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
"Police Reform" is the new "Cage Free Eggs"
We don't need more humane oppression. Replace the system with one that is focused solving on human needs, not in reinforcing broken organizations.
Google could refuse to work with Law Enforcement Agencies until they clean up their act. Minimum legal effort and that's it.
Not doing so puts people at risk.
Our time and assistance is valuable and a privilege so we should prioritize good actors over bad.
"The Purpose of a System is What it Does"
Change, or replace, the system to get better outcomes.
https://www.mpd150.com/resources/
Guante's tweet
...I don't share those links as some magical solution. But for the "we need to do more than march" crowd, organizing (in this case, narrative shifting + specific, winnable policy & budget work toward police abolition) is one form that can take. More:https://www.mpd150.com/resources/
LinkOz Turns 10
I didn't see any posts about it in my stream, so I'll mention that Oz turns 10 years old today.
Thank you Oz for inspiring Apps Framework and Boq.
Finally solved a really weird network issue on my home network.
Multiple interfaces with different firewall rules on the same wire cause great confusion, but a few sysctl entries fix it.
https://netbeez.net/blog/avoiding-arp-flux-in-multi-interface-linux-hosts/
@slightlylate @KevinJHill Better put it in the freezer if you want your GPU to survive.
https://t.co/BWhQN7Rtbo
HTML EMAIL
Found in some email archives..
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Adding some new background music to the WFH mix. Come play! You can chat and make requests!
https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html
MessagingApps++
Installed Instagram just for chat.
It's... Really good. This is for 1:1 but the video and voice message sharing is simple, and you can respond by just lifting the phone to your ear. Kinda magical and beats the crap out of voice typing.
YMMV etc etc
