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Mojave’s privacy protection is complex and will crash innocent apps

Giving an app Full Disk Access doesn’t. The only way to give an app access to some protected data is by trying to access that data, but when macOS crashes that app, the user is stuffed.

August 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Two Scenes in One Painting: multiplex narrative from 1500 to 1600

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Great paintings by Botticelli, Bosch, Titian, Tintoretto, the Carraccis, and others, showing multiplex narrative.

August 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Apple’s Cloud of Unknowing

How did it take Apple so long to tell users of the imminent death of Back to My Mac? And why does Apple replace fully-functional Smart Keyboards?

August 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Two Scenes in One Painting: multiplex narrative from the Romans to 1500

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Showing two or more scenes from the same story in a single painting (multiplex narrative) is common, effective, and good art. Examples from Masaccio, Memling, Bosch, and more.

August 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Booting the Mac: Visual Summary

Single-diagram summary of how a modern Mac starts up in macOS 10.12 or 10.13, from pressing the Power button to running the kernel.

August 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto, 8: The Albergo and its Crucifixion

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He’d been trying to get a commission since 1549. Then in 1564, he pre-empted a competition, and painted 23 works for a single room, including his vast Crucifixion, 12 m (40 feet) across.

August 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

What’s stored in NVRAM?

Listing of known NVRAM variables and their usage/meaning, together with notes on how to change them.

August 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Too Real: the narrative paintings of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 8

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Some religious stories which may have had personal relevance, and conclusions to his series of Roman spectacles, and his sculpture. Finally, a joke which may have inspired the Surrealists.

August 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Booting the Mac: the kernel and extensions

How macOS gets to load a hefty kernel and over 300 extensions so quickly: it cheats with a pre-linked kernelcache. And why you don’t see extensions loading in the log.

August 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pierre Bonnard: Mimosa and memories, 1944-1947

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Paintings of exuberant brilliant yellow mimosa, bleak self-portraits, and his favourite views around Le Cannet from his final years.

August 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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