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How to Defang macOS System Protections

If you want to change things on the root drive of a Mac you will need to take some steps to disable the built in security of the system. Most of these steps are the same regardless if you are on Intel or Apple Silicon. If there is a difference it is noted.

Note that all of these things put a Mac into an unsupported and less secure state.

Make sure you either perform these steps in a VM or that you reset the protections after you are done poking around

Protections and Terms

(This list is not exahustive on the details of each. Check the links at the end for more info.)

	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
	#define ARC4RANDOM_MAX 0x100000000


	int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
	{

	@autoreleasepool {

	long double hit = 0;

	// Speed limiter
	- (void)shipSpeedLimit {

	// Check the x velocity
	if (self.ship.physicsBody.velocity.dx > 500) {
	self.ship.physicsBody.velocity = CGVectorMake(500, self.ship.physicsBody.velocity.dy);
	} else if (self.ship.physicsBody.velocity.dx < -500) {
	self.ship.physicsBody.velocity = CGVectorMake(-500, self.ship.physicsBody.velocity.dy);
	}

	//
	// StoryboardExtensionsBeta4Fix.swift
	//
	// A workaround so that you can use SplitView
	// and TabView items in OS X Storyboards on
	// 10.10. Just drop this in your Swift project.
	//
	// Hopefully the need for this goes away in soon
	// as it used to work.

	import Foundation

	// Code-golf version
	let inputFile = URL(fileReferenceLiteralResourceName: "input.txt")
	print(try! String(contentsOf: inputFile).components(separatedBy: .newlines).compactMap { Float($0) }.map { Int(($0 / 3).rounded(.down) - 2) }.reduce(0, +))

	// Fancy version
	typealias ModuleHopper = [Module]
	typealias MassCalculations = [Float]

	import Cocoa

	typealias IntcodeProgram = [Int]

	func loadInput() throws -> IntcodeProgram {
	do {
	let inputFile = URL(fileReferenceLiteralResourceName: "input.txt")
	let rawInput = try String(contentsOf: inputFile)
	let splitFile = rawInput.components(separatedBy: .punctuationCharacters)
	return splitFile.compactMap { Int($0) }

	func getUptime() -> Int {
	let nanoseconds = DispatchTime.now()
	return Int(nanoseconds.rawValue / 1000000000)
	}

	alias anka='sudo /usr/local/bin/anka'
	alias ankacluster='sudo /usr/local/bin/ankacluster'
	alias clusterjoin='sudo ankacluster join http://<YOUR_CONTROLLER> -m 3 -H `hostname`'
	alias clusterdisjoin='sudo ankacluster disjoin'
	alias lsvm='sudo anka list'

	#!/bin/zsh

	zparseopts -E -D -- D:=DOMAIN -domain:=DOMAIN d=DNS -dns=DNS

	DOMAIN=$DOMAIN[2]
	DNS=$DNS

	if [[ -z $DOMAIN ]]; then
	echo "adlookupos.sh: Troubleshoot DNS service records needed for AD."
	echo "\nUsage: adlookups.sh [-d] [-D domain]"