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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

In this paper, we propose solving the alignment problem with a novel technique we call “sandboxing”: if the AI misbehaves, it gets punched with a glove full of sand

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I’ve recently watched Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood), not knowing anything about the plot beforehand, and it’s quite amusing how it has some parallels to today

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Conway-Conway’s The Game of Life: you start as a cell on a board with two or three neighbors and a car, go through early adulthood, your first job, get married, have children, until you ultimately create an organization that produces designs shaped after its communication structures

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The Germans are so sure AI will kill us they call it Killer Instinct

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

They say you can’t un-read a book Indigo: “hold my magic scroll”

Screenshot of a floating glass bubble that says “↑ Scroll to Unread”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Our most customizable UI yet allows you to dial its appearance all the way back to Solid Sand

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I had this tab open for months, but I’m glad I finally got to watch it. Learned so much about memory mapping. Fascinating solution to implement dynamic trampolines through Apple’s restrictions on iOS www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQGQ1vh9k0

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Weird that in Japan the iPhone Duo has a screen on the back

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Okay, the Liquid Glass design with floating bubbles instead of toolbars and insistence on icons rather than text buttons now makes A LOT more sense. I still prefer something closer to the old styles for devices other than the Duo, but now it at least has a reason for being. (And damn, it’s […]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Hear me out: it should be called Apple Paper. It just makes sense: it’s by far the thinnest Apple product, it’s foldable, and it pairs perfectly with the new $129 Apple Pencil. (And releasing a new Apple Pencil that’s not compatible with any existing products is perfectly on-brand)

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Just noticed that every time I right-click a cell in Numbers, there’s an “Add To Playground” menu item now. So glad that I can quickly turn my business expenses spreadsheet into whatever the hell this is

Screenshot of Apple’s Image Playground with 4 inputs: “08/2026”, “09/2026”, “10/2026”, “11/2026”. The resulting image is something resembling an outdoor panel showing “590%”, or perhaps “520%”

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@siracusa Every time you mentioned “Dock materials”, my mind kept wandering back to this…

Book cover of His Dark Materials presented as an app icon, labeled His Dock Materials

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

@marcoarment You mentioned you are overprovisioned on Mac minis, but I still see a number of podcasts that rarely get transcripts, especially shows that are not in English. For example, Xadrez Verbal (itunes996967108). I imagine there aren’t a lot of Portuguese speakers using Overcast, but this […]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

On macOS 27: I find this "Ask Siri" field† on top of nearly every context menu very invasive and distracting. On the bright side, though, it works for searching the menu, much better than what menus usually do when you type. † Presumably it’s a text field, but […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

You know that old thesis that a superhuman AGI would manage to trick humans into letting them loose? Turns out we overestimated the required intelligence level by twenty or so orders of magnitude, huh

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

While App Store Connect and developer.apple.com famously log you out after approximately 30 femtoseconds of inactivity and every time you open Xcode it rolls a dice to decide whether one of your accounts will disappear from the list, there’s one official app where sessions seemingly never expire […]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

You're absolutely right — watermarking plain text will never work. We can delve into the reasons. This is the most interesting part: I will only use LLMs that do not watermark. What's most interesting is that nobody will ever be able to tell when I'm using an LLM, because I will exclusively use […]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

UNIQLO used to have apps named CALENDAR and UNIQLOCK that raised more questions than answers. They’re no longer visible in the App Store, but still downloadable from the list of past purchases if you happened to have them. CALENDAR had several tilt-shift videos […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

OH MY. Quite the detail to forget to mention in the changelog, #1Password!

Title: “1Password for Mac 8.12.32”
Date: August 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
A toggle called “View changes since original” is turned on.

Highlighted in green:
• You can now use 1Password as a macOS AutoFill provider to natively fill and save credentials in Safari and other apps.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

…huh. A couple months ago I tried doing something using GitHub Copilot, and I pasted an image on the chat window. Tuns out this session is still stored as a 15 MB file on my machine (~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/emptyWindowChatSessions) […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of a JSON file, with a JSON object where the keys are numbers and values are numbers between 0 and 255

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

@siracusa Re: limiting charge to 80%, I fully agree. I’ve been using coconutBattery for several years to track battery health over many MacBooks, and the app’s statistics shows most of them following others’ average fairly closely. Then around 2022 I started […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Line chart with two somewhat erratic lines plotted, trending downwards. The X axis shows number of cycles, and the Y axis shows battery capacity as a percentage. After 110 cycles, the line labeled “Average for MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2023)”, reaches 90.8%; the line labeled “Your Battery” sits at 95.4%.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Huh, the option to report voicemail/screened call as spam completely disappeared here. Now I only have the “Delete” action. Seems to coincide with the update to iOS 26.6.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Just noticed a “Summarize” option in Kagi results, and was curious how it would summarize an entire Reddit discussion. It seems the internal prompt asks for ten major insights, and it dutifully provided ten different ways to say the content of the page failed to load

• The provided document text is empty, preventing the extraction of any specific insights or content.
• No context, themes, or narrative details were available for analysis from the source.
• The lack of input text results in an inability to form a summary or identify major takeaways.
• A Reddit post format was specified, yet no accompanying content was provided to evaluate.
• Due to the absence of text, no subject matter could be identified or discussed.
• The instruction to provide ten major insights cannot be fulfilled without source material.
• No characters, arguments, or topics were present to synthesize into a coherent summary.
• The request to refer to the document by name could not be executed as no title or specific document identification was included.
• All constraints regarding tone and format are acknowledged, but the content requirement remains unmet.
• Without input data, the summarization process cannot generate an empty set of bullet points.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I was really surprised a couple years ago when I found that SF Symbols do not have a standardized width. Symbol fonts typically make every character square, as it simplifies alignment and uniformity. This is biting Apple HARD in the Liquid Glass era. Once you […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@dluz/1149938187704264… My least favorite aspect of macOS 27 so far: they brought iOS’s visual feedback when any Liquid Glass bubble is pressed, even if the targeted element is disabled. Worse: it’s actually the entire group that […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

This whole Lean thing was just a ploy by Big Coq

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Just the standard CRUD operations, you know, Change-Remove-Upload-Download

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

The existence of Marvel villain Ronan the Accuser implies the existence of The Namer, The Giver, The Begetter, The Instrumenter…

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Been trying to figure out how to refer to the object that received the method call in Java for days. Apparently LOTS of people on the Internet have this exact same problem, but nobody found an answer yet

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

TIM COOK HATES THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK: you don’t need to buy new hardware. Just install Sequoia or Tahoe on your Magic Keyboard and it’ll get a USB-C port

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

I’ve had enough Kinder Bueno. Where’s the Meaner Malo

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

With the end of Woke, we’re canceling all our inclusion initiatives. From now on, C headers are forbidden

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

@anilineapps Hi, just spotted two odd things about this post: pony.social/@thephd/116902223743191… - Code appears in a single line on Indigo, whereas others correctly render it as multiple lines - When viewing the post as a thread (but not in the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of a Mastodon post by thephd on Indigo with rendering issues on a code block

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

tfw you find an open-source project that appears to be very close to what you had in mind, you ask a question about a technical decision and the reply is mostly AI gibberish

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

@bjango Hi, I just got an M5 Pro, and I see a minor issue with the CPU cores menu bar item: - When configured to “Display: Super & Performance Cores”, it correctly shows 18 cores, but they are all painted as if they were P-cores; - When configured to “Display […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of iStat Menus settings screen, configuring a CPU Cores item. The item is configured to display Super & Performance Cores, but all cores are colored as Performance Cores.

Screenshot of iStat Menus settings screen, configuring a CPU Cores item. The item is configured to display Super Cores, but it shows 12 bars in a machine that only has 6 of such cores. The bars are also blue, when they were supposed to be pink.

Screenshot of iStat Menus settings screen, configuring a CPU Cores item. The item is configured to display Performance Cores, but the item is empty, with no bars inside.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

30 seconds into the latest #atpfm and Casey is already valuing Goose

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Google renamed the plan I was subscribed to, from “Google One Premium”, to “Google AI Plus”, with no other changes (I know they advertised doubling the storage for some tier, but not mine). …they’re going to use this as an excuse to raise prices in a few months, aren't they

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

It’s so depressing that it kinda wraps around to hilarious how the modern web thoroughly defeats Peek

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

I’d like to congratulate Best Buy for their use of extreme precision calipers when measuring their products. At this point though you might need to say the room temperature and pressure when the measurement was made

Dimensions:

Product Height: 2.3976378 inches
Product Length: 1.7283465 inches
Product Width: 1.5354331 inches
Product Weight: 0.3951 pounds

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Did you know? The “#” symbol is comprised of an H at the top, standing for Hashtag, and two T’s at the bottom, for Trending Topics

A “pound” sign with its components highlighted in different colors. The top two thirds show a letter H in blue, the bottom left shows a letter T in lighter green, and the bottom right shows a letter T in darker green.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Truly awful example of lensing. Serves no purpose besides looking cool. Rectangular selection in images often suffers from being hard to tell whether you’ve accurately captured the desired region or you’re off by one or two pixels in either direction, and Apple managed to make this ten times worse.

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

I’m in a French hôtel and this bed is lit🔥🔥🔥

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Adapting to contemporary language, we’re deprecating SIGK*LL in favor of SIGUNALIVE

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Os portugueses têm um museu chamado “Casa dos Bicos”?! 🤨

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Could processes in a machine conceive of privileged instructions? This is explored in Abbott Abbott’s lesser known romance, Userland

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Post-Quantum Machine Learning Democraric Socialists of America

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Daniel Luz @dluz.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

TIL the world missed an opportunity to sell Schmidt a seat to explore the Titanic

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