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How to Audit macOS LaunchAgents and Background Processes for Suspicious Activity
Check the LaunchAgents folders, plist settings, and Activity Monitor to see which macOS background items start on their own.
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12 Aug 2026
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How to Decrypt Files With Ansible Vault
Use ansible-vault decrypt to restore an encrypted file, or display its plaintext first with ansible-vault view without …
10 Aug 2026
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Just Discovered the MacOS Footprint Command
After 15 years of using macOS, I have only just discovered footprint: a remarkably useful command for understanding one …
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How to Fix Ubuntu Packages Held Back
When trying to run do-release-upgrade on an Ubuntu 22.04 VM, I hit this familiar wall: root@ansible:/# …
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How to Resize Filesystem With Resize2fs
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MacOS Tahoe
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Centralized Bash History With Timestamps
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on macOS). It’s a great command line interpreter that strikes the …
01 Apr 2025
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Inspect Filesystem Operations With Fs_usage in MacOS
hey Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based functionality is missing in recent macOS versions. Thankfully, there …
13 Oct 2024
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How-To: Upgrade Ubuntu 23.04 to 24.10
I reliased one of my Raspberry Pi systems was installed with Ubuntu 23.04 - it’s not an LTS release and is …
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MacOS Sequoia 15.0
Apple keeps shipping public betas of macOS Sequoia Preview. Notable improvements in macOS 15 Sequoia Window tiling - I …
How to Audit macOS LaunchAgents and Background Processes for Suspicious Activity
A Mac that has run fine for months can pick up a …
How to decrypt files with Ansible Vault
ansible-vault decrypt restores an encrypted file …
Just discovered the macOS footprint command
I’ve administered Linux systems for around 25 …
How to Fix Ubuntu Packages Held Back
When trying to run do-release-upgrade on an Ubuntu …
How To Resize Filesystem with resize2fs
Quick note on filesystem resize on a typical …
macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe is the upcoming major release of macOS …
Centralized Bash history with timestamps
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on …