Jack of all trades, crazy cat dad, and developer and maintainer of Serenity for Android a Emby client for Google TV/Android TV. Former creator and lead of the Eclipse Andmore project.
I post mostly Android developement from Sernity, and crazy cat dad pictures of my 4 cats. Two of whom are main coons.
Android Faithful #98 - Android 16 Gnomenclature
We got Android 16! We got iOS 26 Hot Takes! We got the OnePlus Pad 3! We got the Clicks Keyboard! We got the RayNeo Air 3x XR glasses!
PLUS - for a limited time, everyone gets The AFTER HOURS show!
https://www.androidfaithful.com/episode/android-16-gnomenclature-android-faithful-episode-98/
@androidfaithful @MishaalRahman Ron was talking about playing Space Cadet on android and wondered if there were other ways to play. The Visual Pinball X project has, VPX Standalone for android allowing to play a wide variety of community developed VPX tables. He can find more info at the project website.
https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/tree/master/standalone/android
Kaylee was helping in the barcade tonight.
I'm extremely proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching to the public. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle.
I hope you enjoy it!
Today's scoop: xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
An employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
GitGuardian's Eric Fourrier told KrebsOnSecurity the exposed API key had access to several unreleased models of Grok, the AI chatbot developed by xAI. In total, GitGuardian found the key had access to at least 60 distinct data sets.
"The credentials can be used to access the X.ai API with the identity of the user," GitGuardian wrote in an email explaining their findings to xAI. "The associated account not only has access to public Grok models (grok-2-1212, etc) but also to what appears to be unreleased (grok-2.5V), development (research-grok-2p5v-1018), and private models (tweet-rejector, grok-spacex-2024-11-04)."
Fourrier found GitGuardian had alerted the xAI employee about the exposed API key nearly two months ago -- on March 2. But as of April 30, when GitGuardian directly alerted xAI's security team to the exposure, the key was still valid and usable. xAI told GitGuardian to report the matter through its bug bounty program at HackerOne, but just a few hours later the repository containing the API key was removed from GitHub.
Read more: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/xai-dev-leaks-api-key-for-private-spacex-tesla-llms/
@kura my 12 year old cat takes at least 30 minutes to clean herself and if you are next to her you will get a bath too.
In theory Bluesky is decentralized but in practice it isn’t. The AT Protocol supports decentralization but in practice, the network that most users participate in is run by a single company.
So unlike Mastodon, if that one company’s servers go down, the entire BlueSky service is down for all users.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait-how-did-a-decentralized-service-like-bluesky-go-down/
I bought this machine around the time of the pandemic. It has been working fine until yesterday. It just constantly was rebooting. Thought it was a, stuck button causing it to get confused. Nope. Apparently it will only reboot when connected to wifi. Disconnected the wifi antenna and restarted the machine. Low and behold it started.
Just means I can't use the online functions but honestly I never used them. So it will behave as it was originally intended to in the 90s, as a stand-alone machine.
Yay! The 1.0.0 release of the version catalog update plugin is finally out! You don't need the dependency versions plugin anymore, some config and behavior has changed, but that results in more predictable output. Please upgrade and file issues if you find any!
https://github.com/littlerobots/version-catalog-update-plugin/releases/tag/v1.0.0
"AI is like an eager to try new things and make lots of mistakes junior developer"
No, junior developers now are like this because of AI. Back in the day you would actually read a bit, ask around, observe seniors and then try quite a small variety of things cause you have no clue what is possible. I find this comparison always misleading.
“Using AI to surveil and silence speech has long been raised as a boogeyman by privacy advocates—something that could happen, in theory. Now, it is actually happening, and anyone can be a target for anything they might say online.” https://www.usermag.co/p/ai-generated-smear-campaigns-yale-university-suspended-helyeh-doutaghi-law-school-scholar-ai-generated-news-website-false-claims
I created non-recomposing size modifiers to improve the regular ones that cause too many recompositions due to animations.
The code is shared in the gist below. Feel free to copy it :)
https://gist.github.com/elyesmansour/43160ae34f7acbec19441b5c1c6de3ab
Hey new people, you don't have to use the official Mastodon app! There are lots of other options you can use such as third party apps etc. Most people who try these alternatives usually prefer them.
Mastodon doesn't impose any particular app on you. You're free to use your account in whatever way works best for you. Here is a guide to all your options:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-app
If you want to compare apps, you can be logged in with the same account on many apps at once.
Google keeps teasing us with incredible Android merch it's never going to sell.
goog pls
(Check out Jason Howell's video for more cute bots 😄: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHEfrEbOrYc/)
Follow up to the Ubuntu issue.
Looks like fuse removes a bunch of stuff from gnome that caused the issue.
Why don't I learn. Upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 lts from 22.04lts...everything going fine for several days. Fire up system today and Boom refuses to boot. Tried multiple things kept saying grub couldn't boot. Eventually had to reinstall unfortunately only had a Bootable usb with 20.04 lts on it. Finally back up and running on 22.04lts. Think I'll stay here for a bit.
Luckily I don't use this system for much important stuff just backing up my blu rays and doing dome 3d printer slicing.
Happy sleepy #caturday #catsofmastodon. Make sure you get enough shut eye like Inara.
@kura Inara and Kaylee about 6kg,they don't have an ounce of fat on them.
@kura sometime this year going to try and get a red male maincoone. Need to save up first though
