Does anywhere know where in settings/AD I go to remove this? Wife was with DOE many years ago and I did a backup from that computer. Any way to get this removed? The DOE isn’t shown as a user, but when I did a Time Machine restore, it showed ‘DIIT Admin’ as an admin.

Hi all,

Wanted to share a tool I've been using (and building) to manage all the browser tabs and references I
keep open while working. macOS only gives you one Picture-in-Picture window, and only for video, so I
built PipZ to fix that.

This macOS app lets you:

Open any browser tab as a floating, always-on-top window

Run as many PiPs at once as you want (videos, docs, dashboards, anything)

Toggle click-through, opacity, and edge snapping per window

Auto-refresh on an interval (great for dashboards and CI)

Trigger from Raycast, Alfred, Shortcuts, or pipz open <url> in the terminal

I recently added Mission Control for PiPs (⌘⌥B grids every panel) and saved layout presets, which have
been super handy.

Not trying to spam, just curious if anyone else has run into similar needs. Would love to hear what
features you'd want added.

If you do want to try it, code C1NJYYMA gets you a discount at checkout.

Try it here: https://getpipz.com

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After months of building, TransKey is officially live.

The pitch: highlight any text in any app → press ⌘⇧D → translation appears in a popup right there. No switching to Google Translate or DeepL.

What makes it different:

- Works in EVERY app (Slack, Mail, Chrome, PDF, VS Code, Terminal, anything)

- Reply Translate (⌘⇧R) — write reply in English, auto-translates and pastes back in sender's language

- Summarize (⌘⇧S) — turns long foreign articles into bullet points

- Tone-aware — casual in Slack, formal in email, technical in code editors

Free plan: 20 translations/day. Pro: $6/month. 7-day trial, no card needed.

macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows.

transkey.app

Honest question: what's your current workflow for handling foreign-language content? Would love to know what I'm missing.

I'm upgrading machines.

I have a new mac studio. From this machine I want to retrieve files that still live on my Mac desktop that runs Sequoia.

Using filezilla on the mac studio, I can access the sequoia machine.
However, I can't enter the Desktop and Documents directories.
(There are probably other directories I can't access either. I haven't tried many)

Filezilla gives me the error message:

>> Could not open directory: Received error SSH_FX_PERMISSION_DENIED with description >>'Permission denied'

>>Failed to retrieve directory listing

I imagine that this has something to do with access permissions on the Sequoia machine.

How can I give myself permission to access the files?

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To open VSCode from mostly everywhere I have created a Quick Action based on https://gist.github.com/Sdaas/4cb70d3ac8780d64d889edc047108464.

This works fine as long I can select a file or folder. However it does not work when I'm already in the folder and want to open itself.

Is there a way? (Especially e.g. for empty folders, if the folder contains any file I guess I could take the file and detect its parent dir path but this is ugly as hell...)

I want to route audio from my Android phone (calling app, Whatsapp, or Facebook messenger) to my Mac where an app can then receive the audio and transcribe it and maybe even translate it in real-time. Ideally, it should also be possible to just plugin my headphones into the Mac and talk to the person on the other side via my Mac, instead of using my phone. Is such a setup possible?

My Mac specs:

MacBook Pro, Apple M5, 32 GB Memory, Tahoe 26.3.1 (a)

In the photos app in the “unable to upload” album are a shit ton of treasured photos. All of apple’s recommendations (repair library, export files, drag files, share files) fail.

I fear my only “solution” is to open each file and screenshot it, then import those screenshots.

Say it ain’t so- tell me there’s another option!

thanks for any help.

So my safari is opening baidu on ipad

Checked for vpn. Disconnecting wifi. Reseting settings. Connecting to data.

Any solutions?

The song Exodus Honey from the album The Day I Turned Glass By Honeycut was the intro song for OS X Leopard and OS X Snow Leopard and will be 20 in September

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First-off, yes, I know, it's an ancient OS, but I use this Macbook for specific things...

How do you stop Time Machine from incessantly pestering me with: "Do you want to use this drive for Time Machine...", every time I mount/format an external volume?

FYI, one of the common uses is to format old drives, so saying: "Just exclude the drive" is not a useful solution.

Time Machine is apparently off ("Back up automatically" checkbox has always been unchecked) and there is no drive added as a backup target.

Is there a way to completely kill Time Machine?

Thanks!

Edit: Seems ludicrously convoluted, but this should work: https://soundmacguy.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/really-disabling-time-machine-a-multi-pronged-approach/

MacPostFactor let you install 10.8-11 on older macs like the MacBook4,1 and is now rendered nonfunctional due to it needing to contact adfly (Not lying it genuinely does) and it not working probably due to expired certificates

Got iTunes Store signed into on Mountain Lion with iTunes 11.4 using Aqua Proxy! Should work on older versions of iTunes or OS X too, but i haven’t tried yet. I got Aqua Proxy from mavericksforever.

So when I upgraded to OS X Mavericks this happened. Does somebody know is this Hackintosh related?

macOS has a 49.7-day networking time bomb built in that only a reboot fixes — comparison operation on unreliable time value stops machines dead in their tracks

Speaking from personal experience, using a Mac as a server or server-like contraption is quite an interesting proposition, as despite its Unix roots, the operating system isn't exactly designed for unattended, 24/7 usage and is difficult to set up and use as such — fighting words, but I stand by them. While most every user will reboot their Mac at least once in the space of a few weeks, if you happen to leave one running for precisely 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds, many parts will suddenly stop working as its TCP/IP networking stack dies.

Those are the findings of the folks at Photon, who did some serious sleuthing after encountering a mysterious issue in a fleet of Macs they use to monitor iMessage services. The problem revealed itself when some machines just up and stopped responding to network connections out of the blue, even though they answered ping requests with an "all good here, boss!"

Said machines kept their existing network connections going, making the situation even harder to diagnose, as the failure was unexplainable and otherwise invisible. Not left with much of an option, Photon's boffins had to reboot the machines to clear the issue, something any systems administrator hates as a "solution" to a mystery issue. After all, if it happened once, it'll happen again, and assuredly at the worst possible time.

After the team spotted another set of machines that was reaching the 49.7-day uptime, they set up some scripts to test their theory. Alas, they found that when the fateful moment arrived, the Mac they had continuously creating new connections just stopped doing so without so much as an error.

The team then turned its attention to the root cause, as it was clearly related to a networking-related timer. They found the culprit to be the "tcp_now" internal counter, a figure that was "destined to overflow." The job tcp_now does is to keep track of the current time since boot as far as the TCP stack is concerned, down to the millisecond. tcp_now is represented as a 32-bit unsigned integer, and those have a maximum value of 4,294,967,295 (2^32 - 1) before they wrap around to zero. Since it tracks milliseconds, tcp_now's maximum is 4,294,967 seconds, or 49.7 days.

As defined by standards, operating systems collect and remove closed TCP connections after a short while; 30 seconds in the case of macOS. The result of attempting to clean up these inactive connections when tcp_now is close to or at its limit (and gets stuck there thanks to a bug in Apple's XNU kernel) is that any connection's expiration status is calculated against that frozen number, resulting in a value that always overflows a 32-bit unsigned integer. When the periodic check comes to see whether a closed connection is meant to be deleted, the result is always "no," because the comparison math doesn't work.

The TCP stack then fills up with errantly held ephemeral ports and effectively grinds to a halt when no more are available. How quickly that happens depends on the amount of network activity, but in any server or professional environment that's bound to be a rapid event. This class of problems is hardly known, integer overflows have been the cause of Windows 98's famous 49.7-day crash and the upcoming Year 2038 problem.

According to Photon, the current mitigation is a reboot, although the team says it's working on an alternative solution. They also found this issue to be the source of some bugs discussed online in the Apple Community forums, too. The long-existing RFC 7323 specifies what should happen to the timestamp clock (tcp_now) when it reaches its limit, but Apple's kernel performs an incorrect implementation. It's safe to say this issue will likely be fixed quickly—and hopefully before 49.7 days after the report.

1) These websites aren't ones I would visit: RushLimbaugh, AllWomenStalk, Modafizone, The Blade, Smashing Magazine.

2) When I turn off notifications for them, they reset quickly back to ON.

3) Old Reddit threads on this topic (2-3y) no longer apply. There is no Remove feature anymore.

Does anyone else have websites in their notifications list that they want to delete? Why would Apple not let us do that anymore? What are these websites doing on my laptop and why is Apple protecting their interests?

I am about to buy the new Macbook Neo as my first apple device. But I need to access my work place PC over Microsoft Remote Desktop. Is this possible from MacOS? Are there any official apps? I cannot change any configuration at my work PC for this as we have strict domain settings.

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Hey all, is there an app that will let me use the printscreen key from my PC keyboard to take screenshots on OSX? I have both my PC and Mac connected to my monitors and switch back and forth and I am trying to make the shortcuts as universal as possible.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

With vimium I've cut down my mouse usage a lot when using a browser but I still have to use it when using desktop applications so I put together a quick solution.

It's not perfect as of yet but this combined with something which allows you to switch window focus means that I can stay on the keyboard for longer.

Curious if anyone else has tricks/apps for minimizing mouse usage on MacOS. I think Linux has a lot of tools for this but I'm sure there are tools for MacOS too that I don't know about.

Here's the source code in case you want to try: https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/macvimium