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Hard reality: 2 Shade and shadow

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Explaining shade, attached and cast shadows seen in paintings. While the first two have been generally painted faithfully, cast shadows are more complicated.

April 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

APFS hard links, symlinks, aliases and clone files: a summary

Similarities and differences, how to make each in the Finder and Terminal, how much space they use, and how they work in APFS.

April 28, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]

April 27, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 52 The capital crime of cross-dressing

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One of the charges leading to Joan of Arc being burned at the stake was that she cross-dressed in male military clothing.

April 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Where does macOS get its volume free space figures from?

After studying thousand of log entries in less than 2 seconds, this is how macOS updates its values for purgeable and available space. But who uses them?

April 27, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 51 Hercules and changing gender

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The curious myth of the swashbuckling hero Hercules dressed in women’s clothing and forced to serve Queen Omphale.

April 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Freeing space on your boot disk

Free that space before macOS has to purge it for you. Using housekeeping, moving Documents and media libraries, but not relocating Home folders.

April 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Mykola Burachek

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Trained in Kyiv, Kraków, and with Matisse in Paris, he is best known for his virtuoso Impressionist oil sketches.

April 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1.

April 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

Trojan Epics: 9 The death of Hector

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The river runs red with the blood of Trojans before Achilles gets his chance to fight Hector, and kills him. Then he dishonours the Trojan’s body.

April 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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