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alsutton

@alsutton@snapp.social

CTO at Snapp Automotive. ex-Google, ex-Facebook. The opinions stated here are my own. #tfr

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alsutton, to random
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This is how started ๐Ÿ˜‚ https://community.aws/content/2dbNlQiqKvUtTBV15mHBqivckmo/14-llms-fought-314-street-fighter-matches-here-s-who-won

paul, to random
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There's so much spam across mastodon servers now. Incredible:( even blocking domains isn't really slowing it down

alsutton,
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@paul How does the spam reach you? Is it via mentions, or some other channel?

The recent security patches for Mastodon are related to spoofing posts, so Iโ€™m wondering if someone is abusing that on unpatched servers.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-jhrq-qvrm-qr36

alsutton,
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@paul I'm guessing you might have seen this post already, but it looks like you're just too well known :S

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111953045633249137

harrymccracken, to random
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I'm writing about the Mac's 40th anniversary and need some help with a basic question:

What specific tech products still in general use have been around for MORE than 40 years?

(So far, I can think of one obvious example and one less obvious one.)

alsutton,
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@harrymccracken Toyota Land Cruisers are complex machines which have been around for more than 70 years; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Land_Cruiser

alsutton, to random
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alsutton, to Cat
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If you live with a , please make yourself aware of the symptoms of respiratory tract infections so you know when to pay closer attention to them.

After finding our cat wheezing and struggling to breath in the morning, and then making a very anxious trip to an animal hospital, I can tell you being able to provide a timeline of symptoms makes identifying an effective treatment a lot easier.

There's a good article at
https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/health-information/feline-health-topics/respiratory-infections if you want to know more.

alsutton, to random
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I guess the doesnโ€™t include not fโ€™ing up the planet as a priorityโ€ฆ https://news.sky.com/story/heathrow-says-passenger-numbers-above-pre-pandemic-levels-for-first-time-12982165

alsutton, to random
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w00t.... Mastodon 4.2.0, with full text search, is now available - https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0

jbqueru, to godot
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Suppose I have plenty of time on my hands (which I don't quite have). Is it better to learn in the hope of helping the to and the community, or to stay away so that all available support go to the people whose immediate likelihood depends on moving away from ?

alsutton,
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@jbqueru What Iโ€™m reading indicates that the move to will be a long term thing because folk arenโ€™t going to switch mid, or late on, in a project, so Iโ€™d say jump in.

alsutton, to uk
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TLDR; The Air Traffic Control System crashed (at a cost of ~100m GBP) because of a hash table collision ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

https://news.sky.com/story/major-flights-disruption-caused-by-extremely-rare-set-of-circumstances-air-traffic-control-chiefs-say-12955708

jbqueru, to random
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I've been racking my brain with GDPR. It's not that I just want to serve 5 terabytes, actually I just want to store 5 high scores in an NES game, but the legal implications for privacy are really hairy.

alsutton,
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@jbqueru Under Article 16 of the GDPR I hereby require you to rectofy my high score to be 2^65. ๐Ÿ˜ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-16-gdpr/

paul, to random
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Github gets me.

alsutton,
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Today was the day that I found the line in the docs which explains how to get decent I/O performance in guest OS's which are I/O heavy (e.g. CI servers).

TLDR; sudo xl sched-credit2 -d Domain-0 -w 512

It's only slightly annoying that the Xen docs are incorrect (they refer to the old schedule credit system which isn't the default any more), and their Wiki seems to not allow account creation to submit an edit.

swbooks, to Starwars

So, Twitter just made it harder for us to manage our team account there with the TweetDeck changes, and their API no longer supports our previous crossposting of news on here (hasn't since May). 30k followers there vs 700+ here. We're debating what to do (obviously, a Fedi future is on the table), but meanwhile, let us just say "May the Force be with you" and let you know we're still alive and haven't forgotten about Mastodon and the Fediverse. On the contrary.

alsutton,
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@swbooks What would you need to go all-in on Mastodon? It looks like you could give app developers a great insight into what folk need to become

alsutton, to random
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There are a couple of behaviours I look for from senior devs;

  1. Reporting problems with ideas about causes. Saying "X doesn't work" when you've seen it fail is useful, but saying "X doesn't work, and I think it may be because of Y" can open the door to learning about things that may be useful in future projects.

  2. Thinking about migration. It's relatively easy to write new code, but working out how to get users to use it without a lot of work on their side makes adoption far more likely.

MishaalRahman, to random
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Google has reportedly ended its plans to release "Iris", its next-gen AR glasses, according to Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ar-iris-augmented-reality-smart-glasses-2023-6

Instead, they're pivoting to building an Android XR platform for Samsung's headset as well as a "micro XR" platform for glasses.

alsutton,
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@MishaalRahman Meta modified the AOSP for Quest, which means a reasonable amount of VR features they use may not be in the AOSP.

MishaalRahman, to random
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As spotted by @alsutton, Google has been using (https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/tangorpro/+/refs/tags/android-13.0.0_r56/tangorpro/BoardConfig.mk#19) the Pixel Tablet as an Android Automotive OS test device. However, it's not yet possible to build AAOS for the Pixel Tablet as the sources haven't been pushed to AOSP yet.

alsutton,
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@MishaalRahman If anyone feels like helping try to recreate what Google have internally for their build, I've put up a local manifest which folk can add to their build and see where we get to;

https://github.com/snappautomotive/firmware-local_manifest

I'm using the target name aosp_tangorpro_car

alsutton,
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@MishaalRahman If youโ€™re replaying journey data through a tablet with an AAOS build on it, then those things are less of a concern ;) https://remotivelabs.com/how-volvo-cars-advance-their-aaos-development/

alsutton, to random
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You can't use the dock speakers when you've got the USB cable connected.... Huh?

alsutton,
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@jernej A complete guess would be that the pogo pins are acting like a USB connection and the device can't handle complex USB routing at the moment.

alsutton, to random
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Nothing to see here... nope... nothing to do with ... nope..... no build stuff.

If you're picky, was based on the Pixel 6 CPU (gs101 - Whitechapel), whereas the PT folk are getting today is based on the Pixel 7 one (gs201 - Cloudripper) and is .

alsutton, to fediverse
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Anyone else secretly waiting for a Single Sign On solution which allows you to sign into multip Fediverse systems ( , , etc.) without a separate account for each?

alsutton, to random
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Second time in a year Iโ€™ve done a 500+km drive in a day with my wife.

In our car we used to swap a couple of times at service stations along the way, and then arrive pretty tired.

In the we have a couple of ~30min charging stops and arrive feeling a lot less drained.

Iโ€™m reasonable sure the needed 30mins break actually mean weโ€™re driving better (due to a decent rest stops), which is an unexpected side effect of EV driving. ๐Ÿค”

andypiper, to random
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๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป so you may have read (and Iโ€™m excited to share!) that Iโ€™ll be helping @Gargron and the team with the developer community and space.

Finishing up a busy weekend showing completely-unrelated things at - but Iโ€™ll have more to post about this soonโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜Š

alsutton,
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@andypiper @Gargron Congrats!

alsutton, to random
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In all seriousness, the US first nature of is a pattern Iโ€™ve seen so regularly, and for so ling (Since the Google Glass launch), that I regularly call their inclusivity claims bullsh*t.

You donโ€™t get good, inclusive, feedback from one country, especially one which has a high proportion of native English speakers. Proof? Try asking folk with English as a second language about Assistant, or the ease of comprehension for some error messages.

They are not learning ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

alsutton, to ai
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How It Started; prompted me to try coding assistants

How Itโ€™s Going; Installing GitHub

Reason; Google seem to think the US is the only place that folk would want to get AI backed dev assistance ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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