@jrtwynam@mastodon.art avatar jrtwynam , to random

Sunlight bursts through the branches of a towering giant sequoia in Yosemite's Tuolumne Grove, creating a dazzling display of light and shadow in the ancient forest canopy.

https://jrtphotography.com/featured/sunburst-through-giant-sequoia-in-yosemite-john-twynam.html

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@sos@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar sos , to random

Tried using a Mac and apparently you cannot run third party apps at all anymore. The spctl trick doesn’t work anymore and leads to this.

I like how the os is killing the process (SIGKILL) and then tries to pain this as an error in the app.

Why can’t both Microsoft and Apple just let me use my computer? I feel like I’m going insane.

@Pepijn@mastodon.online avatar Pepijn , to random

Good evening mastodon! Tonight I'm staying in the quaint town of Hoevelaken*!

Join me on a little tour of the center of this town you'll never visit!

We start with a video showing the grand entrance of town. Local Hoevelaken youth buzzes by on their way to local youth stuff!

*pronounced [hoof-ai-lake-an]

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The grand entrace. A street with some decorative welcome signs. Local youth drives past, busy on their way to youth things.

Pepijn OP ,
@Pepijn@mastodon.online avatar

The leaf box is close to this excellent , a tree famous for being an evergreen.

I like this tree.

@TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar TechDesk , to random

"We need ‘spiky’ people inside Sequoia,” said managing partner Roelof Botha when asked about why the venture capital firm is standing by partner Shaun Maguire. In a July post on X, Maguire called New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani an "Islamist" who "comes from a culture that lies about everything." There was a sizeable online backlash, culminating in Sequoia's chief operating officer Sumaiya Balbale, who is Muslim, quitting over the firm's decision not to discipline Maguire. Here's more from @Techcrunch.

https://flip.it/rXA4eg

@konsonantenboy@hachyderm.io avatar konsonantenboy , to random

Liquidglassification as a synonym of Enshittification

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@jrtwynam@mastodon.art avatar jrtwynam , to random

Iconic Dead Giant Tunnel Tree in Yosemite's Tuolumne Grove, an ancient sequoia with carved passage, showcasing nature's grandeur and human interaction with these majestic giants.

https://jrtphotography.com/featured/dead-giant-tunnel-tree-in-yosemite-3-bw-john-twynam.html

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@MacLemon@chaos.social avatar MacLemon , to random

macOS continues Apple’s efforts to dumb down each and every application into uselessness to achieve feature parity between and their other platforms.

I‘ve been using the application to store secure notes since the days of classic Mac OS. Still, there is no way to export these secure notes besides manually copy passing them one by one.

I need an alternative solution for securely encrypted text notes with a search function.

What are you using and why exactly that?

@heafnerj@mstdn.social avatar heafnerj , to random

Does anyone know why Time Machine backups for a mostly idle Mac running macOS Sequoia clock in at 2-4GB when there is no possible way for that much change to have taken place in the filesystem since yesterday's backup? Some people think there's a deep Spotlight bug in Sequoia. Any suggestions?

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

Oh, would you look at that, macOS Sequoia has tiling with gaps that almost exactly matches what I’ve been using for years on Linux and now on macOS.¹

I almost could use the defaults now (I still use Moom as I like my gaps a little bigger.)

¹ You can see my layout, scaled up for the presentation, on the recording of my last talk on Small Web (https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/). Unfortunately, never got rounded corners to work consistently on GNOME so they’re squaare.

@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe avatar sfwrtr , to random

Another for a ?

This bug is reproducible on the same disk volume.

Finder no longer offers the Merge option when Drag Moving a folder with the same name as the target but different content. Choosing Replace replaces the original with the moved folder; its unique files are lost. Undo does NOT restore the replaced folder when it restores the moved folder (also a bug).

The workaround is to Drag Copy pressing Option. Merge is offered, but Finder duplicates the contents of the copied folder, leaving the original intact. The original must be Trashed. If a disk is almost full, the file duplication operation could fail.

Copy operations require more I/O, CPU, and time. Not offering a Merge option for Drag Move requiring instead Drag Copy + Trash is not an optimization AND is very confusing, leading to data loss.

If two folders have the same name, Finder should ALWAY offer Merge in addition to Replace when doing a drag.