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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.
    halJordan · 1791148680 · focus · HN ↗
    You download a dmg and run it blindly? You download an exe and run it blindly. I wish it were in an rpm or deb coming from signed repos, but it's not so here we are
    kbolino · 1791149368 · focus · HN ↗
    App bundles (what's inside most DMGs) and Windows executables are signed, have been for a long time, and are required to be, by the O/S, in order to execute "normally". Apple uses centralized PKI (the developer's key must be signed by Apple) while Microsoft uses distributed PKI (the developer's key must be signed by a code-signing CA who in turn is approved by Microsoft).
    Rohansi · 1791150924 · focus · HN ↗
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