![]() When I ran it after the final build, all my Electron-based apps were □. It does virtually the same thing as Tom’s strings and grep does, just in a single, lightweight, universal, signed macOS binary. I named it positron, since that’s kind of the opposite of Electron, and I was pretty creativity-challenged today. ![]() And, having had yet-another immune system invasion (thankfully, not COVID, again) on top of still working through long COVID ( #protip: you may be over the pandemic, but I guarantee it’s not done with you/us for a while) which re-sapped mobility energy, I put my sedentary time to less woesome use by hacking together a small, Golang macOS CLI to help ferret out bad Electron-based apps you may have installed. His find + strings + grep combo was superbly helpful and I hope many macOS users did the command line dance to see how negligent their app providers were/are.īut, you still have to know what versions are OK and which ones are not to do that dance. An unfortunate casualty of inept programming just happened to be any app in the Electron ecosystem that doesn’t undergo bleeding-edge updates.įormer cow-orker Tom Sellers (one of the best humans in cyber) did a great service to the macOS user community with tips on how to stay safe on macOS. ![]() If you’ve got □ on this blog (directly, or via syndication) you’d have to have been living under a rock to not know about the libwebp supply chain disaster. ![]()
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