On: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

[mmastrac]

I could really use a "special edition" of MacOS - sort of like what happened with XP in the later days. Strip out all the Apple stuff, privacy failures, and excessive gatekeeping [$] and just leave the raw OS.

[$] for me

[systemvoltage → mmastrac]

UNIX was a proprietary OS but literally everyone used it in the 80’s - without a license. Campuses to labs around the US.

We need to nuke the Apple bullshit from MacOS Catalina and convert it into people’s operating system. Ethics be damned.

[spijdar → systemvoltage]

What UNIX are you thinking of? Even the Berkeley distribution appeared to require a license from AT&T to use, for V7 UNIX. Anything with AT&T's code was litigiously protected, culminating in a law suit in the 90s against 4.4BSD Lite, which was the first to claim to be rid of all AT&T code. Are you saying most installations were just unlicensed copies?

[systemvoltage → spijdar]

I heard it from Brian Kernighan's interview on Lex Fridman's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo

[pram → systemvoltage]

If only there were freely available, open source UNIX clones in the 21st century. Oh well!

[systemvoltage → pram]

Those clones have issues with multiple monitor setups and can’t run Photoshop.

[lazylizard → mmastrac]

was it called darwin? hah