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Electron Apps Causing System-Wide Lag on Tahoe

This script detects apps with not yet updated versions of Electron.

Repo: https://github.com/tkafka/detect-electron-apps-on-mac

See:

introduction

I like MacOS. It has its flaws, but overall, as a productivity operating system, especially when paired with Apple's ARM chips, nothing really compares. However, there are a few things I find I need to do to get it just right. These are those things. Take the ones you value, leave the rest.

the missing package manager: homebrew

macos shouldve come with a package manager, but for some reason, doesn't -- so the community made one called Homebrew. Go to https://brew.sh, and copy the 1-liner installation script, then paste that into Terminal, type in your password once or twice, download the xCode developer tools, and eventually you'll be good to go. The following all use brew, the cli tool.

Done? OK, let's continue.

Usage

Have your TV rooted
Open Terminal with SSH client or dev-manager-desktop
Run curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mariotaku/f7228c5459fc7ad2172a2b69dd51a4eb/raw/webosbrew-install-tailscale.sh | sh and wait for it to finish

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old high school junior. in my free time, i hack billion dollar companies and build cool stuff.

3 months ago, I discovered a unique 0-click deanonymization attack that allows an attacker to grab the location of any target within a 250 mile radius. With a vulnerable app installed on a target's phone (or as a background application on their laptop), an attacker can send a malicious payload and deanonymize you within seconds--and you wouldn't even know.

I'm publishing this writeup and research as a warning, especially for journalists, activists, and hackers, about this type of undetectable attack. Hundreds of applications are vulnerable, including some of the most popular apps in the world: Signal, Discord, Twitter/X, and others. Here's how it works:

Cloudflare

By the numbers, Cloudflare is easily the most popular CDN on the market. It beats out competitors such as Sucuri, Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, and Fastly. In 2019, a major Cloudflare outage k

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:

say hello to zendesk

If you've spent some time online, you’ve probably come across Zendesk.

Zendesk is a customer service tool used by some of the world’s top companies. It’s easy to set up: you link it to your company’s support email (like [email protected]), and Zendesk starts managing incoming emails and creating tickets. You can handle these tickets yourself or have a support team do it for you. Zendesk is a billion-dollar company, trusted by big names like Cloudflare.

Personally, I’ve always found it surprising that these massive companies, worth billions, rely on third-party tools like Zendesk instead of building their own in-house ticketing systems.

	#!/bin/zsh
	# WARNING! The script is meant to show how and what can be disabled. Don’t use it as it is, adapt it to your needs.
	# Credit: Original idea and script disable.sh by pwnsdx https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx/d87b034c4c0210b988040ad2f85a68d3
	# Disabling unwanted services on macOS Big Sur (11), macOS Monterey (12), macOS Ventura (13), macOS Sonoma (14), macOS Sequoia (15) and macOS Tahoe (26)
	# Disabling SIP is required ("csrutil disable" from Terminal in Recovery)
	# Modifications are written in /private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/ disabled.plist, disabled.501.plist
	# To revert, delete /private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/ disabled.plist and disabled.501.plist and reboot. From Terminal : sudo rm -r /private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/*


	# user

	/*
	This is a productivity enhancer plus some quality-of-life features that takes care of tedious tasks for you, saving time for what matters. Click on the tray icon to view hotkey info.
	You'll find an embedded INI at the bottom of this script. However, you have to follow these two steps before you can run this script:
	Download and unzip archive in `Lib` folder: https://github.com/thqby/winrt.ahk
	Download raw file into `Lib` folder: https://github.com/Descolada/UIA-v2/blob/main/Lib/UIA.ahk

	******** EIGHT-HOTKEY REMOTE ********
	Multi- and single-function hotkeys.
	TIP: change the `Run` setting to `Maximize` in the properties wnd of the Paint shortcut (b/c the snip feature can open Paint in a small wnd, which will be remembered by the OS).
	And go to `Settings > System > Focus assist` to turn off all `Automatic rules`, so that TrayTip notification banners can also be shown on the desktop wnd for example.

	<# Workaround for NVIDIA's DLSS4 whitelisting
	DLSS4 was launched alongside the RTX 5000 series and comprise several new and interesting
	features, f.e. additional presets for Super Resolution, using a newer Transformer model.
	Arguably these features increase image quality significantly. To various degrees these
	features are also available for older RTX cards, and older games using DLSS3/2.

	Using third party apps like DLSS Swapper etc remains a convenient way to, on a manual basis,
	swap out DLLs which contain the above mentioned functionality, per game. Downsides to this is
	primarily that swapping out DLLs for online multi-player games may trigger an Anti-Cheat
	system, and there is of course also some manual work of updating to newer versions/DLLs.

	#!/bin/zsh
	# Get Sequoia InstallAssistant.pkg links from Apple
	# Since macOS 11 (Big Sur), Apple provides the Install macOS ___.app packaged as InstallAssistant.pkg
	# The links for the InstallAssistant packages are listed in the seed catalogs
	# The seed catalogs are listed in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Seeding.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SeedCatalogs.plist
	# For macOS 15 Sequoia the seed catalogs are:
	# CustomerSeed
	# https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-15customerseed-15-14-13-12-10.16-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
	# DeveloperSeed
	# https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-15seed-15-14-13-12-10.16-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

	#!/bin/zsh
	# WARNING! The script is meant to show how and what can be disabled. Don’t use it as it is, adapt it to your needs.
	# Credit: Original idea and script disable.sh by pwnsdx https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx/d87b034c4c0210b988040ad2f85a68d3
	# Disabling unwanted services on macOS Big Sur (11), macOS Monterey (12), macOS Ventura (13), macOS Sonoma (14) and macOS Sequoia (15)
	# Disabling SIP is required ("csrutil disable" from Terminal in Recovery)
	# Modifications are written in /private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/ disabled.plist, disabled.501.plist
	# To revert, delete /private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/ disabled.plist and disabled.501.plist and reboot; sudo rm -r /private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/*


	# user