Another setting that surprised me with being turned on by default apparently on macOS 15 is System Settings - Spotlight - "Help Apple Improve Search": "Help improve Search by allowing Apple to store your Safari, Siri, Spotlight, Lookup, and #images search queries. The information collected is stored in a way that does not identify you and is used to improve search results."

No, this is not on by default. After system install at first boot it asks if you want to help improve search and it describes how your data will be handled, anonymized, etc. If you clicked on yes it is on. There is a choice to opt out.

I was on by default for me, both after the macOS 14 -> 15 upgrade and after installing macOS 15 cleanly. I wonder if they ask for consent in some regions only.

Yeah this seems to be on by default for me as well, I definitely take issue with that.

You're lying, it is on by default.

I always say no to all analytics/improvement prompts.

Both the search and photos settings were on for me in both iOS and MacOs. Completely unacceptable Apple

In firefox, you can get this by navigating to about:translations

You just have to allow more than 75% memory to be allocated to the GPU by running sudo sysctl -w iogpu.wired_limit_mb=30720 (for a 30 GB limit in this case).

1. That worked after some tweaking. 2. I had to lower the context window size to get LM Studio to load it up. 3. LM Studio has two distinct checkboxes that both say "Apple Metal GPU". No idea if they do the same thing....

Thanks a ton! I'm running on GPU w/ Mixtral 8x Instruct Q4_K_M now. tok/sec is about 4x what CPU only was. (Now at 26 tok/sec or so).

There's Frets on Fire: http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/

Ext4 has no snapshot feature, do you mean with lvm?

Yes LVM, sorry

Maybe add that it's a "zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams" :)

I remember this indeed being a thing in the news at the start of the Snowden leaks press coverage. Journos saw Google etc. logos in the NSA slides and thought they were on board rather than being tapped.

So, almost decade later we are fixing one bad case of small disinformation that people have to make a mental effort to even recall it? why?!?

No need for an app even, I read that (some?) german emergency call centers use a service that will send the caller a text with a link to a website that will then use the browser's geolocation API.

This is at least wrong in Germany, they are handled by different courts, will not show up on criminal record etc., it's more like a civil case, but with the government. Though of course you could park your car so horribly that it might get to be one, there's criminal neglect.

Erm ... in which sense exactly is an Ordnungswidrigkeitenverfahren like a Zivilprozess? How are the courts different?

Also, yes, "but with the government" is exactly what makes it a criminal case!?

See also:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnungswidrigkeit

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafrecht_(Deutschland)

Sorry, I was wrong about the courts, but at first it is not even handled by a court or prosecutor at all, only by the administration. If the potential fine is not accepted it then indeed goes to criminal court.

Well, yes, Ordnungswidrkeiten are "Straftaten light", if you will, so consequences are generally less severe, the process has a shortcut for undisputed cases, ... but the essence is still that the state makes a member of society experience some consequences for not following the law, and thus in particular the same constitutional protections apply.

Everybody should be ignoring this "test" by someone who obviously has no idea what conftest is or does :)