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Archive.org turns 25
I did a video version of the blog post I did for them a while back about Love, Loss and Archives.
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Consider donating and signing up for the 25th anniversary webcast, they do so much with such a small budget. Funny thing is that Google started out as a Library project. In some ways I wish we could go back to that simpler time.
Disneyland
Saw the flying cars ride at Disneyland this week. We sure go that whole future wrong.... https://
Scale
With Covid (hopefully continuing) to decline there are some once in a lifetime opportunities to attend events at smaller scale.
I was just at the 30% capacity Disneyland last weekend. 16 rides in one day and just.. relaxed despite 40k steps walked.
I bought DEF-CON tickets.
I might go to the renegade Burning Man this year.
Socially distanced outdoor events mean I can bring my dog and dance.
Looking into doing a set of federated Decentralized Web camps.
Regional events instead of global ones.
Rethinking how things work...
@daviss A travesty. The community needs to reclaim.
I had a chance to hear Jeanelle Austin and Robin Worlobah speak about how the community managed the intersection. It was inspiring.
cc: @robin4mpls @jeanelleaustin
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Great opportunity to hear Nathan Schneider talk about the intersection of cooperatives and technology at the Decentralized Web Meetup this Wednesday.
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cc @ntnsndr @internetarchive
It really feels like we're waking from the liminal dream state now. So much latent energy, ready to rush forth, ready for new possibilities.
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Spring Spark Drive Thru
Flames! Lights! Action! Well worth the drive to the Sacramento Spark Drive Thru. Loads of Burning Man art, music and spectacle!
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Until next time Phoenix!
Thanks to Juan and Ryan at Dark Hall Coffee and the fine folks at The Coronado for welcoming me. I'll be back!
@darkhallcoffee @thecoronadophx
Remember when @amazon Delivered Dance and DJ
This email from 9-9-99 by @mikemcgonigal is nothing like what you'd see today. I remember @ezrakilty mentioning that he worked with @djkevincole in those early days!
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moot
That time I almost quit Google...
In retrospect it put me on a more thoughtful relationship with Google the company and where I put my efforts, both inside/outside the company.
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Much thanks to the fine folks on /r/LongBeach
It's the internet doing what it does best.
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Another trip around the Sun.
A year of transition and adventure. A year of beauty and joy within our pandemic struggle.
view from Haleakalā Observatory, Maui Hawaii, 2012
Lunch Ninja is still a thing..
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Have had 2 so far, would recommend...
2008
For some reason I'm thinking of 2008 and this bounced into my head...
Can't believe that Google Photos still does not have a way to find photos without location/face tags. :(
You'd think we'd want this for better quality data as inputs.. People are motivated to add this data to get better maps/timelines...
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Outside of a Dog
Outside of a Dog, a Projector is Man’s Best Friend. Inside of a Dog, It’s Too Dark to See
Perfect Strangers..
Sometimes I get jaded about the state of society on the internet..
Participating in Project Perfect Stranger / PlagueRound gives me renewed hope.
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I now have a new friend in Sao Paulo who performs in a local theater group.
Through some intermediaries I'm trying to help a Saudi https://
Sadly the Account Recovery process is proving to be its own form of pain.
If anyone wants to further escalate case 2-0838000031065 I'd really appreciate it.. I've gone back and forth for a few days already on this.
Apparently Twitter was very proactive about getting her back on. I'd love for us to outperform their customer service!!!!!
Power in Corpus Christi Texas
Only checking email a couple times per day. Using Android extreme battery saver so use 4154251601 if you really need to contact me.
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Also another wrinkle in my situation. Staying at friends place down south Texas, but the electronic lock jammed in the cold, so had to pack up to a temp place, which also has no power (and no food). So no access to my laptop until power comes back so I can enter using the garage code (or a rock through a window)
It sounds worse in the place I was staying in Dallas which we fled from. Power out there too and much much colder with lots of snow.
I wonder if fairness in power supply cuts is an area worth investigating. Needs analysis could be interesting overlaid with circuit layout..
Will have a lot more to say when I'm online again....
New comment by lindner in "OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities"
Wrong answer.. This effort does not scale. You want to make it such that facts added by anyone can be easily imported with a simple opt-in.
GDPR data portability could be expanded to include defined formats for export so that import can be done in an automated fashion.
New comment by lindner in "OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities"
One thing that someone might consider is working with Data Portability laws to allow for export of user contributed data to corporate map platforms.
I'd like to add my Google Maps contributions to OSM
I'm a Level 7 local guide there and was an active user of MapMaker back in the day..
What is this now? I just received a sketchy invite to my corp. address.. Hmm, the dark patterns are at play...
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FiraCode + Ligatures -- so nice!
Better late than never I suppose :)
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@lindner lyrics from @tessamakeslove song "So Meta, Big Data: The World in a Nutshell"
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I'm in Dallas for a few weeks. If there are any Googlers that want to say hi in a socially distant way I'm up for it!
I have a chromebook with a noisy fan, so it sounds like a truck engine..
Actually kind of fun as the fan revs and slows. Launching gmail is like pressing down on the gas pedal hard :-D
New comment by lindner in "OpenSocial Specification"
hi5 (RIP) was originally a dating site and Pivoted to a Social Network.
Most profiles fake? I can say for sure that's not true. I maintained Postgres/Memcache/Graph DBs and the write load was real.
That said hi5 did engage in address book scraping and other dark patterns that you'd rather not see these days.
Fun fact: hi5 had a featured photos/profiles section based on popularity. Folks that ended up there deleted their account by 5x or more due to the unwanted attention their 'popular' photos garnered....
New comment by lindner in "OpenSocial Specification"
So many thoughts about OpenSocial and the reference implementation, Shindig. I have it thank for my time at hi5, LinkedIn and then Google.
Some little known facts about OpenSocial
- Hangouts Apps (remember those?) were based on OpenSocial containers.
- OpenSocial powered the LinkedIn Apps Platform and Labs for a number of years. The team built Rails and Node apps and deployed on Joyent.
- Eric Schmidt gave a pep talk to the working group pre-launch and mentioned about how open always wins in the end...
- MySpace was concerned about the attack surface of 3p apps running in iframes. They toyed with the idea of requiring a webkit browser plugin to run apps (!). It did lead to Caja* as a project. https://
- The work on OpenSocial led in small part to the Activity Streams spec which led to ActivityPub and thus the latest Fediverse protocols. I like to think of OpenSocial as dead, but a good organ donor.
Fun times...
