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

Signal Desktop introduces Notification Profiles 🔔

With notification profiles, you can choose how, when, and from whom you receive notifications.

Read more 👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-introduces-notification-profiles/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #news #windows #linux #macOS #tech

question for #MacOS peoples:

Is the recommendation for spinning rust disks still HFS+?

The `entr` tool is a small utility for Linux and macOS that watches for file changes and then runs a command. It can be used to automatically recompile documents after a source file has been updated.
Example:

echo 'input.md' | entr pandoc -o out.pdf input.md

Just save input.md to disk and wait for `out.pdf` to be updated.
Or, when working with a set of files:

find . -name \*.md | entr pandoc -o out.pdf …

http://eradman.com/entrproject/

#pandoc #automation #entr #linux #macos

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

@drdrang Oh, you mean Drang? Yeah, the "Do Really Awkward New Gestures" Drang? He's a straight-up G...angster of #spreadsheet automation and #Python #scripting #Apple #macos

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

Alt...

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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there's a #chromium based browser in #macOS #homebrew today called #Helium although I have to warn you that it promises to [bang you](https://helium.computer/bangs).

It's too bad Atlassian bought The Browser Company of New York because I would love to be using Arc or Dia. i'm trying #zen, the mozilla-based remix that has a similar vibe?

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

Liebe Folglinge,

ich suche nach einem neuen Job als #iOS und/oder #macOS Entwickler. Ich spreche #ObjectiveC, #Swift (auch Server-Side) und #SwiftUI und nutze die ganzen Tools drumherum (#Xcode, #Git, #GitHub, #GitHubActions, #ShellScripting etc.). Ich bringe 30 Jahre Berufserfahrung als Software-Entwickler mit, davon knapp 20 im #Apple Ökosystem.

Am Idealsten waere eine #Festanstellung zu 100% remote. Sollte es im Raum #Bregenz oder #Dornbirn etwas geben, dann auch gerne vor Ort.

Ich danke euch fuers Teilen. 🙏🏻

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phranck/
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Frank_Gregor063742/

#FediHire #FediJobs #JobSuche #RemoteJob #Arbeit

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)

Alt...

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

#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

Dear #macOS #Apple #Lazyweb, what's the 2020s era option for making a(n ideally bootable) backup copy of a laptop you're about to wipe?

BITD people would use CarbonCopyCloner for this, though I never actually used it much, I think I would just `dd` from a rescue disk to external drive, or make a Disk Image via Disk Utility?

#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.

New #blog post. Let's write a peephole optimizer for #QBE that operates on #AArch64 assembly code. Three years ago, we did this for #AMD64 assembly code. But now that I have Arm machines, we can replicate the effort for another CPU architecture.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250901.html

#compiler #compilers #opensource #freesoftware #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #illumos #macos #assembler #assembly

PSA for anyone who has started seeing app signature verification issues on #macOS recently (I did for the #NextCloud app):

TL;DR: If an app bundle starts failing signature check, the simplest fix is to delete it completely and reinstall. This shouldn't lose any data, because user data shouldn't be (and, after this change can't be) stored inside an app bundle.

Longer version:

It looks as if the code signing requirements have been tightened so that adding files to a signed bundle is now not allowed. This is a sensible thing in general, because adding configuration files or libraries in a search path can break the integrity of an app.

Unfortunately, some updaters do not delete files. For example, in the QtWebEngineCore framework that NextCloud shipped, I had two versions: 5 and A (don't ask me, I didn't pick the names). Version 5 was from an ancient install (2021), A from the latest version. NeXT / Darwin frameworks use directories for versions, so you can ship a framework with multiple different ABI-incompatible versions in different directories. There is a Current symlink that points to the one in use, which in this case was A. The contents of the 5 directory were entirely unused.

The presence of this directory caused the signature checks to fail. Reinstalling the app didn't fix the problems because the installer wrote all of the new files but did not erase any existing files in the .app bundle.

You can get more information than the annoying popup by running codesign --verify --verbose {path to .app}. For NextCloud, this said:

nextcloud.app: embedded framework contains modified or invalid version
In subcomponent: /Applications/nextcloud.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtWebEngineCore.framework

This wasn't incredibly informative, but adding --verbose=4 told me that the A version was fine, so (by a process of elimination) the 5 version must be the problem.

EDIT: If any #Apple people want to fix this, please do the following:

When an app fails the signature check, look at the reason. If the reason is that files are present that are not part of the signed manifest, enumerate them and, before you offer to move the app to the bin, provide a dialog that says something like:

Application Foo contains files that should not be there.

[Move the added files to the bin][cancel]

If deleting the added files fixed the problem, no further action is required. Otherwise, show the current dialog.

Hey #macos folks:

what's a decent way to get right-click SFTP in the Finder?

New update for Signal Desktop 🎉

- New setting: Keep muted chats archived 🗃️
- Continued work on donations via Signal Desktop ❤️

Read more 👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-update-keep-muted-chats-archived/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #news #windows #linux #macOS #tech

GitHub Actions is dropping Intel macOS by November.

(Cirrus dropped it in Dec 2022, CircleCI in June 2024, Travis CI dropped all(!) macOS in April, and Anaconda last week.)

CPython has dropped it to tier 2. What does this mean to you? Not too much; we still support it, produce installers, CI failures block releases.

It means we only test on buildbots and failures must be fixed/reverted within 24h rather than immediately.

https://discuss.python.org/t/dropping-intel-mac-to-tier-2/102100

#Python #CPython #macOS #Intel #GitHubActions

Unfortunately CrossOver Preview seems to have gotten rid of the "Display Settings" sidebar on the right which let you simulate different display geometries than what wine auto-detected, which was very helpful for on-the-go #Steam gaming on #macOS on my MBP since rarely does it detect proper 16:10 or 16:9.

I used this, for example, with #BluePrince to ensure the left and right sides of the display were not cropped.

As an odd, but very workable, alternative solution - if you get the free edition of BetterDisplay and have it create a Virtual Display of the aspect ratio you want and then enable it, you can go into Settings -> Displays and configure your built-in display as a mirror for the virtual display.

The net result will be that it forces your only real display to conform to match the mirrored alternative geometry. Doesn't seem to be too much of a performance impact so far, but I haven't tried it with any super intense games either yet.