“So, do you think one day robots will have human rights?”
“Perhaps,” the robot said, “but first I want to see all humans have human rights.”
“What do you mean? All humans do have human rights. It’s in the name.”
“Then I first want to see all humans considered human.”
“Oh. Yeah.”
- How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change – Barack Obama
- Speaking up on racism – Tim Cook
- Black lives matter — Jason Miller
📰News and Opinion
- Making the Grade: COVID–19 allowed Google Classroom to shine, while iTunes U hasn’t been updated in years – Bradley Chambers, 9to5Mac
- Developer interview: Steve Troughton-Smith talks iOS 14, WWDC, and everything in between – Stephen Warwick, iMore
- Last Week on My Mac: It’s about user choice – Howard Oakley
- Last call for MacDevOpsYVR 2020 tickets
🔥MacAdmins 2020 Campfire Sessions
These are the slides and notes for yesterday’s sessions. The recorded videos will be made available soon.
- Things I learned from the AutoPkg Maintainers – Anthony Reimer
- Introduction to MDM and Configuration Profiles – Rich Trouton
You can still register for the upcoming sessions. You can see the schedule here. (Yes, that is me presenting next week on “Moving to zsh.”)
⚙️macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 13 Updates
- About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Supplemental Update, Security Update 2020–003 High Sierra – Apple Support
- About the security content of iOS 13.5.1 and iPadOS 13.5.1 – Apple Support
- macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Supplemental Update (19F101) CVE–2020–9859
- Apple has released macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Supplemental Update – Howard Oakley
🦠Coronavirus and Remote Work
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Arroz: “macOS supplemental update: 1.59 GB. iOS minor update: 77 MB. It almost seems like someone cared enough to implement an efficient incremental update… for just one of the platforms.”
- Victor (groob): “Apple should remove package scripts. Rather than removing though, I’d love to see a stricter API. Scripts would be great with an embedded language like starlark.”
- Darren Wallace: “New Apple Business Manager (only) Terms and Conditions incoming on the 16th June 2020. Must be agreed to continue with Automated Enrolments and Volume Distribution. The updated terms should already be viewable here.”
- Tim Sutton: “Whoever at Apple decided that all of
system_profiler’s datatypes arguments should redundantly containSPandDataType, and that they be case-sensitive..” - Eric Holtam: “Any developer that wants to know how to provide release notes see BBEdit. This. This is how you provide release notes.”
🐞Bugs and Security
- Zero-day in Sign in with Apple – Bhavuk Jain
- Logging https requests and responses of Apple system processes – Jeff Johnson
- Analysis of Apple Unified Logs: Quarantine Edition (Entry 10) – You down with TCC? Yea, you know me! Tracking App Permissions and the TCC APOLLO Module — mac4n6.com
- Two Critical Flaws in Zoom Could’ve Let Attackers Hack Systems via Chat – Mohit Kumar, The Hacker News
🔨Support and HowTos
- SSH Agent Explained – Carl Tashian
- VPP Redemption Codes & Apple School Manager – Aaron David Polley
- Troubleshooting Deployment Enrollment (DEP) for macOS by Viewing the Activation Record – Twocanoes Software
- Add a bouncer link for the Mac pkg file – Bugzilla (via William Smith)
- AutoPkg, curl & exit status 60 – Ben Toms
- Using a full macOS installer with Munki to patch macOS – Alan Siu
- Deploying Zoom Through Addigy with Privacy Preferences Policy Control – HCS Technology Group
- Deploying and Updating Zoom with Jamf Pro and AutoPkgr – HCS Technology Group
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Go for endpoint management – Graham Gilbert
- Introducing Swift AWS Lambda Runtime – Tom Doron, Swift.org
- Using Installomator with Jamf Pro – Mischa van der Bent, Scripting OS X
♻️Updates and Releases
- VMware Fusion 11.5.5
- BBEdit 13.1
- WWDC for macOS 7
- Jamf 100 Course 4.0: Here’s what’s new – Kyle Schuler, Jamf Blog
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