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jonaustinon Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

Most recent comment from them (9/30)

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-m...

GrapheneOS:

``` We're not going to add support for the Pixel 11 series unless it ships MTE support. It has hardware level support for MTE but it shipped without firmware support for it. It's unknown why that's the case and it could be due to flaws in the hardware implementation which have to be worked around. It isn't yet clear if it's going to support MTE but we've decided we won't support it unless it ships. Android 17 QPR2 Beta launched for the Pixel 11 after we made our initial posts about this and added preliminary firmware support for MTE while keeping it fully disabled for the OS even as a developer option. It isn't clear if something is severely wrong with it or not yet so we can't make any commitment to supporting the Pixel 11 series. ```

jonaustinon GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

Maybe...at least in the web ui chats I now do several rounds of "carefully review your conclusions" because gpt is incredibly lazy and misses ridiculously obvious things (obvious with a little bit of web research) pretty much every single time it's asked to research anything.

jonaustinon Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks

I've been working on a pi extension to do this, after frustration with getting the best current local models to stay on track, and just to deal with their relative slowness; gist is that it uses pi hooks to keep the model deterministically on track and beads-rust issue tracking tool to keep everything organized.

A SOTA model writes the initial prompt, and creates the beads issues; then a continuous iteration of plan(local) -> review (sota) -> implement(local) -> review (sota). Until the sota reviewer model is happy with the implementation.

And can mostly just let-it-run; e.g. overnight since local models with mac unified memory are slow.

Still early days, but have had reasonably good success with a Defender (1981) clone and now I'm having it work on a Prince of Persia clone (both Go/ebiten).

Note: I think this is only possible now because Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and 27b are incredibly good models.

- https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/beads_rust

jonaustinon I wanna live an NPC life

Not all of us live for The Hustle...

jonaustinon Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

> This clearly implies that they believe ChatGPT models are AGI and are now willing to say it out loud. > Which I think is a fair interpretation of the term

You can't be serious... Case in point - I just asked GPT Sol High to give me a weekly update of local ai changes.

Here's it's first update, which is complete and utter garbage; i.e. it's a lot of words that says absolutely nothing. That's just a random word generator; AGI? Not even remotely in the ballpark.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a761ec1-4b38-83ea-a8f7-8f02084e63...

jonaustinon Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

fwiw, it absolutely drives me nuts that cli programs are putting configs in that hard to reach folder (long path name and _spaces_ in the folder name ugh)

jonaustinon Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

I just started using it on an m4 max 128 and it's the first time since buying the machine a year ago that it feels like local llm "just works" for reasonably decent coding.

Use pi though; claude code has way too much bootstrap context; slows everything way down.

jonaustinon Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

The handling of that issue looks _incredibly_ shady.

Not touching this project with a ten foot pole..

jonaustinon Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

Probably use Morphe now: https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedextended/comments/1q20ga5/w...

jonaustinon Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue

Don Ho handled this like an absolute champ.

I think the cloner had good intent, but he didn't get approval, so absolutely not okay no matter what.

jonaustinon Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight

https://github.com/jundot/omlx

note: 27b is going to be slow; use the 35b MoE if you want decent token/sec speed.

jonaustinon Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight

Try https://github.com/jundot/omlx

I've been using qwen3.5 (122b) with claude code for months, and it's definitely dumber than sonnet/opus, but it works through things reasonably well (i.e. writes half-decent code and tool calls usually work), and I pretty much never run into loops now.

and make sure you're following Unsloth's recommendations for temperature/etc.

jonaustinon Men who stare at walls

This is pretty much literally what the originator of Zen, Bodhidharma did for 9 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma

jonaustinon Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience

or just use glow which is golang.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

jonaustinon I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support

Just get a decent macbook, use LM Studio or OMLX and the latest qwen model you can fit in unified ram.

Hooking up Claude Code to it is trivial with omlx.

https://github.com/jundot/omlx

jonaustinon Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

And shout-out to Qwen if they release 122b -- Jeff Barr's original Gemma 4 tweet said they'd release a ~122b, then it got redacted :(

jonaustinon Neovim 0.12.0

Just use this; it's literally claude code in a terminal tab in vim; also aware of what files are open in vim.

https://github.com/coder/claudecode.nvim

jonaustinon Neovim 0.12.0

You're holding it wrong if you're dragging files around a desktop to open them.

Just use a fuzzy file finder within the terminal or within vim itself.

jonaustinon I'm OK being left behind, thanks

I'd compare this more to the early days of the internet.

Is it necessary to get involved right now? Perhaps not. Is it neat to be part of a transformative historical change just getting it's feet under it? Yep.

jonaustinon Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Try with qwen 3.5 122b; it has more parameters so a larger corpus of knowledge to draw from than 35b.

jonaustinon Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

122b is probably better; especially on a mac with 128gb memory.

localllama thread on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rk01ea/qwen351... (see comments for actual real usage rather thank benchmarks)

But for nvidia gpus 27b on a 3090 or similar is where it's at for sure.

jonaustinon Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings

Glow is pretty great and has been around for a while:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

jonaustinon Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

MacOS; no mcp; clear context; reliably reproducible when asking claude review a pr with a big VCR cassette.

jonaustinon Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

How about how Claude 2.1.x is "literally unusable" because it frequently completely hangs (requires kill -9) and uses 100% cpu?

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18532

jonaustinon Claude Code gets native LSP support

huh, well i got it on my work account, but my personal claude pro account still doesn't seem to have it available (2.0.76)

jonaustinon Claude Code gets native LSP support

might need to upgrade claude code

jonaustinon The fuck off contact page

I realized recently that i somehow had been subscribed to prime disney+ for like 6 months.

It was _super_ annoying to figure out how to actually chat with a human, but once i did they gave me a refund for the full 6 months, simple as that.

jonaustinon Claude Is Down

On an m4 pro 128gb: 75 t/s.

Caveat: That's just for the first prompt.

jonaustinon My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

Looks like there's an OSS app that does basically the same thing: https://github.com/starkdmi/BrightXDR

jonaustinon The Rise of Vibeinsecurity

We're already there given the recent Tea app "hack".