A major new version of macOS bringing few big changes, but lots of opportunity for improvements and fixes.
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Apple hasn’t trusted us with the knowledge of what’s in macOS 11.5.2 update, but expects us to trust it not to abuse its checks on CSAM.
Three recent WWDC sessions extolling Apple’s “extensive reference material” and Xcode can’t find anything on these rich and extensive libraries.
Every developer should watch the 5 videos about DocC from WWDC. But it’s really a plaintive cry for help. Until Apple squares up and addresses the problem, it can only grow worse.
A new support page contains supplementary info for Mints and its log extracts and tools.
When a “fixed” formatting string proves anything but fixed, then breaks without warning or even mention in a release note.
How Apple made changes to Foundation routines which format dates and times which can break their formatting when in 12-hour clock mode.
Trying to get hardware info within an app – simple data like CPU details, logic board ID, type of internal storage – is fraught and undocumented, the victim of prolonged self-neglect.
The more you look at changes to Mach Absolute Time coming in Apple Silicon Macs, the more messy they become, largely because the docs are so incomplete.
Privacy protection differs between GUI and the command line, causing anomalies which are being exploited to steal private data.
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