{"id":9279,"date":"2020-11-13T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2020-11-13T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:30:01","slug":"an-advantage-of-emacs-centrism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9279","title":{"rendered":"An Advantage of Emacs Centrism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The technical side of the Internet is all atwitter about macOS suddenly refusing to launch non-Apple apps. The more excitable elements even suggested some dark plot on Apple\u2019s part:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tim Cook: \u201cWe at Apple believe that privacy is a fundamental human right\u201d [and &#8220;privacy&#8221; means that all your data is ours] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jBbzqwioxZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/jBbzqwioxZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GJlJrnDOWU\">https:\/\/t.co\/GJlJrnDOWU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sebastian K\u00fcbeck (@skuebeck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skuebeck\/status\/1327259214960529408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The truth, of course, was far more mundane. Apparently the rush on the part of Mac users to upgrade to Bug Sur, the Mac\u2019s new OS, overwhelmed Apple\u2019s IT infrastructure causing large delays in verifying the trustworthiness of third party apps:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey Apple users:<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re now experiencing hangs launching apps on the Mac, I figured out the problem using Little Snitch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s trustd connecting to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzIGwbGRan\">https:\/\/t.co\/FzIGwbGRan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denying that connection fixes it, because OCSP is a soft failure.<\/p>\n<p>(Disconnect internet also fixes.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w9YciFltrb\">pic.twitter.com\/w9YciFltrb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Johnson (@lapcatsoftware) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1326990296412991489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As suggested in Johnson\u2019s Tweet, the solution is to simply prevent your system from trying to connect to <a href=\"http:\/\/ocsp.apple.com\">http:\/\/ocsp.apple.com<\/a> until things settle down. The easiest way to do that is to blackhole it in your hosts file. You can find examples of doing that in Johnson\u2019s thread.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised when I read this because I wasn\u2019t having any problems at all. Then I realized that I very seldom use any third party apps (other than Emacs, of course). Since my Emacs runs virtually all the time, I didn\u2019t have the need to launch it. The TL;DR is that since essentially all my work is done in Emacs and Safari I didn\u2019t realize there was a problem. Yet another reason to put as much as you can into Emacs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technical side of the Internet is all atwitter about macOS suddenly refusing to launch non-Apple apps. The more excitable elements even suggested some dark plot on Apple\u2019s part: Tim Cook: \u201cWe at Apple believe that privacy is a fundamental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,18],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-apple","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9280,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions\/9280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}