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evanjrowley

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evanjrowley··on Deodands put a price on objects that caused death
This should be a rune-charged Ash of War for a judge's gavel-type weapon in Elden Ring.
evanjrowley··on Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud
There had to be a catch to the "free" promotion they're offering this month if you use ZCode. Glad my instinct to isolate it helped me, but I feel sorry for anyone whose secrets, etc. got vacuumed up by Ziphu
evanjrowley··on Show HN: Authorize MCP tool calls without giving agents the credentials
How would someone send the audit evidence to their organization's centralized log collection service(s)?
evanjrowley··on HuggingFace: Security.txt
Haha. A plot point for Ghost in the Shell (1998).
evanjrowley··on Show HN: Toast, a beautiful by default in terminal IDE
But GUIs are less useful for remote access unless you want to take on the challenge of creating a web front-end for everything.
evanjrowley··on iTerm Team Cooked
Antigravity recently asked me if I wanted to make a Android app in Dart. Why not an Android version of this iTerm2 companion app?
evanjrowley··on Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
Qwen is leaving a strong impression on me as well. Qwen-3.8-Max via openrouter has been a strong performer for me. I run it in autolith and then have claude code check the commits. Claude highly praises the quality of the work. Lol
evanjrowley··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
Google has been becoming more like Apple in both positive and negative ways. Not a fan of this era.
evanjrowley··on Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
My best experience with Mistral has been with their expensive GLM-5.2 model. It's actually developed by Z.ai, but unlike Z.ai, the GLM-5.2 at Mistral can be used at a low price without training on your prompts - but only if you remember to hit the privacy toggle in their admin settings.

Planning code changes with GLM-5.2 using a Mistral Studio API key and implementing code changes using the Mistral Vibe API key has worked well for me. At my basic subscription tier, Vibe will share data with Mistral. It works for me because, when it comes to privacy, I care less about the actual code and more about the planning / high-level stuff.

evanjrowley··on Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs
I hope this means OpenAI might become a contributor to Asahi Linux, lest their hardware investment become depreciated due to planned obsolecense by Apple.
evanjrowley··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
I imagine Apple could also grow their business in the EU by marketing to companies who want powerful AI features but can't leverage 3rd party AI services due to GDPR. If only they could come up with iOS, App Store, and developer policies that respect the sovereignty of the EU.
evanjrowley··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
Is there a decent mapping of reasoning levels to problem sets for this model?
evanjrowley··on Could Shellfish Farming Fix Florida's Algal Bloom Problem?
Seems like a good idea!

Agricultural fertilizers are what causes the algal blooms. Will the fertilizers harm the shellfish? Perhaps the fertilizers themselves will not, but the toxins produced by algae might. So for the best results, there would need to be a shellfish that's both resistant to algae toxins while also being safe to eat.

evanjrowley··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute
Members of my C-suite are doing this today on a raspberry pi, so the promise is not empty. Key difference is they aren't using local AI to do it.

For the M5 Ultra, I suspect it would be valuable for someone who wants to achieve all the above and more, but with local AI due to data privacy concerns, and also not regulated data that comes with lots of other requirements solved by more traditional approaches.

Three possibilities:

1. The type of person who deals with lots of intellectual property using expensive Mac-only desktop applications that aren't meant for servers, whose mind has formed positive associations with the term "Apple Intelligence", whose values overlap with Apple's lawyer's values, who actually stands to profit from having a Mac that's more powerful than anyone else's Mac, whose long-term goals are not impacted by planned obsolecense on a piece of computer hardware costing over $25k ($50k after 1TB SSD add-on).

2. Trust fund beneficiary who wants to show off, LARP as #1, prime target for Apple's marketing.

3. 2026 kit for billionare-class iPad babies. All brain rot content is 100% local AI-generated. Never have to speak to your children again. A true "we have dead internet theory at home" machine.

evanjrowley··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
Andy Warhol - also a postmodernist
evanjrowley··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
That's postmodern art, not modern art.
evanjrowley··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
That's postmodern art, not modern art.
evanjrowley··on Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F
>but pedestrians faced higher radiant heat

As would vehicles.

Phoenix is the hottest city I've ever visited. The people were great, but I struggle to imagine why anyone would want to live there, let alone build semiconductor factories in an area already short on water supply.

evanjrowley··on Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
While I love Karakeep, the truth is that I'm using it to solve this exact same problem, even though its project goals are not as well aligned. I would seriously consider giving Hister a try because it seems like a better fit. Bonus points for being written in Go.

I suppose the one thing I need would be an easy way to share links into Hister. Hopefully we will see both Android/iOS mobile apps to send links into Hister and better support for Safari. I wonder what could be possible with the extensions support available on mobile browsers too (Safari, MS Edge, Firefox).

evanjrowley··on Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime
I see you're interested in avoiding the need to read any code. It might surprise you to learn that autolith is very capable at reading and updating it's own code. The captured sessions at the linked page are three examples of this.
evanjrowley··on Stop Making TUIs
I understand the point the article's making, and in fact, I believe it's a good one. Ultimately I continue to prefer TUIs over GUIs for one reason: Practically nobody will target TUIs for advertisements, doom scroll content, AI slop, any kind of marketing, etc.
evanjrowley··on A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
Modern preferences have shifted away from manual ones to automatic ones.
evanjrowley··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
Consequence of severe moral injury?
evanjrowley··on Treasury Orders Erasure of Domestic Ownership Records
I recall many small business owners panicking when this requirement seemed to sneak up on them.

Wasn't the purpose of it to aid in mitigating certain types of fraud, like with Covid-19 PPP loans and Medicare?

evanjrowley··on Unforgetful
That's really awesome and yes the background story really resonated with me. Right up until the end, I was thinking "hah, I can do this with Tasks.org on Android" but then the list of very cool ADHD-specific features changed my mind.
evanjrowley··on The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)
I thought this name sounded familiar. Turns out it's similar to an NPC name in Morrowind (2002). Why aren't more video games drawing heavily from ancient history? https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Hanarai_Assutlanipal
evanjrowley··on We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images
Discovered a new legit CVE today during a meeting with some other engineers. I’m going to make sure the one who originally brought it up gets to put it on his résumé. The world needs more people like that.
evanjrowley··on Move FreeBSD System Between ZFS Disks
The simplicity of FreeBSD really shines here. I recently performed the same task with Ubuntu 24.04. It seemed daunting due to various Linux-isms and Canonical’s anemic public documentation. Warp terminal got the job done. It blew through half a month’s tokens on the Build subscription tier. With FreeBSD, the task fits very nicely into just a short blog post.
evanjrowley··on We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images
Why is the Node ecosystem like this? Why do people continue to choose it for popular projects vs. anything else?
evanjrowley··on Pixel Watch 5
As an owner of a Pixel Watch 4 with LTE, the killer feature is the ability to handle calls/texts without an actual phone. With a smart watch, I can maintain important communications without looking at a device with a screen large enough to show me an advertisement, large enough to be useful for doom-scrolling, large enough for consuming slop, etc.
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