Osaurus is the AI edge runtime for macOS.

It runs local and cloud models, exposes shared tools via MCP, and provides a native, always-on foundation for AI apps and workflows on Apple Silicon.

My laptop is on macOS Tahoe (so I can support our customers), but my main Mac remains on Sequoia, because I don’t like Liquid Glass and some of the functional changes in macOS Tahoe. But I was tired of the constant "UPDATE TO TAHOE NOW YOU SLACKER!" dialogs that Apple sends my way.

You *can* block this stuff, but it requires installing a device management profile. It’s not as scary as it may sound, and the end result is Tahoe-free Mac usage, at least in 90 day chunks.

<https:robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/>

Introducing Slop Detective!

An interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills.

Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips:

https://slopdetective.kagi.com/

Available as apps as well!

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/slop-detective/id6752807487
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kagi.slopdetective

#Kagi #AISlop #AI #Apps

There's a piece of monologue in a Czech theatrical comedy that I'm quite fond of, and it goes something like this: “According to our carbon dating analysis, this letter was written on January 21, 1842, plus-minus two thousand years.”

Took me a second but by god that's good

<https:filiph.github.io/unsure/>

[@filiph](https://mastodon.social/@filiph)

h/t [#TheCrux](https://eigenmagic.net/tags/TheCrux)

I don't like the phrase "Technical Debt". It's effectively lost all meaning.

I always need to ask, "what about it is technical debt?"

I've gotten a variety of responses:
- the abstractions are wrong
- the performance is bad
- the technology is out of date
- it's undocumented
- I don't know the tech

That last one in particular when someone told me, "It's technical debt because I don't know the tech," is when I knew the phrase had lost all meaning.

A useful image tool. Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn etc all benefit from a 2x1 aspect ratio "card" image. I built this custom tool for creating those - you can paste in an image and crop and zoom it to the right dimensions.

Message to future me:

defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode -bool FALSE

Today I discovered a pretty cool utility for listing USB devices! 🔌

🌸 **cyme**: A modern and cross-platform lsusb!

🔥 Displays manufacturer, serial number, speed, current information (mA) and more!

🦀 Written in Rust!

⭐ GitHub: <https://github.com/tuna-f1sh/cyme>

[#rustlang](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rustlang) [#lsusb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/lsusb) [#usb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/usb) [#devices](https://fosstodon.org/tags/devices) [#utility](https://fosstodon.org/tags/utility) [#commandline](https://fosstodon.org/tags/commandline) [#tool](https://fosstodon.org/tags/tool) [#libusb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/libusb)

New blog post! Beyond Ctrl-C: The dark corners of Unix signal handling.

The post is an introduction to signals and how to manage them effectively with async Rust. It's a written version of my talk at RustConf 2023, heavily edited for presentation as a blog post.

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

<https:sunshowers.io/posts/beyond-ctrl-c-signals/>

More than 130M pages from Dutch newspapers, books, and magazines. You can read them for free.

TIL how to access secrets stored in 1Password from CLI scripts, e.g. to populate an environment variable using an API key stashed in my password manager

## Features
Human-readable output with color-coded and tabular format
JSON output support for easy scripting and parsing
Multiple transport protocols:
DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
DNS over TLS (DoT)
DNS over QUIC (DoQ)
DNS over TCP
DNS over UDP
DNSCrypt
Support for ndots and search configurations from resolv.conf or command-line arguments
Multiple resolver support with customizable query strategies
IPv4 and IPv6 support
Web interface available at doggo.mrkaran.dev
Shell completions for zsh and fish
Reverse DNS lookups
Flexible query options including various DNS flags (AA, AD, CD, DO, etc.)
Debug mode for troubleshooting
Response time measurement
Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD)

🖥️ New post! Yesterday I imported all my YouTube subscriptions into Feedbin so that I can watch videos via RSS. To do this I needed to turn my 500+ subscriptions into an OPML file. In this post I detail how I did it using a combination of awk, curl, jaq, JavaScript, shell, scraper, and Python.

<https:www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/youtube-subscriptions-opml/>

[#YouTube](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/YouTube) [#Invidious](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Invidious) [#NewPipe](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/NewPipe) [#RSS](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/RSS) [#Python](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Python)

Inspired by [@chriscoyier](https://front-end.social/@chriscoyier), I put together a little list of the apps I use pretty much every day.

<https:noahjacob.us/words/default-apps-2023.html>

Got Thunderbolt Migration Assistant working!

Had to do half of this: <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253658404>

- connect Thunderbolt cable to both

On source Mac:
- create Thunderbolt Bridge interface
- assign it a 10.0.0.x IP
- enable Internet Sharing from Wi-Fi to the Thunderbolt Bridge
- run Migration Assistant

On destination Mac, never set up Wi-Fi. It’ll activate over that Thunderbolt shared-internet connection and never ask for a Wi-Fi network.

(This used to be as easy as “connect them with a cable”.)

.... [#Storm](https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Storm) [#Poly](https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Poly) [#StormPoly](https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/StormPoly) [#Netherlands](https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Netherlands) [#Amsterdam](https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Amsterdam)

very nice app <https://www.wickeditor.com/>

kinda if HyperCard and Framer had a really cute kid.

[#animation](https://indieweb.social/tags/animation) [#indieWeb](https://indieweb.social/tags/indieWeb) [#gameDev](https://indieweb.social/tags/gameDev) [#opensource](https://indieweb.social/tags/opensource)