A person who was a security researcher at Apple describes the hardware that prevents the mac’s camera from being on without the LED being on as well. It’s also set up to be on for at least three seconds, so a “power on, take a photo, power off” hack would be visible.

Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers. - sickcodes/Docker-OSX

For the longest time, I thought Instruments on macOS wasn’t for me. Whenever I saw its icon show up in the /Applications folder or pop up in a launcher, I assumed it’s part of Xcode and Xcode is an IDE for Objective-C and Swift programmers and that’s not what I do and that’s why Instruments isn’t for me.

Apple no longer makes it easy to tell precisely how much free space is available on your Mac, but you know when you don’t have enough. Adam Engst offers (and explains) 21 simple steps to clear space quickly.

KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer. Contribute to keycastr/keycastr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Awesome open source Mac apps

Get up and running with large language models, locally.

Advanced macOS command-line tools.

A command-line application to convert images, PDFs, and audio files to text using Apple’s APIs - freedmand/textra: A command-line application to convert images, PDFs, and audio files to text using Apple’s APIs

Free your Apple Notes data from Notes.app. Contribute to HamburgChimps/apple-notes-liberator development by creating an account on GitHub.

Back in 2001 or so, Griffin Technology released the PowerMate. Here’s how you can get it working on a modern Mac in 2023 …