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As you may be aware, Apple is releasing macOS #Sequoia today. Every effort is being made to ensure Remote Incident Manager’s readiness for Sequoia as soon as possible. At the time of writing, we are hard at work addressing some challenges brought about by Sequoia. In particular, a new permissions condition currently strongly impacts the long-term viability of unattended sessions on Mac targets. The remote accessibility module on Mac targets has also been impacted. We are currently in talks with Apple support concerning these issues, and it is our hope to have a solution ready in due course. However, at this time, we strongly recommend remaining on macOS Sonoma if at all possible. We further recommend that you advise any Mac users you provide support/training to to hold off on updating to Sequoia as well. We will keep you apprised of further developments, and will give an all clear once Rim can be pronounced fit for use on Sequoia.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and we thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Chrome on the Mac uses less battery than Safari
It's one of the most pervasive common wisdoms shared all over the web, no matter where you go - it's one of those things everybody seems to universally agree on: Chrome will absolutely devastate your battery life on the Mac, and you should really be using Safari, because Apple's special integration magic pixie dust sprinkles ensures Safari sip
I tend to feel like most moaning about Apple is overblown but the latest version of #macos making it excessively hard to run cronjobs might well be the thing that finally pushes me back onto desktop linux (or BSD?) after 12+ years.
The selling point was always that it's a Unix environment with a nice graphical setup but if they're going to make it excessively hard to use the Unix side of things in a normal way then what's the point?
Minicpm-v 2.6 is the only recent model that was added. Maybe time to move on. :( #LLM #multimodal #AppleSilicon #MacOS #ML #AI
I forget what the Drama™ was that caused me to stop using Bartender on #macOS, but I've been happily using Ice as a replacement github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
Today I just got Software Update message for the latest version, and it warms my heart because it adds #accessibility support
Whenever you see a good app adding or improving accessibility support, please share the news. We need to normalize adding accessibility to all apps.
Monal 6.4.3 (Build 976, PR #1192) released.
- Fix omemo handling when chatting with users not in the contact list
- Improve PLAIN-only warning message on first login
- Don't show spurious "new message" notifications for outgoing media files
- Make sure to open the receiver's chat when sharing via sharesheet
- Fix hang on startup
- Fix SASL2 upgrade path for servers using LDAP as auth backend
- Fix crash when deleting account
1 year ago I switched from Mac to Linux for professional UX design work. In this article, I explain as simply as possible:
- Why I switched to Linux
- How you can do the same.
I cover design-specific concerns like:
- How to use Apple devices like the Magic Mouse in Linux
- Which design tools are available and how to install them
- How to find help if you get stuck
chris-wood.design/resources/li…
#Design #UXDesign #UIDesign #Linux #MacOS
Linux for UX Designers - What I learned after a year of doing design work on Linux
My experience with moving from Mac to Linux for professional UX and UI design work and how to make the switch yourself.Portfolio
Monal 6.4.2 (Build 964, PR #1182) released.
- Add setting to configure if file transfers should show up in Files App
- Add setting to send images as original
- Improve Onboarding texts
- Fix flickering of intro screens
- Improve handling of xmpp: URIs
- Several other bugfixes
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Which office suite(s) do you use at least once a week? (in a typical week)
Please only answer the poll *if* you use #office software, such as #wordprocessor, #spreadsheet #presentation software, etc.
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#LibreOffice #MSOffice #MicrosoftOffice #GoogleDocs #CalligraSuite #Calligra #FreeOffice #SoftmakerOffice #Gnumeric #CollaboraOffice #CollaboraOnline #OpenOffice #OnlyOffice #Microsoft365 #WordPerfectOffice #WPSOffice #iWork #Windows #Linux #macOS #Android #iOS
- LibreOffice (60%, 138 votes)
- Microsoft Office (38%, 87 votes)
- Google Docs (30%, 69 votes)
- Other (please reply and explain) (5%, 13 votes)
We are pleased to announce that we got selected in another funding round by the EU’s NGI via the @NLnet Foundation @NGI0 Entrust Fund to work on some important features in Monal: nlnet.nl/project/Monal-IM-UI/
In short this consists of the following tasks (in no special order):
Implement Dialpad, Rewrite Chat UI, Implement Message Reactions, Rich Replies and Stickers, XSF work and a documentation of Monal's internals
Over the years, I have scoured the internet for various versions of the Mac HIG PDFs. Here is my collection so far.
Some neat ones include HIGs for Mac OS 8 & a preliminary Mac OS X version from the Public Beta.
These HIGs contain general desktop guidelines that still apply today & that you can't find in the modern HIG.
Please retoot! Everyone should read these.
iCloud: icloud.com/iclouddrive/03elmPn…
DB: dropbox.com/scl/fo/gziho6zcerb…
#Mac #HIG #Macintosh #UIUX #UserExperience #macOS #MacHIG #MacOSX
Some time ago I have written an article about interesting way to use Strings in #Swift. If you wish, feel free to take a look and tell me what I did wrong.
nunonuno.micro.blog/2024/05/01…
#programming #apple #iOS #macOS
Some interesting things we can do with strings in Swift
Today I want to discuss strings in Swift Hello everyone. I am trying to reinforce my knowledge of some interesting topics by writing about them.nunonuno.micro.blog
Got very excited by @matt demo of AccessKit integration in #GTK
AccessKit is a cross-platform abstraction for accessibility infrastructure written in Rust.
His work will bring a11y support for GTK on macOS and Windows as well as for the new accessibility architecture on Linux code-named "Newton".
github.com/AccessKit/accesskit
blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/2…
#GNOME #rustlang #accessibility #a11y #Linux #Windows #macOS
GitHub - AccessKit/accesskit: UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages
UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages - AccessKit/accesskitGitHub
If you use brew’s curl on macOS, are you really using it? I installed and had curl setup a couple of years ago. Today it appears that curl was now pointing to Apple’s version, which has this issue (daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/08…). Looks like brew doesn’t add a symlink for curl to /opt/homebrew/bin. Running `ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl /opt/homebrew/bin` resolved the issue.
"The 10ish Tools I Install on Every New Mac I Get", by @j9t
meiert.com/en/blog/10ish-tools…
Other suggestion: Slack, Zoom, Dropbox, Evernote, Sublime, Krita (graphics)
The 10ish Tools I Install on Every New Mac I Get · Jens Oliver Meiert
Are there going to be surprises.meiert.com
So uh, the Mac has this interactive fiction client, called Spatterlight. And it’s amazingly accessible! Anyone with a Mac should seriously check this out. It even has Voiceover actions!
#accessibility #macOS #apple #InteractiveFiction #Spatterlight
github.com/angstsmurf/spatterl…
GitHub - angstsmurf/spatterlight: Updated fork of Spatterlight
Updated fork of Spatterlight. Contribute to angstsmurf/spatterlight development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.
Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.
Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon
elective.collegeboard.org/clar…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence…
redhat.com/en/command-line-her…
Command Line Heroes: Season 6: Dr. Clarence Ellis: The Developer Who Helped Us Collaborate
It’s not easy to learn how to use computers when you can’t actually touch them. But that’s how Dr. Clarence Ellis started his career of invention—which would ultimately lead to reimagining how we all worked with computers and each other.www.redhat.com
In 2024, please switch to Firefox roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-202… #privacy #security #opensource #unix #linux #macos
This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox’s market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switching is important.“Red Panda” by Mathias Appel is marked with CC0 1.0.
1. Privacy
Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. There’s been a lot of talk about websites tracking users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. But owning the browser puts Google, Apple and Microsoft in a position where they don’t even need those tricks. We need to use browsers that are independent, and right now that means Firefox.2. Browser engine monopoly
Wikipedia lists four browser engines as being “active”. Browser engines are the bits that take a web page’s code and display it on your screen. Ideally, they conform to the official W3C standards, and display all elements as it describes. If that’s the case, web developers can easily write sites that work on all browsers. No proprietary vendor lock-in nonsense, just glorious open standards at work.It’s happened before
In the early 2000’s, Internet Explorer had a massive 95% market share. This meant that many sites were only developed for use with IE. They’d use experimental features that IE supported, in favor of things from the official HTML standard. This was a very bad situation, which hindered the development of the World Wide Web.Currenty, Chrome, Safari and Edge all use variations of the closely related Webkit and Blink engines. If we want to avoid another browser engine monopoly, we need to support Firefox, and its “Gecko” engine.
Firefox is actually really good
If Firefox would be a bad browser, I would not recommend you to switch. It’s fast, has a nice user interface, and feels every bit as modern and elegant as its competition. I’ve been using it as my main browser for a couple of years now, on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android. As a web developer, I usually have at least three browsers open, but when I go look something up on the web, I pick Firefox.So please, help save the web by using the best browser out there. It’s an easy thing to do, and it makes a big difference.
roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-202…
Man Reader - my Mac app for reading Terminal command man pages - has finally had its long awaited update. The new version is now waiting for review.
Currently, Man Reader costs USD 4.99 or the local equivalent. I will be increasing this to USD 9.99 when the update is released, so if you want to save some money, buy it now and get the upgrade at half-price.
itunes.apple.com/app/man-reade…
#macOS #swift #terminal #zsh #bash
Man Reader
Man Reader allows quick, convenient and easy access to the man pages on your system, useful for programmers, system administrators and tweakers.App Store
Interesting to see #gnome post about their #macOS CI builder issues the day after I posted a video about "understanding who your open source constituency is".
It's pretty clear that macOS users are not Gnome's constituency. Fine. But it also goes to show just how much #inkscape, #gimp and other Free Software downstream must also not be their constituency because we're so misaligned on this topic and there's no discussion about our relationship with gnome
Original Video: youtube.com/watch?v=w1QcEHzwlB…
Are you Being Served by Free Software?
This is a off the cuff discussion which is a response to some other videos about the whole RedHat news more recently. But looking at it from a the thousand m...YouTube
If you have experience maintaining a GitLab CI runner on macOS, and you wish to contribute to building and testing GLib and GTK on macOS, please join the GNOME Infrastructure channel to help maintaining the macOS server provided by the GNOME Foundation, otherwise we will have to retire it. More details on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/potentia…
#gtk #gnome #macos #ci #gitlab
Potential retirement of the macOS CI builder for GLib and GTK
The GNOME Foundation has been sponsoring a hosted macOS CI runner for a few years, but the admins are now planning to retire it for a couple of reasons: the hardware is getting long in the tooth (it’s still an x86_64 machine) it’s a shared bare met…GNOME Discourse
How-to: Use Logic's Built In Net Send and Net Receive Plugins
In this video I will explain the AU Net Send and AU Net Receive Plug-ins built into Logic Pro which enable you to pipe audio from an audio track to a MIDI tr...YouTube
Does anyone care deeply about macOS support for GLib? If so, you might want to get involved
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/…
ci: Disable the macOS CI (!3463) · Merge requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab
It’s almost a complete waste of time at the moment. For several reasons, jobs flakily fail on it more often than they succeed. It’s wasting resources, slowing down...GitLab
Are #apple #macos users here who would want to test one of the submissions to the #game jam for #blind gamers?
It’s the only one that didn’t get any ratings yet, and that’s just sad to see. It looks like a pretty nice blind-friendly 3D stealth system: itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…
