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How long will Firefox survive, given market share and likely demise of main income source: Google Search (via Thom – Exquisite.social)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/11

Interesting take of which I was subconsciously aware for a while as well: [Wayback/Archive] Thom :linux: :kde: :systemd:: “My concerns about the future o…” – Exquisite.social

My concerns [www.osnews.com] about the future of Firefox keep becoming reality [www.osnews.com] and yet nobody who relies on Firefox – Canonical, Fedora, KDE, GNOME, etc. – seem to give a shit.

Y’all realise Mozilla is about to lose 80% of its revenue, right? And y’all do understand what this will mean for Firefox, right? Why aren’t you taking any steps or making any plans to prepare for what this will inevitably mean for the most important and crucial desktop Linux application?

I feel like Kassandra [en.wikipedia.org] over here.

It is not a Desktop Linux problem alone: it is a Firefox problem at heart which will also (and in much larger numbers) affect other platforms as it also means one less browser engine: the Gecko browser engine used by Firefox and other browsers highly depends on Mozilla funding.

Given the long lasting keyboard productivity problems in Firefox on MacOS and Windows (even without any extensions installed), I don’t think that my frequency of Firefox usage will increase beyond occasional use.

A few examples hampering power usage of Firefox:

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Manually installing or updating xcode (was: ruby – Error Message “Xcode alone is not sufficient on Sierra” – Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/01

If you ever get error messages like this (Sierra can bey any MacOS version name):

  • Error: Xcode alone is not sufficient on Sierra.
  • Xcode alone is not sufficient on Sierra.

Then run this on the terminal:

xcode-select --install

This works even if it is already installed, as the message will also show up when the current install is outdated.

Note from [Wayback] `xcode-select –install` required for OS X 10.9 Xcode command-line tools (like `zlib-devel`) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

There is one catch though: it might fail as you first have to start Xcode once and accept the license agreement.

–jeroen

Via my answer on [Wayback] ruby – Error Message “Xcode alone is not sufficient on Sierra” – Stack Overflow

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“Error: Xcode alone is not sufficient on Sierra.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/21

Once in a while, despite having Xcode, the Xcode command-line tools, homebrew and ruby installed on your Mac OS X / Mac OS / whatever it is called now, you get this on the console:

Error: Xcode alone is not sufficient on Sierra.
Install the Command Line Tools:
xcode-select --install

Running the commandxcode-select --install makes it even more confusing:

It’s probably Apple trying to tell you “Xcode is out of date”, but they should certainly show that in a more obvious way and redirect to the App Store that does show it:

–jeroen

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Reminder to self: brew update needs re-accepting the xcode license agreement

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/29

Even though I have accepted this before, I needed to accept it again:

$ brew-update-ugprade 
Error: You have not agreed to the Xcode license. Please resolve this by running:
  sudo xcodebuild -license accept
$ sudo xcodebuild -license accept
Password:
$ brew-update-ugprade

–jeroen

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How-To: Create a free Apple developer account for sideloading apps | 9to5Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/16

Interesting: Starting with Xcode 7, Apple made it possible to sideload apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV using a free Apple ID. Although a paid developer account is still required to deploy apps to the App…: How-To: Create a free Apple developer account for sideloading apps | 9to5Mac

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Ken Thompson – quotes – Reflections on Trust

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/21

Some of the [Wayback] Ken Thompson – Wikiquote entries come from a great [Wayback] 1983 ACM Turing Award Acceptance Lecture [Wayback] “Reflections on Trusting Trust”.

That lecture used to be on http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

But it isn’t, and was not in the WayBack machine and neither in the Google Cache [Archive.is] because of the [Wayback/Archive.is] robots.txt. Historic link rot galore!

Edit 20210728: by now it is in the Wayback machine again; the earliest archived copy is from 2001, it also shows that as of april 2015 it is gone from the bell labs server.

The lecture is about [Wayback] compiler viruses and viruses actually did this at least a few times: Wayback: Delphi in 2009 and to [Wayback] XCode in 2015.

A few nice links from [Wayback] ACM Classic: Reflections on Trusting Trust – Google Groups though:

And archived versions of (I hope accurate) copies of the article:

Finally I found a PDF copy of the original ACM prints that Greg Ganger of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University has online. It’s archived too.

–jeroen

Further reading:

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`xcode-select –install` required for OS X 10.9 Xcode command-line tools (like `zlib-devel`)

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/16

Hopefully this was a one time oversight from Apple, but on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) the Xcode command-line tools cannot be installed from the Xcode Preferences pane.

You have to install them from the command-line:

xcode-select --install

There is one catch though: it might fail as you first have to start Xcode once and accept the license agreement.

You need them for instance when playing with zlib-devel (for instance when creating your own openssl builds).

–jeroen

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Installing Python on Mac OS X — The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/11

Interesting, as I thought Mac OS X Yosemite and up – having Python installed – would also keep Python up-to-date, but they don’t.

Hence:

Installing Python on Mac OS X

The latest version of Mac OS X, Yosemite, comes with Python 2.7 out of the box.

…

The version of Python that ships with OS X is great for learning but it’s not good for development. The version shipped with OS X may be out of date from the official current Python release, which is considered the stable production version.

–jeroen

via:

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Builds ChaCha20 version of openssl on Mac OS X static without dylib for use with testssl.sh

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/17

A while ago, testssl.sh [WayBack] needed Darwin binaries (for OS X): Supply Darwin binaries + install documentation · Issue #127 · drwetter/testssl.sh [WayBack]

So I created the small Bourne shell (sh) script below to deliver them.

It allows me to update these gists:

The build script itself is in a gist as well: https://gist.github.com/f4de3937630b87753133.git [WayBack]

It helped me to contribute to these testssl.sh issues:

Not all of these binaries are in https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/tree/master/bin [WayBack] as it makes the testssl.sh repository too bloated. Some (including non-OSX builds made by others) are here:

Eventually the script might get merged into https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/blob/master/utils/make-openssl.sh [WayBack] as there is a Darwin switch in this commit: https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/commit/6efc3e90f52e5926b0853d3b2fb221b631dcf452 [WayBack]

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How to Increase Font Size in the xcode editor? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/17

Brilliant: In only 14 keystrokes you are able to get the Font inspector window!

What happened to Command-Plus and Command-Minus to zoom in/out which about every Mac OS X app support?

–jeroen

via: How to Increase Font Size in the xcode editor? – Stack Overflow

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