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Month: January 2025

Urban Revolutionaries: 2 Living in the city

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Crowded apartments in Montmartre, the Lower East Side in New York City, smoke in Charleroi and Dortmund, workers’ cottages, and more smoke.

January 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Friday magic: how to cheat on E cores and get free performance

How to more than double the speed of a thread run on the E cores, by running another 11 threads at the same time.

January 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Stairs

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Stairs to fall down, to sit in disgrace, or pose with your sibling? Stairs winding up and defying gravity, bearing ballet dancers, or in a Gothic prison.

January 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Thunderbolt 5 SSDs are promising, but fill their cache quicker

Early testing of TB5 SSDs show they do deliver much faster speeds that even USB4 models, although not as high as some claim. But their cache size may limit streaming large amounts of data.

January 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all supported macOS

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

January 30, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released an update to XProtect for Sequoia only

Early today Apple released an update to XProtect for macOS Sequoia only bringing it to version 5286. As […]

January 29, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 186 Poison B

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The deaths of Demosthenes and Themistocles, Cleopatra’s experimental toxicology, and Tristan and Isolde – was it poison or a love potion?

January 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Watch your background: background activities with DAS-CTS

There’s normally more than 500 background activities, like Time Machine backups and XProtect Remediator scans, waiting for dispatch in the list maintained by DAS. How this works.

January 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 185 Poison A

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The young Theseus is almost poisoned by Medea, Medea creates a poison potion for Jason to gain the Golden Fleece, the death of Socrates, and of Phocion.

January 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Please don’t delete your logs

Why do some Macs apparently not have Unified log files? Maybe it’s because they’re being deleted by a misguided housekeeping app. Here’s what is going wrong, and what you should do to avoid that.

January 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

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