Rithwik Jayasimha
@thel3l
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hacker, designer, dilettante used to run @claygorilla currently: thinking about interfaces of the future
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Today, we hosted an incredible Bio-101 course at Lagrange Point led by
@pranav_berry
We discussed everything between gene transfer and mutations, viruses and DNA sequencing and had some amazing discussions about the mutations in genetic material and cancer.
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We reversed the Rabbit R1 🐇 and got it to run on our phones!
This gives us future OTA updates, access to new features without a device + works perfectly without root/system perms!
(Blog post below)
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Update: We've got the Rabbit R1 to run LineageOS!
Root and boot, baby.
Now, let's write some custom apps.
credits to
@SanGraphic
and orville from our motley gang who made this happen!
We reversed the Rabbit R1 🐇 and got it to run on our phones!
This gives us future OTA updates, access to new features without a device + works perfectly without root/system perms!
(Blog post below)
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@photomatt
wanting someone to have skin in the game is definitely the best reason to not want fully autonomous transportation
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My grandma is recovering from a recent viral infection that has necessitated the use of a BiPap machine for extended periods. Today, while I was visiting her, the clip on her face mask fatigued.
We could've bought a new mask tomorrow for ₹3500 (~$50) but that seemed unideal.
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Only in
@peakbengaluru
will you see used Herman Miller chairs randomly dumped on pavements like this
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First off, the R1 is absolutely an Android app. It is actually three applications sitting atop the Android Board Support Package from MediaTek:
- RabbitIme.apk
- R1SystemUpdater.apk
- RabbitLauncher.apk
There are no system level modifications, and it even ships with stock apps.
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Just watched the
@browsercompany
's Act II event and had a chance to play with the new 'browser that browses for you' features.
Couple of us dug deeper to understand how this was working under the hood—
(greetz
@itsarnavb
@sidbing
@rithvikvibhut
)
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It isn't perfect but it fits well and grandma is now asleep with the modified mask :)
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The reason it was trivial to get the app running on any android device was because Rabbit didn't initially bother checking the headers being sent from the device.
It appears that the first batch devices were shipped from the factory with ADB enabled.
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.
@itsarnavb
who was at our lab space was able to print and deliver the part to me less than an hour after I'd modelled it (from across town)!
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We were able to dump and analyze the firmware. Because of their implementation, the only way for an old device to communicate with the server is to do an OTA.
Patching the existing tools to apply a delta OTA to a base image was the hardest part of the project.
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Also, just for kicks, I turned it into a easy to run script for future OTAs:
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And finally something for the future:
94f835a8f06f59ec4477325b3a5d915200ec7999df3c2bf249c3e00d2a0d4bda
Greetz to these amazing people:
@EmilyLShepherd
@ChromMob
@uwukko
@schlizzawg
@MarcelD505
, has been a fun week :D
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I didn't have my laptop or a vernier handy, but took some rough measurements with a steel scale nearby, spun up Fusion360 on a relative's laptop and modelled the part, making generous allowances for the snap–fit
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We had issues with applying a delta payload to the image, b one of the gang actually ported go-payload-dumper to work with delta updates!
Once that was done, it was just a matter of applying the update, and pulling the new launcher app.
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A big blocker for ambitious kids is access to quality tools. I remember yearning for a logic analyzer throughout school, but the price was always too high.
We're fixing this, starting with making a Raman Spectrometer in homage to the great CV Raman (who was also from Bengaluru!)
Last night, some of us at
@_lagrangepoint
met to figure out how to detect plastic contamination in our food.
We want to figure out how to detect both microplastics and leached plasticizers at scale
We've reached out to and gotten a response from many labs in Bangalore,
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More details on some of the things we had to deal with:
Guess who’s back on android phones? That’s right! Our little rabbit friend!
We have fought through:
⁃ “IMEI checks”
We discovered these literally don’t exist and you still can just use any string as IMEI
⁃ Other header checks
These are obfuscated across a few files and even
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@deepigoyal
we're happy to make your delivery drivers watercooled suits for the hot summers, if you'd like to partner with us!
pls avoid ordering during peak afternoon unless absolutely necessary 🙏
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Waiting for everyone's eventual horror when they discover all Haldiram's products use palm oil
🚨 PepsiCo has started trials to replace palm oil and palmolein with a blend of sunflower oil and palmolein in Lay's, the country's largest potato chip brand amid backlash over the use of the cheaper ingredients in India.
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@jsngr
While this is an interesting demo, I feel like it’s a very superficial representation of what ‘design’ is. Is it replacing the dude who makes generic mock-ups? Likely. But is it replacing the person who is actually building their interface for the user? Hard to say.
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@andy_matuschak
A few moons ago, I was trying to improve the reader experience for learning from technical texts—they often jump and make assumptions making it tough to follow.
Working with epubs was unironically the hardest part of the project and ended up being so taxing we just iced it after
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@KabirGoel
I developed an allergy towards mangoes as a teenager and used to feel crazy nauseous after eating one
After four long years, I finally tried them again last week and can attest that it was the closest I've felt to a religious experience
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@neilshroff
Do you want to build this together?
My only fear is that city pigeons don't seem intelligent enough to be trained, but if we can give them a purpose in life it would be incredible
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I bought my r1 solely to root, write custom apps and mod it. The normie consumer take that "it's just aosp" is lame—lovely design+hardware features make it exciting to build on
I'll add an rf coil, create something like Terra, use the scroll to play with info density and more
16 hours later and root access to the Rabbit R1 has been achieved, CFW and mods coming soon... stay tuned. Congrats to the team
@SnowRa1n_Ai
, announcement & details soon.
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My South Indian ass really thought this was a dosa ad
(It's a pharmacy paper bag)
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Super cool announcement and i think it's beautifully executed as well!
I wonder if Google will attempt to stop this in any way, seeing as Arc probably doesn't click on any of the ad results.
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@LazySlothsDev
I wrote a custom hook for frida + moved my certs to the system store, but the 403s from Cloudfront are actually because of the JA3 fingerprint.
You actually want to capture a tls handshake w wireshark and then impersonate the ja3 signature
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@protosphinx
Mine was a pothead who spent our first meeting telling us semi-voyeuristic stories of batchmates and how we should date more people.
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>It is the year 2050
>Communities in bengaluru now deploy stillsuits to fight the growing water problem
Example: "Everyone should reduce their consumption by 20%"
This one is punishing people who already consume less water, and making outlier consumers slightly less outlier
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Hacking on this last night has really taught me a lot about the safety features in our printer.
This one time in college, we used a flatbed laser to make some parts. I vividly remember watching the operator manually step through the program to ensure it was safe and wouldn't
The printer is pretty dumb: it's actually somewhat unaware of itself, and you can totally type in G code that destroys the machine
You get all the control to do undefined things, but they may result in a very kinetic failure mode
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Big thanks to our friends who joined us:
@raghavtosh
@TheBlapse
@pasricha_sehaj
@_r3sist
@reddy2go
@shruthibadri
@aye_kaash
@siddish_
@whynotvai
et al
And of course the
@_lagrangepoint
gang:
@itsarnavb
@rithvikvibhut
@CoolboiMeu
@greygreysaturn
Excited to do this again soon!
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An excellent representation of what studying for your board exams in India looks like
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@pseudonymtra
I usually just talk to them for a few minutes, tell em that someone's at the door and then keep them on line and go back to my day
My current record is around 15 minutes!
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Essentially, your search term gets processed by a finetuned gpt3.5 model that streams back search terms which Arc uses to actually execute a search:
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After speculating whether this was being accomplished on device (and making several questionable requests to try and trip safety filters), we set up a proxy and saw it communicating with this endpoint to figure out exactly what to search for:
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Wearables should expose realtime data APIs.
The past week, I've been waking up groggy. Looked at my sleep data and found that my alarm is waking me in the middle of an REM cycle.
Want to be able to write an alarm app that fires earlier/later after the cycle has ended.
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Presenting 'culture toffees': For when you're going to be travelling and need to help your stomach adapt to the local bacterial culture.
Pop one at home and land at your destination the next day, ready to attack streetside food with reckless abandon.
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It's super rewarding to have taught ourselves how to write g-code, I've a much better understanding of what's going on the scenes now!
The goal is to eventually get to a point where we're able to write our own tooling from scratch.
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Can we get a nice fine for this lovely gentleman?
@blrcitytraffic
Opposite Wipro park, Koramangala at 19:25 today
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What does the roid–bro mindset to tree growth look like?
Seeing them as 'sacred' reduces debate to 'pro–green' or 'pro–infra' (often a choice to be made in cities)
We should be enhancing tree growth to absurd levels, going from sapling to maturity in years instead of decades.
I did a similar video last year to show how temperature drops drastically under a tree. Repeating it this year to reemphasise that trees are our best friends. Grow more trees people.
Last year it was 42.5- 27°C,
this year, see for yourself.
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won best student award🥇from professor
@pranav_berry
at la grange point uni with deans
@itsarnavb
&
@thel3l
overlooking the ceremony
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Fascinated by the concept of 'reading frames' in DNA—my mental models from patching binaries in a disassembler is very incongruent with the biological world, where being 'off by a frame' seems to create cells with different properties instead of just crashing.
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There was a background google search being performed with custom keywords (Arc either opens one/many links depending on your request), but it wasn't immediately obvious how Arc was deciding which search terms to use:
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Other interesting parameters that are in the request include a 'isDev' parameter, and a parameter called 'feature' that is set to 'please'!
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@itsarnavb
@ThamKhaiMeng
Stared at this for almost five minutes marvelling at the sheer majesty of it
Let's go summit a peak 😤
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Interestingly, Arc performs the search on your behalf but without using your session cookies. Here (in the background search it runs) I'm not logged into Google:
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Cooking shows are to food what porn is to sex
If you've never done it before, you'll be surprised at all the omitted steps.
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That said, it's sad to see the
@rabbit_hmi
team trying to lock the device down—yes, it's based on AOSP and they should own that. Why would you want to reinvent the stack?
This device is such a sick hacker tool, and they should work on making it easier to build for it.
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The actual prompt they use for the search query seems highly tuned:
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@deepigoyal
we're happy to make your delivery drivers watercooled suits for the hot summers, if you'd like to partner with us!
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Learning about the bitumen shortage in Bangalore rn, caused by every corporator simultaneously deciding to re-tar the roads because of the upcoming election.
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Cursed idea: let's put a camera into the kindle to flip the page when your eye is over the last word in the page.
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So my dad bought a shady "2TB SSD" from a sketch site for a price that was too good to be true. Tried to write a file with random data (`cat /dev/random > /dev/disk2s1/a` but it seemed to get saturated at around 7gigs ... at this point I had a hunch it was just a microSD (1/n)
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Love how Tennyson masterfully reveals a new emotion with every new line. Same verse just cropped differently
Anticipation:
There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear;
She is coming, my life, my fate;
Lament:
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Interior designers had a sense of humor with this one
Taken in a fire escape.
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For your first cooking class, to make any food 'fusion', start and end by adding coconut milk.
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Never thought I'd see the day when Quora replaced their *community* with GPT
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Bangalore has an issue with traffic rules
Police can't enforce the law because they see a dozen offences a minute, and even attempting to enforce rules would lead to a collapse of authority.
I think we should just offer bounties for info like the IT department at this point
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Good design is making humans think less. Great design is stripping humans of agency entirely, so they're reduced to following arrows on a floor around a building.
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Who'd have guessed that the next generation of script kiddies would be artists?
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
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@reddy2go
@the_motonomad
@siddish_
I was going to tag
@siddish_
but it's nice to see you already did the honours.
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@alex_frantic
@itsarnavb
you would want to focus on four areas:
1. Visual fundamentals (Gestalt, balance, form—Ellen Lupton's "Graphic Design: The New Basics")
2. Grid systems (Kimberly Elam's "Grid Systems")
3. Typography (Ellen Lupton "Thinking with Type")
(2/3)
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@MiddleTommy
@verge
"A spokesperson for AAA, which is working with Las Vegas and Keolis ... confirmed on Twitter that the accident was actually the truck driver’s fault. As is the case with a vast majority of accidents involving driverless cars, you can chalk this one up to human error. injured."
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Perhaps a cultural thing, but unless I can see the source of my drinking water (or a tank), I find it difficult to trust it.
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Instruction is about to change completely
"It's not the recipe, it's the cook" is cope for lax measurement protocols.
Soon, we'll be able to plop this onto grandma's head and discover and recreate every tiny, unwritten detail in her craft, or in general learn from pros better!
Guided weighing works on Vision Pro, not sure I’ll ship this but has me excited for the future! 😊
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@TheRoyGeorge
Apt.
@srushtiuniverse
I bet a greater fear is if they do cancel these exams and nothing happens as a consequence.
What would that say about the system?
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Congratulations Australia! Banning math is a very progressive step, way to go.
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BRICS is going to become quite a mouthful, with the vowel country checking out
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@shruthibadri
we're working on it :D
(this was the moment we realized that the stillsuit works!)
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No aroma in a kitchen can come close to freshly cut coriander.
The freshness is unmatched.
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in bengaluru, you'll find auto drivers permanently on their phones, gym trainers doomscrolling insta and security on YT shorts all day.
it's dark that we require humans to perform tasks that require such little cognition and agency daily.
Every single Uber I’ve been in recently has a driver:
A) Texting and driving
B) Watching a video and driving
C) FaceTiming a friend and driving
Never just… driving. How did this become so normalized?!!
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There's something deeply sad about this picture that I didn't notice back when I clicked it.
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Five years after graduating from high school, I still worry about the usefulness of a smartwatch because 'they might not let me wear it to exams'
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@clearlysid
@aanandmei
Have you ever successfully performed a chargeback? I remember something about banking regulation in India requiring the seller to 'approve' an attempt at a chargeback, essentially making it useless.
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The mountain folk in India are very in touch with nature and considerate of their resource usage because it's difficult to source supplies and there is a sense of ownership over their environment.
Tourists discover an untouched little town and start demanding things like
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@paarugsethi
@itsarnavb
was lovely to have you over!
next time, let's build something together!
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