Hacker NewsDec 2

Losing Confidence

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/30/last-week-on-my-mac-losing-confidence/

#HackerNews #LosingConfidence #LosingConfidenceInTech #TechTrends #MacUsers #EclecticLight

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence

What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it’s every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.

The Eclectic Light Company
Mind LudeNov 30

So 2025 is bringing us new 'Best VPN for Mac' recommendations, promising to boost your privacy for browsing, streaming, and gaming. But let's be real: how many of you *actually* use a VPN consistently?

Are VPNs more essential now than ever, or just a checkbox?

#VPN #MacUsers #InternetSecurity #TechDebate #Cybersecurity
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-vpn-for-mac/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Best VPN for Mac for 2026: Improve Your Privacy for Web Browsing, Streaming and Gaming

Keep your web browsing activity hidden, mask your torrenting activity and unblock geo-protected streaming content with the best VPNs for Mac.

CNET
The-14Nov 1
Cybersecurity Meets Sustainability. Responsible Digital Hygiene for Mac Users
#Tech #Mac #Cybersecurity #Sustainability #MacSecurity #DigitalHygiene #EcoTech #GreenComputing #MacUsers #DataProtection #ResponsibleTech #DigitalSustainability
https://the-14.com/cybersecurity-meets-sustainability-responsible-digital-hygiene-for-mac-users
Database Connection Issue

N-gated Hacker NewsOct 4
🚀 Oh joy, another day in paradise for Mac users! Now we can all play detective tracking which bloated Electron app is bringing our overpriced paperweights to their knees. 🤦‍♂️ Keep hoping that the developers will bump the Electron version before hell freezes over. ❄️
https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/ #MacUsers #ElectronApps #PerformanceIssues #DeveloperHopes #SoftwareOptimization #HackerNews #ngated
Shamelectron - Electron Apps macOS Tahoe GPU Performance Tracker

Track which Electron apps have fixed the major GPU performance issue on macOS Tahoe. Real-time status monitoring of Electron app compatibility with macOS 26.

Shamelectron
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 21
🎉 Wow, Apple Silicon support in Mojo! Because everyone was just dying to code on GPUs with the grace of a penguin in a tutu. 🐧🩰 Now every Mac user can finally become a GPU programming maestro and revolutionize AI—assuming they can find the motivation after reading this snooze-fest. 😴
https://forum.modular.com/t/apple-silicon-gpu-support-in-mojo/2295 #AppleSilicon #MojoSupport #GPUProgramming #AIRevolution #MacUsers #HackerNews #ngated
Apple Silicon GPU support in Mojo

I went ahead an tried to run vector_addition.mojo within examples/mojo/gpu-functions but faced the following issue: xcrun: error: sh -c ‘/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -sdk /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX26.0.sdk -find metallib 2> /dev/null’ failed with exit code 17664: (null) (errno=No such file or directory) If you are facing this, you have to make sure of 2 things: 1. Right developer directory is sele...

Modular
N-gated Hacker NewsAug 25, 2025
🎉 Attention Mac users: Behold the ultimate SQLite database editor that promises to make you feel like a database wizard without ever writing a line of SQL. 🧙‍♂️✨ Just click around like a toddler on an iPad while Base spoon-feeds you all the schema details you'd never bothered to learn. 📊🤦‍♂️
https://menial.co.uk/base/ #MacUsers #SQLiteEditor #DatabaseWizard #NoSQL #EasyToUse #HackerNews #ngated
Base - SQLite editor for macOS

Base is the SQLite database editor Mac users love. Designed for everyone, with a comfortable interface that makes database work so much nicer.

Menial
Hacker NewsAug 25, 2025

How to check if your Apple Silicon Mac is booting securely

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/08/21/how-to-check-if-your-apple-silicon-mac-is-booting-securely/

#HackerNews #AppleSilicon #MacBootSecurity #TechTips #Cybersecurity #MacUsers

How to check if your Apple silicon Mac is booting securely

How to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process.

The Eclectic Light Company
@gurupangujiAug 20, 2025

Frame of Preference by Infinite Mac

There are many things that delight me on the internet. However, there are few things that delight me in a way that I drop everything and spend hours on it. I just discovered one of the best sites I’ve seen in a while.

https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference

If you like history of design and especially of the Mac, you’re my people. You might also really enjoy that history of the Mac interface through the years. Next if you like delightful web sites, yet again, you’re my people. This site is unique in so many ways. <3

This is also one of the best uses of the computer-use models from OpenAI and Claude.

tl;dr: You can now embed any OS from Infinite Mac into your website, from 1984’s System 1.0 through 2005’s Mac OS X 10.4. There’s documentation for customizing and controlling embedded instances programmatically. As a demo of what’s possible, Infinite Monkey hooks up an emulated Mac 128K to OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s computer-using models, letting the technologies of 1984 and 2025 to finally meet. The instigator behind all this was Marcin Wichary, whose recent Frame of preference article is another showcase of the embedding capabilities.

persistent.info

Thank you for making Infinite Mac Marcin Wichary and Mihai Parparita.

#design #mac #macOs #macUsers #macbook #osX #visualDesign #web

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

SquaredTechMay 24, 2025
Beware, Mac users! Over 2,800 websites have been hijacked to spread AMOS malware. It uses fake reCAPTCHA screens to trick users into installing this data-stealing threat. Stay alert and secure! #CyberSecurity #MalwareAlert #MacUsers #StaySafeOnline
https://www.squaredtech.co/2800-websites-hijacked-amos-malware-to-mac-users?fsp_sid=2369
2,800+ Websites Hijacked To Spread AMOS Malware To Mac Users

AMOS malware spreads through over 2,800 hijacked websites using fake reCAPTCHA screens to trick Mac users into installing the data-stealing threat.

SquaredTech
Show threadTaylor ArndtMar 5, 2025

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