Neo Network Utility 2.0
Here’s Neo Network Utility 2.0 with a refreshed yet familiar design for macOS Tahoe, including menu icons, pill-shaped buttons, and a modern tab view. It actually looks good in Liquid Glass.
Of course we didn’t just touch it up a bit. The new version lets you open multiple windows and run commands in all the tabs simultaneously. Switch between the tools from the menu or via key commands. On the Info tab, a visual link status indicator immediately tells you that the network connection is active, and with location services enabled, you can now see the interface’s SSID and BSSID. For looking up DNS data, Neo Network Utility uses the ICANN’s latest RDAP implementation.
This is a free replacement for Apple’s discontinued Network Utility.
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Love that they did this. There was no reason for Apple to remove it, but this version is better anyway.
Strange, installing this via HomeBrew results in the executable running from
"/private/var/folders/8k/1226q8xs17j_x894ynpd2dgh0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/966CE70C-39F7-4DB1-9725-52728017B49C/d/Network Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Network Utility"
Not sure what triggers the App Translocation.
(i use `--no-quarantine` in HomeBrew.)
Oh noes...: " Homebrew - brew: Removing support for --no-quarantine" @ https://github.com/homebrew/brew/issues/20755
I've been meaning to write a tool that looks at /Applications and ~/Downloads and just removes quarantine from newly added items. This might give me the push to finally write it.
Christ, that issue thread reinforces for me the key reason I don't use Homebrew. Good luck to all those who still find it useful, but the attitude stinks. FLOSS is the way to get away from paternalistic bullshit, not embrace it further.
>I've been meaning to write a tool that looks at /Applications and ~/Downloads and just removes quarantine from newly added items.
Wouldn't that be easy to do with a Folder Action?
>Christ, that issue thread reinforces for me the key reason I don't use Homebrew. Good luck to all those who still find it useful, but the attitude stinks. FLOSS is the way to get away from paternalistic bullshit, not embrace it further.
I've seen a lot of OSS conversation dumpster fires. That issue doesn't strike me as one. The motivation for the change was argued in the original post. Sure, you can argue that it's paternalistic, that Apple has additional ulterior motives (such as: drive more people to use the App Store, and in turn make it more likely for Apple to become a middleman with a 30% cut), and that we ought to be able to run whatever code we please. But _Homebrew_ doesn't have ulterior motives. They simply don't want to be held responsible for something that, for some good reasons (and maybe some bad ones), isn't the default behavior.
In any case, wouldn't an app made by DEVON be code-signed anyway?
Great, but Neo Network Utility renames itself as Network Utility, which is misleading and confusing. On the other hand, check for updates does not work:
Update Error!
An error occurred in retrieving update information. Please try again later.
"Wouldn't that be easy to do with a Folder Action?"
Yes. Just add a Folder Action to ~/Downloads that runs something like:
find ~/Downloads -name "*.app" -type d -exec xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine {} \;
