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Time Machine in Tahoe

Howard Oakley: Time Machine had happily gone that long without backing up or warning me that it had no backup storage. […] I think this results from Time Machine’s set and forget trait, and its widespread use by laptop Macs that are often disconnected from their backup storage. […] If you do just set it […]

Accessing the Unified System Log From a Standard User Account

Rich Trouton: Using the log command line tool doesn’t require root privileges or require admin authorization, but it needs to be run by a user with admin rights. […] What this does is create a sudo configuration which allows all members of the staff group on the Mac, which is a group that has all […]

Tahoe SwiftUI Table Bugs

Todd Heberlein: The first bug report, FB21850924, covers a terrible memory leak in SwiftUI’s Table view, a feature our program uses a lot. […] Despite the rapid updates to the data, the sample program only keeps 1000 records in a deque, so the memory usage should bounded. Strangely, switching to another view triggers Swift to […]

Epic's free game program is vital to rivaling Steam

Epic Games Store shares 60% of its users with Steam, making finding new customers with free video games of utmost importance

Highguard's episode 2 patch adds ranked mode, new character Ekon

Highguard's Episode 2 update introduces new Warden Ekon, and finally adds ranked mode to the game