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John Gruber

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Claude watermark debate turns on who gets to edit generated prose (daringfireball.net)

Daring Fireball objects that watermarking generated prose would trade away the model's freedom to choose the best words for a detectable statistical pattern.

HN's practical challenge was narrower and sharper: constrained outputs, edits, translations, and code leave little room for a watermark to survive or mean anything.

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macOS 27 deletes the menu icons macOS 26 added. Gruber calls it the best news from WWDC (daringfireball.net)

Apple's revised guidelines now say use menu icons "sparingly and with purpose," and "don't display an icon if you can't find one that clearly represents the menu item." Several users had stayed on older macOS specifically to dodge the change.

The dissent: one engineer says it's not the design team that produces this, it's a structural failure to listen to customers — and the cleaner fix was never icons-or-no-icons, but letting users choose.