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qsort is part of the ISO C90 standard though.


Check out rwsnoop, included in macOS. It use Dtrace to trace the read/write syscalls. You need to turn off SIP for Dtrace though afaik.


Why not work to standardise an adult content HTML meta tag and do the same for DNS. Now sites that are tagged as adult content can be blocked at device and router level by the end user.


There already is a standard! Many porn sites comply with it!

https://www.rtalabel.org/


Not only does macOS comply to the POSIX standard, it also is a fully certified UNIX system.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3683.htm


This is cool. I must say that I prefer the OS9 version of Zoom with the detached windows.


The crazy thing is that you can get at least two windows in Zoom. It's my favorite feature and the reason I prefer it over any of its competitors. However, it's for some reason hidden and handicapped. You need to turn it on and even then it will only work when you have two screens. IMO it should be enabled by default and work even if you only have a single screen. I use it every day, but usually have both windows on my main screen. It's especially invaluable when someone screenshares and you want to see people's faces at the same time.


Nothing is stopping Nvidia from creating a N2 SoC that competes with the Apple M1. They don’t need to own ARM to do that. They can even create their own SOC with a Nvidia GPU.


If the ad is an image and it’s been fetched from the server then it’s reasonable to assume it’s been viewed no?


Generally no, as botnets can and do trivially spoof that kind of activity to burn competitors ad budgets or generate more revenue for the ad networks or websites.


Yes but Facebook is a communication plattform, iCloud is a backup and sync feature. Not sure how you think a ”report this message” would work.


iMessage is a communication platform.


True, but it’s 1-to-1 like sms. If someone were to send CP to you over iMessage wouldn’t it be more natural to contact the police instead of Apple?


> If someone were to send CP to you over iMessage wouldn’t it be more natural to contact the police instead of Apple?

probably.


Why is it not possible to disable SIP, make the desired changes, compute a new seal, then enable SIP again?


I kind of bailed on macOS prior to Big Sur, so I'm not sure—but I think you can do that. Authenticated-root would need to be kept turned off, but that's a separate thing.

You're going to have to redo everything after every update, however.


Because if you can do it, any rootkit will be able to do it too.


No it can't. You'd have to disable SIP temporarily in the first place, and a rootkit can't boot a recovery environment while SIP is engaged.

And then on Apple Silicon Macs, entering 1TR is tied to the physical action of holding down the power button.


But you disable SIP while booted in recover mode. Somehow Apple needs to do this anytime the system is updated.


You can definitely make snapshots on APFS. It also use checksums for filesystem integrity.


> You can definitely make snapshots on APFS.

Apple can. I can’t. Making APFS snapshots requires special entitlements, which they’re not going to give me.

> It also use checksums for filesystem integrity.

It doesn’t check integrity of the actual data though. But I care about my data.


> Apple can. I can’t. Making APFS snapshots requires special entitlements, which they’re not going to give me.

What makes you think that? Carbon Copy Cloner does this, and is made by a small independent developer.

https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/leveraging-snapshots-on-apfs-vol...


They have managed to obtain the special entitlement.

Source: https://bombich.com/blog/2018/03/30/building-better-backups-...

They’re one of two apps in the world who have been granted the entitlement as far as I know. The other one is Time Machine.


You can use tmutil to create a snapshot.

Or do you want to create an app that performs a snapshot via some API.


One does not simply create an APFS snapshot using tmutil. Using tmutil means Time Machine creates a snapshot for me. It also conveniently earmarks the snapshot for later removal at Time Machine’s own discretion.

That’s not what I want. I want to have a say in snapshot retention, not have some tool make the decision for me.

Specifically, I need precise control over snapshot retention so I can maintain several off-site replicas of my backup.


APFS does NOT checksum the same as ZFS. APFS relies on the SSD controller to checksum/safeguard data. Which is fine so long as all your data is on SSD :p


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