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The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

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PunchyHamster · 1790986642 · focus · HN ↗
Weird to buy machine with company actively hostile to anything open to run open stuff
1. inventor7777 · 1790988088 · focus · HN ↗
  Is Apple taking steps to purposefully blocking open stuff, or are they just pointedly ignoring it and continuing to develop new hardware? I am genuinely asking, I don't know myself.
  edit: speaking mostly about macOS here, mobile OSes are much more locked down
  1. lmz · 1790988419 · focus · HN ↗
    The fact that they still allow this would point towards the latter. They are quite capable of locking it down like they do the iPhones.
    londons_explore · 1790990190 · focus · HN ↗
    And I suspect they will lock it down in a year or two.
    It was only really open to ease the transition between intel and arm.
    musictubes · 1790991147 · focus · HN ↗
    Give it up. People have been predicting this for 15 years.
    You can’t have a development machine locked down like iOS. As long as the Mac is the development machine at apple it will need to be able to run arbitrary code.
    r_lee · 1790991709 · focus · HN ↗
    I mean it'd be pretty easy for Apple to just make a special version of the OS/bootloader/whatever for their internal use
    internet2000 · 1790993730 · focus · HN ↗
    They could. They won't. Macs will never be bootloader locked, on that I'm confident.
    someonebaggy · 1791038856 · focus · HN ↗
    aren't they literally already bootloader locked but Asahi contains an exploit?
    internet2000 · 1791042822 · focus · HN ↗
    No.
    <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/security/boot-process-secac71d5623/web" rel="nofollow">https://support.apple.com/guide/security/boot-process-secac7...

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