Recently I received this error while upgrading or uninstalling blackhole-2ch via brew: Could not kickstart service “com.apple.audio.coreaudiod”: 1: Operation not permitted This was fixed by the following: Another option seems to be to fix the issue with kickstart as described here. But I didn’t try that.
Keeping original PSD files was quite good practice over the years but mostly other formats are needed down the road. Because opening Photoshop to export a file takes quite some time and isn’t efficient I wrote a small script to replace this task: This takes the file(s) to convert as argument(s). You can also just
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Sometimes I need to lookup process that hold a port open. On Linux this is quite easy but on Mac I was struggling to find a proper way. Here is the netstat variant you can use on Mac: Replace the 8080 with the wanted port. You will see a line like this: The 54876 is
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If you’re a macOS user who appreciates the convenience of package management tools like APT on Linux, then Homebrew Cask Update Tool is a game-changer you won’t want to miss. This nifty tool, available at https://github.com/buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade, brings the simplicity and efficiency of Linux package management to your Mac. Homebrew Cask Update Tool makes updating your
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After upgrading to macOS 14.1 my docker installation stopped woring and when I tried to pull an image it answered with the following error message: 192.168.65.0/24 is the configured docker internal network of Docker Desktop. It was running on defaults and I wasn’t aware of any manual changes. DNS of my host system worked properly:
First you need to choose a base image that is available for the target platforms as well. Create your Dockerfile as usual and then build the container for different platforms. This example would create an amd64 and a aarch64 (arm64/v8) image: Based on these you can create a manifest and upload it: This would already
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Docker wants to bill companies for Docker Desktop. In my opinion it’s not worth it because there are multiple options how to replace it without the need to really change habits. Here the statement taken from Docker FAQ regarding payment for Docker Desktop: Who’s required to pay for Docker Desktop? Docker Desktop requires a paid,
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The following time code generation is based on real time clocks synced with ntp on mac or linux computers using UTC time. Make sure your machine has an internal clock source otherwise the time drift will be too big. This approach is a very cheap way to get proper time code into cameras. If your
Following the documentation using arkade was (as stated in the docs) the fastest and easiest way to get a working local installation running. There are numerous outdated tutorials about how to run OpenFaaS locally but none of really worked in my envrionment. I am using a MacBook M1 Max with docker driver. I have docker
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If you don’t want to use different syntax on your mac with sed command then it can be easily replaced with GNU sed by installing it via This installs the program as gsed which is also not handy if you don’t want to write different scripts for Linux and macOS. If you want to get
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