Another week and no update from Apple. We did get another round of betas (beta7, 20E5229a) for macOS, iOS and siblings.
But we did get an announcement of Apple Tiles… no, wait… third party support for “Find My…” tracking. Apple’s plan to keep releasing something every week continues.
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📰News and Opinion
- Tim Cook References Steve Jobs in 45th Anniversary Email – Rocket Yard Blog
- Transcript of Tim Cook Interview by Kara Swisher – The New York Times
- Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop. The grass is not greener on the other side – Carlos Fenollosa
- Apple’s Find My network now offers new third-party finding experiences – Apple
- MacStadium Free/Open Source Project
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Tim Perfitt: “MDS 4 is coming along. The current build adds a fancy new button.” (Thread)
- Joel Rennich: “It’s Wednesday… so that means more fun with Single Sign On Extensions! This time we’re doing a bit of an “off-label” use of the SSOE and making it authoritative for a ZTNA service instead of an IdP which lets Xcode use modern auth directly for repos.” (Thread)
- Kelsey Hightower: “Software isn’t enterprise ready until it has a “contact sales” pricing tier.”
🔐Security and Privacy
- Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file – Jeff Johnson
- This man thought opening a TXT file is fine, he thought wrong. macOS CVE-2019-8761 – Paulos Yibelo
- Getting to Know: macOS Security Compliance Project: Part 2 – Allen Golbig
🔨Support and HowTos
- Using Markdown comments to add search keywords to Self Service descriptions – Rich Trouton
- Adobe Remote Update Manager – Darren Wallace
- Personalizing your GitHub profile – Emily Kausalik
- Migrating Services from macOS Server – Charles Edge
- Why Keyboard Shortcuts don’t work on non-US Layouts and how Devs could fix it – Thomas Kainrad
🤖Scripting and Automation
- How to script the uninstallation of macOS System Extensions – Graham Pugh
- Get Password from Keychain in Shell Scripts – Scripting OS X
- ninxsoft/Kmart: A Mac command-line tool that generates kick-ass Jamf Pro reports
- dataJAR-recipes: Adobe 2021 (update for Apple silicon titles)
🍏Apple Support
- Privacy – Apple (updated)
♻️Updates and Releases
- Disk Drill 4.3.314 (with Apple Silicon support)
- Mosyle launches Mosyle Fuse to streamline MDM, identity, and security on macOS – Bradley Champers, 9to5Mac
- Introducing Enrollment Customization, API Updates – Kandji Blog
- NIST Big Sur Guidance Revision 2
- BlockBlock 2.0.1
- Outset 3.0.3
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
- Arek and Adam Special Feelings Share Time – Mac Admins Podcast
- Open source asset management with Snipeyhead – MacDevOpsYVR
- A Ticking Time Bomb In Your Business — Command-Control-Power
🎈Just for Fun
- James Thomson: “This isn’t necessarily pretty, but it does work! You can roll dice from an AppleScript, check if they are still rolling, and get the final result. All in a UIKit-based Catalyst app.”
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