Decoding the analog Mind in a digital World.
50 km on a single weekend, two stages. 935 metres in height in total. Enough time to re-focus once again for a short amount of time, pulling the plug for two consecutive days and think about encountering and mastering obstacles.
Once upon a time, MacOS (or Mac OS X) installations came with a nice GUI for basic networking tasks like traceroute, ping or nslookup. This tool was then scrapped by Apple, only to reappear these days, thanks to DEVONtechnologies, bringing back sentimental memories of the Mac OS X-past.
While most of us have free access to the Internet and its services, certain states and authorities still practice censorship. Recently, this happened to Signal, as Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, recently announced. Fortunately, people on the web can help by providing their own proxy, tagged with the hashtag #SignalProxy.
Backups are essential for any use case and while there are many solutions on the market, some apps stand out for their level of flexibility. Time Machine on the Mac already does a great job, but is limited to connected drives – so how do you back up on the move? Enter, Arq Backup!
Four years ago I blogged about Little Snitch 5, a software firewall-like product from Austrian company Objective Development, which successfully made the transition to MacOS 11 Big Sur. Now Little Snitch 6 has been released and continues to be an important building block in the security strategy of privacy-conscious users.
This month, OpenAI has released the native ChatGPT-app for macOS alongside GPT-4o. Anyone can install this app yet but your account will still need early access if you already want to use ChatGPT on the Mac-desktop – but there is a workaround!
While Broadcom still does Broadcom-things after acquiring VMware and turning pricing and portals upside down, at least the question what happens with the Desktop-products seems to have been answered.
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time.
Sometimes I come across apps that I would never have missed. Apps that come out of nowhere and still find their niche – Tusks by developer Bardi Golriz is one of them, aiming for a new focus when posting on Mastodon.
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don't go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have at least one minor problem that has left many users unexpectedly locked out of iCloud and devices belonging to it and forced to perform an unexpected password change. However, depending on Apple's forthcoming response to the case, this minor problem could turn into a serious one.