Author Archives: NickW

What are they going to do about it? Use the investors to pour more money into something else? FB’s privacy model isn’t that good. It’s not surprising that they want to profit off of crap, too. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/10/14/1750247/one-of-facebooks-earliest-investors-says-people-have-lost-trust-in-company

I really like my new M1-based 13″ MacBook Pro. It is rather fast, from AppleTV streaming HD video to running multiple browser tabs in Safari. I personally like the Podcasts app and News app. It was a good investment. I also got AppleCare+ because I have a couple of rambunctious dogs who run around the …

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Interesting how things worked out, in the end. Incidentally, I just got both ARM64-based Debian and Ubuntu Server running on M1-based macOS (Big Sur). https://apple.slashdot.org/story/21/10/07/218205/steve-jobs-tried-to-convince-dell-to-license-mac-software

There are alternatives: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-a-revamped-windows-subsystem-for-linux/

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/21/09/12/0044227/linux-for-apple-silicon-macs-gets-closer-to-reality

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apache-fixes-actively-exploited-zero-day-vulnerability-patch-now/

https://www.wired.com/story/bgp-route-leak-internet-outage/

Now that I’m a persistent macOS user, this affects me. Turns out they won’t be supporting x86 ISOs booting on ARM (M1 or Apple Silicon). VMware is inventing something new. “We don’t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon.” “running x86 operating systems on Apple silicon is not something …

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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/lawsuits-indictments-revive-trump-alfa-bank-story/