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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

Log literacy: all about the log

The macOS log is very different from those seen in Unix. This explains where and what log files are, how they get written, how much they store, and how quickly entries can be written.

February 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian painters: Serhii Vasylkivskyi

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Born in Izyum, he spent most of his life in Kharkiv after training in St Petersburg and touring Europe and Egypt. Barbizon and Impressionist landscapes.

February 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Gaining control over the log with a new version of Ulbow

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A new Frequency view shows total log entries from different subsystems, helping you mute those that are clogging up your log.

February 7, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

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