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habineroyesterday at 4:20 AM1 replyview on HN

It schedules low-priority background processes.

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/23/scheduled-activities-1-s...


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DetectDefectyesterday at 4:35 PM

Until we see the source code (or at least a man page) that is an unverified claim and the process should be treated like malware:

    while : ; do pkill -9 dasd ; sleep 10 ; done
The tasks it "schedules" must be very low-priority, because nothing breaks when dasd doesn't run.
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