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> they could likely decompile MacOS classic and rework it to give it modern memory protection, virtual memory, preemptive multitasking, and networking.

It had most if not all of that.

It had networking from the start with AppleTalk, later Ethernet and internet with MacTCP.

MacOS 9 had a preemptively scheduled kernel.

The problem is having that and supporting the software ecosystem, which depended on cooperative scheduling without having memory protection.

MacOS 9 ‘solved’ that by running the classic OS in a single process. It had APIs for creating preemptively scheduled threads, but those threads were limited in what they could do.

I think the new users aren’t necessarily beginners, and this targets new BSD users who aren’t beginners w.r.t. using CLI-based computers.

I’m thinking that because the text you referenced also says:

“for users who are not accustomed to text editors with separate insertion and editing modes, and includes support for editing UTF-8 text.”

I’m not sure the group “used to editors without visible menus, but doesn’t know vi” is very large, though.

We need to deploy essential services at least twice, apply CVE ‘fixes’ to a subset of them, and have tooling to diff their outputs.

That tooling should be shut off from the internet [1], and if it uses a LLM that should be at least a few years old.

[1] technically impossible if it also has the ability to veto responses, but the surface can be very small.

If they allow apps to provide that message from code, that is very hard to test for, even for Apple.

Shady developers would try very hard to get past such checks, for example by changing that message based on the date, IP address range, nearby WiFi networks, receipt of a payload, etc.

They could introduce an optional string-valued entitlement and check its text. That would be a lot easier but still require them to translate messages.

> and others (north europe) want to stay on their solar time.

Closer to their solar time, for quite a few. As an extreme example, most of Spain lies West of the prime meridian (some parts of it even west of Great Britain, the island), but its time zone is an hour ahead of that of London.

> The fact that other math problems are bulk solved yet nothing from cryptography was released/published as solved could be a strong indicator that "all modern public key based cryptography" could have been at risk.

“Could be”, but I think the correct way to describe it is “the general public doesn’t know”. It could be any of

- they tried very hard without finding weak spots

- they tried for a while, and gave up because the LLMs didn’t even produce leads

- they tried, found something and kept it for themselves

I think the first is not unlikely. Before LLMs, the likes of the NSA must have looked really hard into these problems, and IMO it’s not likely they found something substantial (if they did, their counterpoints in other large countries likely would find it, too, and some of them would have used that knowledge)

I assume you pronounce that X as the X in Mexico.