Interested in @apple, #privacy, and #InfoSec. Father of 4. Helping businesses manage their Apple devices.👍 Human Rights. @theilgaard@mastodon.social.
Denmark
Joined April 2009
- Tweets3.1K
- Following1.4K
- Followers251
- Likes23.5K
Søren Theilgaard retweeted
Ved min sidste optælling dækker datamaterialet på politikdata nu intet mindre end 5 spredte officielle websites' data, som BURDE have været fuldt krydslinket men ikke er det. Alle ting, man før kun kunne læse som PDF, er præsenteret som søgbar tekst.
Og jeg har fået lige præcis 0,- af staten for at gøre det.
Der er nu mere end 150gb information samlet - fuldt indekseret, fuldt krydslinket.
Hos de officielle websites er der kun links imellem data for to af dem: folketinget og folketingstidende. Resten kan man kun navigere imellem med manuelle søgninger på præcise lovnumre osv.
Det er for mig virkelig ubegribeligt at man ikke har besluttet en standardiseret måde at linke og udtrække tekst på, men at man stadig putter data i forskellige siloer man ikke linker mellem, og vælger at opbevare teksten i PDF-filer, man ikke indekserer. Det er SÅ digitalt ubrugervenligt som det kan blive.
Søren Theilgaard retweeted
Falcon 9 creates an insane jellyfish as B1096 heads back towards land and the second stage lofts Cargo Dragon towards the International Space Station, which is also visible in this shot!
You can see the ISS streak by near the center of the photo as a faint line. So cool to see!
📸 - @LaunchHeavenX
Søren Theilgaard retweeted
Are you curious about Apple and device management? Then we’ve got something for you.
Come visit the MacSysAdmin Conference 2026 and get your thirst for knowledge quenched.
macsysadmin.se #msa2026
Søren Theilgaard retweeted
My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea".
I'll have prints available for this one linked in my bio for a few days only.
Søren Theilgaard retweeted
Nyt på Borgerjournalisten - Chat Control: problemet med falske positiver. Link i kommentarerne!
Jeg ser nærmere på problemstillinger omkring automatisk scanning og fejlrater mht. falske positiver, når skalaen er så gigantisk som den er med de store platforme. Og kommer med en betragtning om behovet for kontekst og hvad dette behov kan ende med at betyde for både din retssikkerhed og dit privatliv.
Søren Theilgaard retweeted
If you're developing macOS user-mode network extensions and your users are reporting a kernel panic on macOS 26.5, this is of course a (now known) Apple macOS bug ...again 😭
See: developer.apple.com/forums/t…
Søren Theilgaard retweeted
Apple's newest patent turns your AirPods into an EEG device that also reads muscle movement, eye movement, and heart rate.
Neuralink has performed four human brain implants. Apple has hundreds of millions of AirPods in active use.
Steven Hotelling is on the inventor list for patent US20230225659A1. He's the engineer who productized multi-touch for the original iPhone. Apple puts Hotelling on things it plans to ship.
The design packs 17 electrodes around a single ear tip. Ear-EEG has existed in academic research since 2011, and startups like NextSense (spun out of Alphabet X), Neurable, and IDUN already ship consumer ear-EEG products today.
Apple's innovation is dynamic electrode selection.
Here's the constraint that killed ear-EEG as a consumer product for 15 years. Every human ear canal is shaped differently. A fixed electrode placement that reads clean EEG from one person reads noise from the next. Your own ear canal changes shape across a day based on temperature, jaw position, and how the bud seated when you put it in. Every prior ear-EEG product required either custom molds or tolerance for garbage data.
Apple's patent uses more electrodes than are ever needed simultaneously and runs an AI model that scores each one in real time on impedance, noise level, and skin contact quality. It picks the best subset for this person, in this ear, right now. Reference and active electrodes get reassigned on the fly. A weighted algorithm combines the surviving signals into one optimized waveform.
Competitors tried to solve this with better electrodes. Apple solved it with redundancy and silicon.
The roadmap is already visible. AirPods Pro 3 shipped a photoplethysmograph in the ear tip for heart rate. In November 2025, Apple Research published PARS, a self-supervised model that learns EEG patterns from unlabeled data and sidesteps the regulatory bottleneck of annotated clinical datasets. The PPG sensor is the dress rehearsal. The EEG sensor is the feature.
Sleep staging. Seizure detection. Stress classification. Focus state. The clinical applications get through the FDA. The interface applications change computing.
Neuralink needs a surgeon. Apple needs a firmware update.
Søren Theilgaard retweeted
We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following @404mediaco reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.
Apple’s advisory confirmed that the bugs that allowed this to happen have been fixed in the latest iOS release. You can read more here: support.apple.com/en-us/1270…
Note that no action is needed for this fix to protect Signal users on iOS. Once you install the patch, all inadvertently-preserved notifications will be deleted and no forthcoming notifications will be preserved for deleted applications.
We’re grateful to Apple for the quick action here, and for understanding and acting on the stakes of this kind of issue. It takes an ecosystem to preserve the fundamental human right to private communication.
No, I didn’t!
On my Mac I opened both documents in preview app and dragged all the pages from the 2nd document into the first.
Now, the first document has all the pages of both documents, and it can be saved with an encryption password if needed.
You needed to merge two PDFs last week.
You Googled "merge PDF free." You clicked the first result. You uploaded your tax return and your pay stub to a website you had never heard of. It merged them in 3 seconds. You downloaded the file and moved on.
You never thought about what happened to your documents.
They were uploaded to a server in a country you cannot name. Processed by software you cannot audit. Stored for a duration nobody disclosed. Your tax return. Your pay stub. Your salary. Your signature. On a stranger's disk. Forever.
You did this voluntarily. In under 10 seconds. Without reading a single word of fine print.
There is a tool that does everything those websites do. On YOUR computer. Your files never leave your machine.
It is called Stirling-PDF. 77,100+ stars on GitHub. 25 million+ downloads. The #1 PDF application on all of GitHub.
Here is what it does:
→ Merge PDFs. Split PDFs. Compress PDFs. Rotate and reorder pages.
→ Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images. And back again.
→ Add passwords. Remove passwords. Flatten forms. Sanitize metadata.
→ Sign PDFs with a drawn signature, typed name, or digital certificate.
→ OCR scanned documents with Tesseract to make them searchable.
→ Add watermarks, page numbers, headers, footers, and stamps.
→ Redact text and images permanently. Crop, deskew, and repair.
→ View and annotate PDFs directly in your browser.
→ No-code automation pipelines to batch-process thousands of files.
→ REST API for every tool. Automate every operation.
→ Desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. No browser needed.
→ One Docker command to self-host everything.
Here's the wildest part:
Adobe Acrobat Pro costs $19.99 per month. That is $239.88 a year.
Acrobat Studio: $24.99 per month. That is $299.88 a year.
Smallpdf Pro: $108 per year.
iLovePDF Premium: $60 per year.
A 10-person team on Adobe pays $2,660 a year to edit documents.
And every single one of those tools processes your files on THEIR servers.
Stirling-PDF processes everything locally. Your files exist on your machine. The server sits on your hardware. The network stays inside your walls.
77,100+ stars. 6,700+ forks. 175 releases. 4,900+ commits. 48% TypeScript and 43% Java.
MIT-licensed core. Self-host it. Fork it. Ship it.
100% Open Source.
(Link in the comments)
Cisco is still in the works of making some documentation to support this, so maybe we get more details later. But this IS the recommended procedure from Cisco to install Cisco Secure Client on macOS.