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Apple has released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]

February 2, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 32 Up to 23 scenes in one image

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Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton.

February 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Scheduled activities: 3 launchd or DAS?

While macOS uses DAS-CTS to schedule hundreds of background activities, third-parties normally use launchd. Comes with a full diagram explaining DAS-CTS.

February 2, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 31 Two or more scenes in one image

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Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image

February 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Backing up to network storage: checks and balances

Backing up with Time Machine to a NAS or other network storage is different. Here’s an account of how it creates and handles sparse bundle storage in Ventura 13.2.

February 1, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian painters: Arkhyp Kuindzhi

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Born in Mariupol when it was a hub for oxcart transport, he painted unusual light, the River Dnipro, and the coast of Crimea.

January 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Log literacy: Reducing log entries shown

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How to use Ulbow to find just the log entries you need, using filters and predicates. Bring order to chaos.

January 31, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 33: Titus Andronicus

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A violent and bloody revenge tragedy, very popular at the time, brings what may be the only contemporary sketch of one of Shakespeare’s plays.

January 30, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 188

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 188. Here are my solutions to them. 1: His […]

January 30, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Scheduled activities: 2 Running the activity

How running a background task takes a tiny fraction of second, although the task itself takes seconds or minutes, and why it’s run on E cores.

January 30, 2023 Macs, Technology

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