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> The primary outcome appears to be increased profit margins rather than societal advancement. While previous technological revolutions created new industries and democratized access, AI seems focused on optimizing existing processes without providing comparable societal benefits.

This is the thing that worries me the most about AI.

The author's ramblings dovetails with this a bit in their "but the craft" section. They vaguely attack the idea of code-golfing and focusing on coding for the craft as essentially incompatible with the corporate model of programming work. And perhaps they're right. If they are, though, this AI wave/hype being mostly about process-streamlining and such seems to be a distillation of that fact.

Edit made: Ventura and Sonoma will remain vulnerable. Apple made the decision to only patch this in Sequoia.

I mean, I don't know how there would be? Unless they were scanning the text of every pop-up for words convincing the user to enter their computer password. There would be no way to determine intention without some sort of language analysis.

I agree with you. However, in this case, I was abusing a legitimate OS prompt (not just making my own), so I don't know if a security image would be a barrier there. It would definitely be one for instances where malicious apps make their own pop-ups.

That's a fair point. But did Mac have the same issue as Windows where file extensions were not shown by default? That feels like it would have been the core issue.

I mean, as others have mentioned, actually true capabilities would be nice. But as long as we're going to have a database, it would have to end up in user space or in the kernel. And I'm not sure how much I like either option.

Ooh! Thanks for the links!

I think Apple uses an L4 variant for their SEP co-processor, though I'm not sure if it's that specific one. Sounds like another OS I'll probably have to do a deep dive into at some point.

Damn, that really puts things into perspective. Granted, attached modals presuppose there's a window to attach to. But I think that would probably be true 9 times out of 10.

I do agree that uninstallation can be hard on macOS. I think Apple just envisions a future where every app is self-contained and putting the app in the trash really does remove everything because it was all in there.

Maybe that's not realistic, though.

I still think there's something to be said about an installation/uninstallation process that relies purely on moving files around, no custom script execution.

I will definitely admit, it can be a bit of a pain point that Apple sometimes takes a lot of time to determine a bounty. I'm just waiting patiently now to see what they say. I appreciate your kind words and encouragement.