Donald Guy || ᛞ Ɣɪ//<p>I spent a while fixating on trying to discover why the macOS iCloud/“CloudDocs”/“Mobile Documents” daemon is named bird, w/ a cli in /usr/bin named brctl</p><p>After some digging I’m /pretty/ sure the b stands for uBiquity— an internal codename for what was marketed as “iCloud”; this is supported by e.g. [1]’s equivalence between ubiquityIdentityToken and com.apple.bird.token </p><p>I’m still pretty at total guess on r, leaning “record” (maybe also as rc → record since bird is code-internally BRCDaemon ; though it also seems likely c = container. I don’t think rc → runcom by way of initrc, bashrc, etc)</p><p>secondary theory is br is for “barrier” based on a loose symbol or two.</p><p>I’m pretty strongly guessing that “i” in bird stands for nothing so much as “OMG [ swe coworker], it’s not pronounced Bee-Arr-Dee, it’s pronounced BIRD” (cf gif, sql, … cuddle vs c-t-l [by rights hachyderm is ku-bECK-dl / ku-Bechdel territory] )</p><p>Anyway if anybody happens to know the answer, plz lmk. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/icloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>icloud</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/brctl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brctl</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/clouddocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clouddocs</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/daemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>daemon</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/engineeringhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineeringhistory</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/lore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lore</span></a></p><p>[1] <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1935/_index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.apple.com/library/ar</span><span class="invisible">chive/qa/qa1935/_index.html</span></a></p>