Apple Photos phones home, but doesn't actually tell Apple anything about you

There’s witch hunts, and there’s discussions about online privacy. It’s true that Apple keeps changing the Photos UX in… unfathomable ways, and also that they keep dropping the ball with iCloud features when what most people really want is a) a no-fuss user experience and b) a se … | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 2 months ago

Fast Remote Desktop on a Raspberry Pi, with Glamor and an iGPU

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@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

20 Years of Tao of Mac

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@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

The Eleventh Commandment (2004)

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@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

Notes on a Banana

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@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

Proxmox VE

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a Debian-based system that focuses on providing enterprise-grade LXC and KVM management capabilities, and that I have been using for my homelab. Resources Category Date Link Notes Add-ons 2023 kproximate A Kubernetes autoscaler for Proxmox Documenta … | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

Environmental Plots

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Reviving my ancient 3D printer with Klipper

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Build Updates

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Going Platinum

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Notes on Long-Form Notes

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@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

Severed

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@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

You Can Leave Your Hat On

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@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

The Monome Norns Shield

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@taoofmac.com | 2 years ago

TIL – Nextspace, The NeXT UX lovingly re-created in Ukraine

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@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

740 Days Later

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@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Time to Step Back

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@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Homelab Tour

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@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Unreal Thoughts

I’ve been watching the discussions and interviews about the Matrix demo (which, sadly, is not available on Game Pass), and I have thoughts a... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Building a Plex Now Playing Display with MQTT and Node-Red

Today’s a bank holiday, so I decided to spend a little while having fun. | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Dotting the Net

A few months ago I spent a little while looking at . | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

My Short, Hopefully Unbiased Take on Windows 11

It’s fine. | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5

This is going to be another non-Apple post, but for a good reason: As I wrote about the other day, my lovely, svelte and ultralight E111 die... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Elementary, Take Six

I’m spending a few days off, which in this new pandemic world essentially means puttering about the house and executing tactical raids to th... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

1Password Alternatives

Having used 1Password since its very beginning, I grew increasingly distrustful of their product management and roadmap (the key point for m... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

25 Years of Video Calls

Roughly 25 years ago, I spent a little while at INESC and its little coterie of incubated companies (what we’d term “startups” these days) d... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

500 Days Later

It’s been roughly 80 days since my last update on the pandemic saga and my dataset has just crossed 500 rows, so I thought it was time to lo... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Rabbit Holes I Dive into Every Now and Then (Alternative OSes Edition)

Over the past few years, and as part of my perennial personal quest for a nicer computing experience, I keep finding myself going down a sma... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

The Big Sur Kernel_task Troubleshooting Saga

Following last week’s post regarding my kernel_task woes (which began nearly two weeks ago now), I decided to strip out the updates from tha... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Pause

Over the past few months, the 10h-a-day pace that became a constant during the pandemic started creeping up as I took up a new role1 and nee... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

The OP-1

A week or so before my post on the Yamaha Reface DX went online, I was banging my head on some metaphorical walls in much the same way Wily ... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 3 years ago

Building My Own Yahoo Pipes

Pipes has been dead since 2015 or so, but I used it for a long time and it was essential to my daily news intake, so I’ve been building a pe... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

Ten Reasons Why Blogging Doesn't Matter (2005)

I picked up Tim Bray's Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career last Thursday, but I didn't have much time to expand upon what I tho... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

The Obligatory GPDR Notice (2018)

I have had to deal with GDPR in a professional capacity in a number of customers over the past few months, and, as usual, won’t write anythi... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

A Day in the Pandemic Life

This may sound somewhat fatalistic, but I am in fact hopeful that the pandemic will go away “soon”. | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

Data for the Ages, Take Two

A long while ago, I wrote a few notes on how to preserve your data for the ages, and, guess what, now that 14 years have gone by, I decided ... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

Scheme-ing (2019)

Last Sunday I spent a few hours revisiting LISP-related languages, partly because I miss writing Clojure and partly because I wanted to do a... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

200-Ish Days Later

It’s been a while since I wrote about the current state of affairs regarding COVID-19 here in Portugal, so I’m going to start by pointing yo... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

120-Ish Days Later

It’s been a long while since I last wrote about my state of mind during the pandemic and almost as long since I posted some data, so I think... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

That Syncing Feeling

The main reason I ended up not cancelling my Dropbox subscription last year was awkward, and is the reason why this post has been an entire ... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

UnSwitch

With Apple’s upcoming switch to ARM looming in the horizon, and following a progressive disenchantment towards macOS “Craptalina” and years ... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 4 years ago

Social Isolation

This weekend I walked around 3Km indoors, because we’re at home in social isolation for the foreseeable future–the Portuguese government has... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 5 years ago

Notes on Contemporary Media

To kick off the year, and as an aside to my usual technology-centric fare given that I seldom write about books these days, here’s a little ... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 5 years ago

The Follies, Part One

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@taoofmac.com | 5 years ago

Template for Small Countries

A few years down the line, I intend to write a memoir about the golden years of the mobile industry in Portugal. | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 5 years ago

The Blue Packet

Once in a while, I get e-mail asking me how the telco industry works. | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 5 years ago

Making K3s Self-Aware

Over the past couple of bank holidays I’ve kept playing around with k3s, which is a fun way to take my mind off the end-of-fiscal-year madne... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 5 years ago

My Quest for Home Automation, Part 4

Winter is (definitely) taking hold, and I managed to be foolish enough to be walking around with a half-mended flu on the coldest day so far... | Continue reading


@taoofmac.com | 6 years ago