record of an important exhibition, to the downright enigmatic embedded paintings of Velázquez, Courbet and others.

February 9, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Should you reset its database or delete it? The woes of TCC

Privacy, controlled by TCC and the Privacy & Security settings, can go wrong. Without documentation or good tools, it can prove hard to fix.

February 9, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 33 Picture in a picture, landscapes

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Cameo views of landscapes were common practice during the Renaissance, and also had value in locating the primary view.

February 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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