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rogueresearchon Is Objective-C BOOL a boolean type? It depends

jviotti, the reason BOOL was not changed to bool sooner was because it would break ABI compatibility. So on Mac for example, they had to wait until the x86_64 to arm64 to finally do it.

rogueresearchon macOS Sonoma is available today

https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-sonoma-full-installer-database...

rogueresearchon Apple Discontinues macOS Server

The fact that Server.app has been gutted and gutted for years now.

rogueresearchon Protect domains that don’t send email

There are many servers still not using DKIM, as it requires a server/software update. But SPF is super easy, requiring only DNS changes. Could probably do as you suggest looking at only SPF.

rogueresearchon Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters

Later versions of the Apple II line did eventually support uppercase. I forget which had it first, but the IIgs certainly did.

rogueresearchon Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs

Looks like people are also working on block lists that work with pfBlockerNG and pfSense, ex:

https://old.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/comments/d3p1gf/doh_ser...

rogueresearchon Mozilla lays off 70

>The burden of ensuring software quality can be shifted to devs and PMs

Heck, the burden can be shifted to users! But then you might not have so many users in the future. :(

rogueresearchon OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)

I have found the FreeNAS forums to be very helpful and friendly. Besides, like others said, FreeNAS is on FreeBSD, not OpenBSD.

rogueresearchon Security flaws caused by compiler optimizations

memset_s() was added to C11 for this.

rogueresearchon New Mac Pro

Glossy display.

rogueresearchon HP Ink Printers Remote Code Execution

Where do you find a firmware updater for macOS? Only instructions I see require connecting the printer to the public internet, which I'd rather not do.

rogueresearchon About the security content of updates for High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan

Maybe he's referring to this: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2

rogueresearchon TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

You mean these UniFi APs don't run a built-in web server to allow configuring them?

rogueresearchon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

Rogue Research Inc. - Montreal Canada - Software Developer

Rogue Research is looking for a motivated individual to join our team of software developers to help make the next generation of neuronavigation equipment for the neuroscience community. We are looking for a software developer to work on our Objective-C / OS X / Cocoa / desktop application.

Job desc: https://www.rogue-research.com/job_openings.html Contact: cv@rogue-research.com