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Author: hoakley

How macOS keeps an eye on UPS and wireless devices

Using a combination of iohid and BatteryCenter, macOS checks attached UPS and wireless keyboards, mice and trackpads ever 2-5 seconds.

June 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

Sea of Mists: Pupils, Thomas Fearnley 2

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Paintings of the Grindelwald Glacier, and various Norwegian landscapes, he died of typhoid when he was only 39.

June 20, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Making Apple silicon faster: 2 Multithreading

The general rule for allocating threads to P and E cores according to their QoS, with fine controls such as Game Mode, and frequency control.

June 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

Sea of Mists: Pupils, Thomas Fearnley 1

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A Norwegian landscape painter who trained with JC Dahl in Dresden, and who shared themes with the German Romantic painters.

June 19, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Does Sequoia’s Password app change keychains?

Differences between file-based keychains including the login keychain, and Data Protection keychain. How the Passwords app in Sequoia caters for the latter.

June 19, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Hot on the heels of the slightly earlier update to XProtect, Apple has just released an update to […]

June 18, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has just released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […]

June 18, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 138 Halo

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In their heyday, worked elaborately in gold leaf, but lost with the realism of the Renaissance. Revived by the Pre-Raphaelites, and rarely used for secular figures.

June 18, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Making Apple silicon faster: 1 Threads and tasks

Understanding terms, including process, thread and task. How the assigned Quality of Service, or QoS, is used to determine how threads are allocated to cores.

June 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 24 Arachne’s fate

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How Arachne came to a weaving contest against Minerva, but told the truth about gods and goddess, so was turned into a spider.

June 17, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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