Daniel Sinclair
@_DanielSinclair
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Building wallets @rainbowdotme. Dabbling in AI, crypto, and China studies
Joined June 2009
Very much enjoying using @PerplexityComet as a daily driver. It's kind of miraculous that Chromium forks can be more performant and enjoyable to use than Chrome itself. Very slick.
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It does seem glaring that we’re not investing a lot in the defenses in anticipation of this very real threat. Apple is doing better than most in hardening the kernel, but we really need to be rewriting the world in memory safe languages, yesterday.
randomaugustine.medium.com
Enhancing kernel isolation, one step at a time.
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I do wonder how close we are to the 0-day takeoff. The OSS reasoning models (mainly Chinese) are good now. They can more easily become misaligned to assist APTs, unlike the frontier models. They can search for memory overflows all day, every day. It might even be economical now.
Brief info and POC for this week's Apple 0click iOS 18.6.1 RCE bug CVE-2025-43300
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I wonder if this is part of the exit plan for the default search engine Google antitrust trial. You give me users, I give you TPU credits and licensing.
BREAKING: Apple is now in exploratory discussions with Google about using Gemini to power a revamped version of Siri.
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Would love to see DeepWiki from @cognition re-index repos more aggressively. Such an incredible tool for navigating opensource, but often a few months out-of-date for fast moving repos. Would even pay to reindex on behalf of every other user.
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h/t to @mohsin585 for being far ahead of the curve on this and raving about the product for years. Take agency over your health and own your data. Soon you'll be able to put it to work in invaluable ways.
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To do something about this, I finally signed up for @PicnicHealth. With hospital networks recycling your records every ~5-10 years, I suspect having true ownership over all of your medical records and imaging will be an invaluable investment for the near AI future.
I discovered that all of my medical records from when I was younger were destroyed. No notification. No offer to take ownership. Just poof. I suspect that this is true for most everyone today who grew up during the transition to digital records. Invaluable longitudinal data, gone.
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Apple Support is so rough these days. Titans really do quietly fall and disintegrate from neglect.
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America is awaiting a ruling from the Chief Design Officer about gold leaf décor.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a new post for the government’s chief design officer, tapping Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to fill the position, according to sources
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I discovered that all of my medical records from when I was younger were destroyed. No notification. No offer to take ownership. Just poof. I suspect that this is true for most everyone today who grew up during the transition to digital records. Invaluable longitudinal data, gone.
companies like Facebook record every imaginable interaction their users have with the platform. they log each of your clicks and taps. they keep track of how long your gaze lingered on a post, whether you were on the same WiFi as that woman who might be your friend, which.
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I've been asking myself a lot recently: where have all of the young people gone? Out of a dozen weekend cycling events this year, I am usually the youngest there. Outside of the major cities, I don't even really see anyone under 40 running or walking at local parks.
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I got a bill of $400 for a bicycle tire swap over the weekend and felt a cold "back in my day" run through my spine. Cycling is going to be a dead sport when the tariffs finally land.
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Was disassembling my bargain bin Roborock with a screwdriver last night at 1am and finally caved to the Matic hype. Very exciting that there is a U.S. manufacturer actually building a better home robot.
Autonomous navigation isn’t just for cars. Matic nails 3-point turns on its own.
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Computational biology and virology are so damn cool. It is such amazing progress that we can even analyze the human genome and discover historical immune battles within it. We won, and are still winning.
I had no idea that humans lost our natural defense against HIV to fight an even worse retrovirus that no longer exists. Old world monkeys still have this immunity - we share the same gene (Trim5-α) - but ours was repurposed millions of years ago. Ep w @jacobkimmel out tomorrow
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The sync or autocomplete engine in my Notes app became corrupted recently and will intercept each typed letter and fill in a random word. It’s like next-token prediction but late stage macOS. The crm gardeners are winning.
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Adding an alias to your .zshrc makes these CLIs much nicer to interact with so you can name your workflows. I have aliases for both sonnet and opus models for Claude Code, each with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and switch between them. Codex for review fits there too.
While we're working on our documentation, here is how to use gpt-5 high. codex -c model_reasoning_effort=high. Super useful when you need that extra oomph of intelligence when your other model friend gets yourself into a pickle 👀.
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