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Month: October 2024

Is there more XProtection in Sequoia?

In Sequoia, XProtect’s data is now updated in a different way. Does this change its capabilities, though? A quick dip into YARA files has the answer.

October 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

The Real Country: 7 Meat, milk, fleece and dung

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Sheep were the best mobile source of dung, and used to fertilise the soil used to raise crops such as staple cereals, wheat and rye. They also provided fleeces to generate the wool trade.

October 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Understand and check Time Machine backups to APFS

From dispatch of a new automatic backup, through computing which items need to be backed up, cleaning up snapshots and old backups, to success at the end.

October 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 163 Tents, modern

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Sargent’s hospital tent, Arab camps, Shoshone below Lander’s Peak, Sami in Lapland, clubs on Derby Day, the Big Top, and on holiday.

October 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Pinning iCloud Drive in Sequoia is bizarre, and an update to Cirrus

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Pinning files and folders in iCloud Drive behaves differently, and can readily become frustrating. Behaviours explained, with an update to Cirrus to housekeep pinned files.

October 2, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

October 1, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 162 Tents, ancient

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Their use by armies of the distant past, in the war against Troy, the sack of Rome, the Battle of Issus, by Alexander the Great, and in Crusades.

October 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Living with(out) notarization

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Notarization is now obligatory for developers, but at the same time, we’re still able to run our own apps that aren’t notarized. Here’s how that works, and why.

October 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

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