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510 points pierrelf | 1 comments | 20 Dec 24 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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lkurtz ◴[20 Dec 24 19:47 UTC] No.42474314[source]▶
Recommending (and running) `xattr -c` can be extremely dangerous. I would suggest withholding Mac releases until they can be distributed/run safely.
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crazygringo ◴[20 Dec 24 20:09 UTC] No.42474522[source]▶
As someone not very familiar, is there any legitimate reason why they say "Our Apple signing/notarization is not entirely done yet"?

It feels extremely suspicious, given that I download lots of other popular utility software from independent devs and I've never had to do that before.

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lkurtz ◴[20 Dec 24 20:23 UTC] No.42474650[source]▶
There are a couple of legitimate reasons, namely the expense/KYC process of an Apple Developer Program membership and/or the complexity of integrating signing + notarization into existing build pipelines (but XCode does makes it pretty straightforward to cut an ad-hoc release that is signed and notarized).

In my opinion at least, the most likely reason is that Apple is refusing to notarize the software. If this is the case, people really should not be running it.

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1. margana ◴[21 Dec 24 12:16 UTC] No.42479240[source]▶
Apple refusing to notarize it actually makes me want to use it more. That means Rossmann and his associates have got under Apple's skin enough that they would try to sabotage projects that he is involved with.