Slow-ish news week in Apple tech. Apple got six Academy Award nominations.
(No, I am not trying to jinx Apple in to releasing the 26.3 update tonight!?)
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📰 News and Opinion
Mac Admin Foundation Announces Retirement of Founding Co-Chair Tom Bridge
profound thanks to Founding Co-Chair Tom Bridge as he steps down from his role on the Mac Admins Foundation Board of Directors
In his personal post, Tom writes:
This incredible community has never been about a single person at its head, and that’s a huge strength – there’s a chorus of voices out there who are all carrying out the incredible work of this community.
Thank you, Tom!
🔐 Security and Privacy
VS Code Exploited by DPRK Hackers: New Backdoor Attack Discovered
Jamf Threat Labs identifies additional abuse of Visual Studio Code. See the latest evolution in the Contagious Interview campaign.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
How To Create Quality Documentation (That People Will Use)
past you silently curses present you for not documenting.
How to tell where a file or folder is
It might appear obvious how to tell where a file or folder is on your Mac
Insightful post, but you don't need some extra tool to determine the 'real' path to a file. option-command-C in Finder (Copy as Pathname) and then pasting will also reveal the full path. As will dragging a file to Terminal.
Getting Started with Gemini CLI
for practical, day-to-day coding assistance right now, I needed to look elsewhere.
Is that signing certificate still valid?
When a developer signs an app using their Developer ID Application certificate, a trusted timestamp is included to verify when that signing took place. Provided the certificate was valid at that time, and hasn’t been revoked since, the certificate is deemed valid by macOS.
Enabling a standard user account to access the unified system log on macOS using the log command line tool
Rich Trouton
I get halted while working because the log command line tool needs an account with admin privileges to run when it is getting log information from the unified system log
🤖 Scripting and Automation
Scripting disabling auto-join for Wi-Fi networks
setting that auto-join setting via profile does set it to false, but it doesn’t enforce it as false.
JAMFGetDDMInfo
Scott E. Kendall:
JAMFs reporting of Blueprint information is lacking on detailed information about deployments & failures. This script is designed to extract all DDM information from any given machine and display active & failed blueprints as well as pending software update information.
♻️ Updates and Releases
Introducing Package Rules
If you’ve ever managed a fleet of developer machines with Santa in Lockdown mode, you know the pain: a developer runs brew upgrade and suddenly they can’t use essential software anymore. The hash changed.
🎧 Listen
Observability and the Mac Admin
Eric Metzger joins us to discuss the different tools that we as Mac Admins can use to keep an eye on our fleet without making them slow and stop the users from doing their jobs.
We Don't Need No Stinkin’ Deferrals
In this episode of Command Control Power, the hosts humorously discuss their tech-related frustrations and the nuances of tech support.
The state of AI and networking
Aruna Ravichandran, SVP & CMO - Collaboration, Enterprise Networking, at Cisco, joins the show for a 2-part series to talk about the state of AI and networking.
🎈Just for Fun
Floral
It features five flower wallpapers placed on soft gradient backdrops, with each flower emphasizing movement, bokeh, and blur.