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Iām remembering my friend @uliwitness today, who died last November.
He was a wonderful friend, a community builder, a musician, and an incredibly talented developer. He also laughed the hardest at my really bad jokes, which made me love him even more. Iāll miss you a lot Uli!
TIL a new word: workslop.
"AI-generated āworkslopā is here. Itās killing teamwork and causing a multimillion dollar productivity problem, researchers say"
"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:
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
ā¦ with CNBC reporting on the paywalled parts:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity-and-teams-researchers-say.html
Recommended, interesting reads.
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 āworkslopāācontent that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 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. Leaders need to consider how they may be encouraging indiscriminate organizational mandates and offering too little guidance on quality standards. To counteract workslop, leaders should model purposeful AI use, establish clear norms, and encourage a āpilot mindsetā that combines high agency with optimismāpromoting AI as a collaborative tool, not a shortcut.
macOS Tahoe UI has a HUGE new feature for folks like me who have 24/7 Mac Minis running and access them remotely: you can now type the boot password remotely via SSH!
Power on the Mac, then SSH to it. A simple SSH server will handle your request. Typing the password there is equivalent to typing it on the keyboard. The connection then closes and the machine boots normally.
Combine this with "Start up automatically after a power failure" and you can ditch that KVM! #macadmins
Vidimote 1.9 for Safari for #macOS26 #Tahoe is out!
What's new:
- redesigned PiP extension: now with position slider & Skip button
- overlay actions like Skip & PiP now grouped
- adopts liquid glass in native UI
Web: https://www.iospirit.com/products/vidimote/#mac
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/vidimote-for-safari/id1585702412?mt=12
When Apple announced Pasteboard Privacy in May, the general assumption was that it'll arrive in the next major macOS release.
But AFAICS - unless you turn it on explicitly via defaults - it seems absent in the macOS 26 RC.
There's also no mention in the macOS 26 release notes - and the last AppKit release notes Apple published were for macOS 14.
What happened to it? Is it still coming?
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/12/pasteboard-privacy-preview-in-macos-15-4/
Anyway, a month ago I also filed FB19437407: Provide a way for an app to have different app icons in Tahoe and pre-Tahoe versions of macOS
There is a way to do this today using an undocumented command-line option:
1. Name your Tahoe .icon file the same as the name of your existing .appiconset in the Assets catalog.
2. Set the ASSETCATALOG_OTHER_FLAGS build setting to --enable-icon-stack-fallback-generation=disabled
But how long will this work?
Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices ā without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.
Daniel š³ļøāš Jilg 
Miguel Arroz
Vidimote
John Siracusa
Mike Zornek
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