Mastodawn

mcc Aug 5, 2023

So. Homebrew is illegal now too, then?

EDIT: People seem to be misunderstanding this screenshot. This is me running a program installed by Brew and it being blocked by macOS Gatekeeper. You can see me executing it from the command line and you can see in the error message that Homebrew downloaded it. Although brew is in general working for me, this particular formula's app got blocked. After making the post I resolved the problem and do not need help.

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ailepet

@mcc @alienmelon warned us about this! https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/11/how-apple-might-completely-take-over.html
(I remember posting about it on a frigging *Linux* website and getting answers such as "that's just like Windows 10, you can still sideload, nothing new here, what's the point". Never forgot, never forgave)

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