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Last Week on My Mac: Should we be worried about data integrity?

From its outset, APFS hasn’t tested the integrity of file data stored on it. Would this be a good idea, or should macOS switch to the ZFS file system instead?

May 28, 2023 Macs, Technology

Folk Tales in Paintings: Robin Hood and other merry men

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Robin Hood, who robbed the bad to help the poor, and his colleagues William Tell, Oleksa Dovbush and Holger Danske.

May 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 205

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Fifteen years and […]

May 27, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Would you like to Comment or Finder Comment?

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Finder Comments are accessible, easy to use, and unreliable because they rely primarily on data stored in a hidden file. Regular Comment extended attributes are more reliable.

May 27, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 2 First success

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Started training in 1815, first commission in 1819, set his sights on the Salon of 1822, and made his name with ‘The Barque of Dante’.

May 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Updates: xattred 1.5, Cormorant 1.5, Metamer 1.2 and ArchiChect 2.5

Extended attribute editor with much enhanced interface, app inspection tool, compression tool designed for AirDrop use, and a simple extended attribute editor for Spotlight search.

May 26, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 57 Tridents and bidents

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Neptune’s trident has three tines, while Pluto’s is a bident with only two. Or it could be a pitchfork. How to read them in paintings.

May 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Monitoring file integrity with updates to Dintch and Fintch

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APFS has no feature to check file data integrity. Dintch and Fintch are two apps that tag files with SHA-256 hashes to address this. New versions.

May 25, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Hard reality: 6 Reflections in the landscape

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Optical principles are straightforward, but can become extremely complex in practice. Examples from Jan van Eyck to Hodler and Signac.

May 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Crashes, panics, freezes and other unexpected events

Using the correct term gets us half way to a diagnosis: kernel panics, freezes, app crashes and unresponsive apps are distinguished here.

May 24, 2023 Macs, Technology

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