How to Set the Finder Default Folder in MacOS
Finder is the native file manager on macOS which is running pretty much all the time once you log in to your system. It allows users to organize and locate all the files that are stored on their Macs. By default, launching the Finder window shows you all the recent files, but this can be … Read More ⌘ Read more

Today, while remotely accessing my home server, I noticed that the network was a bit slower than usual. It turns out, there’s no 5G connection and only an LTE connection with another cell tower more far away. I checked the service provider’s website and there’s actually a problem with a base station nearby. ⌘ Read more

MC in the US: OSFC, SF, Seattle, Microsoft

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I attended the Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) on Oct 10-12 in
Sunnyvale, spent a long weekend in San Francisco, took a very long
train ride to Seattle, spent a week in the Seattle area, and held an
intimate talk at Microsoft. Managed to meet friends, drink some nice
beverages, and even see a show but came home with a heavy heart. Then
tried to relax in the cottage.

Why is My iPhone Playing Music Randomly? Here’s a Fix
Some iPhone users may discover their iPhone is randomly playing music, sometimes from within a pocket, or a purse, from a lap, or when being held in a hand but otherwise not in use. An iPhone may begin to randomly play music even when the iPhone is locked, making this a frustrating and potentially embarrassing … Read More ⌘ Read more

Deals: Get Apple Watch Series 9 for $329, Series 8 for $249, Ultra for $730, Before Sales Ban Starts
If you’re shopping for an Apple Watch this holiday season, you’re running short on time. Not only is Christmas fast approaching, but a new twist has developed where Apple must stop selling Apple Watch models due to an ongoing patent issue. Apple will stop selling Apple Watch due to a patent dispute, starting on December … [Read More](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

Finally vacation! No work until (including) 2024-01-07. 😎🎅🎄🎆 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, International Migrants Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/18/migrants.html #programming #project #devjournal

** Accessibility-first **
Whereas mobile-first design and development invited folks to think more expansively about the physical reality of the devices people use, accessibility-first design and development invites folks to think more expansively about the lived experiences, and physical reality of actual people. ⌘ Read more

Get a Twinkling Lit Christmas Tree on Your Mac Desktop
Would you like to have even more Christmas spirit on your Mac, in the form of a twinkling Christmas tree? Of course you would! If the falling snow and blinking Christmas lights weren’t enough for your Mac desktop, you can add a little Christmas tree into the mix too, complete with a Christmas countdown. Christmas … Read More ⌘ Read more

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is Free to Watch This Weekend
The classic cartoon “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, about a child who is upset about the commercialization of Christmas, is free to watch this weekend only on Apple TV+ (though you can continue to watch it free with an Apple TV+ free trial at any other time). Perhaps you had grown accustomed to watching the heartwarming … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/16/a-charlie-brown-christmas-is-free-to-watch-this … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Vessel for Offering, part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/16/vessel-offering-4.html #freeculture #bookclub

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/11 to 12/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/15/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Put Falling Snow & Christmas Lights on Your Mac Desktop with MacLampsX
If you want to get your Mac into the holiday spirit, why not put some blinking Christmas lights and falling snow on your Mac screen? That’s exactly what the free Mac app MacLampsX will do for you, decorating your Mac for the holidays, complete with customizable holiday light bulbs, snowfall, and holly. You can change … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/15/falling-snow-christmas-lights-mac-desktop-mac … ⌘ Read more

How to Stop Mac Windows Changing Color & Tinting
As you use the Mac, opening windows and dragging them around, you may have noticed that the color of the windows can shift tone and change hue, sometimes fairly dramatically so, and depending on what your MacOS wallpaper is set to. For example, if you have an orange wallpaper as your desktop background picture, the … Read More ⌘ Read more

Deals: Apple Watch Series 8 for $249!
Amazon is offering a fantastic deal on the Apple Watch Series 8, available in select colors for just $249, with delivery before Christmas. Apple Watch Series 8 features a 41mm display, GPS, fitness tracking capabilities, blood oxygen reader, ECG app, water resistance, an always-on display, and much more. Apple Watch Series 8 GPS 41mm – … Read More ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · Thanksgiving 2023 Edition
Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people have been enjoying turkey and expressing gratitude for those around them. In this edition, we’re thankful to the open source community and all the awesome projects shipped over the past two […]

The post Release Radar · Thanksgiving 2023 Edition appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](h … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Legacy https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/14/legacy.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Why this year’s bumper berry crop is benefitting buyers but not necessarily growers
Several wet years and this month’s cooler, spring-type temperatures have been ideal for raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, but as prices drop at the supermarket there’s a real fear expenses will overtake profits for growers. ⌘ Read more

How to Add a Mouse to macOS Sonoma & Ventura
Many users like to use an external mouse with their Mac, but not everyone knows how to sync and add a mouse to their Mac. The process of pairing a mouse with a Mac is fairly straight forward, but like many things with modern MacOS versions and the System Settings experience, it may be less … Read More ⌘ Read more

Scaling vulnerability management across thousands of services and more than 150 million findings
Learn about how we run a scalable vulnerability management program built on top of GitHub.

The post Scaling vulnerability management across thousands of services and more than 150 million findings appeared first on … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: November 2023
In November, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

The post GitHub Availability Report: November 2023 appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Could solar panels improve Australian wine?
Australian researchers are testing solar panels in a vineyard to see if they can help protect the fruit from extreme weather, but that is not the only potential benefit. ⌘ Read more

Securing our home labs: Frigate code review
This blog post describes two linked vulnerabilities found in Frigate, an AI-powered security camera manager, that could have enabled an attacker to silently gain remote code execution.

The post Securing our home labs: Frigate code review appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Fix Mouse Click Issues in macOS Sonoma
A fair number of Mac users are experiencing some irregular click issues when using an external mouse with macOS Sonoma, and sometimes even the internal trackpad on various Mac laptops running Sonoma. For example, mouse clicks may randomly not register as clicks, or all clicks may be registered as right-click, or the trackpad or mouse … Read More ⌘ Read more

Default setup now includes scheduled scans and supports all languages covered by CodeQL
We’ve added new improvements to default setup, including automatically scheduling scans on repositories and support for all CodeQL covered languages.

The post [Default setup now includes scheduled scans and supports all languages covered by CodeQL](https://github.blog/2023-12-13-default-setup-now-includes-scheduled-scans-and-supports-all-languages-covered-by-cod … ⌘ Read more

iOS 16.7.3 and iPadOS 16.7.3 Released for Older iPhone & iPad Models
iOS 16.7.3 and iPadOS 16.7.3 for iPhone and iPad have been released for users who are not updating to iOS 17.2 or iPadOS 17.2, either because they have not yet updated, are not able to run iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 on their devices, or because they are not interested in doing so. Specifically, the … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/13/ios-16-7-3-and-ipados-16-7-3-released-for-older-iphone-ip … ⌘ Read more

Isode: Red/Black – 2.1 New Capabilities

This release adds important new functionality and adds further device drivers to Red/Black, a management tool that allows you to monitor and control devices and servers across a network, with a particular focus on HF Radio Systems.  A general summary is given in the white paper Red/Black Overview.

![](https://www.isode.com/company/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/red-black-bla … ⌘ Read more

These watermelons are taking a little longer to grow due to fires, with heat still on for harvest workers
While Central Australia’s largest melon farm’s yields have been affected by bushfire ash this year, these workers from Timor-Leste still have plenty of harvesting, and singing, ahead of them. ⌘ Read more

MacOS Ventura 13.6.3, MacOS Monterey 12.7.2, & Safari 17.2 Released for Macs
MacOS Ventura 13.6.3, MacOS Monterey 12.7.2, and Safari 17.2 are now available as software updates for Mac users who are not installing Sonoma or interested in the just released macOS Sonoma 14.2 update. Many Mac users continue to run older versions of system software for compatibility reasons, general preference, or a multitude of other reasons, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com … ⌘ Read more

Beta 1 of iOS 17.3, iPadOS 17.3, macOS Sonoma 14.3 Available for Testing
Apple has issued the first beta versions of iOS 17.3 for iPhone, ipadOS 17.3 for iPad, and macOS Sonoma 14.3 for Mac. The beta builds are available now to users enrolled in the beta testing programs on their compatible devices. iOS 17.3 will introduce a new feature called Stolen Device Protection which aims to help … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/12/beta-1-of-ios-17-3-ipados-17-3- … ⌘ Read more

Get Out of Boring Zoom Meetings with Zoom Escaper
Stuck in another boring Zoom Meeting? Ready to be done with those dull virtual meetings or Zoom classes for the moment, or the day? Zoom Escaper will come to your rescue, by allowing you to “self-sabotage your audio stream, making your presence unbearable to others” according to the apps developer, LOL! Zoom Escaper is an … Read More ⌘ Read more

Migrating to a Fedora CoreOS VPS
It seems like I was successfully able to migrate from my Alpine Linux VPS to a new VPS having Fedora CoreOS installed. 🎉 ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - 10 x 2’[1’]: 6.22 miles, 00:08:12 average pace, 00:51:01 duration
woops, i miscounted and skipped the last interval! still shaved thirty seconds from my 10km PB.
#running

iOS 17.2 Update for iPhone Released with Journal app, PDF Autofill, Messages Catch-up, etc
iOS 17.2 update for iPhone, and iPadOS 17.2 for iPad, have been released by Apple. iOS 17.2 includes the Journal app for iPhone, while both iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2 include PDF autofill capabilities, some improvements to Messages app like the ability to add stickers from contextual menus in messages and a catch-up arrow, new … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/11/ios-17-2-update-released-download-i … ⌘ Read more

macOS Sonoma 14.2 Update Released with PDF Autofill, New Weather Widgets, etc
Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.2 as a software update for Mac users running the Sonoma operating system. macOS Sonoma 14.2 includes a few minor new features like the ability to use autofill with PDF files, new Weather widget options, some minor additions to Messages like the ability to add stickers from the reactions contextual … Read More ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Tango Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/11/tango.html #programming #project #devjournal

Farmer startups backing themselves to bring chocolate capsicum and other ‘new fruit’ to markets
From pink custard apples and sweeter capsicums that resemble the colour of chocolate, these Queensland farmers are working to bring innovative new varieties to supermarket shelves. ⌘ Read more

How to Watch “Charlie Brown Christmas” for Free with Apple TV+
Apple now has the exclusive rights to “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, which means if you’d like to watch the Christmas classic from 1965 this holiday season, you’ll need to watch it through the Apple TV+ service. Fortunately, Apple TV+ offers a free seven-day trial, so you can sign up for the free trial long enough … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/10/how-to-watch-charlie-brown-christmas-for-fr … ⌘ Read more

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Soggy winter ambling. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2023 and will be the last publication for 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interes … ⌘ Read more

How to Upload High Quality Video & Photos to Instagram for iPhone
Instagram is a very popular photo sharing and video sharing social network where users post photos, videos, reels, and stories, but, curiously, by default Instagram does not upload the highest quality photos or videos. Instead, a buried settings option allows you to enable high quality uploads of photos and videos to Instagram. If you feel … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/09/how-to-upload-h … ⌘ Read more

Deals: AirPods from $99, Apple Watch 9 for $329, $100 Off iPad Air & iPad mini, etc
Apple deals continue for the holiday shopping season, with many items receiving nice discounts from Amazon. And, delivery is still available by Christmas for most! Check out the Apple section at Amazon and browse around, and glance at the deals we have highlighted below. AirPods 2nd gen for $99 Save on the AirPods 2nd gen … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/09/deal … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Vessel for Offering, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/09/vessel-offering-3.html #freeculture #bookclub

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/04 to 12/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/08/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

An ambitious quest to supply Australians with locally grown garlic year-round is paying off
Garlic lovers can now buy Australian-grown all year round, thanks to decades of work by persistent farmers who refused to give up on the difficult crop. ⌘ Read more

How to Change Quick Actions & Extensions in MacOS Sonoma & Ventura
Extensions and Quick Actions in MacOS allow you to enable and disable additional features in places like the Sharing menu, Touch Bar, and contextual menus in the Finder. For example, you can add or remove Markup options, Quick Actions, Sharing options, photo editing options, and much more. These are a popular feature for many Mac … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/08/how-change-quick-actions-extensi … ⌘ Read more

Deals: Apple Watch Series 9 for $310, Apple Watch Ultra 2 for $699, iPad 10th Gen for $349, etc
Amazon is back with more great deals on select Apple gear, bringing nice discounts to Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra 2, iPad 10th gen, iPad Air, and more, and delivery is available before Christmas. Apple Watch Series 9 for $310 Apple Watch Series 9 is all new and discounted to just $310 in … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/08/deals- … ⌘ Read more

** an approximately programmer-shaped person **
I was recently interviewed by Manu for his People and Blogs series! It was a great honor to be suggested by Piper for that, and I had a blast responding to all of Manu’s questions.

The December Adventure is in full swing. There are so many fun adventure logs this year. I’ve been mostly focusing on building toys with [Decker](https://beyondloom.com/ … ⌘ Read more

How to Change Quick Actions & Extensions in MacOS Sonoma & Ventura
Extensions and Quick Actions in MacOS allow you to enable and disable additional features in places like the Sharing menu, Touch Bar, and contextual menus in the Finder. For example, you can add or remove Markup options, Quick Actions, Sharing options, photo editing options, and much more. These are a popular feature for many Mac … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/08/how-change-quick-actions-extensi … ⌘ Read more

Access to affordable food needs government intervention, report finds
A year-long parliamentary inquiry focused on the future of Australia’s food security recommends introducing a minister for food among its 35 recommendations to the federal government. ⌘ Read more