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Open Minis Is the iOS Agent I Wish Siri AI Could Be(macstories.net)
1 points by alwillis 3mo ago|0 comments
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Open Knowledge format v0.2 tackles agentic trust(cloud.google.com)
7 points by alwillis 3mo ago|2 comments
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by alwillis 3mo ago
> I mean, the point stands. The models are beyond expert level in many areas at this point. It's not that the models aren't smart or whatever; we know they're extremely capable. There's always going to be value in bei
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by alwillis 3mo ago
> Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets? Of course not.
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by alwillis 3mo ago
Pretty sure this isn’t the secret Jonny Ive project.
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by alwillis 3mo ago
> Every country and group has practiced slavery. The colonies and, later, the United States didn’t just practice slavery; they industrialized it by transporting by force 12.5 million Africans to the Americas for nearly 250 years. Even as
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by alwillis 3mo ago
> I suspect they're subsidizing a lot less than people think. Agreed.
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by alwillis 3mo ago
> Looks like all the reporting about Anthropic trying their earnest to turn a profit this quarter is true. That's not how any of this works. Anthropic is playing the long game; they're not going make a short-sighted decision j
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by alwillis 3mo ago
We know an exception doesn’t necessarily prove the rule. macOS has always had superior text rendering support since the NeXT days. SwiftUI is immature but getting better. There have been tons of AppKit apps with excellent text support. Don&
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by alwillis 3mo ago
> If the purported benefits of agentic-coding systems are real, it should have been trivial for Anthropic to implement a native macOS application, and sell it as a benefit, no? Absolutely. But there's the support, documentation and
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by alwillis 3mo ago
> I don’t understand how Gruber can think the ChatGPT app is that good. It’s also…fine, It's not that ChatGPT is so good; it follows macOS design principles and functionality that have existed for decades. Claude Desktop sometimes d
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Apple asks Trump admin to approve Chinese RAM after product price increases(9to5mac.com)
9 points by alwillis 4mo ago|3 comments
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by alwillis 4mo ago
> I tried using RDFa and liked the property that it was theoretically less redundant, but switched to JSON-LD because it JSON-LD is just easier to get working. For me, it depends on the project. For personal projects, I tend to use RDFa;
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by alwillis 4mo ago
They don't conflict; they were designed to work together. You can have schema.org (in JSON-LD, RDFa, or micro data) on the same page as Dublin Core, etc. For example, there's no explicit property in schema's Person type [1] f
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by alwillis 4mo ago
Check out “Bring an LLM provider to the Foundation Models framework” - https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/339
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by alwillis 4mo ago
> Homebrew is the first thing I install on a new Mac. Absolutely!
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by alwillis 4mo ago
Just a FYI: Bundler now supports cooldown [1]. [1]: "Cool down before you install: give new gems a few days to be vetted" - https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-b...
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by alwillis 4mo ago
> Nothing new about it. Besides starting at $599 (the Air has mostly been a $999 product; occasionally selling at $799 at Costco), coming in 4 bright colors with matching keyboards, using an A series chip for the first time in a Mac, con
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by alwillis 4mo ago
The MacBook Neo is a new idea. It’s also a device most Apple skeptics didn’t think was possible.
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by alwillis 4mo ago
> Personally, I would want that R&D spend and innovation to go to more sustainable materials, longer lasting devices, and easily repairable parts to extend the devices useful life. Apple probably leads the industry in sustainability–
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by alwillis 4mo ago
> OpenDarwin was a thing at one point, with mailing lists and other infrastructure hosted by Apple. "Exploring Darwin and PureDarwin: The Open-Source Foundation of Apple's Operating Systems" - https://machaddr.s
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by alwillis 4mo ago
> Nowadays, you can't even have multiple routing tables on the latter, the firewall code was probably last updated in Snow Leopard Apple uses OpenBSD's Packet Filter [1]; I doubt multiple routing tables are a problem. Back in
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by alwillis 4mo ago
In 2026, you can avoid the bad parts. > Let's start with the basics: if you write`font-size: 16px`then `16px` is the size of what? Sadly, the answer is "nothing in particular" -- this is a size of a virtual box around the
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by alwillis 5mo ago
From the docs: CLAUDE_CODE_NEW_INIT Set to 1 to make /init run an interactive setup flow. The flow asks which files to generate, including CLAUDE.md, skills, and hooks, before exploring the codebase and writing them. Without this varia
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by alwillis 5mo ago
> Jokes aside I find it hard to trust in the amount of things Anthropic throws out. It can’t be a well thought out and stable product this way. I've never seen any company iterate on a product as quickly as Anthropic has with Claude
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by alwillis 5mo ago
> But aren't they able to do incremental builds and separated x64/arm64? During the PowerPC to Intel transition, they did stuff like that; perhaps at their current scale, there's reasons why they don't. Supporting bot
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by alwillis 5mo ago
> Yeah I’m honestly not sure why macOS updates seem to be so huge. An update to macOS 26.5 contains all the necessary code to update a Mac from 26.0 to 26.5 for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures.
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by alwillis 5mo ago
BBEdit has had support for Claude, OpenAI and Ollama (or any OpenAI-compatible LLM) in their AI Chat Sheets feature [1]. [1]: https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit15.html#:~:t...
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by alwillis 5mo ago
I've been using BBEdit since the System 7 days or thereabouts. Then I discovered Vim and I was hooked. And then came Neovim, which is still my daily driver. BBEdit has been my never-fail backup editor, especially for Mac-specific tasks
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by alwillis 5mo ago
> No, we should not praise software companies for hobbyist practices like selling $1 app on the App Store, which say, 30% goes to a digital distribution store, and then of your after distribution fees, about 20%+ percent goes to the fede

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