mrpippy

Did you tell him you were a fan of just the kernel, not the userland?

Full title is "A 20-year retrospective on reverse-engineering an Apple bug and a very desperate plea for help." but that was too long. Rosyna is awesome and needs help.

Yikes, my mistake, fixed.

Original post when John Friel passed away: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551900

Once the G5 came out (without support for booting OS 9 bare-metal) they continued selling special config of the MDD for another year.

Yeah, note that’s at idle! Under full CPU load mine (12 core) pulls 230 watts. I’ve never stressed the GPUs at all.

I found Rez to be a really good option, see https://github.com/macssh/macssh/blob/master/macssh/source/A... or https://github.com/macssh/macssh/blob/master/macssh/source/t.... Modern macOS still includes Rez and DeRez too!

And new-enough CodeWarrior should be fine with regular \n line-endings and '/' in #include.

I was previously maintaining an mbedTLS fork for classic/Carbon Mac OS (https://github.com/bslabs/mbedtls) for use with libssh2, they were still keeping C89 compatibility at the time which was helpful.

Newer versions of CodeWarrior do support C99, but I can't remember if Pro 6 (the last version with a 68k toolchain) does. My go-to was Pro 8, since it's Carbonized you can run it natively on OS X (PPC or under Rosetta 1). It's possible to take the Pro 6 68k tools and use them in Pro 8 as well: https://github.com/macssh/macssh/wiki/Using-CWPro6's-68k-too...

macOS/iOS/iPadOS has used this internally for several years to implement various ancillary filesystems (like FAT), but macOS 15.4 is the first time it's been exposed as a supported API to 3rd parties.

It didn’t have anything to do with Sarbanes-Oxley (that was iPhone/iPod touch updates), Apple just charged for OS updates back then.

Snow Leopard was notably cheaper than Leopard ($30 vs $130), Lion was $30 on the App Store, Mountain Lion was $20, then Mavericks and everything after have been free.

Snow Leopard did have a long life though, it was the last OS that could run PowerPC apps, also the last to run on the original 32-bit Core Duo Intel Macs.

On macOS x86_64, the size of PAGEZERO cannot be set to 0, but it can be set to 0x1000 (4 KiB) instead of the default 4 GiB. Wine does this to support running Windows EXEs which need to load at a fixed address.

On ARM64, PAGEZERO's size cannot be made smaller than 4 GiB.

I'm sure Intel's law firms are drafting a cease & desist as we speak. I'd bet $10 the name changes.

Your headphones were probably sending an AVRCP 'play' command every time they connect. This was a common problem with older car radios too.

WBD has had a crushing amount of debt since it was formed a few years ago, and they’re in “sell everything that’s not nailed down” mode.

Podman is in an experimental state for FreeBSD 14, and can even run Linux containers using the Linux binary emulation. https://podman.io/docs/installation#installing-on-freebsd-14...

(I'm personally using it now to run the ArchiveTeam Warrior docker container on FreeBSD, albeit with a few hiccups)

My overriding feeling after reading this is: displaying text is a key job of a web browser. A browser that showed no text would be useless. And yet, after learning that Chromium's text looked wrong on Windows (by far the most important platform for Edge and Chrome), it took 4 years for the Chromium and/or Edge teams to fix it.

4 years of user research?

3 years to respect the user's ClearType Tuner values?

Being a regression from pre-Chromium Edge, this should have been a release blocker on Chromium-based Edge. Instead, text looked bad for 4 years.

macOS does support EVFILT_TIMER, unfortunately the man pages that Apple hosts are very out-of-date. A more recent page (https://www.manpagez.com/man/2/kqueue/osx-10.13.1.php) shows support, and it's been there since at least 10.9 (2013).

I’m pretty sure there’s no way to pass USB devices through to a guest VM when using Virtualization.framework (which is required for running macOS VMs)

You can do this without virtualization/emulation, pass ‘-arch x86_64’ or ‘-arch arm64’ to clang. Or both, for a universal binary. And on Apple Silicon, you can test them both thanks to Rosetta.

I think there’s a story in the Bill Gates biography “Hard Drive” about when he flies to MITS in New Mexico to show off BASIC (I think), then realizes he forgot to write a bootloader, so does it on the plane on a yellow legal pad. Toggles it into the Altair during the demo and it works on the first try.

(Might have a lot of details wrong)

Correct. Developer ID certs cannot be revoked self-service, you have to email Apple.

Judging from the script linked here (https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7527), Docker’s Developer ID cert was revoked by Apple. Are…they going to explain why/how that happened?

I don't think there are diversion points, you either keep going to destination or turn around. The A380 is rated for ETOPS-330, that's 5hr30min from a diversion airport.

No, those were just the changes since v9.22

A bunch of documentation was posted here, although I’m not sure the links still work (might need to go through archive.org)

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=211

It’s documented in their older blog posts, I believe they use the ‘asr’ utility to copy the OS install. The many partitions that make up a macOS install means that cp or rsync isn’t enough. dd would do it, but at great cost in flexibility (can’t back up to a smaller disk, or select files) and speed

Upgrade to a used or new-old-stock M2 iPad Pro instead?

Don’t forget Docs (Wordly)

You have to create an account to download updated graphics drivers? Bad move, Qualcomm.

Before Sequoia, a Linux VM using Rosetta would have TSO enabled all the time.

With Sequoia, TSO is not enabled for Linux VMs, and that kernel patch (posted in the last few weeks) is required for Rosetta to be able to enable TSO for itself. If the kernel patch isn't present, Rosetta has a non-TSO fallback mode.