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for the macos 26 beta enjoyers, this seems to enable a water animation on the default wallpaper (at a couple fps, lol, maybe hidden for a reason)
sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/NeptuneWallpaper.plist onemove -dict Enabled -bool true
also didn't realize these things' fans are fully off most of the time, afaik the airs are always spinning at low rpm? kind of neat
silly 2015 mbp 13" situation today, no force touch (touchpad worked otherwise) and it only turned on intermittently with the touchpad connected... turns out this random capacitor on the bottom of the touchpad daughterboard was visibly burnt, and immediately crumbled into powder when i squished it with pliers. now it boots reliably and force touch is back?? not complaining, lol
@Cykelero you should, it's so versatile! get the pre-toasted stuff if you can, though you can also bake a bunch in the oven yourself and store it for later
wonder what i'd eat every day if my ex hadn't fed me buckwheat in high school. wonderful stuff. cheap, healthy, cooks in 5 minutes in the microwave, tastes good on its own or with soy sauce, random vegetables, peas, nuts or mostly anything else that would be good on rice 😋 i love it
@lapcatsoftware afaik it's not just TextEdit but a bug affecting anything NSDocument-based on Sequoia. some third party apps and toy programs i wrote are showing the same behavior since updating, no changes to the apps themselves
@lyresdictionary this must be what intel had in mind rather than celery
@foone not endorsing this, but i did it last week with a lifeless 2015 macbook and random pc psu; a capacitor immediately started smoking and removing it cleared the short and fixed the laptop. lol
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I have spent a week writing a massive article about Windows 2. It has sexy screenshots and is full of incredible trivia. Why not spend the New Year's Eve reading it? ;)
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KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED
THAT MAYBE YOU’LL TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME
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`s/computer/Security Content of macOS Sequoia 15.2/` 😅
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Just finished my talk at #OBTS v7.0, spoke on Apple’s Rapid Security Response system.
Thank you to @patrickwardle & @andyrozen for hosting this amazing conference!
Slides and demo code below:
https://khronokernel.com/macos/2024/12/06/OBTS-v7-2024.html
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Bitches call me Electron cause I'm based on the web
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Long thread/3
Expert agencies are often all that stands between us and extreme misadventure, even death. The modern world is full of modern questions, the kinds of questions that require a high degree of expert knowledge to answer, but also the kinds of questions whose answers you'd better get right.
You're not stupid, nor are you foolish. You could go and learn everything you need to know to evaluate the firmware on your antilock brakes and decide whether to trust them.
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@NanoRaptor incredible movie, even better books imo (haven't read the 4th yet..)
@shac is this the same issue where an app will appear focused but not respond to mouse/keyboard until changing focus to another app and back? i have run into this constantly on all my macs since, like, high sierra, though it's rarer these days
@SwiftOnSecurity why do employees fail phishing tests if they just click a link, anyways? shouldn't it be a pass if you realize it's fake and back out without entering any info? unless they are really simulating browser exploits rather than phishing..?
