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Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by foltik » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 2:42 AM UTC

IncRnd wrote: post #83

foltik wrote: post #55

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Except it is just another piece of corporate silliness. Why don’t you purchase your own developer account and sign it yourself if you trust it? Or are you saying them paying Apple $100/yr in perpetuity is what will make you trust it?

A signed executable isn't for trusting the app. It's for knowing the provenance of the app. Sure, there are some application checks that happen before listing a store app, but those checks are minimal.

Signing proves someone pays Apple $100/yr. The "provenance" you're getting is literally just the billing info.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by 71bw » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 6:31 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #40

newsclues wrote: post #11

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I want to be a power user on my Mac, I don’t want my mom’s Mac to function like my devbox. People like and need the apple sandbox. Others need an unlocked *nix machines

It's fine as long as both exist and third parties are not allowed to know which one you're running . Otherwise, you have banks and MAFIAA and others off-loading their own security and compliance costs to users by flat out discriminating based on the status of the sandbox.

Exactly. We won't have "hardware integrity" and other such freedom-limiting factors going the way of the dodo anytime soon if we keep handing the organizations trying to estabilish those systems ourselves lubed and ready to go.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by mgrunwald_ » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 12:35 PM UTC

pieterhg wrote: post #33

Awesome. Can you add extra bright mode like Vivid? I'd love to get rid of Vivid cause it's so buggy and never re-enables after I close my MacBook Pro

I'm glad you like it!

I might consider adding this in a future release, although at this point I'm focusing on keeping the app's footprint minimal, so every feature addition has to be carefully considered :)

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by mgrunwald_ » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 12:55 PM UTC

lukifer wrote: post #63

Cool! Disappointing there's so much focus on the non-sandboxing, I think it's a reasonable trade-off to release early, and follow up with signing later. - Website looks great overall, but the fixed and overlaid header title is awkward and hurts readability for not much benefit. - Battery Health on my M3 Max MBP reads as "1%", when System Report shows Condition: Normal, Maximum Capacity: 100%. What is this reading fro…

Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you like it!

Yes, the pre-release is intended for testing purposes, so thanks for bringing the battery health issue to my attention. It is calculated from the the battery's reported design capacity and current capacity, but the reported values seem to be unreliable across different systems.

The password generator suggestion is interesting, but I intentionally gave the user only one password generator option in the base version of the app - the most secure one :)