Lunar

Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors (by alin23)

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  • Git-crypt – transparent file encryption in Git
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2024
    I believe git-secret[0] does what you describe. The author of Lunar[1] uses it to hide the private elements in a public repo.

    [0]: https://sobolevn.me/git-secret/

    [1]: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/

  • Sourcegraph Went Dark
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2024
    Damn, I use Sourcegraph so much for my reverse engineering efforts on macOS. They index all those private framework symbols that people extract on every macOS release, and allow searching for headers and even how they are called by other developers that were ahead of me.

    A big part of https://lunar.fyi exists thanks to Sourcegraph search. Even now I'm using it to find a way to enable the second monitor on M3 MacBooks without needing to close the lid [1].

    I really hope this is not a sign of them taking back the ability to search in the future.

    [1] https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/turn-off-macbook-display-clams...

  • Reverse Engineering a Software Crack
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
    It’s done in a similar way on macOS: a dylib is added to the bundle and an LC_LOAD command is added to the app binary. The dylib is the first thing that runs because of using the constructor attribute, like this: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Injecting%20a%20DYLIB%20into%...

    The nice thing is that a signed app will refuse to load a dylib that does not have the same signature. So crackers will be forced to change the whole app signature which can be easily detected in app code.

    I have that kind of protection in Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) and Clop (https://lowtechguys.com/clop) and it seems to be good enough as they have no recent cracks.

  • No I don't want 2, Emacs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024
    Pretty sure Lunar [0] can do this for you, and you can buy a lifetime license.

    [0]: https://lunar.fyi/

  • Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2024
    I've had good luck with the Lunar app - it manages my Dell and LG monitors on an M2. (No affiliation) https://lunar.fyi
  • PHOLED Will Transform Displays
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2023
    Wild! I am working on exactly the same thing now for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi), and I'm also calling it Night Mode ^_^ what a coincidence

    I've been trying to make "white regions in dark backgrounds" less painful for months, but doing that at the system level on macOS is incredibly hard. I see you're doing it with CSS filters, which make sense in the limited scope of an article. But applying something like that on the whole macOS UI would cause confusion.

    I already use something similar on the iPhone: I read on the Kindle app which has white text on black background, then I have a full red Color Tint filter on the Triple Back Tap shortcut which I use before reading. Very similar effect to your solution, although I don't have images in my books.

  • If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    I was comparing anti-piracy measures with DRM, I don't have actual DRM in my app. I can't block users that really bought the app from using it (which is what DRM is notorious for).

    But I do have a license verification for the Pro features (https://lunar.fyi/#pro), and that is what people are cracking in the app. I only added more protection around this verification.

  • MacOS tools to make your life easier
    14 projects | /r/MacOS | 7 Dec 2023
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  • Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023
    There's no Reduce White Point on Mac as far as I am aware. However, you can use the fantastic Lunar [0] app to achieve this, as it supports "Sub-Zero Dimming".

    To use it, I think you just need to start Lunar, and then press the Reduce Brightness button on your keyboard until it goes below the minimum Mac allows.

    [0] https://lunar.fyi

  • YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2023
    As the dev of a macOS app that breaks all the time because of external hardware, the tone of the article hits close to home. (I’m talking about https://lunar.fyi/ whose brightness control commands can be blocked by USB-C hubs, “smart” monitors, too long cables etc.)

    I had to disable public GitHub issues on the app repo [1] because people seemed to fuel each other with spiteful comments and “why can’t you just!!” sentences.

    The contact form still attracts many such “entitled” people and it hurts to wake up to such messages, but at least I can choose to ignore those if I can’t bring anything to the discussion. There’s no peer pressure.

    These people are expecting too much from a handful of developers who are sharing a lot of free work and time that could have been spent better than hunting new IDs in URLs and updating regular expressions.

    [1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar

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alin23/Lunar is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

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