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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

515 points · 323 comments · privacyisntdead

arialdomartini · 1791145038 · focus · HN ↗
Stop the curl | bash insanity.
<a href="https://nocurlbash.com/#en" rel="nofollow">https://nocurlbash.com/#en
1. 1over137 · 1791145522 · focus · HN ↗
  “You wouldn't run a stranger's code without reading it.” Yes I would. We all do it all the time. macOS itself is closed source, and even if it weren't, there’s way too much code to read.
  1. jtrueb · 1791145774 · focus · HN ↗
    Lol, thinking the exact same thing. No, we don’t read next to 0.0001% of the code we run.
    jacquesm · 1791147149 · focus · HN ↗
    Code from trusted repositories is an entirely different thing compared to running 'wget some_github_repo_shell_script | sh' . That said, the likes of Tailscale are setting a bad example.
    nvme0n1p1 · 1791148360 · focus · HN ↗
    The script, and the code the script downloads, both come from the same repo and were written by the same developer.
    If you've already decided you trust the author, what's the actual threat here?
    jacquesm · 1791148539 · focus · HN ↗
    I would not trust the author just like that.
    But then again, I'm a bit paranoid. At a minimum I would download the script and read it, and if it was too long or not written clearly enough then I would just drop it and find something better.
    user43928 · 1791148905 · focus · HN ↗
    I think the point is that when a repo contains:
    program.bin install.sh
    It seems rather pointless for me to thoroughly inspect the install script before I run the program.

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