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ian

@ian@mckellar.social

Hacker, dad, husband, musician. Grew up in Australia, living in Alameda, California.

Working on Fuchsia at Google. Preciously worked on: Google WiFi, Google Glass, Rdio, Songbird, Flock, Eazel.

I like making Free Software, gadgets, music, good trouble and future freedom fighters.

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The "AT Protocol" is the way to talk to modems right? Like "ATDT6661239999"?

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@developit
It's been ten years since I've implemented an AT command parser, but I have colleagues doing it currently...

ian, to random
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I'm suspicious of anyone who freaks out more about the peaceful occupation of lawns on college campuses than the violent occupation of Palestine.

18+ lzg, to random
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just read the story of the republican lady who executed a puppy and a goat and i know we don’t do diagnostics here but in my vast medical experience that woman is an absolute psychopath

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@kf @lzg
I grew up on a farm and we had to put down sick animals, but this lady's a psycho.

shanselman, to random
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We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4

ian,
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@shanselman
Bah, 3.3 was the best vintage :)

thomasfuchs, to random
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What will be next after the phased-out TouchBar, the quietly dropped butterfly keyboard, the cancelled car and the lackluster goggles?

I bet it will be AI.

(Don't get me wrong, Tim Cook has done amazing at having grown Apple after Jobs' passing and it's great that Apple listens to customers to fix issues [like the laptop keyboards], but he's just not the guy for great new products.)

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@thomasfuchs
A groundbreaking, revolutionary new iPhone color.

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@thomasfuchs I have doubts about AI, at least as we conceive of it, playing a big part of their product launches in the next year or so for a couple of reasons:

  1. they're starting from behind, they don't have big models that they've been evolving or big teams publishing papers
  2. they're very sensitive to their brand and generative AI is risky. Look how long it took Google, after inventing diffusion & transformer models to ship products, and then how they pulled things back. Apple's that x 10.
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@thomasfuchs
They can't launch a new classifier and call it "AI" in 2024 because the market thinks "AI" means chatbots and image generators.

They've skipped or delayed jumping on bandwagons in the past. They cancelled all their Internet stuff when Jobs came back and never did much on the "social" front, for example. They can sit out the "AI" hype cycle and then when someone comes up with compelling value just recreate it in their products.

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How do you feel about the US university occupations and encampments in support of Gaza?

ian,
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@mpjgregoire @evan
Where are you getting your news? That's not the characterization I've seen in the mainstream center-right leaning outlets I tend to read.

skinnylatte, to random
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I was excited to see a new food stall at the farmers market. Turns out they sell ‘alkaline’ food only. ‘Alkaline tacos. Alkaline burgers’

I guess conspirituality (crunchy new age conspiracy theory farmers market yoga energy) is a diverse thing in California.

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@luis_in_brief @skinnylatte
Alkaline seafood: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

ian, to random
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I thought "The Tortured Poets Department" was the name of the new season of Serial about Guantanamo, but apparently there's a Taylor Swift album too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_from_Guant%C3%A1namo

ian, to random
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I don't see how Donald Trump can get a fair trial in New York City. All of the jurors are likely to be Americans. How can they be expected to treat someone who tried to violently overthrow their republic in a balanced way? The trial should probably be moved to somewhere less attached to the ongoing existence of a free and democratic United States.

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dude come on.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/19636#issuecomment-2052642113

fix your damn web servers, openssl

ian,
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@andrewrk
You're not going to win an argument with a web server...

ian, to random
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On a plane flying out of Arizona.

We visited Sedona with my parents in law, wife and kids. Kids whose conception would almost certainly be illegal under the state supreme court's ruling today.

We had a lovely time, but I don't think we'll come back and support a place that's so hostile to families like ours any time soon.

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Because the television series "Laverne & Shirley" was the #1 rated U.S. series in 1977 when the Voyager probes launched, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have the data upload passwords "laverne" and "shirley" respectively.

OK, they don't. Would have been cool though.

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@lauren @synec there were 7 bit hebrew encodings...

barrelshifter, to random
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man cmake really is a box of surprises

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@barrelshifter
It makes me miss automake and autoconf which is a pretty damn impressive achievement.

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If you're still using Chrome in 2024, the only question is why?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/technology/google-chrome-browser-data.html

ian,
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@robin @dietrich
Better standards support, Mozilla repeatedly fucked over open source projects I worked on and I'm still bitter about it, Brave is run by a bigot, Microsoft sells my IP through copilot.

ian,
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@robin @dietrich
Chromium leads on a lot of interesting stuff like webgpu.

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    @lzg @crzwdjk
    I believe it is technically not a war crime to kill some civilians when attacking a legitimate target. There are many things that are awful and unacceptable that are not war crimes. Like this.

    drewdevault, to random
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    "Copyleft is less free than permissive licenses because permissive licenses allow you to make proprietary forks of free software" is a worldview that just straight-up makes no sense at all

    ian,
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    @drewdevault @Conan_Kudo
    I thought that as a society we decided that freedom for companies was more important than freedom for people (see: Citizens United, Hobby Lobby, etc)

    ian,
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    @drewdevault @Conan_Kudo
    Yeah, but you're just a person.

    lisamelton, (edited ) to opensource
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    March 31 was already significant to me because that's the day in 1998 when I helped Navigator become .

    Now this day has a whole new meaning for me as a woman. And it's my first that I celebrate publicly since coming out to everyone on June 21 of last year.

    To all my siblings, I see you. Even if complete visibility isn't possible for you right now. You still matter. You're still loved. And you're still trans. Never doubt that. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂💖

    ian,
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    @lisamelton Thanks for continuing to lead and inspire us all!

    ian, to random
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    If transubstantiation isn't trans then I don't know what is.

    mcc, to random
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    Looking at this electronics cable

    https://www.tag-connect.com/product/tc2050-idc-nl-10-pin-no-legs-cable-with-ribbon-connector

    And like… it's not cheap… but on top of that they're going to charge me $20 to ship it to Canada… and then because they're shipping it to Canada I'll probably get charged import fees… I wonder if there's like… even one store in Toronto that just like… has this cable and would sell it

    ian,
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    @mcc I want to use tag-connect so bad but I'm such a cheapskate instead I keep half-ass reinventing their wheels and never shipping.

    drewdevault, to random
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    Ayy, guess who has working binary ABI compatibility with Redis modules

    ian,
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    @drewdevault A redis checkout from last week?

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