Post #4896355 · Elektrine

2026-09-29 17:41 UTC

Nomenclature. I got a used Mac Mini to use as a sacrifice zone for testing things on recent OSes. Since at this point it seems like you will pry macOS 14.7 from my main machine's cold dead fingers. Anyway I can't decide what to name it. I'm going with "sucker" so far. I thought about "patsy" but that just makes me think "and edina" which is not what I'm going for. https://jwz.org/b/ylAG

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@christmastree@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 17:45

@jwz@mastodon.social honeypot?

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@jgilbert@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 17:47

@jwz@mastodon.social "shakedown"

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@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 17:57

@jwz@mastodon.social sacrificial silicon stooge?

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@tedmielczarek@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 18:09

@jwz@mastodon.social canary?

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@gl33p@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 18:50

@jwz@mastodon.social "catspaw" maybe 🤔

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@ewhac@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 23:03

@jwz@mastodon.social "lab rat"

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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-09-30 05:43

JFC, Xcode 27 is pushing the AI bullshit *harrrrrd*. There are 3 or 4 preference checkboxes for "No AI plz" but they barely do anything. Every single compilation warning has a little sparkle-icon where you can ask the plagiarism machine to drop a turd onto the deprecated method you were calling. You can't make it go away, at all. "In Xcode 27, agents are becoming the primary way to interact with the coding assistant" -- eat my fuck you goddamned traitors.

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