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Mosh to cloudtop from laptop

Assumes:
- you have a jump host (existing ubiquity works fine)
- beyondcorp is disabled on laptop/jumphost

On jumphost
sudo apt-get install dtach

On laptop
ssh cloudtophost
echo
# copy the value of that environment variable
# create a new shell on your laptop and continue:
mosh --port=60000 jumphost
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK={pasted filename}
dtach -Ez -r winch -c ~/.cloudtop-session ssh cloudtophost
tmx # or screen or whatever you prefer

This setup leaves your mosh session active when putting the laptop to sleep, network changes, etc.

Every morning you will need to use go/auth-refresh to get fresh tokens.

If you have to reboot your laptop you can get back to your previous state by executing:

mosh --port=60000 jumphost
dtach -a ~/.cloudtop-session

 

Cloudtop!

Finally can use GCP instances to replace Ubiquity.

Also so very happy that I put my dotfiles in git so I can get this rig the way I like it quickly...

https://user.git.corp.google.com/plindner/dotfiles/

 

 

Seeing these strong words being posted in a few places. I probably need to create a Silicon Valley Apostates collection...

Oh and it's Maciej Cegłowski, fair warning...


http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm






 

Bridges

The Bay Bridge wishes it was built this tough. I wonder how much this chunk of steel costs in SWEh...

 

Anyone know what's the latest on Macaroons? They seem to solve a large set of problems in a general way...


https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html






 

Daycare

The new Moffet Place campus is guilty here too... No Daycare to be found.

Daycare seems like such a no-brainer *investment*. Every parent that never comes back after maternity/paternity leave is another one we have to spend money hiring...

https://qz.com/984785/apples-new-5-billion-apple-park-campus-has-a-100000-square-foot-gym-and-no-day...

 

TL;DR: OMG! Your aggregated data is not protecting privacy...

Also if you're not familiar with k-anonymity this is a good place to start...



https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/15/trajectory-recovery-from-ash-user-privacy-is-not-preserved-in-ag...






 

I highly recommend The Product Excellence Workshop. Take it with your team for an even stronger experience. The instructors +101977395828280125935 and +100280079678510579493 deftly covered a large body of knowledge.

It's also good to see the H.E.A.R.T. model covered in formal training. People like
+114097187269026141752 and friends have done well to evangelize this in Social/G+ over the years.

Lots more at http://go/peworkshop and more resources at https://product-excellence.googleplex.com/



https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hHF-4S5VYcTUNLMEl0bDVaOUk/view






 

Anyone else subscribed to *The Morning Paper*? Interested in starting a reading group? I found them when I was reading up on Honey Badger BFT and have been a fan since.




https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/08/end-to-end-optimized-image-compression/






 

Google+ Buttons...

*The +1 button for web sites is now the G+ button*

Hey Googlers - get ready to dogfood the new G+ button! It's an evolution of the existing +1 and +Share buttons you see across the web. It's leaner, faster and much less expensive to operate. Instead the world's most costly-click-counter you'll share directly to G+, which is what most users wanted anyway.

You can see the G+ button at various places such as:

- Blogspot blogs like http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ or https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/
- The Chrome Web store https://chrome.google.com/webstore/
- And sites from a-to-z http://abc7news.com/weather/doppler/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10069107/

Want to give feedback? There's a handy link in the pop-up sharebox to do so.

Big kudos to +106053902024703312631 / +110610523830483756510 / +104802479551695111660 and the cast of characters that have helped us get this far.

 

 

 

Whose Global Village?

*Whose Global Village?* added to reading list.

I do know one thing -- the Global Village as envisioned decades ago by Marshall McLuhan sure isn't what we have today.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29882956-whose-global-village

 

Unreachable!

Unsearchable and Daily Inspiration for a TGIF..

The following *delightful* Google Play Playlist is a comprehensive collection of music from Watch Dogs 2:

https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXyk097zW--4WF7YxbXiHUAwlq-_CkO6SUOEQuhlGiwkzcMYeVnWqK_Kyi...

Digdug doesn't know anything about it.

And yes, that's a base-64 encoded proto you're seeing! [and Let's hope that adding a new message to that proto doesn't rewrite all the permalinks....]

I was able to find the link to this in some disqus comments with a bit of search tweaking, but I couldn't get an actual link surfaced for a playlist in our own product. The original Spotify playlist does show up.

https://www.gamecrate.com/heres-all-music-featured-watch-dogs-2/15001

https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXyk097zW--4WF7YxbXiHUAwlq-_CkO6SUOEQuhlGiwkzcMYeVnWqK_Kyi...

 

CitC on mac, really hope security kittens are in my favor..

https://g3doc.corp.google.com/devtools/srcfs/g3doc/mac-citc.md









 


I still have business cards with code.google.com on them....








 

Checking out SAFe

Looks like there was an internal presentation that I missed:

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/eng-program-management/community-and-events/fireside_chat/safe

It gives names to processes that I recognize, so it seems like it might be a useful model..

http://www.scaledagile.com/

 


QoS is awesome. Returns 429 to GoogleBot when under load.

And Google+ is fortunate to have +103629377878623483645 implementing and developing it. Thanks!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KFDiTrQe9lWDJOMWx3a0xCb28/view






 

So when is YouTube music moving to Moffett Place 3?









 

This is a very well written article about how the film/content industries are attempting (and failing) to keep up with archiving their data.

Reading about LTO I now understand why gtape is moving to http://go/chronicle and http://go/timelock (Also interesting that timelock has a Q2 OKR for 500PB, which is 10x the size of the film archive mentioned in the article.)

I'm also curious if Google has had to delete data that we've regretted. Do we have all of the old street view data?



http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/the-lost-picture-show-hollywood-archivists-cant-outpace-obsole...






 

Slick as Vic

*SocialExperienceLevel.SLICK_AS_VIC* -- some documentation may be out of date...

http://google3/social/common/segmentation/proto/segmentation.proto?rcl=128413029

cc @ebarn

 

Emerald Sea Protocols

*Emerald Sea Protocols* - October 2010

_Make open protocols the "default choice" and the "easy choice"_ -- me

And 6 years later some of this stuff is finally taking off....

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1spaXUlKajV6Ng20zZBmcKHvDekDNbC2OO5M-R-Ug0q8/edit?_escaped_fragme...

 

Reading about HIP.. It's like Mosh for every protocol and allows clients and servers to move networks and stay connected.


https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8005






 

2 Chapters in on the audiobook and I can already recommend this.

Remember to buy the non-drm'd versions at http://craphound.com/



http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30139664-walkaway#bookMeta






 

*Oz News Update* - Early Q2

TLDR:
- Deathstar and other projects launched, we removed lots of code/GCUs/Zipit.
- We're going to keep removing code/GCUs/zipit.
- The +1 button will meet it's demise soon. Long live the G+ button.
- Contacts, People APIs and lots more are moving/moved.

Read the full episode at:

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/oz-eng/uXAdeOtGg5Q/KLsRdzBdEwAJ

And I'll leave you with some revolutionary, code killing, Oz-esque inspiration from Oakland's _The Coup_:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ






 

Red Pill

This will be hilarious for people who know what webfinger is. For the rest get ready for chat bots that auto-create memes...

 

Here's some Cute Penguins, Cute Dogs and Beautiful Landscapes to brighten your day.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAhIBRTdblQ






 

On my 3rd Nexus 6p. Things I have learned:

- Always upgrade the new phone to the latest build or backup/restore breaks. (With security updates that meant *6* restarts.)
- Good time to prune unused Apps.
- Don't forget to recache: Play Music playlists and Maps Offline data.
- Open each app one-by-one to get rid of "Okay, got it" prompts.

Things that are still painful:
- Entering long 20 character passwords in apps
- Transferring TOTPs in Authenticator











 

Google+ Commercials and Promos

*Various Dates* - Various Google+ Commercials and Promos

In order of appearance with some notes on when they aired.

Introducing the +1 Button
Google+: Circles
Google+: Sparks
Google+: Instant Upload
Google+: Explore Circles
Google+: Explore Settings
Google+: Explore Hangouts
Google+: Explore Games
Welcome to Google+
Google+: A quick look
Google+: Messenger
Google+: Pages
Google+: Search
Google+: Sharing but like real life
Google+: Circles Love Story
Introducing the new Google bar
Google+: Say more with Hangouts
Muppets Google+ Hangout (featuring the Muppets).mp4
Search, plus Your World
Google+: New Dad
Google+ Nina
Google+: Daria Musk
Google+: Tom
Google+ Local: Places you'll love, from people you trust
Google+ Events: Share event photos instantly with Party Mode
Introducing Google+ Events
Connect with friends the way you want with Google+ in Gmail
Google+ for Android
College Football on Google+
Google+ 2012
Google+ Communities: A place for whatever you're into
Google+ Events: Introducing a new way to get together
Google+: Public Squares
Google+: Beautiful movies, made Auto Awesomely
Google+: Media

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrzxz5-dv4abGzg0lZPjCIYVSqhc-ivlw&_utm_source=gplus

 

Now this, this is interesting.

It's like Patreon for groups. I could see this being useful in tons and tons of places.

It's also something the Wallet team should have and could have pivoted to.


https://opencollective.com/






 

Feedback...

_People long to be treated as co-creators. Not cattle._

[pulled from the massive Google+ feedback thread...]

 

Checked my spam folder. Only 2 messages out of 32 were actual spam... [of course that doesn't count the ones that are outright blocked, but still..]









 

""The appearance of privacy where it doesn't exist should be avoided at pretty much any costs. Your users will invest a great deal more trust in it than you ever want to and ever should, and you should make privacy design decisions with this in mind.""


https://plateia.org/notice/12759?x=1






 

I set up https://makamaka.me/ on Google Cloud. 1st time deploying a rails app, so it was interesting. Will write more about the experience soon.

Ping me if you want to sign up.

And yes, some of you may recognize the name....



https://makamaka.me/about






 

Roborecruiter to lindner

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Donate for Yemen now

*Donate for Yemen now* Only 4k to go!

Get your extra disaster relief match here:

https://g-give.googleplex.com/campaign/2017-Famine

A very very long time ago I helped launch http://reliefweb.int on the the brand-new ".int" tld using Lotus Notes Domino. The site is still awesome and makes it possible for WFP field workers to help millions.

http://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/wfp-yemen-situation-report-28-05-april-2017

 

Yelle!

Testing une clip filmé en mode téléphone sur G+

YouTube app supports it quite nicely....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neqp_R-xAYs&feature=youtu.be

 

Anyone set up a Mastodon instance locally?

If not I'll probably run one myself at some point.



https://mastodon.social/about






 

Google+ Features vs Oz Bulk

Finally figured out how to get Charts to overlay labels on the vertical...

Oh for the record, Peak Oz:

28151 files
330MB of Code/Resources
125 Backends
1525 HTTP Paths
673 Stubby Endpoints
3 binaries (widgetbe, widgetfe, frontend)
Lots and lots of qps, much 4514$

 

Typo of the day: SQWEh









 

Social Multiplier

*The Social Multiplier for Google+* April 2011

A Social Multiplier applies to Googlers’ 2011 bonuses. It measures and recognizes the impact each team has on the success of Google+ and building meaningful relationships, sharing, and identity across all our products.

More details

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/2011-social-multiplier-faqs/home

 

Emerald Sea Mobile Update

*Emerald Sea Mobile Update* - 2010 Q3

by Punit Soni

- We've come full circle on Location Sharing. +111280803752736822602
- Making phone calls on profiles never happened, and the CallMeMaybe project 5 years later never launched.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17D9uqGEglLfrICSNiYOwKCzHsFmSjZcNNoc7KpJHOk0/edit?_escaped_fr...

 

And since my last 4 posts have been cranky here's something to *crank-up* the volume to. An amazing story of art preservation and well worth a listen [available on Play Music!]




http://www.factmag.com/2015/03/10/the-incredible-story-of-ata-kaks-obaa-sima-the-original-awesome-ta...






 

I wish I could find the thread/post discussing admin-disabling Chrome Extensions on Mac. There has to be a way.

Not sure if this is just the skeezy myway.com developers or if it's some kind of XSS they enable. In any case the extension rewrites your google search results. Badly. You know you're in trouble when the support page has uninstall directions...

http://support.mindspark.com/










 

Just found out we have to restart our memcacheg servers due to the build horizon policy... Such a waste of good cache...

I wonder if there's room in the borg lifecycle to define a mechanism for jobs to 'handoff' from old to new; that way the contents don't get blown away during a restart.

Or maybe we'll just have to wait for gredis or gouchbase....



https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yuPqLH1grR9wyUlHVxugJHL8Dulf0diPuObOAs6r_d4/edit?_escaped_fragme...






 


Microsoft Teams -- from the always useful CompeteWatch community...


https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/14/microsoft-teams-office-365/






 

Soundcloud Embed Test

_you best bless your phone when that stingray on_
_cause there aint no telling when that thing stay on_


https://soundcloud.com/ytcracker/ytcracker-hacker-music






 

Bitcoin Lightning

Bitcoin Lightning talk today:

_Come learn about the bitcoin Lightning Network! The Lightning Network is a "layer 2" bitcoin protocol designed to address some of bitcoin’s technical limitations in regards to scaling. Compared to on chain bitcoin payments, it promises instant payment speed measured in milliseconds to seconds, scalability capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network, lower cost and improved anonymity. Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka roastbeef) is a former Google intern and currently works on Lightning Network at Lightning Labs. He will give a deep dive into latest developments in the implementation of Lightning Network._

More info: https://lightning.network/, http://lightning.community/

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=ZGcxZDNhZjBnaW9sZDhwZ2tjYjl0Ymo...

http://lightning.network/

 

Aunt asks me about Alexa vs Google Home..

Being diligent I check for requirements... and just like that Google Home is out of the running.

Not everyone has or wants a Smart Phone and I find it embarrassing that Google; the company that benefitted strongly from the Web can't ship devices that are web enabled.

[I'm also looking at you Google Wifi, you promised us a Web UI a couple of years ago too...]









https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7035987?hl=en