How To Fix MacOS Safari’s Connectivity Issues: Disabling Private Relay and Hide IP Address

Author: , March 3rd, 2025

If you’ve ever encountered a scenario where Safari on macOS Sonoma cannot reach a local or internal web service (while Firefox and curl work just fine), the issue may be due to Apple’s strict security features. Specifically, iCloud Private Relay and the Hide IP Address from Trackers option can interfere with certain local network connections. […]

How To Show All Files in MacOSX Yosemite via Terminal

Author: , October 29th, 2014

SET THE DEFAULT TO SHOW Run this command in a Terminal window: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Relaunch Finder: Hold down the Option/ALT key on your keyboard, then right-click the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch. SET THE DEFAULT TO HIDE defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO then relaunch finder as above.