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macOS Internals

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Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

Welcome

This is a guide of how to install unsupported macOS and OS X versions on your Unsupported Mac. This information is also available in the #faq channel in the Unsupported Macs Discord Server.

Open Genera Installation on Linux

About

These notes are based upon the steps provided here:

https://archives.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html

The notes in this Gist were created due to multiple attempts at installing Open Genera on different platforms that required more steps not inlcuded in the source notes above.

Usage

Create a new bookmark in your bookmarks bar with the following contents:

javascript: (function(){
            let location = window.location.href;
            let validatorRegex = /https:\/\/github.com\/[a-z][a-zA-z0-9\-\_]+\/[a-z][a-zA-z0-9\-\_]+\/commit\/[a-f0-9]+/g;
            let match = location.match(validatorRegex);
            if(!match){

The Zoom install package for macOS is mad. Rather than actually using the installer to install things, it does everything in the preinstall script. That's bonkers, and also means that the system won't have a list of the files it installed, because it's doing it using shell script.

The script appears to install two items, namely:

/Applications/zoom.us.app
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin

If the user opening the package isn't an administrator, it looks like it will install the app in the user's home folder instead. If they are an administrator, Zoom will delete the ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin from /Library if it's there, but it still installs to ~/Library.

It also adds Zoom to your Dock automatically, without asking.

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Bing Tamper
	// @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts
	// @match https://www.bing.com/search
	// @grant none
	// @version 1.0
	// @author -
	// @description 3/17/2023, 11:59:35 AM
	// ==/UserScript==

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
	<string>en</string>
	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>$(EXECUTABLE_NAME)</string>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>wowfunhappy.$(PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier)</string>

	# Created by @PhilippIRL
	# This script patches Spotify's offline.bnk file (this file caches the remote config) to trick Spotify into thinking that your account is enabled for dev tools.
	# Spotify will automatically revert this local change after some time when it next fetches the remote config.
	# Of course you will have to completely close Spotify before running this script.

	import os, sys, platform

	systemPlatform = platform.system()

	if systemPlatform == 'Windows':

	# Install Xcode 5.0.2. Later versions will not work.

	git clone https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu.git
	cd xnu/
	git checkout d2a0abf2ede8152c5a107fe51e032c1193d2015b
	cd ..

	git clone 'https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/dtrace.git'
	cd dtrace/
	git checkout cdf0eec474eafb19dbb2c998320aaad28f755d0b

	Title : Revisiting Mac OS X Kernel Rootkits
	Author : fG!
	Date : April 18, 2014

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	\|=----------------=[ Revisiting Mac OS X Kernel Rootkits ]=-------------------=\|
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	\|=------------------------=[ fG! <[email protected]> ]=---------------------------=\|
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