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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: School of Athens or Blinded Samson?

After months of promotion, Apple Intelligence has arrived for many. Yet at the same time important changes have been made in security, and not a word said about them. Intelligent or blind?

December 22, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 287

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Comfort for […]

December 21, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of logs and Console

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Introduced with Mac OS X, logs became a good way to diagnose a Mac’s problems, using Console. Then in 2016 it all changed, and not for the benefit of administrators or users.

December 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

How iCloud can be simpler than a server

iCloud is now used for key services including notarization checks. For XProtect updates, it should be quicker and simpler, so long as you mind the pinniped.

December 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

XProtect has changed again in macOS Sequoia 15.2

There are no changes for Sonoma and earlier macOS, and Sequoia 15.0-15.1.1 will also continue working as before. But 15.2 and later work differently, as explained here.

December 19, 2024 Macs, Technology

Is it worth storing Time Machine backups on a faster drive?

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It’s well known that writing Time Machine backups to storage is throttled to slow them down. What’s the point of using faster SSDs that are more expensive if macOS stops them from being fast

December 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5284, […]

December 17, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Tune for Performance: Core types

Can you promote threads set to run on E cores so they run on P cores instead? Can you demote threads set to run on cores so they run in the background on E cores?

December 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 286

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 286. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Keeps […]

December 16, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Are sparse bundles faster than disk images?

Why does compressing a 15 GB file within a sparse bundle run more slowly than would be expected from its write performance?

December 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

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