links, etc these links have been best coverage of the “local network access” permissions that arrived in macos 15 that i’ve seen to date. there’s excellent reading in here. Local Network Privacy FAQ | Apple Developer Forums TN3179: Understanding local network privacy | Apple Developer Documentation sheesh, amazon’s really getting their money’s worth out of this purchase. Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia - Ars Technica
links, etc The Cure Returns With ‘Songs of a Lost World’ | Digs TIL, there’s a new cure album out.
TIL - that docker for mac doesn’t allow you to access the GPUs that you have on your mac running apple Si. this is annoying, it means that i need to run ollama with some wrappers, which isn’t the end of the world, but a bit more hassle than i was looking for. misc. notes in no particular order default ollama port 11434 making it such that i can connect to this from off localhost (i....
i discovered that i had pretty much winnowed my oh-my-zsh use down to just needing it for the spiffy git prompt updates (i.e., letting me know i had staged/unstaged changes in the current directory hierarchy. turns out eliminating this from my setup was a lot easier than i was expecting. zsh has a really nice vcs_info module that just needs to be tickled into operation. Git - Git in Zsh had just enough to get me moving in the right direction and a little bit of reading the relevant documentation got me to a slightly nicer tweak of the setup....
links, etc China declares success as its youngest astronauts reach space it strikes me that in the US, we’re blithely ignorant as to the advances in china’s space programs. i only found out that they had their own space station about a year after they completed it. my bad.