#macOS devs, I need your attention for a minute.

Let's say there would be an open-source project/service that makes it easy to:

- Notarize your Mac apps
- Create & handle updates via Sparkle by hosting them
- Handle payments via Stripe and other payment providers
- Manage/validate licenses

How would you like to use this project/service?

TIL about using pbpaste (on MacOS for example) to directly apply a git e-mail patch that is currently saved to your clipboard:

pbpaste | git apply

(Obviously doesn't carry over the submitters email/name etc, but for tiny changes it makes things easier than exporting mbox)

https://ss64.com/mac/pbpaste.html

#macOS #git

#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.

#UnplugTrump und das aus DE FreeOffice ist kostenlos und kommt vom #Softmaker Offce aus #Nürnberg Voll kompatible zu #Microsoft #Office und fast identischen Funktionen & Menüs, machen den Umstieg sehr leicht. www.freeoffice.com/de/ #GoEuropean #Windows #Mac #MacOS #iOS #Android #iPhone #iPad

#macOS developers: is there a way to get a *raw*, unprocessed video stream for just getting the pixels out of a camera? No Center Stage, no Reactions, no background replacement, and no interaction from the user to allow enabling any of that. Like if I wanted to set up a telescope for astrophotography, weather monitoring, security surveillance, or literally any use case which isn't "pointing the camera at my face for a video call". Is AVFoundation too high-level for this?

@morgant

#MacOS has now overtaken #FreeBSD

#EVIL

#Poll #LiveTooting

#hashtags for exposure:

#windows #MacOS #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #TempleOS #Boost #BoostsAppreciated #BoostPlease #PleaseBoost

Ok, sorry for all that. 😂

Tried using a Mac and apparently you cannot run third party apps at all anymore. The spctl trick doesn’t work anymore and leads to this.

I like how the os is killing the process (SIGKILL) and then tries to pain this as an error in the app.

Why can’t both Microsoft and Apple just let me use my computer? I feel like I’m going insane.

#apple #macos #sequoia #spctl

@stefano The *perception* that #Linux is anti- #Windows or #MacOS was understandable back in the day when Steve Ballmer was running the show and #Microsoft pumped out no shortage of anti-Linux FUD and propaganda.

It's also important to note at that time the OS landscape was very different.

I support open source and free software #freedom #freesoftware #opensource #gnu #linux #android #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macos #ios #windows #google and more

I need some tips or advice.

I would like to reimage my (Intel) MacBook Pro.
The reason is that i suspect some low level third party drivers are messing up my power management (therefore i don't want to restore from the Time Machine backup)

In the (distant) past I dinos replaced the ssd but this isn't possible.

So my question, what is the best way to create an (ideally bootable) disk image of my #MacOS installation?

#Boost #FediPower

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.

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

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!)

People tell me that GNU/Linux is too ugly these days, that all computers are ugly garbage, and that you might as well give up and use Windows or macOS.

I'll just stay where I am on Fedora. I see no reason to change. I have all my needs met, without ads.

#GNU #Linux #Windows #Fedora #FreeSoftware #macOS

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.

Organizations Warned of Exploited Sudo Vulnerability

The vulnerability could allow local, low-privileged attackers to execute commands with root privileges, leading to full system compromise.
#sudo #linux #macos

https://www.securityweek.com/organizations-warned-of-exploited-sudo-vulnerability/

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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

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!

I am going to RANT about both #iOS, and #macOS now.

I am sick to the fucking teeth of both my phone and my computer assuming that I'm talking about the *people* in my contacts list.

I'm autistic. I never am fucking talking about the fucking people in my fucking contacts list! I do not fucking gossip. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

I am trying to do a transcription of a meeting from last week, and every time I say a word that is something even remotely similar to the name of someone I have in my contacts, voice dictation will correct what I said to that name.

This also happens when I text, when I email -- any time I use voice dictation, and I use voice dictation a fuck ton.

I have looked, and looked, and looked, and LOOKED online to try to find a way to disable this, to no avail.

It is a bug, not a feature, and it is something that has happened the entire time that I have had an iPhone -- for 11 fucking years.

It makes my work so much more fucking difficult when I say the word "cats" and it corrects it to Katz.

Or when it randomly decides that it is going to AutoCorrect (see?!) the word "Time" to --- see?! It did it, with a capital fucking T, because I have ONE contact in my phone that has that word in it with a capital T.

I am ready to fucking go back to carbon paper and Typewriters and fucking carrier pigeons at this point.

You see how it capitalized Typewriters? It did that because I've got entries in my phone where that word is capitalized in my contacts.

I hate this. I hate this so goddamn fucking much, and it is making my transcription work so much more goddamned fucking difficult!

If there are any tech people out there who can tell me how to fucking disable this bug, not a feature, I will kiss your fucking toes and make you dinner for a goddamn year.

The only option I feel I have is Nuking (why the fuck did it capitalize that?) my fucking contacts.

Or else, going through every single goddamn one of them, and decapitalizing *every single fucking entry*.

That seems to be the only goddamn motherfucking thing I could do to stop this.

OK, sorry about the swearing; I've got at least another hour of transcription to go and it is slow going because of this fucking asshole bullshit decision by some fucking software developer fucking somewhere fucking 15 years ago who thought we must *always* be talking ONLY about the people who are in our contacts in our phone.

Fuck that fucking guy; I hope he's rotting in fucking hell.