Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • For those that don’t know:
    It was a jump-scare flash game.

    The goal was to navigate through the maze with your mouse, without touching the walls, which gets harder near the end, likely resulting in you getting closer to and concentrating hard on the screen.

    Near the end they flashed a horror image and blasted a loud sound through your speakers.

    Personally, it didn’t make me flinch much though,
    but I guess it affected some others like OP.





  • There’s 2 parts to this:

    • Android Auto app (on your phone)
    • Android Auto Head Unit software (in your car)

    Both of which are currently proprietary,
    and would need to be written as FOSS from the ground up by reverse engineering the above 2, which would be a huge undertaking.

    Also flashing custom Head Unit software to your car will be very hard, is not well documented, and likely will void your warranty, giving low incentive for developers to even attempt it :/

    The best you can do right now is aa4mg (Android Auto 4 MicroG),
    which at least allows to replace the proprietary Google Play services with a privacy respecting FOSS alternative and Android Auto’s dependencies with empty stub packages:
    https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

    Full disclosure,
    I helped with writing aa4mg :)


  • uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot bloat on Github
    uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

    github.com##.copilotPreview__container
    github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
    github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com##li.ActionList-sectionDivider:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com##li.TimelineItem:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com##div.pb-4:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com###copilot_free_global
    github.com###copilot-button-container
    github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon
    github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
    github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
    github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
    github.blog##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
    github.blog##a[href*="/ai-and-ml"]
    github.blog##article.changelog-label-copilot
    github.blog##article.changelog-label-models
    

    Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot