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Inside iCloud+ Private Relay: can it be trusted?

Apple’s Private Relay service isn’t a full VPN, but is designed to ensure that no one knows both your IP address and the sites you connect to. Is it a good choice?

January 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

The Thread of Time in paintings 2: Threads

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Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby, William Dyce, Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse, Velázquez and others with allusions to the thread of time.

January 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Has Time Machine slowed?

Since Catalina, reports of Time Machine backups slowing to a crawl have become common, but the reasons are unclear. It’s time for Apple to inform us.

January 9, 2022 Macs, Technology

The Thread of Time in paintings 1: The Fates

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Painting time as a concept is very difficult. Once solution is to show the Fates, as depicted by Rubens, Goya, Burne-Jones, Jacek Malczewski and others.

January 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 133

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The period allotted […]

January 8, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Logging out and in

Is logging out and back in again a good way to deal with problems? Although it can be, it might not do what you think it does any more.

January 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

In memoriam Antoine Coypel 2

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A series of motifs telling stories from classical mythology was completed with a breathtaking ceiling in the Sun King’s Royal Chapel at Versailles.

January 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How macOS controls performance: QoS on Intel and M1 processors

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Running processes at different Quality of Service affects their performance differently on Intel and M1 Macs. This explains what happens.

January 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

In memoriam Antoine Coypel 1

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For the 200th anniversary of his death, a look back at paintings by this artist, a favourite of the Sun King. Here are mainly religious images.

January 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Booting an M1 Mac from hardware to kexts: 3 XNU, the kernel

Once the kernel takes over from iBoot, there’s a lot of hardware to get running before the SSV can be properly validation, and kernel extensions loaded.

January 6, 2022 Macs, Technology

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