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Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update (www.theguardian.com)

Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update::All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

wile_e8 ,

Are you calling for a ban on human driven cars? They killed more than zero people yesterday! If you aren’t, you’ve accepted a human-driven vehicular homicide rate above zero.

wile_e8 ,

I mean, that sucks, but it’s not like things are going to get better once you’re outside of the conditions mentioned

wile_e8 ,

FWIW I figured out how to get a password manager (Browserpass, not KeePassXC) to communicate with flatpak Chrome if you want some advice on how to get it to work.

But yes, it was way more difficult than it should have been (which is “should work out of the box, just like a regular package”). So if you’re just listing some of the shortcomings of flatpak, never mind.

wile_e8 ,

Keep an eye out, I’ll come back to this. It involves posting config file diffs and a script I wrote, it’ll be a longer post I don’t have the time to write right at this moment.

But yes, the fact that I need to find the time to post all the changes I needed to make to get this to work is part of the problem here.

wile_e8 ,

OK, so I looked though my browser history, and here are some relevant pages I found:

I don’t remember how much I used each one, but eventually I pieced together enough information information to get the Browserpass extension working in the Google Chrome flatpak. But three of those links are KeePassXC, which should be useful for adapting this for your use.

The main file that was having problems was the Browserpass Native Messaging Hosts file in my config directory for the Chrome flatpak, ~/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/config/google-chrome/NativeMessagingHosts/com.github.browserpass.native.json. Originally it was a symlink to a file at /usr/lib/browserpass/hosts/chromium/com.github.browserpass.native.json:


<span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "name": "com.github.browserpass.native",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "description": "Browserpass native component for the Chromium extension",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "path": "/usr/bin/browserpass-linux64",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "type": "stdio",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "allowed_origins": [
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "chrome-extension://naepdomgkenhinolocfifgehidddafch/"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

The call to /usr/bin/browserpass-linux64 did not see to work for me, so I ended up making a copy of the file in the NativeMessagingHosts directory and modified it to point to a script in my home mount:


<span style="color:#323232;">wile_e8 NativeMessagingHosts $ diff com.github.browserpass.native.json.orig com.github.browserpass.native.json
</span><span style="color:#323232;">4c4
</span><span style="color:#323232;">&lt;     "path": "/usr/bin/browserpass-linux64",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">---
</span><span style="color:#323232;">>     "path": "/home/wile_e8/.config/browserpass/browserpass.sh",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

I don’t remember why I picked to do it inside the ~/.config directory, but it worked so I left it. And here is the script I put at ~/.config/browerpass/browserpass.sh:


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cd ~
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn --host /usr/bin/browserpass-linux64 2>/tmp/error.log
</span>

I don’t remember how I came up with that script, it must be somewhere in the four links at the top.

Finally, I needed to use Flatseal to allow access to the script. In the Google Chrome settings, under “Filesystem->Other files”, I added an entry saying ~/.config/browserpass:ro. Also modified from the default in Flatseal, I have “Filesystem->All user files” enabled, along with “Socket->D-Bus session bus” and “Socket->D-Bus system bus”. I don’t know how necessary the last three are, but I’m not messing with it now that I have it working.

So, that’s what I did to get the Browserpass extension working in the Google Chrome flatpak. You’ll have to modify some things to get it working for KeePassXC, or for Firefox. But that general pattern should work.

wile_e8 ,

It’s kind of amazing it took this long - I don’t know why they didn’t do it this way from the start.

wile_e8 ,

Wait, are photo passes really happening this time? Google has made a couple of blog posts announcing the feature, but I’ve been regularly checking for the last several months and haven’t seen it. It was a nice feature of the original Google Wallet that was removed in one of the rebrands, I’d really like it to actually be back instead of just “coming soon” (not that soon)

wile_e8 ,

Is there any mirror for this? I don’t know if this has been posted to some other site as well, but the web site seems to be overloaded with traffic right now and I can’t see the article.

wile_e8 ,

When will Google Wallet Pass photo import actually go live? It was announced over three months ago, and I’ve been checking for it ever since. Will this announcement mean it’s actually going to show up in the next day or three, or will I be checking in vain for several more months?

wile_e8 ,

The United States. And I’ve been checking for it since it was originally announced at the beginning of June. And… I guess another announcement means it’s not dead. Yet.

wile_e8 ,

So, as someone that’s been on flavors of Ubuntu/Linux Mint for me personal computer since Breezy Badger, any good distro recommendations? I’ve been using Ubuntu Mate and upgrading in place for the last ~5 years, so I’ve mostly avoided Snaps, but I’m looking to upgrade my computer and I’m probably going to need a fresh install. I’d like to stay on the Ubuntu/Debian tree, but I’ve been using RHEL on my work computer for a while now, so I’m not totally unfamiliar with that distro branch.

Also, should I be as concerned about Flatpaks as everyone seems to be concerned about Snaps?

Android 14 Beta 5 (android-developers.googleblog.com)

With the official release of Android 14 only weeks away, today we’re bringing you Beta 5, the last scheduled update in our Android 14 beta program. It’s the last chance to make sure your apps are ready and provide feedback before non-beta users start getting Android 14. To enable you to test your applications on devices...

wile_e8 ,

Existing beta users, what say you? Have the latest betas been stable enough to install on my daily driver? Are there a lot of useful advantages over Android 13? If I’ve waited this long to install the beta, should I just stay on 13 until the official release?

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says::Alphabet’s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday.

wile_e8 ,

I think patents make some sense for software, if you patent a particular algorithm you developed for doing something useful. An example I always use for a good software patent is Google’s original PageRank algorithm - it was a specific algorithm that provided significantly better search results than existing search algorithms. But that patent just covered one specific algorithm for ranking search results, not the idea of searching the web (which was around before Google). Patents that are given for an idea, not an implementation, are bad.

This article is unclear, but it sure makes it seem like this patent was given for the idea of sending video from one device to another, not a specific algorithm for doing so. So that would be a bad patent. But I don’t think it means we should get rid of software patents altogether.

wile_e8 ,

From a certain point of view, everything is mathematics. It still takes time and effort to figure out the mathematics to make new things work. Patents guarantee that the people who figure out the math will be able to profit off of it before a whole bunch of copycats steal the work. That should apply to software too - assuming that people actually figured out the math and didn’t just patent some idea without an implementation.

wile_e8 ,

I agree that those shouldn’t be patented - they’re ideas, not implementations. If you have a particular ingenious implementation for one-click shopping, go ahead and patent it. But don’t sue people if they come up with a different way to do the same thing - that just means your implementation wasn’t particularly novel.

So yes, there have been some bad software patents given out. That just means that the process for giving software patents needs to be reformed, not that we need to get rid of software patents.

wile_e8 ,

From reading the app description:

Everything happens locally in the wifi network

Does this mean devices have to be on the same Wi-Fi network for this to work? This looks extremely interesting as someone that runs Linux on my home computer, and the vast majority of my transfers are between devices on my home WiFi network, but I’d just like to know if it works elsewhere.

wile_e8 ,

I think the point is to make sure everyone else aware that Brexit failed, in case any other country starts thinking about copying it

wile_e8 ,

Now go back and watch it again just to see how many details and clues your missed the first time.

wile_e8 ,

Yeah, but moderating a massive platform would make infinite growth very difficult, and the shareholders demand infinite growth. Won’t someone think of the shareholders?

wile_e8 ,

Add on question: Are there any wireless Android Auto adapters that are good for switching between multiple phones? I looked into AAWireless for a car that both my wife and I drive, and switching phones depending on who is driving seems… complicated. Is it? Is there another adapter that makes switching easy?

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