Sometimes Apple silicon Macs refuse to boot from a bootable system. How to use bputil to check LocalPolicy and work out what’s gone wrong.
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Big Sur ended up with a total of 50 GB of updates on Apple silicon Macs. While Ventura did much better, its smallest update was still just under 2 GB. Now Sonoma is doing much better.
Look for Safari in /System/Applications and it’s not there any more. And an inactive boot volume group has no bundled apps in its main Applications folder.
After the dataless file, we get the codeless app, in the form of Sonoma’s new Web Apps. These sidestep issues of code-signing with their linked UUIDs and ad hoc signatures.
A fuller account with log extracts to show what happens when a user creates a Web App, and when they run it.
What is a Web App? How to create and use them, and how they run without any executable code. Could crafted Web Apps turn malicious?
How Big Sur gained an UpdateBrain that changed macOS fundamentally, and why you can’t get standalone or Combo updaters any more.
Intended to be lightweight, timely and quick to install, the first RSR has now been provided for Ventura. Did you know you can also uninstall it easily?
Details of the three standard Cryptexes in Ventura 13.3, when they can be loaded in the boot process, and where they fit in with Rapid Security Responses.
Details of what happens when an APFS (Encrypted) volume is mounted, when mounting a Time Machine snapshot, unmounting a volume, and loading a Cryptex.
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