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evanjrowleyon Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

I've never been a fan of Ubiquiti's proprietary solutions, but this might actually be one product that I can be enthusiastic about.

evanjrowleyon A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

I need to try this. Age of Empires II was never really on my radar until I recently learned it's engine is the basis for another game I'm a fan of - Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. It's one of two RTS games released in 2001 that I've spent a lot of time on, with the other one being Emperor: Battle for Dune.

evanjrowleyon Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

Has there ever been an IDE demo video with better music?

evanjrowleyon Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were unprotected on the public internet

Will the EU issue a fine for the GDPR violation?

evanjrowleyon Dutch children are unusually happy and healthy. Because of this walking ritual?

Wandering through the beautiful Dutch countryside was a highlight of a few of my childhood summers. If I ever win the lottery, that's where I'd return to.

evanjrowleyon The Former GOP Operative Running a News Site for the 'Politically Homeless'

Politically homeless was a new term for me that I recently learned about on this interesting rant about post-left and post-right politics: https://youtu.be/EGv19bdLck4?is=Rx9-w5HNHFXuasYf

evanjrowleyon Bod 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk

It's the wrong strategy. What what they should do instead is push both US gov entities and vulnerability management tool vendors to properly embrace CVSS 4.0. The environmental, threat, and supplemental metrics[0] should be sufficient to express all of this (even the KEV status). In fact, the KEV list should really just be a CVSS 4.0 overlay on top of the base score. Instead, we have vulnerability management tool vendors upselling CISA KEV add-ons and pushing customers to use various proprietary severity scores. The US gov is stuck "managing" vulnerabilities with manual spreadsheets today and it will stay that way until they make a real effort to evolve severity scoring.

[0] https://www.first.org/cvss/v4.0/specification-document

evanjrowleyon How to earn a billion dollars

We're just temporarily embarrassed billionaires.

evanjrowleyon Xteink X4 Pocket EReader, 77g Magnetic, Unlocked Firmware, Developer Edition

The Xteink 4 reader in my possession has been fantastic flashed with Crosspoint firmware. It's been so great that I'd like to gift these to my friends who enjoy reading. I'm very glad the ability to flash these is being preserved as a special offering from Xteink.

evanjrowleyon macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era

Never been a better time acquire a T2 Intel Mac for running Linux.

evanjrowleyon Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

There is a potential for bias among Iranian converts to Christianity, but for those whose stories I've listened to, the common answer is yes, there is an apocalyptic religious movement in Iran.

evanjrowleyon WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

Sorry, I thought you were enumerating gerivances against Microsoft and not better alternatives. Pluton has been controversial because it's been marketed as a "security" solution when in reality is's just doing DRM. Originally greated for the Xbox, it's kind of the antithesis of Valve's Proton.

evanjrowleyon WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

Perhaps you meant Pluton and not Proton? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25191319

evanjrowleyon Squillions: How money laundering won

Which AML books would you recommend?

evanjrowleyon The French Have the Quantum Circuits

That's some amazing work in the quantum feild. I'd like to highlight this poignant quote towards the end of the article:

  Knowing that you don’t even need to consider that a solution won’t exist can be very helpful. Often the hard part is just knowing to work on a problem at all!

evanjrowleyon Raspberry Pi 6 won't arrive before 2028 (and it won't have an NPU)

Some commenters are upset about the lack of NPU, but given Broadcom's record, would they really be satisfied with a maximally proprietary NPU stack?

evanjrowleyon macOS needs its grid back

Like GridLion, there are a handful of macOS space organizers that attempt to confine specific apps to specific spaces.

What would be most helpful for my workflow is something slightly different. I need to be able to launch specific browser profiles/windows in these workspaces. One space with all of the tabs for project X, another space with all of the tabs for project Y, and then another with all of the tabs for project Z. These might be in different browser profiles.

I don't see how I can achieve this under the common per-app paradigm of macOS space organizers unless macOS has some notion of Windows/Linux style shortcuts whereby command line arguments can specify the exact things that need to be in the browser window.

evanjrowleyon The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

  Under the bill, companies selling digital games released or resold after January 1, 2027, must provide at least 60 days' notice before terminating service. Furthermore, they must ensure that purchasers can continue to access the game—such as by providing an alternative version or a patch—and must offer refunds if doing so is not possible.

I'm excited about what this could mean for Bethesda games like ESO and Fallout. These franchises have historically been single player. The single-player focus is directly connected to the rich modding communities behind these games.

When online-only ESO and Fallout 76 were released, many longtime players were frustrated at the total lack of control they've enjoyed with prior titles. On top of this, the games are practically impossible to complete when attempting to play them like a single-player game. It makes these games far less immersive compared to their older single-player counterparts.

Looking forward to the far away day when these alternate/patched versions allow Elder Scrolls / Fallout fans the opportunity to fix mistakes made by Bethesda/Zenimax.

evanjrowleyon Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium

Good catch. Maybe they meant to hit Shift+Tab after entering the URL to navigate the forms, but accidentally hit Q instead.

evanjrowleyon Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium

  Uh-oh!

  This page doesn't seem to exist.

evanjrowleyon Space-Tree: Workspace Management Trees in Emacs

Ambitious idea. I have trouble understanding how the author wants space-tree to avoid persistance while simultaneously solving "a weeks-long investigation into a sub-system might want a whole subtree." Are they banking on never rebooting?

evanjrowleyon Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)

Designing for predictable execution flow is one of the advantages of Tenstorrent hardware.

https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/04-21-programming-tensotrren...

https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/01-22-the-real-tenstorrent-t...

https://arxiv.org/html/2604.03279

evanjrowleyon Self Hosting Passwords

Have there been any improvements to the Syncthing conflict situation over the past several years?

Syncthing conflics were such a pain point for me that I abandoned it 5 years ago in favor of application-specific synchronization protocols. Joplin for notes, Ente for photos, and Bitwarden for passwords.

Most conflicts I encountered seemed like they should have easily been handled with something designed to merge text files. Syncthing isn't designed for that.

Commonalities between Syncthing and application-specific solutions:

- Sync

- E2EE

Pros of application-specific sync:

- Works more reliably with the application data.

- Many solutions come with a web interface that makes them usable from platforms where software cannot be installed.

- Not having to clean dozens of sync conflics piling up over time.

Cons of application-speciifc sync:

- Syncable data is limited to application-specific stuff.

- Applications are bloated compared to simple filesystem sync.

- Supply chain risk goes from well-tested solutions like KeepassXC/Syncthing to things built with ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens[0][1]. Exacerbated by limited ability to control software versions of distributed services, apps, browser extentions, etc.

IMO, this is last Con is significant. I'd like to return to Syncthing, but only if the conflict resolution has improved.

[0] https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/

[1] https://community.bitwarden.com/t/bitwarden-statement-on-che...

evanjrowleyon News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

They should allow access after the news becomes old. That's what the archive is intended for.

evanjrowleyon Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

Are there any guides on accomplishing this with Emacs? Perhaps something that might be useful for someone coming from Tmux?

evanjrowleyon Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

PTSD can happen especially when something goes wrong with the anesthesia. Happened to a man named Sherman Sizemore many years ago: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/family-sues-after...

Dramatized retelling of the story at 21m04s: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ny_s07D-LT8&t=1264s

evanjrowleyon Flipper One Tech Specs

It has 2 Ethernet ports. I love it.

evanjrowleyon The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

Lately I've been scrutinizing Bitwarden after discovering a long history of memory leak problems in the GitHub issue tracker. It's an extention I use with all of my browsers. It seems to use an unusually high amount of RAM on Safari and I suspect it's why RAM just never stops growing in MS Edge.

Overall it's not a problem for me if Bitwarden wants more money, but I have to draw the line at replacing top leadership with randoms from private equity and secret price hikes. I'm glad this is being highlighted and it's motivating me even more to find suitable FOSS-friendly alternative.

evanjrowleyon USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought

Same region all the new data centers are being built. Unfortunately, humans can't eat data like they can wheat.

evanjrowleyon EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids

The most on-brand solution for the EU would be to require mobile phone users to upload brain scans in real-time so the state can check for neural activity associated with addiction.