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Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it (sneak.berlin)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: Guys I didn't write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I've now fixed tho

Edit: Also, the information about there being no escape is out of date -- here's a quick guide to how to fix the problem in the modern day

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

4 year old article

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This is from 2020. You absolutely can use Little Snitch or a similar firewall to block this traffic.

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/02/23/how-to-run-apps-in-private/

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This is from 2020. You absolutely can use Little Snitch or a similar firewall to block this traffic.

We agree how sinister and dystopian it is to need to work against your hardware/os vendor for something like this though, right?

Shutup 10 exists, but that doesn't make it OK that Windows users have to continuously be on guard for MS to try snooping on them, either.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Added in an edit

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

My computer runs Linux.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it

I'm not using Apple hardware or software, so I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same.

The good thing about buying something it's with your own money you can buy whatever it's better for you.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (35 children)

Don't want to sound like I'm proselytizing, but unless you run Linux, your computer really isn't yours (closed firmware aside).

Microsoft is just as bad at treating your hardware as theirs that they so graciously allow you to use (in between forced updates, criticizing your browser choices, and trying to trick you into storing everything you do in one drive)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Don't want to sound like I'm proselytising but do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Don’t want to sound like I’m proselytizing, but there are other free operating systems not based on Linux: FreeBSD, FreeDOS or ReactOS in example. I wish, I could add GNU/Hurd to the list, but from what I know, its unusable at the moment. Redox is also a new OS written in Rust, but it's not ready yet (I think).

Now, are these real alternatives to a regular Linux based OS? In some cases they are (FreeBSD and their family), but most probably would just use Linux for their PC. They aren't even suited for gaming I guess, the likes of Steam. I was just "Acktually"-ing around that you don't "need" Linux for owning your computer. I mean, you mentioned closed firmware, so technically I was allowed to. :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah my position is really to recommend any FOSS OS in the large over proprietary ones. However, since my experience is primarily with Linux distributions, and I do think that Linux makes sense for a lot of use cases, I usually start by talking about "Linux" first.

But, from my experience, if a "solution" to a problem "forces" the user to make a choice, then they'll stick with what "currently works" over having to make a choice. So when I talk to people about Linux IRL, I typically direct them to Linux Mint directly, even though other distros exist and it actually doesn't fit my use cases. Once they're comfortable in the Linux ecosystem, they can switch to a different distro or OS family if they feel the need to do so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I know people running FreeBSD as their daily driver; totally left that one out haha.

The rest of them are either niche (e.g. FreeDOS for retrogaming) or not quite ready for daily driving (e.g. ReactOS -- which I've been rooting for for a while now).

There's also TempleOS lol

When we're talking FOSS, feel free to "ackshually" all day. Worst case is I learn something new/cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I would absolutely run FreeBSD on my laptop if the WiFi wasn’t awful. It doesn’t matter which chipset, max is like 20 Mbps. Rouuugh.

On the server side of things, Docker/Podman is so convenient, and keeps me from blowing so much time on “maintenance.”

Hopefully, some day, I can daily a BSD. Until then- NixOS!

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