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AceJohnny2yesterday at 7:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Feels like the article is just a cheap dunk on macOS.

That blog, Howard Oakley at eclecticlight.co, is consistently the most informative on the internet about macOS behaviors and internals, that Apple does not explain. He is also the author of several useful tools [1] to help observe and understand some of its underlying details. It's maybe the closest we have to a SysInternals for macOS.

[1] https://eclecticlight.co/free-software-menu/


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sbukyesterday at 8:11 PM

It is. Add we all have off days. Perhaps Howard has had one here. I mean, he is defining what type of OS it is by how it's configuted. Which is just wierd.

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sgjohnsonyesterday at 7:22 PM

That just highlights my point about this article being a cheap dunk?

Because I was very disappointed with it ending at “SSV doesn’t let you”. SSV can be disabled, and the author should have known (almost certainly knows) that.

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