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I just opened Activity Monitor - a process called "dasd" is the 5th largest consumer of CPU time. What does it do? Apple does not want you to know. Apple also w

I just opened Activity Monitor - a process called "dasd" is the 5th largest consumer of CPU time. What does it do? Apple does not want you to know. Apple also will not let you disable it. Apple will not even tell you if this process is legitimate (it is signed by "Software Signing" lmao). $ man dasd No manual entry for dasd There are like two dozen processes like this, half of which open network connections despite me never invoking any Apple services or even built-in apps. macOS has basically become malware.

habinero 9mo ago
It schedules low-priority background processes. https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/23/scheduled-activities-1-scheduling-by-das/ https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/23/scheduled-activities-1-s...
- DetectDefect 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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..

habinero 9mo ago

It schedules low-priority background processes. https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/23/scheduled-activities-1-scheduling-by-das/ https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/23/scheduled-activities-1-s...

DetectDefect 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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..