Edit: Guys I didn’t write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I’ve now fixed tho

Edit: Also, the information about there being no escape is out of date – here’s a quick guide to how to fix the problem in the modern day

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    87·
    9 months ago

    I’ve said for years that the very last power we have as consumers is the ability to turn off our internet and still be able to use our devices. That is my minimum expectation of any company.

    Fridge needs an internet connection, fuck you. TV won’t work unless it’s connected to the internet, fuck you.

    But most especially (and this is why I moved to Linux originally), computer needs to always be connected to the internet even if all I’m doing is opening an office program that has nothing to do online? Go fuck yourself.

    The ability to unplug my ethernet cable and still be able to use 99% of my computer with the exception of email and a web browser is the absolutely most basic human right left to us.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    32·
    9 months ago

    Your Computer Isn’t Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it

    I’m not using Apple hardware or software, so I doubt it.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 months ago

      I have an iPhone propped up on the desk viewing my laptop screen just so Apple can record my programs and be happy. Don’t want them to miss out!

  • Eggyhead@kbin.run
    30·
    9 months ago

    The version of macOS that was released today, 11.0, also known as Big Sur…

    Good thing we’re on top of things here on the fediverse.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      9 months ago

      This is from 2020. You absolutely can use Little Snitch or a similar firewall to block this traffic.

      We agree how sinister and dystopian it is to need to work against your hardware/os vendor for something like this though, right?

      Shutup 10 exists, but that doesn’t make it OK that Windows users have to continuously be on guard for MS to try snooping on them, either.

      • sadreality@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        Spending time to this is waste of life, it used be you setup the PC and it was good, now it is maintenance. I could not justify it any longer… made that switch.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
      6·
      9 months ago

      Can you though? LS now operates in user mode, which means it can no longer block traffic sent to Apple via a kernel thread.

      It’s all a bit pointless though, as a LOT of hardware now calls home as well, and it doesn’t matter what OS to run on top of it unless you’re running something like TempleOS. Vanilla Linux is not going to protect you by itself. And if you’re using a repository system for software updates, that’s going to be reporting your software too — and many web browsers also report the URLs you go to (or even consider going to) and what extensions you have loaded.

      But that article points at a solution for macOS users: it’s the certificates that are being checked. Any non-bog-standard software I run is not notarized or signed, and it functions just fine and has nothing to send back to Apple’s servers. First time I run it I need to right click and select Open to run the app, and this bypasses the entire signer system.

    • Zworf@beehaw.org
      1·
      9 months ago

      Little Snitch

      Little Snitch won’t work because they use the Apple-blessed content filter which apparently doesn’t allow blocking this.

      Pointing it to localhost in the hosts file does work, as indicated in that article.

    • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      Last time I bought this up, everyone thought I was lying because they couldn’t believe the thought of their beloved status symbol not being perfect.

      Its important to remind people that apple cares about your security and privacy as much as zuckerberg.

  • YeeHawSeeSaw@lemm.ee
    2·
    9 months ago

    I haven’t noticed Akamai traffic recently; has Apple moved to another contractor, or do they import these hashes internally now?