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Siri
How your Siri AI requests remain private even when processed off-device, by PCC. How a simple request becomes a long and elaborate prompt.
Golden Gate’s AI features go far beyond Visual Look Up and others. But do they use up too much disk space, and could there be a single switch to turn them all off?
How many sections in System Settings do you need to set your Mac’s primary language? If you use language-specific Accessibility features, where are they? And where to find Apple’s list of supported languages for the many features in macOS?
If you don’t want any of their services, you can turn Siri off in its settings, and disable indexing and search in Spotlight settings. Or you can use mdutil, if you know its limitations.
Frameworks provide much of the macOS API. Over the last 5 years, the percentage of Private Frameworks has risen from 76% to 84%. Why is macOS becoming more private?
How Apple and third-party developers can update the apps you use without your being aware, even if you have automatic updates disabled.
Mints gains a new tool to examine the activities of triald and trial in the Unified log. Here’s a quick survey of what happens in a quiet day.
Not only does this version of Mints extract information from the log detailing what happens during Visual Look Up, but it includes it own browser window to look up with.
Remember Apple’s failed attempt to detect CSAM in images? Would that have been similar to the way that Visual Look Up works? Is this the thin end of the wedge?
