• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Unironically yes. I don’t want my mom or child doing this, and I know how to in a few seconds if I want. Things like this make my life as the family sysadmin easier.

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        4 hours ago

        fair point, i did see below its a setting. google has a similar one.

        still fuck tim apple but valid point is a valid point, cheers

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    5 hours ago

    I have no problems with this. Notarizing your app is trivial and takes just a few minutes. As a user I want to know who actually produced an app and ensure it wasn’t tampered with.

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      4 hours ago

      It looks like you have to have a paid Apple developer account to do it.

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        4 hours ago

        Which is a complete non-issue. It’s $99 / year, basically a symbolic amount just high enough to prevent spammers from making a billion accounts.

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    5 hours ago

    Christ almighty what clickbait bullshit… here’s the changelog of the change:

    In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notarized. They’ll need to visit System Settings > Privacy & Security to review security information for software before allowing it to run.

    Plus you can completely disable gatekeeper in the terminal. Y’all can put away your pitchforks now.

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      5 hours ago

      This is a million times better than the current. Using homebrew, you often have to re-approve apps that brew ended up reinstalling in a manner to remove the previous exception.

      Now, worst-case, it’s the same process as any other app permission, and best case, it can be adjusted via the terminal.

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    I’m going to roll my eyes: if you read the change it’s literally ‘Instead of cmd-clicking, you need to hit ‘okay cool’ in the control panel’, not YOU CANT RUN UNSIGNED SOFTWAER!!@11!!111

    The reason for this change was, shockingly, because malicious asshats were putting up malware pages telling people ‘oh you have to cmd-click to install totally legit thing here!’ and this puts a nice warning up in front of less-educated people in the hopes of preventing the spread of malware.

    I’m 100% for this change since it literally adds 3 seconds of clicking a single time for an app, and makes it where my family members are less likely to get totally screwed over.

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        5 hours ago

        I’m literally using 15.1 right now, and set up 86box las tonight which is unsigned.

        You hit a button in the control panel, say ‘fine’, enter your password and it runs.

        So no, that’s not how it works and he’s just plain wrong, but it’s Lunduke who is usually wrong when he’s not being a chud, so that’s the usual for him.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      This makes sense. Still, as someone who used Marcos on and off for 4 years, there’s literally been times where I gave up on frustration because some sort of app didn’t run for “security” reasons

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    5 hours ago

    Apple’s processors may be impressive these days, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that their computers are getting ever less useful.

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    6 hours ago

    Nice, when they introduced the AppStore I was convinced that this would happen within a few years and as a developer I moved off Apple products and towards more open hardware and software. I was confused why - while they did it from the start on iOS - they kept allowing side-loading on their computers. In the end they just tried to cook the frog slowly so it wouldn’t jump out of the saucepan.