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Comment · 10 days ago

So if it's about that WWDC content, it would only be for a new type of MDM managed app installation (declarative management). No new first-party Homebrew ;)

Transcript (@ timestamp) for convenience:

> 10:33 > Next, packages. macOS 27 now gives IT administrators the option to remove all the files and directories that are installed by a declarative management package, when the package configuration itself is removed. > 10:48 > This ensures unwanted data and files are not left behind on devices when no longer needed.

Comment · 11 days ago

I think you're off base regarding the speeds attainable by Thunderbolt (and/or the speeds of hard drives). Feel free to peruse e.g. https://www.sonnettech.com/product/thunderbolt/pcie-card-exp... ; https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12353459 (on PCIe and SAS bottlenecks).

Besides that, whether a throughput limit defeats the point depends on what the "point" was to begin with, as well as what the alternatives are.

Comment · 11 days ago

The point would be to have an enclosure of several/many SAS HDD's that you want to connect. The Thunderbolt to PCIe enclosure holds the PCIe card only, and a separate SAS enclosure holds disks. (The spinning rust type, surely.)

People also connect LTO tape drives using this interface.

Comment · 12 days ago

You can still have an external Thunderbolt-to-PCIe slots box too.

Comment · 12 days ago

Thunderbolt external SSD, would be the only Apple-ish thing. (Formerly of course, FireWire.)

To be absolutely complete, I could mention that at least one SAS HBA PCIe card exists on the market with support for macOS 27, even. Sometimes bundled with other products...

Comment · 12 days ago

They recognize NAS, still, though for instructions they refer you to the manufacturer: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102423#nas

Comment · 1 month ago

the article pasted into reddit comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1wpt6ye/comment/pby...

Comment · 1 month ago

According to Wikipedia, "Verisign was the outsourced operator for .name since the .name launch in 2002". That makes the reasoning yet more puzzling.

Comment · 2 months ago

I want the opposite. I want links to the best quality information - even if I have to hunt down a copy.

Comment · 2 months ago

Corrected link is https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975017/a...

Comment · 2 months ago

They evade judicial enforcement and try to stay anonymous. They've certainly already been sued (and lost by not even turning up). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive#March_2026_pu... (Contrast to Sci-Hub trying to defend themselves in court, in India, and that leading to no new articles since several years ago.)