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Backdrop — Live Wallpapers for Mac | Cindori

Add stunning live wallpapers to your Mac desktop. Thousands of 4K scenes, smooth multi-display playback, low CPU use, and Lock Screen support.

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Oskar 1d ago

Backdrop 2.5 is here. One of the biggest updates yet:

• Playlists - create your own curated collections
• Advanced multi-display controls
• Motion Filter - find slower or more dynamic Backdrops by scene motion
• Refined UI across the entire app
• 500+ new Backdrops

The ultimate app for animated live wallpapers on macOS.

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Oskar 6d ago

But that’s not all: it also understands exactly what’s in each scene, and writes that back to the Backdrop record. Poor user-provided metadata gets enriched with the right context, capturing things like mood and missing franchise, which greatly improves searchability.

Oskar 6d ago

Backdrop submissions have grown 10x over the last few months, so I finally built a fully automated review pipeline. Using Gemini + Vision, it now handles submission reviews for me: detecting poor quality, catching watermarks, classifying scene content, and deciding approval.

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Oskar Mar 18

Same discussion but with Claude, lol

Oskar Mar 18

Wtf happened to Gemini man. Absolute sycophantic slop these days…

Oskar Mar 10

Snapp iOS Weekly Mar 9

Ever wondered how macOS blur effects really work under the hood? This fascinating reverse engineering journey challenges assumptions about 𝑁𝑆𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝐸𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑤, explores alternatives, and shares great discoveries along the way.

🔗: https://oskargroth.com/blog/reverse-engineering-nsvisualeffectview by Oskar Groth (@oskargroth)

#macOS #AppKit #ReverseEngineering

Reverse Engineering NSVisualEffectView

How NSVisualEffectView renders blur effects under the hood, and building a custom material view from scratch using CABackdropLayer.

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Oskar Mar 6

These apps are seemingly not codesigned. Instead they direct users to install them via Terminal commands, bypassing Gatekeeper. They then employ Javascript Automations (JXA) to steal data from your Mac: Notes, emails, wallets, browser. https://moonlock.com/new-mac-malware-digitstealer

Oskar Mar 6

Beware: there seems to be an explosion of macOS malware right now. They are already all over YouTube and Reddit ads, and copy established developers.

Oskar Mar 2

The "$599 iPhone 17e" starts at $930 in Sweden 💀 You could get a round-trip to the US for the difference.

Doesn't bode well for upcoming MBP pricing...