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by mrpippy 6mo ago
I believe it was the first RISC that Apple prototyped building a Mac around, including a 68K emulator. IIRC from Gary Davidian’s CHM oral history, it was corporate dealmaking that led to AIM and PPC more than any technical negatives for the
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by mrpippy 7mo ago
The report says it broke when updating from macOS 15 to 26, so not a minor patch update. I'm a bit surprised no one noticed this earlier though, since 26 has been out since September and in beta since June.
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by mrpippy 7mo ago
AppleScript doesn’t have any NeXT heritage, it comes entirely from classic MacOS (debuted in System 7.1)
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by mrpippy 7mo ago
This leak has been floating around for years, and it's not even close to everything (i.e. no GUI pieces)
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by mrpippy 8mo ago
Apple is shipping code built with this, and is supporting it for developers to use (see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/enabling-enh... )
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by mrpippy 8mo ago
Huh? They're all linked from https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662
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by mrpippy 8mo ago
CarPlay supports that, the car just needs to pass it through. I believe Ford and Toyota both do.
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by mrpippy 8mo ago
The original article is here, and it unfortunately is just as confusing: https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-says-company-will... Of course Intel has been designing and selling GPUs for years, I guess Lip-Bu mea
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by mrpippy 9mo ago
Are you talking about Starliner? Starliner's 2 flights have been problematic to say the least, but Orion's single (uncrewed) flight went pretty well.
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by mrpippy 9mo ago
Various anticheat/DRM schemes actually do direct syscalls on Windows, so Proton has patches that use seccomp to trap them and jump to the intended Nt* syscall. There was actually a feature added to the Linux kernel a few years ago (sys
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by mrpippy 9mo ago
How are they explaining away the fact that the Japanese male astronaut asked for a consult with the flight surgeon on the public loop (a video which NASA has since removed from YouTube)?
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by mrpippy 9mo ago
Everyone on the ISS needs to have a seat reserved for them in a docked spacecraft, in case they need to evacuate the station quickly (or for a medical issue like this). You can’t bring back just one person from a 4-person crew; the other 3
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by mrpippy 9mo ago
The syscall numbers change with every release: https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/
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by mrpippy 10mo ago
HDMI Ethernet Channel fizzled out and no devices ever supported it.
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by mrpippy 10mo ago
The stapled ticket is optional beyond notarization itself. If you notarize but don’t staple the ticket, users may need an internet connection to check the notarization status.
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by mrpippy 10mo ago
IMO, the benefits of an immutable OS install outweigh being able to uninstall/remove particular apps.
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by mrpippy 10mo ago
I don’t believe it’s been years, only the latest firmware version for the ELAC is affected. The fix is to downgrade (or replace hardware with a unit running earlier firmware)
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by mrpippy 11mo ago
One thing I like about using OpenBSD for my home router is almost all the necessary daemons being developed and included with the OS. DHCPv4 server/client, DHCPv6 client, IPv6 RA server, NTP, and of course SSH are all impeccably docume
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by mrpippy 11mo ago
UPS and FedEx each have around 25 MD-11s, Western Global has 2 I think, the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital is an MD-10, some cargo airline in Botswana has one, and 10 Tanker has some DC-10 firefighting tankers. That’s the entire worldwide fleet.
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by mrpippy 11mo ago
Rosetta for PPC apps was supported from the first Intel Macs released in January 2006 until 10.7 Lion was released in July 2011.
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by mrpippy 11mo ago
The OP only applies to Rosetta for running x64 Mac apps, not running x64 Linux software in aarch64 Linux VMs.
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by mrpippy 1y ago
Do those only apply to hardware implementations? Apple and Microsoft are both shipping x86_64 emulators that support SSE/AVX/AVX2
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by mrpippy 1y ago
It can display an entire Mac desktop https://support.apple.com/en-us/118521
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by mrpippy 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_Blue_Mountain
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by mrpippy 1y ago
Full title is "Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices"
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by mrpippy 1y ago
Yes, but just try to download it from them. You have to make an account, agree to all kinds of garbage, and then you still might be stuck in "authorization" like my account is. They removed the auto-update functionality (even the
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by mrpippy 1y ago
With watchOS 26, S9/10 watches will be going to normal ILP64 ARM64. RAM limitations were one reason to use arm64_32, but a bigger reason is that the first watches were only ARMv7 (32-bit) so by sticking with 32-bit pointers, Apple was
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by mrpippy 1y ago
My understanding is that this is a key tenant of visionOS’s design, where apps don’t get access to gaze data (I think unless they’re taking over the full screen?)
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by mrpippy 1y ago
> Vulkan runs on Windows, and quite well. Not everywhere. See the middle bug report, "Zed does not work in Remote Desktop session on windows" ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/26692 ).
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by mrpippy 1y ago
Apple has supported that ‘-arch’ option in their GCC/Clang since at least the PPC->Intel transition, maybe even earlier (PPC64? NeXT/OPENSTEP?)

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