@brianmichel

I clean the fridge @browsercompany. He/Him. @brianmichel@mastodon.social

 Queens, NY
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Joined July 2007
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I listen to a lot of music for kids these days but am pleasantly surprised by how much funk/orchestral/jazz inspired stuff I hear! Lots of really enjoyable stuff out there
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This is going to probably be so fucking annoying to deal with.
MacRumors.com
@MacRumors
Oct 2
Apple Announces 'Full Disk Access' Changes on macOS Due to AI Agents macrumors.com/2026/10/02/app…
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Holy fuck, unreleased Morphine music is dropping soon?!
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I hope we go through the same cycle of SaaS inventions, but positioned for agents this time. - A computer for your agent - A phone for your agent - Spend observability and alerting tools for your agent
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Eminent domain for the price of $0 strikes again
sami@hellosami
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The federal government using an unauthorized trial font license from @maxitype_com
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Well Well Well, happy for you @chrome, welcome.
A screenshot of the Dia browser in sidebar mode showing the "What's New in Chrome" web page that demonstrates a sidebar design with pinned tabs and colored tab groups that looks extremely similar to the Dia browser that the chrome web page is shown in.

ALT A screenshot of the Dia browser in sidebar mode showing the "What's New in Chrome" web page that demonstrates a sidebar design with pinned tabs and colored tab groups that looks extremely similar to the Dia browser that the chrome web page is shown in.

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Dia
@diabrowser
Sep 24
Today, the beginning of a refreshed brand lands in Dia, painted by hand, to give you warmer, brighter, better days.
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Unsure if I setup openclaw incorrectly or if it's absolutely brutal to use / permissions nightmare since so many people fucked their shit up with it
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Bryan Cantrill
@bcantrill
Sep 18
No, wrong. As it (apparently?) needs to be said: DCs are designed to make sure that the outlet of one machine does not constitute the inlet of another (viz. hot aisle/cold aisle) -- and the only thing being revealed here is the contagion of fear. bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09…

The contagion of fear

I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me. Late one night in my first year at university and having found computer science...

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Fireside Alpha
@firesidealpha
Sep 17
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI." "So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar." "You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient." "There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors." "One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate." _________ Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: firesidealpha.substack.com/p…
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Dan Luu@danluu
Sep 18
There's no point at which turning your brain off will work: danluu.com/brain-off/
In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked2. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly. As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works3. Sometimes there's a human in the loop and, if the thing doesn't work, they'll ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Niklas Gruhn calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy.4 Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. Not well enough that I'd want to use it or that it's successful, but I'm impressed at how effective being a meat proxy is in September 2026. You could even imagine LLMs improving enough that brain-off meat-p...

ALT In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked2. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly. As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works3. Sometimes there's a human in the loop and, if the thing doesn't work, they'll ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Niklas Gruhn calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy.4 Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. Not well enough that I'd want to use it or that it's successful, but I'm impressed at how effective being a meat proxy is in September 2026. You could even imagine LLMs improving enough that brain-off meat-p...

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This is the right answer. Apple has neglected this market for so long that any serious people already know how to host Mac machines. Build software to make these folks lives easier.
Todd Dailey
@twid
Sep 16
I joined Apple twenty-two years ago to support the Xserve and Xserve RAID - rack-mount servers and storage that Apple sold for a few years before abandoning the product line. What made servers not work for Apple then is still true today: - Apple refused to support older operating systems on the server. So if you bought an Xserve you were stuck with whatever OS it came with. Enterprise wants stability with a whole fleet on the same version. - Apple lacks enterprise support. If you report a bug in 27.0 today you can expect that to maybe be fixed in 27.2 at best. There are zero engineers assigned to write code for enterprise. There no way to issue custom patches to customers. - There is no infrastructure for on-site service. Apple has very limited next day on-site service delivered through partners. I hear the quality and responsiveness is pretty bad. Would you like to bring your server into an Apple Store? - Apple at a corporate level doesn’t care about the enterprise. The idea of spinning up an entire product line just for enterprise doesn’t make such sense. Apple sells mainly laptops and phones at the purchasing level, not strategic ai servers to enterprise. Nvidia, Dell, Lenovo etc all have mature teams to do this. - Finally the money just isn’t there. An Apple AI server might sell a few billion dollars in product. That’s just not enough for Apple to fund a whole new product line. Instead, Apple should add more lights-out management and enterprise features to Mac mini and Mac Studio, and invest in supporting MLX and other AI tools on the platform with more assigned headcount. While I can believe the premise of this story that Apple is discussing the idea, I don’t believe it will happen.
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I love that Apple is releasing this json based Xcode proj format. Which feels like a solution to problems most teams had in 2020. The people working on Xcode are wonderful, it’s just really challenging to wrap your head around this in 2026.
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My absolute favorite part of watching regular TV is the incessant prescription ads that are like “don’t take blumphya if you are allergic to blumphya” How do you know you are allergic before taking it?! Am I just being stupid??
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Why can't we simply ask the LLM to generate release notes?
The update window for Hermes desktop that says there are 826 changes included, but that this update contains "Improvements and fixes"

ALT The update window for Hermes desktop that says there are 826 changes included, but that this update contains "Improvements and fixes"

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jadakiss casually gliding on a teddy pendergrass classic
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It’s time @marissamayer let’s do another Tumblr
Dave Winer
@davewiner
Sep 10
Didn’t see this coming. techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/au… Is this about the lawsuit?

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence | TechCrunch

Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.

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These match my feelings when I see some random person on Twitter complaining that their 100x 100x accounts aren’t enough, like huh? What are you even producing?
David Cramer
@zeeg
Sep 9
Replying to @andrew_dryga @isaac_ts_way
i base my opinions on how I operate. i produce a lot of software, probably more than the average person in the industry, and I dont need 10 subs to do that. if you're using 10 subs its because you're just fuckin around, and waiting for the find out part of it. (this has nothing to do with sentry, where we pay quite a large amount of $ for inference)
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Just got bit by @github's github.blog/changelog/2026-0… brown out, not sure how I missed the blog post, but also why can't they just put something in the UI as well? they know what runner versions are registered

GitHub Actions: Minimum version enforcement timeline for self-hosted runners - GitHub Changelog

GitHub Actions is resuming enforcement of version requirements for self-hosted runners on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency. This change is part of a broader effort to...

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Ternus has so much more juice than Tim had, perhaps the signal of a fun new era for Apple
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My F train became a G train, setting today up to be blessed
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