After two months of work, i'm so happy to be able to share Accessible Virtual Machine, or AVM for short. AVM lets blind and low-vision Mac users install and run Windows 11 on Apple Silicon entirely with a screen reader — no sighted help at any step, from download to hearing JAWS or NVDA speak. AVM was coded by Claude, but I’ve spent countless hours testing it before releasing it for wider testing by you. First tester build is out now, free and open source: https://github.com/allisonfm85/accessible-virtual-machine/releases/tag/v0.1.0 #accessibility #a11y #VoiceOver #macOS #blind

With Apple phasing out AFP in macOS 27 and Time Capsules officially reaching end-of-life, it's time to move network backups to proper SMB.

If you run a FreeBSD server, you can build a fast, rock-solid, and secure Time Machine target powered by ZFS and Samba - neatly isolated inside a FreeBSD jail using Bastille.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/

Keep your macOS backups running smoothly via SMBv3 (with full vfs_fruit support) and full dataset quota control on ZFS!

#FreeBSD #macOS #TimeMachine #ZFS #BastilleBSD #Samba #SysAdmin #Backup #OwnYourData #SelfHosted #BSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

In your opinion, what happens to RAM prices in the next 6 months?

#askfedi #question #poll #electronics #pc #hardware #programming #linux #macos #windows #apple #gaming

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Macos

@lilpoes@littlefedi.social

One of the things I find deucedly frustrating about modern #macos is that SO MUCH of the mechanics of actually making full use of your machine are either undocumented or woefully under-documented.

And because they change so often, searching for help on the internet VERY often yields just plain wrong information.

Take for instance the struggle I had trying to simply set up an automount for my home NAS share.

How the !$@# is that even supposed to work? After wasting hours combing through man pages and making unsuccessful attempts, I finally got it working with the help of infernal machines 3:< but I put the script into a Github repo in case others might find it useful.

https://github.com/feoh/macos-nas-automount

But this is the kind of crap you just don't need to struggle with on Linux. NFS/Automount interfaces have been around FOREVER and are fairly well documented.

New #blog #post: My Failed Tech Predictions

https://rldane.space/my-failed-tech-predictions.html

1637 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #computing #phones #smartphones #enpoopification #retrocomputing #programming #slop #MacOS #Macintosh #data #InformationAge #SCSI #Mobile #TuringTest #LLM #LLMs #ChatBots

Palmier : un éditeur vidéo macOS open source (GPLv3) où vos agents Claude, Codex ou Cursor interagissent directement avec la timeline via MCP. L'éditeur de base est gratuit, sans compte requis. ⬇️
https://github.com/palmier-io/palmier-pro

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-nqf

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Capture d'écran de Palmier Pro, un éditeur vidéo open-source pour macOS conçu pour l'IA, affichant son interface avec une timeline, une bibliothèque de clips et un aperçu vidéo montrant un papillon en mouvement.

@amerpie @dhry #mac #apple

Can either of you or anyone else suggest an alternative to AltTab for #macOS?

I updated it via homebrew the other day and my fav feature (alt-` switching between open windows of the current app *across all Spaces*) was moved behind a paywall. I wouldn’t have updated if I’d known.

"Unix is not in a museum. Unix is in the room."

See Vivian Voss' "Where Unix Runs Today":
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/where-unix-runs-today

#unix #macos #osx #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd

Things the OS authors don't want you to know:

* The #FreeBSD logo is Beastie, because it reminds you to dare, hack, and stop praying.
* The #Linux logo is Tux, because even penguins know what it is like to freeze with amdgpu.
* The #Windows logo is a window, because that is where you throw the PC goes after the third BSOD.
* The #OpenBSD logo is Puffy, because it’s the only fish that takes security more seriously than being edible.
* The #NetBSD logo is a flag, because if it boots on your hardware, they claim it as territory.
* The #DragonFlyBSD logo is a dragonfly, because every time you explain HAMMER2, people suddenly find somewhere else to be.
* The #macOS logo is an Apple, because one bite costs 999$, no 1999$, no 4999$. They soldered the RAM to keep the worms out.
* The #ChromeOS logo is #chrome because the operating system is just the browser admitting it won.

Do you think user interfaces these days have

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#askfedi #question #programming #windows #linux #kde #gnome #macos #webdev #design #sysadmin

Only two more days to get Iris for #MacOS at its $19 launch price. As I said on @abstractions episode 65, @tylerhall has created a fabulous photo & video library, which I bought sight unseen so I could support developers who offer us escape from squircle jail:

https://tyler.io/2026/07/05/escape-from-squircle-jail/

Every Iris license purchase is a vote for beautiful icon choices. The app itself, as well as the built-in web server & API that supports Tailscale & MCP access, are just icing on the cake 🎂 https://social.lol/@tylerhall/116647146680865230

Today's a great day to switch your Mac's default browser. Import your Safari browser data into Vivaldi in seconds. 🤩

#BigTech #macOS #Apple #Vivaldi #Browser #Mac

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Screen recording on macOS: Safari navigates to Vivaldi.com and downloads Vivaldi Browser, which is then installed. Vivaldi opens for the first time, the user signs in, sets it as the default browser, and imports browser data from Safari in seconds.

```
find / -name "*FOO*txt" -ls

# match is case insensitive
find / -iname "*FOO*txt" -ls
```

will search '/', and all subdirectories, for files with 'FOO' and ending with 'txt' in the name. You don't need AI Terminal Wrapper or AI agents for this on your desktop. Stop sending data to big tech.

#linux #unix #macos

“Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons”

There's a lot you can say about macOS, but one thing Apple used to be incredibly good at were making beautifully crafted, detailed icons. As with almost every other aspect of macOS, this deteriorated sharply over the years, with the recent macOS releases with Liquid Glass being an absolute low point. Not o

https://www.osnews.com/story/145403/apple-should-end-their-prohibition-on-shapes-in-macos-app-icons/

#macOS

@ChuckMcManis Don't make me roll the clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

#TLDW:
If #SysVinit wasn't slow dogshit and never designed with changing systems, configurability and speed in mind, it would've remained.
The inability or unwillingness to fix SysVinit was the reason #SystemD was concieved, which TBH is just @pid_eins "plagiarizing" [the concept of] #LaunchD from #macOS which #FreeBSD fans seem to love whilst hating SystemD.

@nixCraft

#NeXT / #Apple had the right idea.

* User homes are in /Users

* Each app is in /Applications and looks like a regular file but is actually a folder (i.e. you can cd into it and examine the contents)

* The operating system is in /System

* Files shared among apps (except files that come with the OS), including configuration files, are in /Library

* Static libraries, debug info, C headers, OS API reference docs, etc go in /Developer

#macOS #MacOSX #NeXTSTEP #Linux #Unix #BSD

I saw this and my first though was 'Come on! The #Almquist shell has never been ported to #macOS before 2026⁈ It must have been there since the #NeXTStep days, surely. Someone has simply not known about it because xe never thought to look up the name Almquist.'

https://github.com/dotike/fsh

So I went looking.

Mad as it may seem, from what I've found so far, an Almquist shell on macOS does not turn up before 2025.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dash-shell

Nary a mention of Almquist on Apple StackExchange.

It looks like macOS went straight from the C shell on NeXTStep to the Bourne Again shell.

But macOS has had a Korn shell for decades, right?

#UnixShells

A tale of two path separators

In macOS, you can apparently create files and directories in the Finder with names that include slashes. If you then go into the terminal and take a look with ls, you'll see that the slashes are actually colons.

I don’t understand all the nuances, but I know this is a side-effect of the fact that macOS has not one but two path separators: the slash (/) and the colon (:). The

https://www.osnews.com/story/145356/a-tale-of-two-path-separators/

#macOS

Just read that #MacOS #Tahoe is the last one that will support Intel-based #macs, and it only supports some 2019-2020 models.

So that means that #Apple is targeting six or maybe seven years of hardware support.

That's an e-waste empire, guys.

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A ginger tabby cat looking down at us, saying "Pathetic."

A few months ago, I set myself a simple goal: understand the operating systems I use.

The journey has been fun, but there’s always a bit of fiction along the way.

Spend a week deep in the #FreeBSD world, then switch back to #MacOS or #Arch, and you quickly realize how much your own muscle memory slows you down.

So I built and open-sourced UPKG:

https://github.com/seuros/upkg

UPKG gives you a single package management command across operating systems.

It doesn’t replace the native package manager. It simply provides a consistent interface so you can use the same commands everywhere.

On macOS, it can completely replace Brew.

If you’re thinking about moving to BSD, install UPKG first. Get comfortable with the syntax, then when yo a’re ready, drop the 'u' and use pkg directly. Or keep using UPKG if you prefer.

PS: Nothing here is vibe-coded. I read the source code of every target package manager and wrote a proper wrapper around them.

My MBP M1 Tahoe is almost freezing daily. Unuseably slow. Can't figure out why.

If I run any of the stats monitoring tools I know, CPU and memory seem to be fine. Same with drive space.

Appears to be something to do with the filesystem. Open apps run fine, until they try to do something like spawn a terminal instance, or try to retrieve a list of files.

Too many files open? Failing drive?

Ideas?

#macOS

5 Easy Steps To Crop An Image in Inkscape

Step-by-step instructions on how to use Inkscape to crop an image whether you are a beginner or advanced user.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/inkscape-crop-image/

#blog #inkscape #linux #windows #macOS #100DaysToOffload

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An elegant serif title of 'Inkscape Crop Images' stands next to a Inkscape logo shape cropped out of a blue coloured mountain landscape.

wow, `fd -x` (or -X) on #macOS is _bonkers_ faster than `find | xargs`

Great way to clean down your ~/Library cruft

#moderntooling

is there someone on here who uses #pkgsrc with #macos ?

i can download #alacritty with pkgsrc now, but the version it installs for macos doesn't seem to be the version i can download from github -- it isn't installed to /Applications and has to be bootstrapped via Terminal.app to run.

are there any clever/simple ways to rig this up? am i missing something obvious?

Quick update on @siracusa's Hyperspace for #macOS; it saved me nearly 4TB of drive space on one 20TB drive. It did take a while, but that's fine!

I have it grinding away on another to see what it can do there.

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Screenshot of Hyperspace, showing: Scanned Files 237,691 Scanned Folders 44,862 Scan Errors 1 View Scan Time 54:47:11 Potential Savings- Eligible Files 0 Reclaimed Files 55,940 Reclamation Errors- Reclaim Time 108:39:41 Reclaimed Space 3.94 TB Reclaimed 3.94 TB

🚀 #Gitte 0.7.0 is out!

- Visual commit graph with color-coded per-branch colors
- Greatly overhauled layout
- Rename detection in diffs
- Drop multiple commits at once
- Show word-based diffs more often
- Toggle recursing into untracked directories
- Shortcut (Ctrl+D) to switch between staged & unstaged

Plus many performance improvements & lots of fixes.

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.7.0+36
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #linux #macos

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Git GUI in a three-pane layout showing a visual commit graph with branches and tags, a selected release commit, and a detailed diff view of the file changes introduced by that commit

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Git GUI showing a repository changes view with modified and new files, branch and tag navigation, and a side-by-side diff editor highlighting staged changes in a Markdown documentation file

MacOS 27 drops Intel support, will be last release with Rosetta 2

With the announcement of an upcoming new macOS release also come the usual changes in which Macs will still be supported. MacOS 27 Golden Gate is an important release in this regard, as it will be the first release of Apple's desktop operating system that will be entirely ARM-only, dropping support for all In

https://www.osnews.com/story/145279/macos-27-drops-intel-support-will-be-last-release-with-rosetta-2/

#macOS

@mjack

Sort of. Folk wisdom has #macOS derived from #FreeBSD. But actually XNU is a descendent of #NeXTSTEP. Both FreeBSD and NeXTSTEP were derived from from BSD, but not from *exactly* the same point in its evolution and neither from the other.

And of course they diverged from each other.

But you can, say, pull up an old iOS manual page and see it saying 'BSD' at the head, compare it with the same page from FreeBSD, and contrast it with #Debian and #Illumos:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man3/tzset.3.html

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzset&sektion=3

https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=tzset&section=3

https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/manpages-dev/tzset.3.en.html

https://illumos.org/man/3C/tzset

In today's MacOS struggles: apparently you cannot change the default email handler without opening Mail.app and changing settings.

But there's a problem. When you open Mail.app you cannot access settings without first adding an email account. Which I stubbornly don't want to do because I don't want to use Mail.app _at all_. I don't use the big providers, and don't want to connect it to my iCloud.

Aggravating. I'm sure there's an arcane way (there always is).

#macos

Ran @siracusa's Hyperspace on one drive; it should save 3.9TB, running the reclaim now. Let's see what happens. <clicks Reclaim Space>
#macOS

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Screenshot from Hyperspace showing: Scanned Files 237,691. Scanned Folders 44,862. Scan Errors 1 View. Scan Time 54:47:11. Potential Savings 3.94 TB.

It's finally time to try #MacOS on my old 2012 Mac Mini.

Can somneone explain me this?

On #MacOS's Save File dialog, if a file with a `:` already exists, the colon is replaced by `/` in the file listing.

And if I want to write a filename with a `: `, the text input changes it to `-`!

🚀 #Gitte 0.5.0 is out!

- Signed commits & tags (GPG, SSH & X.509)
- Signature validation in the commit log
- Signing status helper
- Collapse-all / expand-all in stash view and commit log view
- New Cornish (kw) translation, thanks to @pigeon_

Also included:
- Overhauled dialogs
- Refresh handling based on IO activity
- Fixes & dependency updates

Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.5.0+24
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #rustlang #linux #macos

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Git GUI dialog reporting unavailable SSH commit and tag signing due to a missing SSH signing key file, with configuration details and troubleshooting guidance

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Git GUI showing commit history with verified SSH-signed commits, branch indicators, commit details, and a diff view for changes in a README file