Caveat: if you are updating to #macOS 27 there is this lovely fscking Apple Stupidity "feature" which starts quantising *all your disk* so that Spotlight can give you "better answers".

It has been going for over 24hrs for me and it is at 7.1% … the I/O is floored and you simply cannot run any I/O intensive tasks (e.g. Parallels).

To find out the state of affairs you can use:

plutil -extract SpotlightKnowledgeV2.embeddingGenComplete raw ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlightknowledge.plist | awk '{printf "%.1f%%\n", $1 * 100}'

Whoever at #Apple thought this is up is a complete and utter cretin, especially because it is clearly running with a high priority and takes over all disk I/O.

I still have not found a way to stop it so I can actually do some work.

Update: figured out a fix… note that it blocks Apple Stupidity as a side-effect:

UID=$(id -u)
# Disable Apple Intelligence search daemons
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.assistantd
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.assistant_service
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.assistant_cdmd
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.siriknowledged
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.siriinferenced
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.Siri.agent
# Disable system-wide AI search components
sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.contextstored
sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.modelmanagerd
# Stop the running hybridsearchd process immediately
sudo launchctl bootout gui/$UID/com.apple.hybridsearchd 2>/dev/null || true
sudo pkill -9 hybridsearchd 2>/dev/null || true

Apple Copland D11E4 booting in your Browser
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1874
#retrocomputing #apple #copland #macos

First day with #macOS 27 and #iOS 27:

- the iPhone is smoother and quicker, but today I've had a high battery usage (I guess reindexing is doing its job)
- the MacBook M1 Pro is definitely quicker.

All in all, it seems a good upgrade, at least for now.

mactap : app menu bar qui transforme des taps sur le châssis du MacBook en raccourcis (copier, coller, undo). Détection on-device, M2+ et M1 Pro/Max.
Gratuit et open source. ⬇️
https://mactap.vercel.app/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Un tutoriel illustrant l'application macTap : à gauche, une flèche indique où frapper sur l'aluminium du MacBook près du trackpad, à droite une main effectue un tapotement détecté par l'app qui propose trois raccourcis (un, deux ou trois tapotements) pour déclencher diverses fonctions.

More and more people are joining Vivaldi and there are many different reasons why. Which of these are important to you?

I am allowing multiple choices as I know for many of you it is not about one thing. Some of this is thing that we do, but I know for may it is also about things we do not do, such as including AI or Crypto currencies.

#Vivaldi #Browser #EU #Europa #Technology #AI #Politics #Windows #Macos #Linux #Mastodon #Fediverse

Looking forward to today's release o MacOS 27 Golden Gate. I honestly haven't been this excited about a new MacOS update for over a decade and I am considering a day 1 upgrade over my current Mac OS 15.7.9 Sequoia installation.

I have been testing Golden Gate earlier on an old Macbook Air M1 and it felt very polished, efficient. While I hated Tahoe and therefore never upgraded to it, I think Liquid Glass has been improved to the point that I'm ready to embrace it.

#xp #Apple #MacOS #Macbook #GoldenGate

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Golden Gate Beta 3 wallpaper

Comparatif des prix de l'iPhone 18 Pro sur 41 pays, converti au cours BCE du jour. Les États-Unis restent la référence à 1295 $, la Turquie grimpe à +119 % avec la TVA à 20 %. La France se classe 29e, +32 % par rapport aux USA. ⬇️
https://ulrichrozier.com/pippin/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Une infographie compare les prix de l'iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max et Duo dans 41 pays selon les tarifs de l'Apple Store. Elle affiche le prix le moins cher (1 115 € aux États-Unis), le plus cher (2 450 € en Turquie) et l'écart maximal (+120 € pour l'iPhone 18 Pro 256 Go).

🚀 #Gitte 0.10.0 is out!

* Side-by-side diffs in the working copy & history
* Git LFS setup & tracked pattern management
* Add, update, configure & remove submodules
* Manage remotes & delete remote branches
* Per-repository commit & tag signing configuration
* Much faster startup, commit graphs & staging

Plus light & dark mode settings, UI improvements, and lots of fixes.

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.10.0+132
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #linux #macos

heise+ | So archivieren Sie alternde und zerkratzte Audio-CDs für die Ewigkeit

Audio-CDs bitgenau und verlustfrei konservieren: Wir zeigen schnelle und gründliche Wege für Linux, macOS, Windows und Stand-alone-CD-Spieler.

https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/So-archivieren-Sie-alternde-und-zerkratzte-Audio-CDs-fuer-die-Ewigkeit-11418989.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Entertainment #IT #Linux #macOS #Windows #news

Btop - das bessere htop für das Terminal

hyperblog.de/hoergen/posts/202…
#demhoergen #hyperblog #btop #systemmonitor #terminal #linux #macos #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

Eine detaillierte Einführung in btop, den ressourcenschonenden Systemmonitor mit Spiel-Menü-System und GPU-Unterstützung.

New blog post where I discuss SuperDuper 4's "follow-up" runs, file protection classes, and hidden detail work that does the right thing without drawing attention to itself.

https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/catching_up_2

#SuperDuper #macOS

Try Omarchy : Omarchy dans une app macOS native, sans configuration. Arch Linux ARM64 virtualisé via Hypervisor Framework, accélération graphique VirGL, presse-papier bidirectionnel, dossier partagé et port forwarding. Apple Silicon, macOS 15+. ⬇️
https://github.com/themartiano/try-omarchy

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Afterglow fait tourner les vieux screen savers After Dark (Flying Toasters, Fish, Starry Skyline) nativement sur macOS moderne, sans ROM ni Mac OS classique.
Émulation du code 68k, modules importables par glisser-déposer depuis l'Internet Archive. ⬇️
https://morphing.cloud/afterglow/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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L'application Afterglow affiche le module écran de veille "Flying Toasters" avec des toasts et du beurre animés flottant sur fond noir, accompagnée d'un panneau de réglages permettant d'ajuster le nombre d'objets volants, le style du toast et la couleur. Cette application recréé les célèbres économiseurs d'écran After Dark des années 90 sur macOS moderne.

Saggar : terminal Mac natif pour piloter plusieurs agents IA en parallèle. Chaque session est classée (attend une réponse, en cours, terminée, échouée), et seules celles qui ont besoin de vous remontent dans une file d'attente unique. Fini les tabs à surveiller un par un. ⬇️
https://saggar.marginalutility.dev/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Capture d'écran de Saggar, un terminal natif Mac qui organise les projets et sessions. L'interface affiche un message indiquant que Claude attend une entrée, avec un bouton "Approuver" pour confirmer.

Crisp : tout ce que macOS cache sur la gestion des écrans externes, réuni dans une icône menu bar. Luminosité DDC ou logicielle, HiDPI, presets, arrangement, profils ICC, gratuit, open source, macOS 15+. ⬇️
https://github.com/didriksg/Crisp

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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what the complaints about window titlebars being occupied by widgets tell me is that windows and macOS should both add that feature from linux desktops where if you hold the windows/command key, you can drag windows around by any part of the window

#windows #macOS #linux #ux

#POLL Results:

44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

#humor #humour #houmor #houmour

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.

Un développeur perd son téléphone au bureau, Find My bloqué par le MDM. Il demande à Claude, qui génère un script lisant la force du signal Bluetooth.
Téléphone retrouvé en arpentant les couloirs avec un compteur en temps réel ! ⬇️
https://github.com/ben-z/findphone

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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

ZoomIt for Mac : portage de l'utilitaire Sysinternals sur macOS. Zoom live, annotation, capture panoramique, OCR local, enregistrement vidéo avec webcam PIP. Open source, installable via Homebrew. ⬇️
https://github.com/microsoft/ZoomitForMac

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-jH4

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

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

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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.

"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.

I've posted the Apple Silicon MacOS build of #mame 0.289 over at it's home on the web. https://sdlmame.lngn.net/

#emulation #macos #arcade #computing #oldpeoplestuff

I wish Apple would still provide documentation with this level of detail... I mean, look at the start of this index page...

• Advantages of using bindings
• A simple example
• Why are NSControllers useful?
• Real-world example
• How do Bindings work?
• Bindings in more detail
...
• Troubleshooting (WHAAAT?!)

etc etc.

Just imagine if we had documentation like this today for all of Apple's technologies. Would be so amazing.

#macOS #MacOSX #MacDev #AppKit #CocoaBindings

https://leopard-adc.pepas.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaBindings/CocoaBindings.pdf

```
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