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How RunningBoard tracks every app, and manages some

How this new part of macOS tracks the apps which you open, and declares when they exit “Death Sentinel fired!”

November 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Orlando Furioso: Angelica rescued and the orc slain

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Ruggiero rescues Angelica, but is unable to kill the orc. After they fly off together, he tries his luck but she becomes invisible and escapes. Orlando then kills the orc and rescues Olimpia.

November 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Safe Booting in Catalina has changed

Disk integrity checks appear to have been dropped from Safe Boot. OpenDirectory databases are rebuilt. With a full listing of all blocked extensions.

November 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Hardened runtime, sandboxing and XPC services

Jeff Johnson of @lapcatsoftware has just published an excellent technical article looking at controversial issues over hardening, sandboxing, […]

November 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Orlando Furioso: A wife marooned and Angelica fed to the orc

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Faithful Queen Olimpia is abandoned by her treacherous husband on a remote island. Ruggiero escapes on the hippogriff, and comes across Angelica, who is being fed to the orc.

November 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

RunningBoard: a new subsystem in Catalina to detect errors

RunningBoard is new to macOS 10.15 and iOS 13. It’s very active in the log, and can cause apps to crash sometimes. So what does it do?

November 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Auguste Renoir 5: 1886-90

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The Umbrellas, a portrait of Julie Manet, three landscapes painted alongside Paul Cézanne near Aix – some of the best paintings from these years.

November 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Starting up in Catalina: sequence and waypoints in the log

Some important similarities, such as the entry marking the beginning of startup, but plenty of changes in APFS and security entries.

November 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Distant panoramas: The 400th anniversary of Philip de Koninck 2

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Four hundred years ago today, de Koninck was born. Celebrate his birth by immersing yourself in these wonderful Dutch landscapes.

November 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Apple’s Notary Service can’t compete with a supermarket restroom

Even basic store facilities like restrooms contact details of who to contact when there’s a problem. Not so with Apple’s Notary Service. It just gives you spurious errors instead.

November 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

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