Well, I guess I won’t be filing any more bugs then. I can see some _maybe_ semi-legitimate uses for training an LLM on developer content - like _potentially_ on dev forums or something like that. But not on my sysdiagnose logs that in the same dialog it says might contain sensitive information, and with apparently no opt-out.

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Attached: 1 image Are you f* kidding me, Apple?! After a long time, I filed another bug report using Feedback Assistant because the bug was bad e...

Dice by PCalc 2.8 is out now (finally)! This release adds support for iOS 18 and macOS 15, including Control Center buttons for quick rolling, and dark and tinted icons. As well as four new themes, there’s also a new picker which makes it easier to see all the visual options for dice in one place. iOS:

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I regret to inform you that three babies were given the name Elon in Scotland in 2024, up from zero for the last fifty years.

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Babies First Names 2024

The most common babies’ names for Scotland and council areas in 2024, from birth certificates.

I would bet a non-trivial amount of money that Apple will also switch off Advanced Data Protection in the US within the year, because they just handed a blueprint to every government around the world that wants to spy on their citizens.

Tried out the new and popular “Deepseek” LLM with my standard “tell me facts about the author of PCalc” query. At least half were misleading or straight up hallucinations. LLMs are not a suitable technology for looking up facts, and anybody who tells you otherwise is… probably trying to sell you a LLM.

Now is a great time to enthusiastically confirm your support for LGBTQ+ rights - particularly those of trans and enby folks at the moment - and the rights of women, BIPOC communities, and anybody else that the new US administration is actively trying to oppress. I wholeheartedly support the rights of all of these people. It shouldn't need to be said, but right now it _does_ need to be said. If you are able, consider donating to organisations that are trying to protect them.

Finally bit the bullet and deleted every single account I had on Twitter. I already had them set to private, and wasn't posting, but turns out a literal nazi salute was my line for having anything whatsoever to do with that place or that odious man. Yes, I should have done it years ago.

I dreamed I was back at Apple (stress dreams again), attended an internal rehearsal for WWDC, and watched the entire keynote. So, I just want to say that if SwiftUI for Windows is announced in June, I'm some kind of witch and should be burned at the stake.

I am starting to suspect that the sites actually know that I'm not a robot, and just want to me to train their self-driving cars for free.

I wrote up the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the Mac OS X Dock at Macworld Expo, from the perspective of a scared twenty-something engineer. It's me. I'm the engineer.

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I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time

So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Ma...