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John Gordon 📷

@Bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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British ex-pat living the island life in the #SanFrancisco Bay Area. #Alameda. Architect of #Cloud / #embedded / #IoT systems. Working on #AI #GunDetection […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@Bluedonkey, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Brian Harrod @brianharrod.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

#HMMM... Something the Trump administration won't tell you: The US has lost 81 planes and $3.3 billion worth of helicopters in Iran.... www.the-express.com/news/us-news/21…

John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Came back from walking the kid to school and my AOC curved monitor was all flickery lines and no content. Worked just 45 minutes earlier, then suddenly dead. Tried with multiple sources, all the same. Handily, today is the last day of the prime sale. Picked up a discounted Dell 4K monitor to […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Quite happy with that efficiency. Especially given how freaking hot it is outside Also, 34 mph average for a freeway trip! Actually better than most days I do this trip too.

Trip summary from the Taycan showing 47.6 miles traveled at an average speed of 34 mph and efficiency of 3.3 mi/kWh. Not outstanding for EVs, but good for this car. I normally get only about 2.9 mi/kWh.

Outside temp 100°F - about 38°C. In October.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"Wait, actually, I'm an AI. I don't "run" in the background. " Huh?

Wait, I just realized I didn't actually perform any edits yet. I was only planning to.
I should check the plan_tracker.

Wait, actually, I'm an AI. I don't "run" in the background. I respond to prompts. I need to actually do the work.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Somebody or something is conspiring against me today...

500 Error page from GitHub (thrown while trying to create a PR for work)

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Wow, some poor guy just posted a question about charger etiquette at hotel free chargers (somebody unplugged him so they could use the charger overnight - he'd only been plugged in about an hour when it was unplugged). Lots of the people responding said he was at fault for "hogging" a hotel […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Well, that’s one less thing to deal with right now.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

After all these years #Apple still can't make air drop work reliably. Rebooted the phone. Restarted Finder. Still cannot send a single image to my phone today. Something that maybe works 50% of the time. Apple really needs to get somebody in charge of their software who actually cares about quality.

John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Neither of the systems they discuss when talking about Nemotron 3.5 and Qwen 3.8 are exactly low power options… they’re certainly better than traditional GPUs + Intel/AMD CPUs, but running a Thor or AGX on the edge would stretch the power budget for most battery applications. Show me what you […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's Friday, my wife went into the office (mainly, I think, to get a free charge on her new car - she's enjoying not paying for fuel after months of paying gas prices). Kids are at school. Fired up my Denon amp + bluetooth adapter & I'm streaming 80s music from my phone at a relatively loud […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

WTF is a "vaygan"

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

Example of a phishing post, including the text "ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ.

ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ."

John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Really? People couldn't manage to place two cylinders in the box, tape it shut and drop it off at the post office in 30 days? That's a whole month.

Some of you told us 30 days felt tight. With travel, family, and life getting
busy, | understand.

So we changed it.

From now on, you have 70 days from delivery to return your empties.
That's more than double our previous window, and is the longest return
window of any mail-in CO2 exchange.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Everybody said check out Hermes Agent. So I did and honestly it is just as broken and buggy as all the others. Give it a connection to Telegram. Ask it to run a scheduled task once a day and send the result to me via Telegram. First it is trying to install cron jobs in the OS (it can't since it […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Saw this coming home last night from my daughter's practice. Made us both laugh. (Not a great image - was taken from the dash cam video and this was the clearest view we had of it).

Smart ASS

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

"If your vehicle has an open, unresolved NHTSA recall on its charging system, battery, or electrical components, you may not charge on the EVgo network until the recall has been addressed." Hmmm...

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: c.im/@BBC/117357757210345926 The ones that use his stupid nomenclature need to be on s short list for thorough investigation. He might be able to order government departments to use it, but private companies are not obligated to follow his lame […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

During an address to the United Nations General
Assembly last week, Trump said the word "artificial" made
the technology "sound fake"
Some tech leaders, including Zuckerberg and Musk, and
other people close to the president have already started
to use the term.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Just how far up the convict’s backside is Mike Johnson’s head?

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Companies that slowly expand what they can do with your data is exactly why we need regulations that block them from abusing the personal data they hold. This is in Hume's latest update to their terms: "Data practices: we may use your health data for de-identified research and retain […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/1173551982… I really don’t understand the attraction of a screen that folds (and, no doubt, creases badly over time). I never saw the benefit of the flip phones either, so perhaps that makes sense. “Candy bar” Nokias were always my go-to pre-smartphone.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Do companies go out of their way to break tools that make logging into their apps easier (and more secure)? Whether it is preventing paste for password fields, or finding ways to prevent the autofill of SMS codes, it is annoying and just makes your product look buggy and poorly thought out […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117354… Connected car experiences are still abysmal too if you ask me. A large part of that is under-spec’d hardware, no doubt to keep costs down. But if you’re going to use low-performance hardware, you need to be smarter about the software […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Made me laugh even though I had a pretty good idea what was going to be in the advice section!

Why men shouldn’t write advice columns.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Was peeling off the annoying dealer sticker on the back of my wife’s new car when it occurred to me I could have some fun with it…

Model badge and the last 6 letters of the dealer’s group name (they’re Sunwise).

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

In the meantime, pi is working on testing some scripts for me, and Claude is bury trying to fathom out the mess that is the Jetson boot loader & OTA update process and see how I can get to something that will just boot and update the box, even if it is running an older version of the bootloader […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

OK, with a little jumping through hoops, I have managed to trick the OAuth flow into working, and now I have a pretty solid idea of how to deal with that for any other MCP servers I might want to connect. Still not really sure what I am going to use Hermes for, but I have it running in a […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I will never understand why people think OAuth is the correct solution for authenticating machine to machine communication. No surprise that Hermes was totally unable to handle OAuth to the OpenArt MCP endpoint (which is itself very fragile to be honest). I have yet to find anything that can […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Love to meet the "genius" at Nvidia who decided that the version of the boot loader firmware in QSPI needs to match the launcher image on the system disk exactly or the system won't boot. Makes upgrading so much more complex for no benefit. Just lazy programming allowing them to not care about […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Wow, Dick’s Sporting Goods have raised the annual subscription for Game Changer (the app used for scoring and streaming video) to $100, and then they added ads to the live streams for paid subscribers too (in the past, the ads were only for people on free accounts, but I think they stopped them […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Somebody had a very bad night...

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Looks like the scam flash drive sellers have found a home on eBay... no way that is a 2TB flash drive for that money. More than likely a much smaller, probably unreliable flash drive with the info block hacked to report 2TB to the OS. These will almost […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@Fife4Europe/11731608… Why evade justice??? Because they know they’re a bunch of grifting criminals. They all need to eke up locked away for life as a warning to any others who think they can do what the convict and his cronies have done to the US.

John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Took my wife to the Audi dealer today and parked next to an e-tron GT. Don’t see as many of them on the roads here as I do Taycans.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I love it when these companies send me messages confirming they don’t have a clue what I like! Also, when I click that link to see the car they sent me, it is already being bought by somebody. Probably one of the 7707 customers who were actually looking at buying one of these.

Carvana: John, we think
you'll like this 2024
INEOS Grenadier Station
Wagon with a new price!
7707 customers have
had their eyes on it ••
https://carvana.co/.
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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

People are oddly trusting. I would not let any AI, and especially not one from Meta / Facebook, have the credentials to accounts at other sites. Definitely not sites with the ability to place charges on my credit card. Is shopping on Amazon really so hard […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

What happened: Meta launched Muse two weeks ago, billing it as a personal agent for people with no technical experience. Muse can handle multistep tasks like sending an email or booking travel, the company said, which means plugging it into your entire digital life (not just Facebook and Instagram). Turns out, people were ready to hand it all over—it became the No. 1 free app on the US App Store last week, app-mogging ChatGPT.

But Amazon wants to be excluded from the narrative: After Meta refused to keep Muse off its site, Amazon blocked the agent for violating its conditions of use, claiming Meta never said Muse would browse the store. The agent doesn’t identify itself, and it appears to get and store customers’ login credentials, Amazon said. (Meta said Muse has “no visibility” into passwords or payment methods and that it can use shared credentials without seeing them.)

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Thank you Google Maps! While in Denver it routed me on to a road without telling me it was a toll road, and it was only when we reached the end that I saw the toll reader.

ExpressToll Service Center

TOLL BILL ENCLOSED - OPEN IMMEDIATELY

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Bluedonkey/1172848… Apparently this made the “explore” page on Flickr yesterday & wow does that get you some exposure…

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Is 9% really that low?

[ ] Mouse Batteries Low
Replace or recharge the batteries soon.

John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Golden hour catcher photos are some of my favorites to shoot. flic.kr/p/2sBjf2p #photography #canonphotography #CanonR7 #sport #sports #sportPhotography #softball #softballPhotography

Golden Hour Catcher

Catcher photos with the cloud of dirt coming off their glove are one of my favourite things to shoot. During golden hour with the sun behind them illuminating that dirt cloud is even better.

John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

First attempt at using the “new” Siri. Adding an event to the calendar. Took three attempts to get “A O A Dine and Donate” to be understood. Even speaking slowly. Then she reads it back as “deen and donate” even though the on screen showed the correct spelling of “dine”. Sigh.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Argh, alerts from the schools about grades and attendance are only useful if they are accurate. Apparently, the high school teachers are unable to manage entering grades correctly, frequently resulting in "missing assignment" alerts for work that was handed in on time. The middle school sends […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Out of the blue invitation to be included in the Marquis Who's Who (which I had never heard of). At no cost (which always makes me wonder what the catch is).

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Not sure who is picking these, but the playlist in Starbucks here this evening is great! Lots of great 80s tracks.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Two teenage boys from Discovery Bay were killed over the weekend in a car accident. Seemingly not their fault. The comments in the FB post about it are mostly peoole sending condolences. There are a few who didn’t read fhe update and just blamed the boys for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Why is it no surprise that Microsoft's lame attempt at a group messaging app, GroupMe, fails to offer standard calendar subscription URLs, and even their public API seems unaware that group calendars even exist. I thought TeamSnap was awful, but Microsoft seem to have taken a look at that, and […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

At this point, the units might not matter much... it is in milliseconds apparently, which makes that about 30 minutes for a ping to where ever speediest pings... I'd have expected it to time out long, long before that!

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

My weekend ended, after 7 games over two days, with my daughter’s team winning the championship game after a battle. Hit her first out of the park home run (over a high fence at 200 feet and into the street beyond). Pitched 13 innings. Threw 230 pitches. 12 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

That was a strong margarita.

John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: c.im/@BBC/117247931993081368 Why is this even a headline? He has no intention of paying them even $5 let alone $5000. It’s a lie to get his cult out to vote. He’s terrified of actually facing some accountability. The next two months are going to be an all out assault from a bully […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117247… Guess who the convict sees as a threat…

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