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WebFull Disk Access Was On, and macOS Still Refused the App
12+ hour, 19+ min ago (858+ words) A Mac app I maintain needs Full Disk Access. It measures disk usage, and most of what is worth measuring sits behind that permission. I switched it on in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Full Disk Access, and the app went…...
47GB of Compressed Memory and No Permission to Kill It: Handing a Monitoring Script Exactly One Root Command
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (505+ words) The header comment of mem-hog-guard.sh records how this started. In short: macOS's dasd (Duet Activity Scheduler) sat at an RSS of 264MB while holding MEM 47GB / CMPRS 46GB, pushed swap up to 37GB, and made Chrome's launchPersistentContext time out at 180 seconds. Every SNS…...
How to completely uninstall apps on Mac and free up storage
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (929+ words) Deleting an app from your Mac completely isn’t as simple as it sounds. We explain why, and show how App Cleaner in Kaspersky Premium for macOS clears out the leftovers. Every so often you need to tidy up, and that…...
ChatGPT Flaw Let a Planted Prompt Send a Victim's Gmail Data to Another Account
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (813+ words) Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept,…...
How to find your MacBook's diagnostic menu
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (654+ words) If your MacBook is having major hardware problems, the Apple Diagnostics menu can help make sense of what's wrong. The experience inside Apple Diagnostics depends on your version of macOS, too. Macs running macOS 26 Tahoe or later can offer individual…...
Get 50 AI models and no recurring payments with a lifetime subscription to AskAnyModelAI Pro for $39.99
1+ week, 3+ day ago (137+ words) TL;DR: Save time (and credits) by comparing results from more than 50 AIs with a lifetime subscription to AskAnyModelAI Pro Plan for $39.99, 91% off the $499 regular price. AskAnyModelAI gives you seamless, simultaneous access to the latest and best AI models, including…...
Run a private OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint on Apple Silicon with one Rust binary
1+ week, 4+ day ago (179+ words) Disclosure: I maintain Ferrum, an MIT-licensed local LLM inference server written in Rust. If you want a private OpenAI-compatible endpoint on an M-series Mac without setting up Python or a container, this is the shortest path I currently recommend. The…...
How to Speed Up Your Old MacBook? Follow These Guides
1+ week, 4+ day ago (503+ words) Clear storage: Remove old files, unused apps, duplicates and backups to free up valuable space. Manage background apps: Use Activity Monitor and Login Items to reduce unnecessary CPU and memory usage. Update macOS: Keep the operating system and apps updated…...
How to Try Omarchy Linux on a Mac, Without Installing Linux
1+ week, 4+ day ago (497+ words) And that’s where Try Omarchy comes in, an unaffiliated project from @martiano. It offers an entirely self-contained virtualized version of Omarchy Linux that’ll run as an independent app on MacOS. So, if you’re curious and want to give Omarchy Linux…...
Audacity 3.7.9 Open-Source Audio Editor Released with FFmpeg 9 Support
1+ week, 4+ day ago (362+ words) Audacity 3.7.9 has been released as a new stable version of this open-source digital audio editor and recording software to improve the stability and reliability of the software. Coming about two and a half months after Audacity 3.7.8, the Audacity 3.7.9 release is…...