Apple has repeated their strong position on data privacy and security with an op-ed by Tim Cook in Time. Ironically, I cannot read the original op-ed, because of European data privacy laws…
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News and Opinion
- How AirPlay 2 works on Vizio TVs – Nilay Patel, The Verge
- Every Product Apple has made so far – Four Decades of Apple Products – Visual.ly (via Dave Mark)
- DuckDuckGo Taps Apple Maps to Power Private Search Results
- Tim Cook calls on FTC to let consumers track and delete their personal data – James Vincent, The Verge
MacAdmins on Social Media
- Bob Gendler: “I’m pretty stoked. While we’re not supposed to do work during a furlough I’ve used this time to catch up on some skills that would be useful for work. I created a macOS app in Swift that interacts with a JamfPro server to toggle some settings for use at NIST. This is my first GUI based app I’ve built in Swift with Xcode.”
- Victor (groob): “Did you know that on macOS 10.14.x launchd has its own plist parser and requires self closing tags for booleans? Bug here (OpenRadar) Thanks to @twseph for patching”
- Fraser Speirs: “Re: the discussion on @_connectedfm about the 9.7” iPad rising in price to make room for a new mini 5 below it – such a move would be a clear signal that Apple is ceding K–12 education to Chromebook and wants out of the market.” – Thread!
- Neil Martin: Imaging is dead. Take an hashtag#Apple hashtag#Mac (or a lab full). Add a dash of awesome hashtag#NoMAD Login with upcoming DEPNotify functionality. (video)
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- Backup and Archive setups for media professionals – DAM SAN
- Mojave 10.14.2 and Secure Tokens, it works! – Frederick Abeloos
- Finder Aliases and Bookmarks: a summary – Howard Oakley
- What makes Fleetsmith’s MDM Zero Touch Deployment Unique? – Jon Xavier
- NFS. Not… Dead… Yet… – Charles Edge
- Unlock or decrypt your FileVault-encrypted boot drive from the command line on macOS Mojave – Rich Trouton
- Code signing for the concerned: 1 Why? – Howard Oakley, 2 Creating a personal certificate – The Eclectic Light Company
Scripting and Automation
- Don’t fear the regex – Dr Drang (via John Gruber)
- Maintain daily, weekly and monthly MySQL backups – Graham R Pugh
- Send Slack notifications when a partition size exceeds a threshold – Graham R Pugh
Apple Support
- Prepare for changes to profile installation in iOS 12
- Find the right power adapter and cable for your Mac notebook
Updates and Releases
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