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Disable the annoying Mozilla Firefox update popup on macOS that gets showns multiple times a day (more than half a dozen times):

mkdir -p /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/distribution
cat <<EOF > /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/distribution/policies.json
{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate": true
  }
}
EOF

App	OSS?	Supported OS	Recording Mode	Core Features	Language
OpenAdapt	✅	macOS, Windows	Intermittent	Workflow automation, remote AI	Python
Rewind	❌	macOS, Windows (soon)	Continuous - includes audio	Perfect recall (remote AI)	Swift
Perfect Memory[^1.1]	❌	Windows	Intermittent[^1.2]	Perfect recall (local AI)[^1.3]	-
ScreenDiary[^2.1]	✅	Linux	Intermittent	Perfect recall (no AI)	Python
EssentialApp[^3.1]	✅	macOS	Continuous - last 5m	Coding assistant[^3.2], Perfect recall (remote AI)[^3.3]	Swift
RetroClip[^4.1]	❌	macOS	Continuous - last 5m	Instant replay videos[^4.2]	-

Moved to pidfd-rs

Moved to pidfd-rs.

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

Security Advisories / Bulletins / vendors Responses linked to Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)

Errors, typos, something to say ?

If you want to add a link, comment or send it to me
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Other great resources

Royce Williams list sorted by vendors responses Royce List
Very detailed list NCSC-NL
The list maintained by U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: CISA List

Cloud-Init Debugging

Cloud-init combined with terraform can be a powerful tool to provision instances on startup. Debugging scripts that are run by cloud-init however are not the easiest to debug.

Logs

Usually on an Ubuntu machine a lot of what is happening can be found in the syslog

cat /var/log/syslog

Do not use forEach with async-await

TLDR: Use for...of instead of forEach() in asynchronous code.

For legacy browsers, use for...i or [].reduce()

To execute the promises in parallel, use Promise.all([].map(...))

	//> using scala 3.5.0
	//> using dep com.github.ichoran::kse3-basics:0.3.11
	//> using dep com.github.ichoran::kse3-flow:0.3.11

	// Run with scala-cli --power --jmh --jvm=21 ThreadLocalLoom.scala
	// If you change the classes that have to be benchmarked, you may have to rm -r .scala_build


	package threadlocalloom.bench

	// Variables used by Scriptable.
	// These must be at the very top of the file. Do not edit.
	// icon-color: brown; icon-glyph: hand-holding-usd;
	// To use this script, you must create a personal access token on GitHub with the `read:org// scope.
	// Follow the instructions on the link below to create your personal access token.
	//
	// https://github.com/settings/tokens
	//
	// Run the script when you ahve created your personal access token. It'll prompt you to enter the token and store it securely in the keychain on the device.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -e
	# This script converts any text file into a mp3 audiobook using the MacOS
	# text-to-speech accessibility command-line tool `say`.
	# Adjust the `VOICE` and `RATE` parameters to customize to your liking:
	VOICE="Alex"
	RATE="295" # pretty fast


	if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then