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Month: March 2023

What is macOS Ventura doing tracking provenance?

How the new tracking extended attribute is attached to apps, how it’s recorded in a security database, and how it’s checked. But for what purpose?

March 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Rufin Sudkovsky

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In five years of prolific painting, he concentrated on the Black Sea coast near Odesa, in all its moods. Could he have been a successor to Ivan Aivazovsky?

March 15, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ownership of Apple silicon Macs matters: how it can stop external bootable disks

To boot from an external disk, Apple silicon Macs need them to have an Owner. Here’s how to investigate ownership, and how it works.

March 15, 2023 Macs, Technology

Not Like That: Abandoned

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Unfinished paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Bonington, Bazille, Bastien-Lepage, Moreau and others.

March 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Using a Mac without a network connection

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New version of ViableS runs in a sandbox, with no shared folders, and can now be isolated from networks. So how well does Ventura work without internet?

March 14, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Trojan Epics: 3 Helen and her abduction

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Zeus, disguised as a gander, raped Nemesis, who laid Helen as an egg. She became step-sister of Castor and Polydeuces, and went on to be abducted by Paris as Aphrodite’s bribe.

March 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 194

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 194. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

March 13, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Ventura has changed app quarantine with a new xattr

Ventura introduces a new extended attribute com.apple.provenance, used to mark successful clearance of quarantine. It’s protected by SIP too.

March 13, 2023 Macs, Technology

Glowing with the Paintings of Théo van Rysselberghe 2: 1908 to 1926

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Having moved on from Divisionism, the chroma in his paintings rose to a peak by about 1918, after his retirement to the Côte d’Azur.

March 12, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Why is Apple so reluctant for the offline Mac?

In the two years since we’ve been waiting for Apple to provide an option to opt out of online certificate and notarization checks, Apple has added two enhanced security modes, but not addressed the original issue.

March 12, 2023 Macs, Technology

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