US, Russia envoys meet in Davos as Ukraine reconstruction plan postponed
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US, Russia envoys meet in Davos as Ukraine reconstruction plan postponed
US envoy Witkoff to meet Putin on Thursday, the Kremlin confirms, as signing of $800bn Ukraine deal is put on hold.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
Allerta meteo a Catania per il passaggio del ciclone Harry
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When writing about unpleasant feelings, how do you avoid alienating the reader entirely?
The German folk tales I translate generally don't into great depth when it comes to the interior life of the characters - it's rare when they are described in more detail than "he/she was overcome by dread".
Thus, I don't worry about alienating the readers with this. However, deeply unpleasant _actions_ usually get content warnings.
Europol busts Europe-wide drug ring in ‘largest-ever’ operation
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Europol busts Europe-wide drug ring in ‘largest-ever’ operation
Hague-based agency for fighting international and organised crime says it has dealt ‘massive blow’ to narco traffickers.Al Jazeera
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Media, annullato bilaterale tra Trump e Merz a Davos - Europa - Ansa.it
Un incontro bilaterale programmato per oggi tra il presidente degli Stati Uniti Donald Trump e il cancelliere tedesco Friedrich Merz al World Economic Forum di Davos è stato annullato a causa del ritardo dell'arrivo della delegazione statunitense: lo…Agenzia ANSA
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"Expertin Pamela Wicker sieht München vorn"
Wicker: „Hamburg ist als Name nicht so bekannt wie Köln, Berlin hat nicht die Mittel wie München.“
Köln hat schon eine Haushaltssperre, Berlin streicht ebenfalls munter - aber München soll soviel Geld auf der Kante haben? Sie streichen doch jetzt auch schon an allen Ecken und Enden im Etat (waren das nicht für 2026 allein 100 Mio?) Also, wo soll das Geld in Muc herkommen, gibt´s ´ne goldene "Geheimtasche", die nie leer wird?
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Olympia: München, Berlin, Hamburg und Rhein-Ruhr im Vergleich
Olympia 2036: Welche Stadt überzeugt – München mit Erfahrung, Hamburg mit kurzen Wegen, Berlin mit Visionen oder Rhein-Ruhr mit Rekordstadien?Volker Tackmann (shz.de)
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Wie soll Deutschland den Kohle-Ausstieg überstehen? – DIE ACHSE DES GUTEN. ACHGUT.COM
Aus der Atomkraft ist Deutschland schon ausgestiegen, aus der Kohle steigt es gerade aus und dann gibt es - wenn Wind und Sonne nicht reichen - nur noch Gas als Energieträger zur Stromerzeugung. Oder man greift zum Notstromaggregat.www.achgut.com
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How X's algorithm silently kills your links without explicitly penalizing them
X's open-sourced algorithm reveals no explicit URL penalties, yet links get 94% fewer views. The code shows how engagement prediction creates indirect demotion.Luis Rijo (PPC Land)
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Freihandel: EU-Parlament fordert Rechtsgutachten zum Mercosur-Abkommen
Alles schien schon unter Dach und Fach, nun hat das Europaparlament das wichtige Mercosur-Abkommen vorerst ausgebremst. Der EuGH soll den Deal prüfen. Das könnte lange dauern.DER SPIEGEL
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Possiamo anche girarci attorno e non volere ammettere con noi stessi quello che i nostri sensi ci restituiscono, ma il presidente degli Stati Uniti, Donald Trump, mostra elementi di squilibrio. Nei rapporti internazionali è bene che prevalga il linguaggio diplomatico, anche con chi lo oltraggia, sicché non va chiesto a nessun governante di metterla in […]
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Nordio si autopromuove e attacca l’opposizione sul referendum: «Petulante litania»
Nella relazione sull’andamento della giustizia, il ministro fornisce dei dati e nella sua ricostruzione tutto funziona: smaltimento ... Scopri di più!Giulia Merlo (Domani)
Nuove stragi a Gaza, mentre Netanyahu aderisce al Board of peace
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Elicotteri e artiglieria colpiscono la Striscia nonostante il cessate il fuoco. Operazioni militari a Hebron, attacco all’UNRWA a Gerusalemme Est. Sullo sfondo il progetto di Donald Trump, tra rifiuti e fallimenti
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Trump Admin Admits DOGE May Have Mishandled Social Security Data
In a court filing, the Justice Department said it uncovered actions by DOGE that were "outside of SSA policy."Arthur Delaney (HuffPost)
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La tempesta Harry sta flagellando il Mediterraneo.
Le boe ondametriche dell’ISPRA hanno registrato ieri onde fino a quasi 10m: Cagliari 5.12m; Catania 9,71m; Mazara del Vallo 9.36m; Palermo 8.02m; Ponza 4,97m; Siniscola 8.12m
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In a fight over President Donald Trump’s quest to acquire Greenland, the president made false and misleading statements about the Nobel Peace Prize and his own peace record...
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Trump’s Greenland rhetoric includes false claims about the Nobel Peace Prize and NATO - Poynter
Trump cited the Nobel Peace Prize and his record on wars and NATO to justify his push for Greenland, but key parts of that argument are falseAmy Sherman (The Poynter Institute)
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"The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be."
This new platform has the potential to divert attention and public funds for years to come. If it gains any traction at government level, I predict a Concorde fallacy that will run for years…
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‘Spotlight’ on Press TV (Iran): panel discussion of Trump’s takeover of Greenland
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Kann man eine Affäre weglächeln, ist Aussitzen die passende Strategie für massive Anwürfe im Raum? Ulrich Siegmund hat dieses Manöver gewählt, um im Vorfeld der Abstimmung zur Neubesetzung des Magdeburger Landtags auf die Beschuldigungen gegen den do…Dennis Riehle (Dennis Riehle > News | Meinungsblog zu Politik, Gesellschaft und Zeitgeist)
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Termini perentori per le sanzioni GDPR: la sentenza della Cassazione che cambia tutto
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La Corte di Cassazione con una recente sentenza si pronuncia su una annosa questione, e non solo in teoria, concernente la natura dei termini entro i quali l’Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati deve, a pena di decadenza, emettere
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Trump Arrives In Davos After Air Force One Electrical Issue Sparked Brief Delay
Trump Arrives In Davos After Air Force One Electrical Issue Sparked Brief Delay
President Trump's trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos was briefly delayed after Air Force One returned to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, shortly after departure due to a minor electrical issue identified on the 747. Flight crews did not declare an emergency or squawk 7700, indicating the situation was precautionary.
Real-time aircraft tracking platform AirNav Radar showed the flight path of AF1 as it departed Joint Base Andrews for Davos, Switzerland, in the overnight hours. While paralleling the coast of Long Island, pilots appeared to decide to return to Joint Base Andrews due to a "minor electrical issue."
AF1 landed safely at Andrews around 2300 ET, after about an hour and 20 minutes in the air, according to AirNav Radar.
Air Force One Returns to Joint Base Andrews After Takeoff Due to Electrical Issue 📰
Air Force One departed Joint Base Andrews for Davos, Switzerland, but returned shortly after takeoff when the crew detected a minor electrical issue. The aircraft turned back off the U.S. East… t.co/kNakTeJBul
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Trump and the delegation traveling with him quickly boarded a Boeing 757, typically used by the Vice President or other cabinet members, and took off around midnight en route to Davos.
Despite the brief travel delay, Trump has arrived in Switzerland. He is expected to address the Davos elites at 0830 ET.
NOW - Trump arrives in Davos, after a "minor electrical issue" caused a delay and plane change en route. t.co/0GRUBreMf1
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The focus of Trump's speech is likely on the domestic agenda, particularly housing, according to Goldman's Delta One desk-head, Rich Privorotsky, who noted that overnight headlines floated executive action aimed at curbing institutional home purchases, though legal scope looks narrow.
Expectations are also building around incremental flexibility in 401k usage as part of a broader affordability push.
Late chatter about tariff rebate checks feels legally doubtful without Congressional backing.
Polling on affordability remains weak, and foreign adventurism…Greenland in particular…has not helped approval ratings.
This speech has been framed as both a reset toward domestic priorities and given the relative outperformance of domestic stocks could be an important catalyst
But, earlier, at the Davos podium, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a historic rebuke to the U.S. under President Trump, declaring the rules-based order led by America "a pleasant fiction": "This bargain no longer works."
While the address has been front-run as being about domestic 'affordability', we suspect the President will diverge from the teleprompter a little and use this as an excuse to discuss his various recent escapades around the world.
JPMorgan may have summed it up best: “We thought the president was going to Davos to talk about housing and credit card affordability. Suddenly now it’s become about Greenland affordability."
The President is due to speak at 0830ET.
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Can you slim macOS down?
![<p>Open Activity Monitor when your Mac isn’t doing a great deal and you’ll see hundreds of processes listed there. Even in a virtual machine with a minimum of services there are at least 500, and in a vanilla setup with no apps open a real Mac can exceed 700. Clearly some of those like WindowServer are essential, but aren’t there plenty we could do without? That’s a question I’m asked repeatedly, which this article tries to answer.</p>
<p>One of the first problems when trying to identify which processes we could do without is knowing what each does, and how they’re interrelated. I doubt whether any individual in Apple knows them all, and trying to establish what some do would be a challenge. If we assume that we need to identify just 500 candidates, and each takes an average of one week to research, that would take over 10 person-years, by which time they would all have changed again. Studying 500 targets that are ever-changing simply isn’t practical.</p>
<p>When problems get difficult, it’s often best to cheat, so I’m going to go for the low-hanging fruit and consider a well-known group of processes, those making Time Machine backups. I’ve been following these since macOS Sierra, and frequently study them in the log. They’re also good candidates for removal, as many folk don’t back up using Time Machine but use one of its alternatives. So some already have good reason to want to be rid of <code>backupd</code> and its relatives. They’re also relatively discrete: although they depend on other processes to function, I don’t know of any other subsystems that require Time Machine, making it potentially disposable.</p>
<p>Set up a basic VM in maOS 26.2 and, even though Time Machine has never been enabled, you’ll see its processes listed in Activity Monitor.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/backup1.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-90291" height="522" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/backup1.png" width="940" /></a></span></p>
<p>Here are <code>backupd</code> and <code>backupd-helper</code> showing they still take a little % CPU even when Time Machine is completely disabled.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/backup2.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-90292" height="343" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/backup2.png" width="940" /></a></span></p>
<p>They also take a little memory, here a total of 5.1 MB. While that isn’t much, added up over 500 processes it becomes worth caring about.</p>
<p>Those two processes are controlled by LaunchDaemons stored in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, in property lists named com.apple.backupd-helper.plist and com.apple.backupd.plist. Here’s our first problem, as those are located in the Signed System Volume (SSV), so we can’t change them in any way. The same applies to the other 417 LaunchDaemons and 460 LaunchAgents that account for most of the processes listed by Activity Monitor. In the days before the SSV it was possible to edit their property lists to prevent them from being launched, but that isn’t possible any more when running modern macOS.</p>
<p>If we can’t stop the <code>backupd-auto</code> process from being run, is there any other way we could block it? To answer that we need to understand how it’s scheduled and dispatched.</p>
<p>Until macOS Sierra, Time Machine backups were run from <code>launchd</code> as timed events, but since then their scheduling and dispatch has been <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/2025/01/29/watch-your-background-background-activities-with-das-cts/">performed jointly</a> by Duet Activity Scheduler (DAS) and Centralised Task Scheduling (CTS), using lightweight inter-process communication (XPC). DAS manages a huge list of activities including com.apple.backupd-auto, and decides when to dispatch it to CTS to run. For example, it won’t do that for the first five minutes after a Mac starts up, to allow other processes to run first.</p>
<p>Once that time is up, DAS decides to run the backup:<br />
<code>38.738 DAS 0:com.apple.backupd-auto:2052A3, Decision: CP Score: 0.949374}<br />
38.738 DAS '0:com.apple.backupd-auto:2052A3' CurrentScore: 0.949374, ThresholdScore: 0.068531 DecisionToRun:1<br />
38.762 DAS REQUESTING START: 0:com.apple.backupd-auto:2052A3</code></p>
<p>CTS then proceeds with the dispatch via XPC:<br />
<code>38.762 CTS-XPC DAS told us to run com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)<br />
38.844 CTS-XPC Initiating: com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)<br />
38.846 CTS-XPC _xpc_activity_dispatch: beginning dispatch, activity name com.apple.backupd-auto, seqno 0<br />
38.846 CTS-XPC _xpc_activity_begin_running: com.apple.backupd-auto (0x7a9014280) seqno: 0.<br />
38.878 CTS-XPC Running (PID 537): com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)<br />
38.879 DAS STARTING <_DASActivity: "0:com.apple.backupd-auto:2052A3", Utility, 60s, [1/19/26, 8:50:43 PM - 1/19/26, 9:10:43 PM], Started at 1/19/26, 9:10:38 PM, Group: com.apple.dasd.default, PID: 537></code></p>
<p>This is in a VM with Time Machine disabled, though, so Time Machine reports:<br />
<code>38.879 Time Machine Skipping scheduled Time Machine backup: Automatic backups disabled</code></p>
<p>However, com.apple.backupd-auto has now completed, and that’s passed back through CTS-XPC:<br />
<code>38.879 CTS-XPC _xpc_activity_set_state: send new state to CTS: com.apple.backupd-auto (0x7a9014280), 5<br />
38.880 CTS-XPC Completed: com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)</code></p>
<p>The next run is then scheduled in DAS following an interval of at least 30 minutes, and ideally in about an hour:<br />
<code>38.881 CTS-XPC Rescheduling: com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)<br />
38.881 DAS SUBMITTING: 0:com.apple.backupd-auto:B293AE<br />
38.882 DAS Submitted: 0:com.apple.backupd-auto:B293AE at priority 30 with interval 1800 (Mon Jan 19 21:25:38 2026 - Mon Jan 19 21:40:43 2026)</code></p>
<p>So, even with Time Machine disabled in a VM, DAS-CTS continues to schedule automatic runs of Time Machine at hourly intervals. And, because DAS-CTS is isolated from all user controls, there’s nothing we can do to prevent that scheduling and dispatch. Does that matter, though? This whole sequence was completed in 0.144 seconds, using lightweight inter-process communication with negligible use of resources, and only repeats hourly.</p>
<p>To the Unix purist, this might appear wasteful and unnecessary, but macOS isn’t, and never has been, Unix. It’s a closed-source proprietary operating system designed for use by millions of consumers and regular users. Rather than configuring it using config files or its thousands of property lists, its controls are largely exposed in System Settings, with a few settings hidden away and only accessible through the <code>defaults</code> command.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/macos914.png"><img alt="macos914" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2631" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/macos914.png?w=940" /></a></span></p>
<p>Classic Mac OS was more modular, with optional installs that the user could pick and choose, as shown above in Mac OS 9.1. These days with the SSV, choice is more limited from the start, with the only real options being whether to install the cryptexes used in AI, and the x86 code translator Rosetta 2. The latter is transient, though, and likely to go away next year.</p>
<p>Like it or not, modern macOS isn’t designed or implemented to give the user much choice in which processes it runs, and architectural features including the SSV and DAS-CTS prevent you from paring its processes down to any significant degree.</p>](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/71907960 "<p>Open Activity Monitor when your Mac isn’t doing a great deal and you’ll see hundreds of processes listed there. Even in a virtual machine with a minimum of services there are at least 500, and in a vanilla setup with no apps open a real Mac can exceed 700. Clearly some of those like WindowServer are essential, but aren’t there plenty we could do without? That’s a question I’m asked repeatedly, which this article tries to answer.</p>
<p>One of the first problems when trying to identify which processes we could do without is knowing what each does, and how they’re interrelated. I doubt whether any individual in Apple knows them all, and trying to establish what some do would be a challenge. If we assume that we need to identify just 500 candidates, and each takes an average of one week to research, that would take over 10 person-years, by which time they would all have changed again. Studying 500 targets that are ever-changing simply isn’t practical.</p>
<p>When problems get difficult, it’s often best to cheat, so I’m going to go for the low-hanging fruit and consider a well-known group of processes, those making Time Machine backups. I’ve been following these since macOS Sierra, and frequently study them in the log. They’re also good candidates for removal, as many folk don’t back up using Time Machine but use one of its alternatives. So some already have good reason to want to be rid of <code>backupd</code> and its relatives. They’re also relatively discrete: although they depend on other processes to function, I don’t know of any other subsystems that require Time Machine, making it potentially disposable.</p>
<p>Set up a basic VM in maOS 26.2 and, even though Time Machine has never been enabled, you’ll see its processes listed in Activity Monitor.</p>
<p><span class=\"alignnone\"><a href=\"https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/backup1.png\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90291\" height=\"522\" src=\"https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/backup1.png\" width=\"940\" /></a></span></p>
<p>Here are <code>backupd</code> and <code>backupd-helper</code> showing they still take a little % CPU even when Time Machine is completely disabled.</p>
<p><span class=\"alignnone\"><a href=\"https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/backup2.png\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90292\" height=\"343\" src=\"https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/backup2.png\" width=\"940\" /></a></span></p>
<p>They also take a little memory, here a total of 5.1 MB. While that isn’t much, added up over 500 processes it becomes worth caring about.</p>
<p>Those two processes are controlled by LaunchDaemons stored in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, in property lists named com.apple.backupd-helper.plist and com.apple.backupd.plist. Here’s our first problem, as those are located in the Signed System Volume (SSV), so we can’t change them in any way. The same applies to the other 417 LaunchDaemons and 460 LaunchAgents that account for most of the processes listed by Activity Monitor. In the days before the SSV it was possible to edit their property lists to prevent them from being launched, but that isn’t possible any more when running modern macOS.</p>
<p>If we can’t stop the <code>backupd-auto</code> process from being run, is there any other way we could block it? To answer that we need to understand how it’s scheduled and dispatched.</p>
<p>Until macOS Sierra, Time Machine backups were run from <code>launchd</code> as timed events, but since then their scheduling and dispatch has been <a href=\"https://eclecticlight.co/2025/01/29/watch-your-background-background-activities-with-das-cts/\">performed jointly</a> by Duet Activity Scheduler (DAS) and Centralised Task Scheduling (CTS), using lightweight inter-process communication (XPC). DAS manages a huge list of activities including com.apple.backupd-auto, and decides when to dispatch it to CTS to run. For example, it won’t do that for the first five minutes after a Mac starts up, to allow other processes to run first.</p>
<p>Once that time is up, DAS decides to run the backup:<br />
<code>38.738 DAS 0:com.apple.backupd-auto:2052A3, Decision: CP Score: 0.949374}<br />
38.738 DAS '0:com.apple.backupd-auto:2052A3' CurrentScore: 0.949374, ThresholdScore: 0.068531 DecisionToRun:1<br />
38.762 DAS REQUESTING START: 0:com.apple.backupd-auto:2052A3</code></p>
<p>CTS then proceeds with the dispatch via XPC:<br />
<code>38.762 CTS-XPC DAS told us to run com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)<br />
38.844 CTS-XPC Initiating: com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)<br />
38.846 CTS-XPC _xpc_activity_dispatch: beginning dispatch, activity name com.apple.backupd-auto, seqno 0<br />
38.846 CTS-XPC _xpc_activity_begin_running: com.apple.backupd-auto (0x7a9014280) seqno: 0.<br />
38.878 CTS-XPC Running (PID 537): com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)<br />
38.879 DAS STARTING <_DASActivity: \"0:com.apple.backupd-auto:2052A3\", Utility, 60s, [1/19/26, 8:50:43 PM - 1/19/26, 9:10:43 PM], Started at 1/19/26, 9:10:38 PM, Group: com.apple.dasd.default, PID: 537></code></p>
<p>This is in a VM with Time Machine disabled, though, so Time Machine reports:<br />
<code>38.879 Time Machine Skipping scheduled Time Machine backup: Automatic backups disabled</code></p>
<p>However, com.apple.backupd-auto has now completed, and that’s passed back through CTS-XPC:<br />
<code>38.879 CTS-XPC _xpc_activity_set_state: send new state to CTS: com.apple.backupd-auto (0x7a9014280), 5<br />
38.880 CTS-XPC Completed: com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)</code></p>
<p>The next run is then scheduled in DAS following an interval of at least 30 minutes, and ideally in about an hour:<br />
<code>38.881 CTS-XPC Rescheduling: com.apple.backupd-auto (0xb671bcc80)<br />
38.881 DAS SUBMITTING: 0:com.apple.backupd-auto:B293AE<br />
38.882 DAS Submitted: 0:com.apple.backupd-auto:B293AE at priority 30 with interval 1800 (Mon Jan 19 21:25:38 2026 - Mon Jan 19 21:40:43 2026)</code></p>
<p>So, even with Time Machine disabled in a VM, DAS-CTS continues to schedule automatic runs of Time Machine at hourly intervals. And, because DAS-CTS is isolated from all user controls, there’s nothing we can do to prevent that scheduling and dispatch. Does that matter, though? This whole sequence was completed in 0.144 seconds, using lightweight inter-process communication with negligible use of resources, and only repeats hourly.</p>
<p>To the Unix purist, this might appear wasteful and unnecessary, but macOS isn’t, and never has been, Unix. It’s a closed-source proprietary operating system designed for use by millions of consumers and regular users. Rather than configuring it using config files or its thousands of property lists, its controls are largely exposed in System Settings, with a few settings hidden away and only accessible through the <code>defaults</code> command.</p>
<p><span class=\"alignnone\"><a href=\"https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/macos914.png\"><img alt=\"macos914\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2631\" src=\"https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/macos914.png?w=940\" /></a></span></p>
<p>Classic Mac OS was more modular, with optional installs that the user could pick and choose, as shown above in Mac OS 9.1. These days with the SSV, choice is more limited from the start, with the only real options being whether to install the cryptexes used in AI, and the x86 code translator Rosetta 2. The latter is transient, though, and likely to go away next year.</p>
<p>Like it or not, modern macOS isn’t designed or implemented to give the user much choice in which processes it runs, and architectural features including the SSV and DAS-CTS prevent you from paring its processes down to any significant degree.</p>")
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Vulnerabilità critica in Zoom: falla CVE-2026-22844 con CVSS 9.9
Zoom segnala una vulnerabilità critica con CVSS 9.9. Aggiornare dispositivi affetti per evitare rischi.Redazione RHC (Red Hot Cyber)
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Snowflake: Diese Browser-Erweiterung kann Leben retten!
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Happy Wednesday, y'all.
I've just been watching a bit of youth club half hour at Westminster on the TV.
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Srajit M Kumar (Heidelberg) on time and the working-class movement in 20th century North India
My dissertation focuses upon the various intersections between time and working-class politics through a study of the North Indian industrial city of Cawnpore (now Kanpur) in the early 20th century. I interpret time here in two ways. First, in its objective sense, as in its interpretation as linear time, represented through the ‘tyranny of clock time’. In other words, how…
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Srajit M Kumar (Heidelberg) on time and the working-class movement in 20th century North India
My dissertation focuses upon the various intersections between time and working-class politics through a study of the North Indian industrial city of Cawnpore (now Kanpur) in the early 20th century…Society for the Study of Labour History
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