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Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly

Why XProtect Remediator scans can report BadPluginServiceSignature status_code 31 and abort, and why you don’t need to do anything about it.

August 12, 2023 Macs, Technology

How to fix background activities that stop running

What can you do when your Time Machine backups stop running regularly? Or another background activity has gone missing?

July 11, 2023 Macs, Technology

How a security update threw errors in XProtect Remediator

You’ve just installed an update to macOS security software, then it gives you a status of ‘Unknown’ caused by [] and stops working. What’s wrong?

February 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Scheduled activities: 3 launchd or DAS?

While macOS uses DAS-CTS to schedule hundreds of background activities, third-parties normally use launchd. Comes with a full diagram explaining DAS-CTS.

February 2, 2023 Macs, Technology

Scheduled activities: 2 Running the activity

How running a background task takes a tiny fraction of second, although the task itself takes seconds or minutes, and why it’s run on E cores.

January 30, 2023 Macs, Technology

Scheduled activities: 1 Scheduling by DAS

How macOS schedules tasks like making automatic Time Machine backups, from property list to transactions between DAS and CTS.

January 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

How macOS schedules background activities

The story of how Mac OS X went from cron, to launchd, and ended up with Duet Activity Scheduler, to schedule background activities like backups.

January 21, 2023 Macs, Technology

Art and Science: 11 New paint

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Acrylics are too chemically complex for artists to prepare themselves, containing packaged blends of polymers with surfactants, and much more.

February 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: Introduction to a new series

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From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.

December 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to run commands and scripts on Efficiency cores

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Although there doesn’t appear to be any straightforward way to run command tools or scripts only on Efficiency cores, there are ways and means.

September 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

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