Brian Via

🚧 Building - Dropbox for devs
💻 Fullstack SWE/vibes engineer @dfinitiv
@ncstate Swim and Dive & CS Alum '14

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Louder for the folks in the back.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Virginia’s Loudoun County expects $1.3 billion in data center tax revenue next year, helping the county cut residents’ property taxes by roughly 30% over the past decade.

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Trying to talk with Opus 5

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We will cure everything and you’ll be happy

[Superman @thesupermannx]

Scientists found a way to flush Alzheimer’s plaque out of the brain in minutes.

Without any surgery and drugs.

Your brain has a waste-clearance network called the glymphatic system. It flushes out toxic proteins and dead cells.

But it only really activates during deep, slow-wave sleep.

If you don't sleep, the trash piles up. Over time, that buildup leads to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.

Until today.

Researchers just published a paper proving they can manually trigger this cleaning cycle.

Without you ever going to sleep.

They used 40.68 MHz ultrashort waves (USW) beamed non-invasively into the brain.

Within 10 minutes, the brain's fluid flow rapidly accelerated.

The waves artificially synchronized the neurons into a Delta state, the exact frequency of deep sleep. This forced the brain's water channels to open and start flushing out the system.

They tested it on mice with traumatic brain injuries and Alzheimer's pathology.

The brain swelling dropped. The toxic proteins were cleared out. Cognitive deficits actually improved.

No surgery. No massive chemical interventions. Just a frequency.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

somehow signing in to chase.​com on a muse browser has become 'endangering the entire global financial system'

the plot has been lost

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@dantechceo AWS outages have been better of late. and of course you're forgetting the goat cloudflare where you'd actually stay IMO

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arc is dead

long live arc

[Barrel Of Lube @barre_of_lube]

Introducing Ardia, the open-source Arc

I've been working on this for a few months now. It's feature-complete, already used by a bunch of former Arc users, and extremely performant.

https://t.co/GNHbOaxdFO

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@SuryaRajendhran ah yes a totally unreasonable take given the company's pretty shitty direction over the past 4 years

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in search of a new dentist for the kids, notice it's a PHP site.

Contact form not working. lmao.

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Alright @AsideAI can you add arc’s air traffic control feature to choose how URLs get routed to different profiles?

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Well i think i've successfully migrated to @AsideAI

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Can’t believe I’m out here retweeting Sacks but he’s absolutely right about the distinction of authorized vs unauthorized agents

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

There’s a world of difference between user-authorized agents (Muse, Instinct, Grokbot, etc.) and true unauthorized/rogue agents that could constitute cyberattacks.

Most of the activity described in the Axios story appears to be the former: customers sharing credentials with agents so they can take actions on their behalf. This may violate bank terms requiring humans to log in themselves, but these are in no way cyberattacks.

The direction banks should go is to support user-directed agents. For example, Amex is an authorized connection in Muse, making it easy for users to grant, limit, and revoke access.

Read-only permission levels are a sensible interim step. Several banks already support or are moving toward them. Full write access (with user credentials) is a different risk category and should be approached carefully.

Frightening the public by blurring the line between user-authorized agentic behavior and cyberattacks is irresponsible.

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@davis7 -My Garmin

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who do i have to bribe to get to the top of the claude duet waitlist

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Generational fumble by @browsercompany:

Had a truly good browser, lots of power users who loved it.

Couldn't tackle "technical debt" on Arc so they started fresh with "Dia" which was worse in every way whenever I tried it.

Spent an absurd amount of money on staff, cosplaying as a real company when they weren't making money at all.

Got acquired by everyone's favorite issue tracker Atlassian.

If they had just held out until fable 5.1 and opus 5.5 probably could have actually tackled whatever tech debt they had and kept their actually good product.

SMH

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@arcinternet OPEN SOURCE IT YOU COWARDS

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In-housing the writing of my own private keys be like:

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@hackernewstop5 @grok what are Izzat and Jugaad

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

when the cybersecurity team finds out there are actual vulnerabilities and they have to do their jobs instead of trying to trick someone into clicking a phishing email

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@DennisonBertram @Anthropic what a dumbass prompt

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I still haven’t even tried muse yet

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Can’t wait to run an opus 5.5 level model on a raspberry pi in 12 months time