Let me put it this way: I often work with files whose authenticity is not always guaranteed. If you interpret this as downloaded cracked macOS apps, then that’s on you! Regardless of what files they are, if possible, you want to check their md5 or sha1 hash. It’s an easy way to verify that the file you’ve downloaded is what it’s supposed to be.
Category: How-To Guides
Step-by-step instructions for the things I had to figure out the hard way so that you don’t have to Google forever or stuck with hallucinating AI models.
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macOS: Create a Quick Action to easily verify the md5 or sha1 hash of a file or folder in Finder
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Fixing “Apple could not verify [some app] is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.” Move to trash? I don’t think so
Apple doesn’t like software that doesn’t come from the App Store. In fact, Apple doesn’t want any software that has not been vetted by Apple itself. This applies to cracked apps (shame on you 🤐) and open-source apps from, let’s say, GitHub.
The error message for this is always the same: “Apple could not verify [some app] is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy. ” It actually recommends moving the app to Trash. God, thanks. macOS has a decent command line, which allows us to fix this issue with just one line of code.
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Login error with GitHub’s Copilot plugin in JetBrains 2024.2 IDEs: Here’s how I fixed it
I’m using WebStorm by JetBrains as my go-to IDE for most of my front-end projects. As I was about to start it to continue one of my projects, from one day to the next, I was confronted with multiple errors that, in the end, wouldn’t let me log in to the super helpful GitHub Copilot plugin.
A thorough Google search didn’t yield any useful results on how to fix this, but it seemed like this is not a new bug. I’ve seen similar reports going back as far as February 2023.
However, the good news is, after tinkering around a bit, I found a way to fix this issue and use Copilot on every JetBrains product again. The following steps explain how I solved it, step by step. I can’t guarantee that it’ll work on your system, but it’s worth giving it a try.
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