Announcement: Tweaks for Twitter is retired https://t.co/rxXMJ89T4c

I don't believe that staying and tweeting is "fighting back". I believe the opposite: tweeting and participating adds value to this platform, helps the new owners. I can't do it. I don't expect to single-handedly destroy Twitter, but it's a moral imperative for me to leave. 5/6

The previous President, kicked off Twitter, failed to build a huge audience for a new network of political propaganda, so the world's wealthiest person decided to just buy a preexisting huge audience. But I can't be bought. I'm not part of the package. I won't participate. 4/6

The reason I'm leaving is that it's painfully clear the new owner of Twitter, his financial backers, and his associates are right-wing partisans who executed a hostile takeover and intend to use Twitter as a political propaganda machine. This has already started happening. 3/6

To prevent impersonation, and to avoid breaking some public links to my old tweets, I don't currently plan to delete my Twitter account. I might still delete the account at some point, if I decide it's necessary or appropriate. 2/6

Dear followers, Thank you for having followed me. After today, however, I will no longer be tweeting. I will no longer read or reply to my timeline, notifications, or DMs. I'm leaving Twitter permanently. I'm not leaving the internet, though. You know how to reach me. 1/6

And... completely unrepentant. Fuck him. I'm leaving this $44 billion shithole. https://t.co/aslww1Sdvk

It appears that the Muskrat deleted his tweet, but that's not good enough. He needs to issue a public retraction/correction, an apology, and a pledge to not do that again in the future, otherwise he's just a coward hoping that everyone will forget.

Ok, that's it, I'm done. Whatever it costs me financially, I have a moral obligation to leave Twitter and not provide anything of value to what has now become a site fully owned by extreme right-wing political activists.

We'll see what happens. If the Muskrat goes full bore with using Twitter for his own right-wing political activism, I may be forced to leave. I can't be a part of that.

The fact that a Gatekeeper bypass is only worth $5K clearly demonstrates that Gatekeeper itself it not worth much. Security theater.

This works to remove the System Preferences Dock badge! It won't remove the badge from the preference pane, but you can actually hide the preference pane (which you can't do in System Settings).

Once again, it appears that nobody considers the Mac App Store worth selling ads on.

It turns out that I have to block softwareupdated with Little Snitch to get rid of the Dock badge on System Preferences in Monterey, because it periodically checks in the background regardless of your preferences.

macOS 12.6.1 once again uninstalled Rosetta

Achievement unlocked: A link to my blog post in the review!

In Ventura System Settings, modal windows just pop up when I'm using the up and down arrow keys to navigate the search results.

Here's a trick for removing Exif data from a photo: 1. Open in Preview app 2. Select All, Copy 3. File, New from Clipboard 4. Save

I just purchased @alfredapp the other day. It's pretty cool. I need to remember to use it, because I'm not in the habit yet. A few things I like so far: 1) # to run a command in Terminal (I changed the prefix from >) 2) / to show a file browser 3) This:

"StopTheMadness is likely the most capable and quirky extension on this list."