RE: https://zeroes.ca/@tantramar/117213366970145000

Hazel is one of those indispensable apps that sits quietly on my Mac, renaming files based on their contents (e.g. reading PDFs in my Downloads folder, and renaming it “power bill” if it has my power utility customer number in it, and also prepending the date it was issued, again read from the PDF) and filing them accordingly. So useful. #macOS #Utility

borgbackup 2.0.0b24 was just released!

Contains a few new features and a lot of fixes, please check the change log and help testing:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b24

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macOS #windows #python

How do you name your variables?

#programming #askfedi #softwareengineering #linux #windows #macos

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

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-qUT

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

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-SuF

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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

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-dmJ

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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.

#borgbackup 2.0.0b23 was just released!

With a ton of new features and some fixes, please check the change log and help testing:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b23

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macOS #windows #python

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

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-4p2

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

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.

"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

(select multiple)

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

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

borgbackup 2.0.0b22 was just released!

First release with packs and also other exciting changes - do not use with production repositories!

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b22

#borgbackup #linux #macOS #freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #backup

#borgbackup 1.4.5 was just released!

Some fixes, including a low severity security fix, some new features, some other changes.

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.5

#linux #FreeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #macos #omniOS

```
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

@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.