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Beware if you want to copy files with extended attributes, ACLs or resource forks to another Mac. The short syntax used to be "rsync -Eva" Since openrsync this is now "rsync -va --…

Same kind of problem with an old HP LaserJet 1300 we still use. It began by it occasionally picking up multiple sheets of paper and jamming. It gradually got worse until the printe…

As a maintainer of a calculator collection website which is guaranteed AI-free I asked ChatGPT to draw me a logo for a guaranteed AI-free website, then realising I could not use th…

Thank you very much for this detailed article. I never realised this is how floating point division can be implemented. Actually funny how I didn't realise that multiple integer di…

Many thanks OP for the couple of commands I did not yet know. Especially `pbcopy` and `pbpaste`, those are going to be very useful. Here are a couple of commands I use quite a lot.…

Some time ago I dreamt that I was in an alien space ship for some reason. Still carrying my phone and laptop bag. They were a friendly lot and asked whether or not I would like to …

Film director Wim Wenders's "Until the end of the world" from 1991 shows a very interesting future with "video fax" and "video phones". And instead of CD's it shows credit-card-for…

Before I read that it is actually orbiting our star I briefly thought "maybe they had an accident with a nuclear waste dump on the far side of their planet"

Same here. Turns out to be a staggering number of files actually, much larger than the number of flies.