I saw this article on Hacker News, and I've never felt more seen in my entire life. I gave away my iPad this year and I forgot until I saw this article - I always end up using my MacBook or my Thinkpad to get stuff done as the iPad is just utterly restricted at the software layer.
25 years ago today, Google was founded.
On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.
Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.
In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say:
'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'
Please boost and share your experience!
#Linux #OpenSource #OperatingSystems #TechJourney #GoogleAnniversary #Debian #MacOS #BSD #WindowsJourney #Mastodon #TechLife #GeekLife #Google #Windows
@springcomp please, what sale?
The greatest dwindling of my presence might have been around nine years ago. I naturally abandoned Apple products – prior to that, I enjoyed contributing to Apple Stack Exchange. Linked from my profile:
<https://wiki.bsd.cafe/user:grahamperrin>
「… The GUI of OS X 10.10 Yosemite drove me away from Apple. I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then FreeBSD-CURRENT. …」
Looking for work! (Sooner than later)
If anyone has any leads for an iOS/macOS engineer that has 15 years experience in iOS and more on macOS, feel free to pass along my info.
SwiftUI, AppKit, UIKit, loads of experience.
Having used #macOS again for a week now, I (re)discovered that #WindowMaker still behaves the same way regarding dock and iconified applications. In comparison, the #Cinnamon bar or #XFCE docklike plugin behave more like Windows.
Do whatever suits you with this information :)
For my #ThrowbackThursday, here's a snapshot of my desk from 2013. Although my workspace was pretty cluttered then and still is, despite being in a different house now. Under the table, there was a tower PCs, running #FreeBSD. The laptop that was on was using #MacOS, while the mini ITX desktop was powered by #NetBSD with #Xen, hosting various services in some domUs. My smartphone at the time was a QWERTY-equipped Samsung #Android, which I had chosen in the hopes of finding a keyboard experience similar to the superb one offered by #BlackBerry. Additionally, there was another laptop beneath the phones operating on #OpenBSD. The Dockstar, running NetBSD, served as my file server; it even had remote access, albeit with a modest broadband speed of just 1.5 Mbit/sec.
Ah, the good old days. 🙂
Has anyone successfully mounted on #macOS #NFS or #Samba shares hosted on a #FreeBSD server?
If I use NFSv3, then all my shares are full of #AppleDouble files (i.e., with the "._" prefix).
If I use #NFSv4, then "git fetch" just hangs forever and never finishes.
If I use #Samba, then either 1) everything is 755 but I cannot delete files xD or 2) (after applying https://askubuntu.com/a/1126633/413683) the permissions are correct, but something is wrong with my .git: ad_convert: Failed to convert [.git].
:(
From my travels:
...the question arises if the classic, basic #fuzz technique is still useful and applicable... we found that 9 crash or hang out of 74 utilities on #Linux, 15 out of 78 utilities on #FreeBSD, and 12 out of 76 utilities on #MacOS... failure rates are somewhat higher than our in previous 1995, 2000, and 2006 studies of the reliability of command line utilities...
For anyone using my macOS binary package repository, I've switched to building against MacOSX12.3.sdk.
Build results look good, and over 24,000 packages are available for both arm64 and x86_64.
Full details on why I had to change, and how to switch to the new repository, are in my post to pkgsrc-users:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2024/04/19/msg039367.html
The 11.3 repository will no longer be updated, but will remain available for anyone unable to upgrade past Big Sur.
Any problems, let me know!
We out here install KanjiTalk 6! 🔥 🗣️
Or... at least trying to
#Emulation #Mac #Macintosh #MacOS #KanjiTalk
I'm finally ready to unveil my new weird software project that I've been working on: #Cosmarmot, a #Gopher to #Gemini gateway. I've got a public instance running at gopher://cosmarmot.space. Screenshots below in TurboGopher on #MacOS System 7.5, and in #Bombadillo in #CoolRetroTerm (since I can't take a real screenshot on my VT420).
Useful (?) for #Retrocomputing: if your old computer will run a Gopher client, but doesn't have the oomph to do the TLS a Gemini client needs, point it at Cosmarmot and explore Geminispace.
Made with secret alien technology (#CommonLisp), source at https://git.carcosa.net/jmcbray/cosmarmot/.
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2. Switch to #Linux or #macOS (if you need those Adobe and other apps). Both oses allows customization. Source: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-blocks-even-more-customization-apps-in-windows-11-version-24h2/
How to exclude and ignore files when using find command https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/find-command-exclude-ignore-files/ 👇 #linux #unix #macos #freebsd #opensource
For almost everyday tasks, I actually use a macbook 😍 and this mac mini. I have used GNU/Linux too but I keep that in server use cases and so BSD is... 😛
I like Mac 🥰 more than Linux or BSD, it's much more usable 👀 and I can be sure that my data is safe 🎗, since Apple has very strong cryptography and uses client side encryption...
Also, recently moved to iPhone 🥰😍 as well, it was a breeze from Android, mainly because green and blue bubble issues. I like Android color 😮💨 but still iPhone is better 😳. I think I can bare a lock down system.
Not sure about my iTunes subscription though, it's in a sense: ok
MacOS has buttons left side, (close, minimize, and maximize). The filesystem is also strong too, and I don't seem to have much issues, and since Apple has total control in it ❤❤❤, I have my faith to them, they're doing incredibly good, okay, I understand that there is a recent lawsuit against 😿 Apple, but I strongly stand with them because I know, Apple is right here 👊. All other companies just don't like Apple because they think Apple has a monopoly, but it's okay, as you can always trust to Apple either way. 👀🧡🧡
Apple also provides privacy that GNU/Linux and BSD doesn't have. In GNU systems, you can be hacked and in BSD systems same too, whereas Apple macs can't get malware 🥳🥳🥳 because Apple has the world class security overall 🧐🤓 and I think they are just better 😎.
{Every big company} is just worse, and Apple is the best.
Also, macs are good 😎😎. I don't have Apple watch because I think Apple is still improving here, and we can always be sure, Apple is the best. 💖💖💖
Apple also do not incorporate backdoor 😉 by any means. In fact, the word backdoor doesn't even exist in the industry for Apple. The news reports, and everyone else were wrong that Apple has a backdoor that can be used to unlock their devices. Booooooo! APPLE DOESN'T HAVE THAT! 🤗🤗
I'm also sorry for lying 😭😭 that I use GNU/Linux. I actually use a Macbook and I'm too much addicted to cringe things but that's just another topic for another day 😁 and nothing to do with Apple! 😘😍🤗
So what are you waiting for, you should move to Apple, right now, you know, it's better! 😳💝❤💗
I guess that's progress ... some #PowerShell on #FreeBSD at least starting up. Creating a #port out of this will be a lot of work 😞 had to patch quite some code, e.g. completely disable the "login shell" functionality, the implementations only work on either #Linux or #MacOS....
And the whole build system fails completely if not built from within a #git working copy ... WTF? This will be another challenge for porting.
Ah, this messy version is probably a result of the mess in the upstream repo, a tag v7.4.1 exists, but refers to a commit that is gone.
Oh what did I expect ... 😂
🚀 Firefox 124 has landed! 🦊
📄Caret Browsing in PDFs
💻Screen Wake Lock API
🗃️Firefox View now sorts tabs by activity or order.
🔧 Security fixes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/124.0/releasenotes/ #opensource #unix #linux #macos #freebsd
You can store SSH usernames, hostnames, keys, ports, and other options for each server you connect to. This saves you from typing in lengthy commands each time. Here is how to create the ssh config file for #Linux, #macos, #FreeBSD, and #Unix https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/create-ssh-config-file-on-linux-unix/
Hackintosh is (almost) dead
It’s true that latest macOS 14 (Sonoma) still supports the latest generations of Intel Macs and it’s very likely that at least one or two major versions will still be compatible. But there’s one particular development that is de-facto killing off the Hackintosh scene.
In Sonoma, Apple has completely removed all traces of driver support for their oldest WiFi/Bt cards, namely various
https://www.osnews.com/story/138858/hackintosh-is-almost-dead/
Ever wonder what was lost with each #macOS version? Wonder no more... 
#apple
https://talk.tidbits.com/t/features-lost-across-versions-of-macos/27037
A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools https://nxdomain.no/~peter/better_off_with_pf.html (or with trackers https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-few-of-my-favorite-things-about.html) reprising my 2022 piece about fun and useful things to do with #openbsd #pf, some of which are doeable on #freebsd, #solaris, #macos and elsewhere too.
@hl
At least for #FreeBSD, #ExFAT mandates to install driver, sysutils/fusefs-exfat (and maybe additionally, sysutils/exfat-utils).
They would NOT merged into base system forever, because of conflicting license, unless re-licensed under any of BSD-compatible licenses and patents granted freely.
So #FAT32 would be the choice, although its limitations about large file systems. At worse, #FAT16, as I'm not at all sure about #MacOS.
#Linux would not have licensing issue, but would still have patent issue for #ExFAT.
I really wish Apple would stop breaking things.
Latest Command Line Tools breaks yacc, m4, etc.
When you accept the installer it prints a completely bogus estimation time.
Then when it finishes, yacc, m4, etc, are still missing and you go around the cycle again.
This really isn't difficult Apple. With a market cap of over 2.5 trillion dollars, I'm pretty sure you can afford to employ a single #pkgsrc developer. They would find these bugs within minutes before release.
#macos ultra pro hint: with yabai you can not only get good window management (tiling), but also focus-follows-cursor!
❝… macOS App Store … matrix.org lied to me. Element X is available on iOS and macOS, Element is not. …❞
I don't doubt that there's an onboarding issue, but there seems to be some confusion.
@isotopp which version of iOS?
Please see these two pages:
— <https://element.io/download> with Element for Mac (desktop)
— <https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/element-messenger/id1083446067> with Element Messenger for iOS.
From the latter:
— iPhone – Requires iOS 15.0 or later
— iPad – Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later
— iPod touch – Requires iOS 15.0 or later
— Apple Vision – Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
❝… macOS App Store … matrix.org lied to me. Element X is available on iOS and macOS, Element is not. …❞
I don't doubt that there's an onboarding issue, but there seems to be some confusion.
@isotopp which version of iOS?
Please see these two pages:
— <https://element.io/download> with Element for Mac (desktop)
— <https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/element-messenger/id1083446067> with Element Messenger for iOS.
From the latter:
— iPhone – Requires iOS 15.0 or later
— iPad – Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later
— iPod touch – Requires iOS 15.0 or later
— Apple Vision – Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
So, my 2013 iMac crashed again. It froze while the screensaver was on. See attached screenshot of the crash report... Any idea what this means? Is it the graphics driver? The GPU on the CPU? Power supply issues?
#macos #troubleshooting
@chrism @matthewcroughan above article relates to #macos #macosx and #virtualmachines #vm
@lproven @theregister Plan9 is an #opensource OS with 38 system calls & few #linesofcode . Is not #UNIX . Need #Linux for VM only, to allow plan9 to run existing programs #mx #cluster #systemcalls #plan9 #filesystem #containers #docker #9front #kubernetes #snap #flatpak #git #unix #inferno #leansoftware #Oberon #a2 #multithreading #debian12 #Chrome #linesofcode #moreslaw #andalslaw #parallel_programming #softwaredevelopment #macOS #hypervisor #MicroVM #cubesos #linuxvm #pixie #zen #VMWare
«New macOS #Backdoor Linked to Prominent Ransomware Groups:
A newly identified #macOS backdoor written in #Rust / #RustLang appears linked to the prominent #ransomware families Black Basta and Alphv/BlackCat, cybersecurity firm Bitdefender reports.»
I won't say anything more about it, except that it is apparently more #secure than Windows alone, it is not yet protected. Of course everything can be #hack'ed, but it has to reward the attackers.
🔓 https://www.securityweek.com/new-macos-backdoor-linked-to-prominent-ransomware-groups/
Authy #OTP one time password #2FA two factor authenticator ending its desktop app from 19-03-2024. #Authy Android and iOS apps not affected. Boo hoo... I used Authy desktop precisely because I do not want to have to have a mobile device with me to do good #2FA . #gome authenticator it is then... BUT what do I do on my #macOS device then ??? Any advice welcome.
The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops https://theregister.com/2024/01/27/opinion_column/ by @sjvn
Long before there was a #Linux desktop, there were the #Unix desktops. My favorite, then, was NeXTStep. aka #macOS's great, great grandpa.
Added:
* #FreeBSD 14.0 with #snac (a #Fediverse server) and #nginx
(https://app.vagrantup.com/gyptazy/boxes/freebsd14.0-snac-fediverse-server-arm64)
* #Alma 9.3 (#AlmaLinux)
(https://app.vagrantup.com/gyptazy/boxes/alma9.3-arm64)
* #Rocky 9.3 (#RockyLinux)
(https://app.vagrantup.com/gyptazy/boxes/rocky9.3-arm64)
(Fixes: https://github.com/gyptazy/vagrant-arm64-boxes/issues/1 and https://github.com/gyptazy/vagrant-arm64-boxes/issues/6)
* #Chimera 20240122 (#ChimeraLinux)
(https://app.vagrantup.com/gyptazy/boxes/chimera20240122-arm64)
You can find all 42 images on:
https://gyptazy.ch/blog/collection-of-vagrant-boxes-images-for-apple-silicon-based-on-arm64/
The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops • The Register
<https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/opinion_column/> @sjvn
❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞
#analysis #Android #Apple #benevolent #cats #Canonical #ChromeOS #consensus #containers #Dell #desktop #dictator #dogs #DragonflyBSD #expert #Flatpak #Foundation #FreeBSD #GhostBSD #GNU #GPL #group #jails #licence #license #Linus #Linux #Mac #Mach #macOS #market #Microsoft #NeXT #NeXTSTEP #opinion #POSIX #share #Slackware #Snap #standards #success #Sun #technology #Torvalds #UNIX #Windows #work #year
We had the single most lively #OpenZFS PUC today and it should be online in an hour or so.
We were blessed by the illustrious @jimsalter and discussed an idea for a feature!
What if 'zfs delete' or 'empty' did the equivalent of rolling back to a snapshot of the empty dataset when it was freshly created?
This came from Rod's suggestion of an option to always auto-create an @empty snapshot on new datasets.
@vermaden @jhx thanks, and quoting InformationWeek:
❝… The Greatest Software Ever Written — Unix
❝… Other Unixes were bigger commercial successes. But as the cumulative accomplishment of the BSD systems, 4.3 represented an unmatched peak of innovation. BSD 4.3 represents the single biggest theoretical undergirder of the Internet. Moreover, the passion that surrounds Linux and open source code is a direct offshoot of the ideas that created BSD: a love for the power of computing and a belief that it should be a freely available extension of man's intellectual powers — a force that changes his place in the universe. ❞
It's only slightly disappointing that Charles Babcock mentioned none of the descendent operating systems — Linux is neither a descendent, nor an OS.
The UNIX system family tree: Research and BSD
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/raw/main/share/misc/bsd-family-tree>
I don't think there is a substantial difference in #UX between #MacOS and #Win11. There are lots of visual 'skinning' tweaks but the basic structural model of files/folders/2d windowing/invisible clipboard feels pretty baked at this point.
Are there any #Linux distros that break the mold? Shake things up a bit?
My point is that I feel *all* desktop #UXs have pretty much stagnated and no one is really trying anything different. I'd LOVE to hear of any crazy experiments.
Running out of disk space on your #Linux, #macOS, #FreeBSD or #Unix system? Use the 'du' command shell kung-fu to print directories and files consuming the most disk space:
```
du -a -x {/dir1/} | sort -n -r | head -n 10
```
Read "How To Find Largest Top 10 Files and Directories On Linux / UNIX / BSD" for complete examples and syntax usage 👇https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-find-the-largest-filesdirectories-on-a-linuxunixbsd-filesystem/
A collection of ready to use #Linux and #BSD #VMs for #Hashicorp #Vagrant (boxes) running on your #AppleSilicon based #Mac on #macOS.
https://gyptazy.ch/blog/collection-of-vagrant-boxes-images-for-apple-silicon-based-on-arm64/
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Debian #Ubuntu #RockyLinux #Rocky #RedHat #CentOS #Arch #Alpine #Fedora #Suse #Gentoo #GardenLinux #Kali #NixOS #Oracle #PopOS #Photon #NetBSD