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The Real Country: 2 The sower

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Stone-picking to improve the soil. A series of paintings of the Sower, broadcasting seed by hand. Weeding the fields to help the crop grow.

August 29, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Launching apps in Sonoma 14.6.1: Known malware

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Three malicious apps – Atomic Stealer, Genieo and XCSSET – against macOS 14.6.1, with full security, SIP disabled, and Gatekeeper disabled.

August 29, 2024 Macs, Technology

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, […]

August 28, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 153 Catasterisation and assumption

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What happens when a mortal is turned into a heavenly body, as with Orion; or when the Virgin Mary was taken up into Heaven.

August 28, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Launching apps in Sonoma 14.6.1: Reduced security

If you thought spctl disabled Gatekeeper assessments, and disabling SIP had little effect, then you might like to think again.

August 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 152 Apotheosis

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What happens when a pre-christian hero is elevated to the status of god or goddess. Starring Hercules, Aeneas, Romulus and others.

August 27, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Launching apps in Sonoma 14.6.1: Full security

Details of security checks including Gatekeeper, XProtect and notarization, performed when launching an app in full security.

August 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 34 Minos and the Myrmidons

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After the people of Aegina are almost wiped out by a plague, Jupiter gives its king an army of hard workers who became the fearsome Myrmidons in the Trojan War.

August 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 270

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 270. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

August 26, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Links, aliases and the decline of paths

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Symlinks are popular but prove fragile when folders get renamed or moved. Hard links don’t support directories and can’t cross volumes. The alias works best overall, but isn’t supported in Terminal.

August 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

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