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Felix Schwarz
@felixschwarz.bsky.social
Indie since 1995, macOS/iOS/kext/web dev. I run IOSPIRIT (@iospirit.com) & make @RemoteBuddy.app, @Vidimote.app & more. I mostly write about software development, indie life, research and environmental topics. Born 341 ppm. Blog: https://felix-schwarz.org
Thanks for this! I love it! What's missing, however, is the Late 2009 Server version of the original mini design, which had a second HDD instead of an optical drive (and therefore, also no slot at the front). From a quick Google image search: appledb.dev/device/ident...
Mac mini (Mac OS X Server)
Released on Oct 20, 2009
appledb.dev
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
… with CNBC reporting on the paywalled parts:
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/a...

Recommended, interesting reads.

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AI-generated 'workslop' is here. It's killing teamwork and causing a multimillion dollar productivity problem, researchers say
Some 40% of people say they've received workslop in the last month.
www.cnbc.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and collaboration issues."

Via Harvard Business Review:
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
It likely wasn‘t. But then again, negative feedback didn’t stop Apple introducing other privacy permissions and alerts in the past.
September 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
There's also no mention in the macOS 26 release notes - and the last AppKit release notes were for macOS 14.

What happened to it? Is it still coming?

mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05... 2/2
Michael Tsai - Blog - Pasteboard Privacy Preview in macOS 15.4
mjtsai.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I had assumed that by not providing an OS or version number for deprecation, I had found a way to silence the compiler warning. Since that's not the case and it's just moving the warning, I'm deleting the original post. Sorry for the confusion. 2/2
August 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Meaning that the deprecation warnings inside the respective methods disappear. But I now see this just moves the deprecation warning up to the calling sites of the methods. I didn't notice this when I posted this. 1/2
August 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
After checking the privacy info available in Xcode and settings in the ChatGPT account, it at least seems like it should also be possible to use an account and still not have your code used for training their models: bsky.app/profile/feli...
Presumably though, "your ChatGPT account settings […] will apply" when signing in from Xcode - so that, if you turned off the option "Improve the model for everyone" in your ChatGPT account, it also /should/ not use your data for training its models.
June 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Presumably though, "your ChatGPT account settings […] will apply" when signing in from Xcode - so that, if you turned off the option "Improve the model for everyone" in your ChatGPT account, it also /should/ not use your data for training its models.
June 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This document tells you which of your Mac's ports is the DFU port: support.apple.com/en-us/120694

Avoid that port when installing macOS on a external drive.
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How to identify the DFU port on Mac - Apple Support
Learn how to find the device firmware update port on your Mac.
support.apple.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Why? I had plugged the SSD into the wrong USB-C port: on Apple Silicon Macs, you're supposed to NOT use the DFU port for this (support.apple.com/en-us/111336) - and of course I had. 🤦‍♂️
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Install macOS on an external storage device and use it as a startup disk - Apple Support
If you have an external storage device, you can set it up as a Mac startup disk.
support.apple.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
First impression of Xcode 26 auto-generating a comment for a new localizable string based on the surrounding source code: really good - it nailed it! 👌
June 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The ChatGPT/AI stuff worked nicely, but as soon as I tried to run something in the Simulator, the Mac started to swap massively and everything came to a crawl - with really just Xcode + Simulator running.

Looks like 16GB of RAM really is the absolute minimum for development going forward. 2/2
June 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I kinda get why the first three don't work. But I really don't understand how installing on an external drive should hinder AI usage. 2/2 #WWDC25
June 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM