Comment by habinero

2 months ago

It schedules low-priority background processes.

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/23/scheduled-activities-1-s...

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DetectDefect  1 month ago

Until we see the source code (or at least a man page) that is an unverified claim and the process should be treated like malware:

    while : ; do pkill -9 dasd ; sleep 10 ; done

The tasks it "schedules" must be very low-priority, because nothing breaks when dasd doesn't run.

  • habinero  1 month ago

    That's...what background processes do? They're supposed to run occasionally and be resilient to disruption.

    But if you wanna be afraid of boring ordinary things, you go right ahead.

    • DetectDefect  1 month ago

      Even excusing that daemon, here is a list of processes which have attempted to contact Apple in the past 24 hours, according to Little Snitch. I am certain this is not even a complete list, because macOS is closed source and likely can bypass application firewalls altogether:

          akd -> gsa.apple.com
    nsurlsessiond -> gateway.icloud.com
    nsurlsessiond -> mesu.apple.com
    nsurlsessiond -> gdmf-ados.apple.com
    nsurlsessiond -> gdmf.apple.com
    adprivacyd -> bag.itunes.apple.com
    CloudTelemetryService -> gateway.icloud.com
    cloudd -> gateway.icloud.com
    amsondevicestoraged -> bag.itunes.apple.com
    tipsd -> ipcdn.apple.com
    parsec-fbf -> fbs.smoot.apple.com
    parsec-fbf -> swallow.apple.com
    com.apple.geod -> gspe1-ssl.ls.apple.com
    identityservicesd -> init.ess.apple.com

      Again, I have never used iCloud/Apple services, turned off all available telemetry options and did not open any Apple applications while all this took place (I only use Firefox and iTerm). Almost all of these processes lack a man page, or if they have one, it's one-line nonsense which explains nothing. This is beyond unprofessional.

yencabulator  1 month ago

The scheduling shouldn't be the 5th largest consumer of CPU. The question is what is it scheduling. Collecting data about user behavior would be a background task, you know..