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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

This is the welcome I receive when I come back from shopping. Love him to bits 😻😻😻 #CatsOfMastodon

Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

As we’re approaching summer and the days are getting warmer, it’s important to keep your cats in appropriate containers or they’ll spill on your carpet when they turn liquid. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Our tabby Hobbes is overflowing his cat basket with only his rear still in the basket while his head and shoulders rest on the carpet. He somehow makes it look comfortable when I just get a backache from looking at it!

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Phishing attempts get harder to spot. Here's the latest, a Github suspicious login alert with a sendgrid link. Normally, the links are a giveaway but orgs have eroded trust here by wrapping every link in a tracker. I actually logged into GH to verify that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

“Github” email saying “New device just logged in your GitHub !” with a link to verify the connection.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Stretch goal: something that has sort of a “wireframe mode” that allows me to take Cyberpunk in-game screenshots and draw outlines of buildings and objects which could then be projected on the ground (see screenshot) for a basic layout. #TTRPG

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

That is a damn fine error message, #OrbStack! Actionable and it actually fixes the problem. 💯, no notes.

$Error dialog reading: Stopped unexpectedly: failed to start 09:46:20" level=fatal msg="failed to lock data: Permission denied while opening data image. This is usually caused by Migration Assistant changing its owner to root. To fix it, run: |"sudo chown -R $USER ~/Library/Group\| Containers/HUAQ24HBR6.dev.orbstack/data\". (open /Users/sas/Library/Group Containers/ HUAQ24HBR6.dev.orbstack/data/data.img.raw: permission denied)" Check logs for more details.$

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Ok, final one, the one I'll run with for now. “For this Mac" + AMD FSR + full native resolution 3024x1980: 107 fps. #MacBook #Cyberpunk

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Actually, the difference was that I'd turned on AMD FSR frame generation. Re-running the very first test on power gives the same result. It's all consistent. I though the presets include FSR but it seems that changing the overall setting does not reset the FSR setting. #MacBook #Cyberpunk

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Indeed, this does seem to throttle a bit when on battery but not as drastically as in the very first post. So I'm guessing the 45 fps I got there were due to background activity post-setup. #MacBook #Cyberpunk

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Hold on - it makes a huge difference whether this is on power or not. Or maybe something was still running in the background on the first test. I just reran the Raytracing Ultra settings and I'm getting 77 fps now. #MacBook #Cyberpunk

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

Same as the previous post + AMD FSR 3.1 frame generation: 145 fps. This thing is a GPU monster. #MacBook #Cyberpunk

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

With the “For this Mac” preset + Vsync off it's a solid 85 fps - and I’d need a side-by-side to see quality differences. This is at 2294x1432 resolution by the way, so very crisp. No frame generation. This is probably what I'd play at if I wanted to run another play through. #MacBook #Cyberpunk

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

I’m happy to report that the M5 Max #MacBook Pro with 40 GPU cores runs #Cyberpunk at max Raytracing settings at a solid 45 fps and looks fantastic (on battery, will retest on power, although I don't expect it to make a difference).

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

Expecting another parcel today and look what text message I’m getting. This is broken. Some delivery network must be leaking details.

Bonjour c'est le-transporteur
et j'ai un-carton pour
Schmidt Sven , je suis passé
chez vous ce matin au 06150
mais personne n'était là, j'ai
besoin d'une-consigne pour
la suite sur votre-suivi :
https:/|schmidt-
sven.t-3228.pro
Autrement je peux rien faire,
merci et bonne journée

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

Mein lieber Herr Kellenberger, hab ich Neuigkeiten bzgl des Nachnamens Schmidt für Sie!

Spam-Email mit dem Text:

AW: Rechtsanwalt Dr. Richard
Kellenberger
Sehr geehrter Sven Schmidt,
mein Name ist Dr. Richard Kellenberger,
Rechtsanwalt aus Kanada. Ich kontaktiere
Sie bezüglich eines Nachlasses meines
verstorbenen Mandanten, der denselben
Nachnamen wie Sie trägt.
Bitte teilen Sie mir mit, ob Sie weitere
Informationen hierzu wünschen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Back home after five days away - we missed each other 😍 #CatsOfMastodon

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

@agiletortoise Is it possible somehow to pre populate the recipient for a message in the Scan Document action? I’d love to set up a simple one button workflow so my mom can scan and send documents in one go. If Scan Document had a binary output I could […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

OrbStack is getting better and better. If you're using #docker on a #Mac, use OrbStack.

OrbStack is a proper Mac app - not an electron app. It has all the bells and whistles of a Docker install, including a list of running and stopped containers, images, volumes viewable as you’d expect via a sidebar and middle pane.

The container detail view lets you see container info, the logs, launch a terminal and access the containers files.

Here, the logs view is active, showing the logs of a postgres container.

This second screenshot shows the terminal (ghostty) for that same container. It’s super easy to launch a shell for debugging.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

Alright, mystery solved, finally. I was right, I'd triggered a hardware button swap to left-handed mode. The problem was that I thought I had a Razer mouse when it was actually a Corsair 🤦‍♂️ I finally had the brilliant idea to “inspect” the mouse thoroughly […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the relevant page from the linked manual that explains to hold the left (or right, depending on which mode one is switching from) forward + backward button for 5 seconds to toggle modes.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

Love the inline translation of text messages in #macOS26. It can be so fiddly copying text into a separate app. And it's great to have the original around, for learning purposes. Deals well with informal speech and abbreviations, like “aprem” for “après […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Example exchanges in the Messages app:
Text Message • SMS
Tue 5 Aug at 14:12
Hello ! J'ai une bonne partie demain 19h30 ça te dit de jouer ?
Hello! I have a good game tomorrow 7:30 p.m. do you
wan to play?

Text Message • RCS
Je peux pas demain soir, désolé!

Text Message • SMS
Wed 6 Aug at 11:44
Heloo sven ça va ? Tu veux jouer à 16h30 cet aprem ? Ils
cherchent un joueur
Hello Sven, how are you? Do you want to play at 4:30
p.m. this afternoon? They're looking for a player

Salut Kev! J'ai vue la partie mais 18h c'est trop tard.
Dispo seulement jusqu'à 17h30 😞

Aie mince
Thin

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

So French telecom provider #Bouygues has had a data breach (contact details, contractual data, civil status data or company data if you are a professional, as well as IBANs). They're really sorry and they’ve set up a web page and a phone number you can call […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Dear customer,
Bouygues Telecom has been the victim of a cyberattack that allowed unauthorized access to certain personal data. You are receiving this email because you are affected.
The categories of data concerned, associated with your Bouygues Telecom subscriptions, are: contact details, contractual data, civil status data or company data if you are a professional, as well as IBANs.
Bank card numbers and passwords for your Bouygues Telecom accounts are not affected.
Our technical teams put an end to this attack as quickly as possible and we have implemented additional necessary measures to strengthen the security of our information systems.
We have also informed the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL) and filed a complaint with the judicial authorities.
We recommend that you be particularly vigilant regarding any abnormal use of this personal data (fraudulent calls, SMS, emails or suspicious debits on your bank account).
To assist you, we provide a dedicated web page and a toll-free number at 0801 239 901. The Bouygues Telecom Mag also has a complete file on the security of your personal information.
We are sincerely sorry and apologize for this incident.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

When you get home from a long Padel tournament and find you have another best of three match ahead of you, for a place in bed 😸😸😸

Our cats Dora, Chips, and Hobbes are spread out on the bed in various poses of sleep gymnastics. Dora is lying on her back with all four paws stretched out. Chips is also on his back with his front paws curled. Hobbes is the odd one out sleeping on his belly with his dead turned to the left and towards the camera.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

So which tab is active? Can you even see that there are two tabs? Everything's some sort of pill without much of a hierarchy. Or at least I find it super hard to see any hierarchy with the "light shades of grey” approach. It's all a whiteish soup 😕 #macOS26 #Xcode26

View of the Xcode 26 toolbar on macOS 26. As the main text says, it’s all a whiteish soup of barely distinguishable UI elements. Bland. I fail to even describe it, you’re not missing much if you can’t see it.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Unplayable on #macOS26 though - at least I think it's due to running on the beta OS. Visuals are completely garbled 😅 #Cyberpunk2077 #Mac

Heavy artifacting of the gameplay view. Launch screens and even UI overlays are fine but all the 3D rendering is completely messed up.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Haven't really played yet but #Cyberpunk2077 looks great on the #Mac and the benchmark shows solid numbers:

In game benchmark shows 140fps on average with a low of 116fps.

This is with FSR frame gen at 2560x1440 resolution. It was the default setting for my machine (M2 MacStudio) except for FSR, which I enabled.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

Bea Gonzales, Juan Tello contre Christina Fernandez, Fede Chingotto à Antibes #padel

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

No, we don't. We need to talk about your trackers.

Safari’s privacy report for the same page showing that it prevented 10 trackers from profiling me.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

I appreciate that live activities show up on my #Mac now in #macOS 26 but the UI looks a bit rough 😬

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

I really don’t like the bigger rounded rect radius in #macOS 26 and it looks particularly out of place next to “normal” rounded rect radii.

A view of Xcode’s bottom bar with the file filter text field showing a larger rounded rect radius in the “new” macOS 26 style, while the debug pane filter text field shows the “normal” rounded rect style, the one we’re used to from macOS 15.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2025

OrbStack is so good. It's a drop-in replacement for #Docker on #Mac with a sleek native app as a control centre. orbstack.dev

Activity view of the OrbStack app showing a running container with metrics in the side bar resource usage: CPU, memory, network, and disk.

It’s a modern Mac app with lots of additional features like viewing container logs and connecting to a running container.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Mmm, what's the @.Dependency macro at 28:25 in the Platforms State of the Union? A dependency injection framework like @pointfreeco’s swift-dependencies? #wwdc25

Screenshot from the Platforms State of the Union video showing a variable “inventory” of type “Inventory” annotated with a “@Dependency” macro.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

I've had the need recently to compare benchmarks between runs with different configurations, like you see in the first screenshot. While it's probably (in this case) rather easy to tell which run is faster, I also created graphs for the runs initially. (1/3)

The sample input data. It contains extra log lines as well as the measurement, which themselves are on lines with extra output.

The resulting graph of the two series that were parsed out of the input data. They are labelled "Series 0" and "Series 1" and shown with blue and green dots, respectively.

In this visual repforthtation, you can see that Series 0 has faster run times, except for one outlier in the forth iteration.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

Just had a random PR approval and was wondering why anyone would do that. Looks like the account has been doing that a lot. What's the point? Build up some sort of activity for future actions? 🤔 The repos they acted on seem entirely random, across languages and technologies.

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2025

It’s important to recognise your coworker every once in a while 😻 #CatsOfMastodon

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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2025

Ok, the ports issue is understood now. From the services docs: docs.github.com/en/actions/use-case… Since I'm running the job in a container, none of the port re-mapping that I'm doing has any effect. #docker

Running jobs in a container

When you run jobs in a container, GitHub connects service containers to the job using Docker's user-defined bridge networks. For more information, see Bridge network driver in the Docker documentation.

Running the job and services in a container simplifies network access. You can access a service container using the label you configure in the workflow. The hostname of the service container is automatically mapped to the label name. For example, if you create a service container with the label redis, the hostname of the service container is redis.

You don't need to configure any ports for service containers. By default, all containers that are part of the same Docker network expose all ports to each other, and no ports are exposed outside of the Docker network.

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