Been living with the #MacOS Tahoe update for a few weeks now, and it's mostly inoffensive, with one exception:

I hate, **HATE** that they made the change-of-volume alert become this tiny little update in the corner that's easily missed instead of the nice comfy screen overlay that made it quick and easy to see volume and any other special-button-related-changes.

Design has improved our lives in many ways, but this constant need for "change it just because it's been a while" is not the best look.

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#Cryptomator #SoftwareUpdate #Encryption #Cybersecurity #opensource #DataProtection #PrivacyTools #macOS #Windows #Linux #Infosec #SecureYourData #SecurityUpdate

well, I think it’s more or less OK to release. you may have issues on your hardware, but these patched TBXIs at least try to boot whatever you throw at it, 7.5 onwards up to whatever it’s supposed to boot…

very hacky and your mileage may vary, but now you too can try to boot 7.5 or 7.6 or 8.1 on stuff that wasn’t ever meant to run it, without it instantly crashing due to its boot wanting some function or interface that got stripped out the tree…

https://github.com/Wack0/universal-tbxi-patchset/releases/tag/v20251115

#MacOS #ClassicMacOS

I've also published an new 20251114 bootstrap kit. This isn't necessary if you already have an install (the steps above will get you past the problem without it), but means new users will not run into the issue.

https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

#pkgsrc #macOS

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT for anyone using my macOS package repository from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

There's a subtle upgrade scenario I didn't test correctly, and your next upgrade will fail due to PGP key bootstrap issues.

To fix:

$ pkgin -d upgrade
$ t=$(mktemp -d); cd $t
$ ar x /var/db/pkgin/cache/pkg_install-20250417.tgz
$ pkg_add -C /dev/null -U pkg_install-20250417.tmp.tgz
$ pkgin upgrade

Once you're past that everything should be fine. Really sorry for the inconvenience.

#pkgsrc #macOS

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

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

I have #macOS #Tahoe installed, and now, #hookmark is no longer working with links to #AppleNotes. Has anyone else seen this or solved it?

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!)

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.

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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)

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