Lunch Ninja is still a thing..
https://lunch-ninja.googleplex.com/
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...
https://b.corp.google.com/issues/25692898 for context..
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.
https://zu-uk.com/project/project-perfect-stranger-and-plagueround/
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loujain_al-Hathloul get access to her Google accounts. It's difficult since she was jailed and tortured for three years, doesn't have access to the recovery email address or phone numbers.
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.
According to https://ercot.com/ the whole system has collapsed with cascading failures. Auction rate for electricity is k/MWh instead of avg 8. Bonkers... Water pumps offline or frozen. Gasoline refineries offline so Gas supplies dipping. Not enough power to even do the promised rolling blackouts. At least the bridges to the island I'm on reopened..
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...
https://www.fishbowlapp.com/
https://www.fishbowlapp.com/
FiraCode + Ligatures -- so nice!
Better late than never I suppose :)
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
@lindner lyrics from @tessamakeslove song "So Meta, Big Data: The World in a Nutshell"
https://tessamakeslove.bandcamp.com/track/so-meta-big-data-the-world-in-a-nutshell
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project
- 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...
A must watch documentary on voting rights now on Prime Video. Was lucky enough to see this at the Drive in a couple weeks back.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08FRQQKD5
cc @westwinddrivein @primevideo
Please help a good friend give their little fella a life saving surgery. I'll match any contributions. https://t.co/QjZlI3f8QJ
Used my WFH budget to buy a 500W/520Wh battery pack.... (I already have solar panels with bypass circuit to recharge..)
https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1303388835808595970
@doctorow yay! very happily backed all three. Will be nice to have the final version to go with the galley proof.
@lipsandskin Can someone tell me if this is the right way to summon the correct lindner? Bonus points if it sounds like you're summoning a demon =)
Heraufbeschwören den @c_lindner
Product Idea: Terraform for Teams using Google Calendar/GSuite.
Just let me put agendas and crontab lines in a text file and have it drive the whole thing. Right now it's all pointy-clicky and there's no way to rollback in a coordinated way.
Also would make it soooo easy to split a team into two or clone a team...
The known site I'm posting this from is finally back up after a few hours of fighting with podman networking, nftables and mysql unicode collation.
Gabe Kangas's post on mastodon.social
I posted my DJ set from last night if you’re in the market for some background music.
https://gabekangas.com/mixes/owncast-stream-july-28-2020/owncast-stream-july-28-2020/
LinkIncome targeting seems.. problematic on a number of levels given the distribution of income by ethnicity and gender.. I probably don't want to know how we calculate rich vs poor traffic.
https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2580383?hl=en
Can't seem to find a way to get Desktop PWAs to work on a new laptop..
Currents/G+ isn't offering an install option and the PWA Anywhere app isn't really doing it's thing.
I seemed to have gotten some entries created but clicking on them opens a tab. Then I can go to the triple dot menu and click 'Open in Gmail' and the application window opens.
Sorry Chromebook, your screen lock timeout is way too short...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mHPeMGTJM