438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Time Machine in Sequoia
mjtsai,
Der Teilweise: Backing up to a NAS currently says 3 days (!) left, after having backed up ~160GB. Was using WiFi with TX rate 133MBit. Now I connected using Gigabit Ethernet, does not seem to be faster. Plus: CPU usage is ridiculously high, fans spinning up to medium/max speed several times per hour. […] I […]
Leaky macOS VPN After System Update
Mullvad VPN (Hacker News): We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.In this scenario the macOS firewall does not seem to function correctly and is disregarding firewall rules. Most […]
TCC and Gatekeeper Bypasses
Wojciech Reguła (September 2021, tweet): I was looking for code injection opportunities that may allow reaching TCC bypasses. My simple shell script discovered a potential victim - /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Directory Utility.app. It had (and has) the following private TCC entitlement[…] This entitlement allows the Directory Utility to modify the user’s records stored in the /var/db/dslocal/nodes directory. […] […]
Autoenshittification, YouTube, and Disenshittify or Die
Cory Doctorow (July 2023, Hacker News): Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.[…]The car manufacturers got so desperate for chips that they started buying up washing […]
Click-to-Cancel
Thomas Claburn (MacRumors): The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a final “click-to-cancel” rule that aims to simplify the process of ending unwanted subscriptions to products and services.[…]“Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription,” said FTC Chair Lina Khan in a statement. “The FTC’s rule will end […]
Netscape at 30
Jamie Zawinski: According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the […]
ToothFairy 2.8.5
ToothFairy 2.8.5 is a maintenance update of my Bluetooth menu bar utility. It fixes a bug where sometimes ToothFairy wouldn’t auto-launch at login. An interesting bug was: ToothFairy uses SMLoginItemSetEnabled(), which, instead of launching the app directly, launches a helper app that can launch the main app. Originally, it did this using NSWorkspace.launchApplication(_:), but then […]
Prompt 3
Panic (Mastodon): When you buy Prompt, you’ll get both the mobile and desktop apps.[…]MOSH & ETERNAL TERMINAL. Use these two new connection types for mega-stable terminals even if your network connection is garbageQuickly insert your most frequently used commands and text snippets with a tap or a click.[…]Easily sync your servers, keys and passwords between […]