Is there a way to hide specific Airplay devices from the Mac sound output picker (particularly in the control center) I keep accidentally turning on the living room tv when trying to pick my Airpods. 😡

#macos #apple #airplay

oksh-7.8 is out! Sorry for the delay; was away at conferences.

https://github.com/ibara/oksh/releases/tag/oksh-7.8

#openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #macos #macosx #osx #aix #haiku #shell #ksh #oksh #sh #freesoftware #opensource #opensourcesoftware #oss

Spooky News: BorgBackup 1.4.2 was just released!

Some fixes, some new features, support for latest Python and msgpack releases.

Details:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.2

#borgbackup #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #openindiana #macOS #backup #Python

My position was eliminated as well. If anybody needs a software engineer, I'm looking for my next role.

My last position involved C, maintaining a legacy codebase supporting cyber operations. Multi-architecture experience.

Proficient in C, Swift, Rust, Python, Java, and familiarity with many other languages.

#GetFediHired #Programming #Rust #Swift #iOS #MacOS #Java #Python

Not too long ago I finally discovered that #macOS Finder has a renaming feature. I'm pretty sure someone here on #Fedi mentioned it.

Since then, that thing has saved me from having to write SO many regexes.

Many thanks to the unknown FediPal for the tip!

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/rename-files-folders-and-disks-on-mac-mchlp1144/mac

Great.

$dayjob MacBook forced to update to Tahoe. This "liquid glass" interface is a pile of wank.

I checked settings and both Apple Intelligence (sic) and Siri are disabled and yet there's 8 "Siri" apps running in the background:

com.apple.siri.embeddedspeech
SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService
SAExtensionOrchestrator
siriinferenced
SiriAUSP
sirittsd
siriactionsd
siriknowledged

And 5 "Intelligence" apps:

IntelligencePlatformComputeService
intelligenceplatformd
knowledgeconstructiond
intelligencecontextd
intelligentroutingd

Why are these still running if I've supposedly disabled them in settings?

#macos #siri #apple #AI #noAI

installed iterm2, #macos now sucks less

I've updated my binary package repository for PowerPC Mac OS X. New and updated packages for curl, git, python 3.10, apache, nginx, openssh, rsync, yt-dlp, vim, zsh, tmux, and many more.

https://netbsd.org/~nia/tigersrc/

#dreckly #pkgsrc #powerpc #macos #retrocomputing #hashtags

What #command do you use most often across systems?

Me:
#Linux and BSD: cd or ls
#MacOS: cd or ls... After I've found my way to the actual terminal
#Windows: probably sfc /scannow

(That's right, this was a Windows insult buried in a social question!)

It took them a year to get a great version of Elementary OS 8, but version 8.1 now feels really good. Surely a few things can get better (e.g. the Dock showing open apps that don't have a .desktop file in place), but overall, it's good. If you're after a MacOS-like experience out of the box, this is the distro to try!

#linux #opensource #foss #elementaryOS #macos

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Elementary OS 8.1

Found my first big showstopper #macOS Tahoe regression today: *all* automation with the Music app is basically broken.

- Shortcuts "play" action hangs completely; 100% non-functional
- AppleEvents automation does nothing but display a spinner if the app isn't launched first
- if the app *is* launched first, playing any playlist just plays the first song, regardless of shuffle settings, and adds nothing to Up Next

It would be *so* cool if Apple discovered automated testing.

GrapheneOS has a "duress password" - which wipes the device if entered.

Is there a way to do this on MacOS or OpenBSD or Linux?

https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

#macOS #grapheneOS #linux #openbsd #security

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I’ve finally uploaded the latest #mame #macos Intel build, rounding out the packages for the latest release of 0.281. Available in its usual spot https://sdlmame.lngn.net #emulation

The fact that #macOS Tahoe lets me make trivially my home directory look like this in Finder is buying back a lot of goodwill that random other UI glitches are losing. (I am still contemplating whether I want to use the new color support, which is a bit too bold for my taste thus far)

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A screenshot of a Finder window with a 3x6 grid of folder icons, each one with a thematically relevant, subtly embossed icon on it. The folders are: Applications, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Historical, Movies, Music, My Games, Network, Parallels, Pictures, Projects, Public, Restores, Scratch, Secrets, Settings, Storage

Benjamin Button reviews macOS

Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface — was jarringly bad. Without much experience in desktop UX, Apple's first OS looked like a Fisher-Price toy: heavily rounded corners, mismatched c

https://www.osnews.com/story/143415/benjamin-button-reviews-macos/

#macOS

I just discovered that the #macOS #TextEdit app has an interesting feature: it can do math!

For example, if you type the expression “640*480=” then it will autocomplete “307,200”.

I wonder if any other #editor s have this feature?

#KDE 's #Kate does not have this feature, but #KDEPlasma does have something similar: you can type “640*480” into #KRunner (Alt+F2) and press Shift+Enter to copy the answer into the clipboard. Then you can paste it into your document.

Neat!

My Mac desktop is a nice complicated dark-ish rain-forest scene. This is not playing well with Liquid Glass.

Looking for a way to make the Dock non-transparent so I can actually see the little black dots that tell me whether something is running…

The transparent menu bar is change for the sake of change. Feaugh.

#MacOS #Tahoe

Hi, #Fediverse. Has anyone figured out a way to set up a #TimeMachine server on a #RaspberryPi that would work on #macOSTahoe?

Apple forced me to retire my #TimeCapsule, so I'am looking for options.

Obviously it's useless to make it on #AFP since it gets deprecated, but I can't quite see any recipes for #SMB 🤷‍♂️.

#macOS #backup #fedihelp

#macOS Tahoe only has 3 new shell commands over Sequoia as far as I can tell:

1. avbcapture "Audio Video Bridging traffic capture tool"
2. lesskey, a command from `less` which appears to have been deprecated before it was even added
3. memacct, no man page, --help says "Monitor memory accounting of various subsystems". Not entirely clear what it's for.

Overall pretty dull for CLI folks.

BUT…

Currently giving side eye to the Windows machine which can Just Stay Connected to a #Samba server

(Another day in the life of trying to use #macos )

I know, I know, its my own fault for trying to interact with a non-Apple system - I should just throw everything non-Apple away and replace it with shiny Cupertino tech... and that would make me... Someone Else

brew or pkgsrc? #macos

I need copy-on-select on my Mac, so looking at installing iTerm.

Any better #macos terminal suggestions?

Has anyone else had problems with #macOS Calendar syncing with M365 accounts? Mine seems to have stopped working a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure if that coincided with an update, I didn't initially notice because it doesn't give me any error messages and it didn't lose things that were there already, just newer changes didn't appear (and sometimes updates aren't immediate anyway, so I wasn't too worried).

The same account quite happily works with Mail, so it isn't a login issue. The same account also works fine with the iPadOS calendar.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Week 2: File Sharing

In this final video lecture segment for our week 2 materials, we take a look at what it means when multiple processes access the same files and what the implications of that are on the syscalls we know. We conclude with a look at /dev/fd on different operating systems, including #NetBSD, #macOS, and #Linux

https://youtu.be/CAbUtc86ULw

#apue #unix #programming

I've switched my macOS arm64 binary package builds over to targeting the 14.5 SDK. This is necessary to continue to support modern software with newer C++ requirements.

If you are still on the 12.3 SDK packages then head over to https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/ and follow the "ARM 14.5+ (upgrade)" instructions.

If you are new to this, follow the main instructions to install the full bootstrap kit.

#pkgsrc #macos

#MacOS wasn't as fortunate. It gained support for preemptively scheduled background threads in 1996 (Mac OS 7.5.3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing_Services but the GUI remained cooperatively scheduled (like Windows 3) until 2001 (Mac OS X 10.0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_10.0 whereas Windows 95 preemptively scheduled everything including the GUI (except 16-bit apps) in 1995.

These days, cooperative multitasking is still used, but not for running different apps at the same time. It's used for coroutines and async/await, which makes it possible for a single process to communicate over the network with millions of peers at a time.

Why? For exactly the same reason why #Windows and #MacOS used cooperative multitasking in the first place: it's faster.