2 months notice for the death of Yahoo Groups. Google Group folks take notice, this is not acceptable for preserving the history of the internet.
Human, Dustcake, Engineer
Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.
❤️ J9
news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner
@exk4ji+mpb4mdiCG5KVHxIMCo0as4k4/cIwRoxt3Aw4=.ed25519
www.openhub.net/accounts/plindner
dl.acm.org/profile/99659334862
2 months notice for the death of Yahoo Groups. Google Group folks take notice, this is not acceptable for preserving the history of the internet.
Did you know your hard disk is descended from a streetcar? Learn how in "Solid State: Minnesota's High Tech History". Also includes Cray, the Oregon Trail and yes, Internet Gopher.
https://www.tpt.org/solid-state/video/solid-state-minnesotas-high-tech-history-35848/
via @tpt
This is a lot of history crammed into an hour. Goes from the early code-breaking work and the development of Drum Memory at Engineering Research Associates.
ERA merged with Sperry/Univac/Remington and then begat Control Data, Cray, Unisys and many others.
Also tune in for some history of the Oregon Trail by Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) and how that ties into the rise of Internet Gopher.
Oh and disclaimer: former Gopher Dude here.
A few hiccups but finally have something that's stable..
Power Sources:
- Battery: B Class with 36kWh battery and 400W Inverter
- Sun: Solar with up to 1500W
- UPS: 1500W, 900Wh APC
Devices
- Refrigerator ~100-150W while running 250W peak
- Internet: 15W ONT+Router
- Electric Blanket 60W
- LED Lamps ~15W
- Laptop w/85W or 45W charger
- cords, lots of cords
I charge the car battery @1000W during the day with other loads. Using Inverter at night.
The APC UPS was supposed to provide stability, but it kind of sucks:
- slow trickle charge
- Can't charge off the inverter most of the time.
- Has a bad odor.
For now I just use it for the fridge when I have to run errands
Expect outages of my #indieweb @withknown host 1500wordmtu.com due to @PGE4Me power cuts.
My low-power home server, solar panels, and batteries are pretty solid. ISPs? Not so sure....
https://gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/Electric_Generator
So looks like PG&E will be draining my home metro because their infrastructure causes wildfires.
Looks like my fridge draws 100 to 160W. My solar system has a backup outlet with up to 1500W so maybe I can work out a battery system before tomorrow
This is wild...
Individuals are therefore defined in terms of ongoing, bounded information processing units rather than lists of static features or conventional replication-based definitions which tend to fail in the case of cultural change.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269338907_The_Information_Theory_of_Individuality
Chrome GPU process is taking up 3GB of memory on Mac, even up to 8GB once. Help!
I tried looking for a way to report this and found some stale things on crbug. Anyone know how to address this?
I know about chrome://gpuclean but that doesn't do much. chrome://gpu doesn't show anything actionable afaik.
10 Years ago today: Sundar tells you why SideWiki is cool.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html
10 Years ago today: Sundar Pichai tells you why SideWiki is cool.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html
@sundarpichai
Like the fish that cannot see the water...There are times when the only way to perceive the system from within it - - is when it cracks. The fissures and fractures are coming fast now. -- Nora Bateson
Whoa... Cheap q-bits would be a huge game changer...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02781-4
This is the good stuff
Many AI ethics talking points aren’t specific to AI. They’re about technology in general and they’re nothing new.
https://medium.com/@kozyrkov/forget-the-robots-heres-how-ai-will-get-you-b674c28d6a34
I hate Myers-Brigg, Colors, all that nonsense. However this framework speaks to my inner Optimizer without going full-on Holocracy.
There's an episode of Columbo where the villain uses a photo of a face and a speed camera to establish an alibi.
Columbo enlarges the photos and finds that the shadows are inconsistent. He is able to do this because the photos are ordered by time on a single a roll.
Parallels to blockchains are pretty obvious. Each photo is directly linked to the previous/next photo and there are timestamps involved...
Images from
Unintended consequences of Google Image Search.
THE VCE exam body has been left red faced after a doctored artwork depicting a huge robot helping socialist revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution was accidentally included in this year’s year 12 history exam taken by 5700 students.
You heard about Young Karl Marx, but have you heard of VI Lenin Evangelion ?
Android Q disabled the http://Last.fm m App on upgrade until I launched it and confirmed permissions.
Lost a couple days scrobbling :(
BRB gotta finish rebinging the Plasmatics back catalog...
""All Tech Is Human: San Francisco is an all-day ethical tech summit with 175 technologists, academics, advocates, students, org leaders, artists, designers, policymakers, and YOU. Join us for an impactful mix of lightning talks, topical panels, strategy sessions, tech/humanity art performance, and meeting others in the thoughtful tech movement!"
I joined the
team a few weeks ago. Finally getting a chance to post about it after an exciting .Excited to be team building again and really excited about the possibility of bringing systems thinking at scale into Google. Looking forward to how our first partner
uses our Societal Topography and Societal Context Repository to bring ML Fairness to display ads.So much to learn and many challenges ahead.
Ruha Benjamin presented this 1957 robot future by SuperGirl creator Otto Binder today. Prescient and horrifying at the same time and brings to mind Graeber's take on flying cars.
@ruha9 @davidgraeber
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/youll-own-slaves-by-1965/
*** This is Happening Now ***
There will be two great talks tomorrow on the intersection of technology, society, and justice. I highly recommend catching these talks if you are able! Details below:
Livestream link:
Talks:
Ruha Benjamin (9:45 - 10:30am)
Anna Lauren Hoffmann (9:45 - 10:30am)
Speaker bios:
is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of and the author of two books, and . Ruha teaches and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice and at Princeton her main focus is on the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.
is an Assistant Professor with The Information School at the University of Washington working at the intersections of data, technology, culture and ethics. Anna has written many on issues in information, data and ethics, while especially to the ways discourse, design and uses of information technology work to promote or hinder the pursuit of important human values like respect and justice.
Rooms for livestream:
DUB-1GC-1-Dracula (8)
DUB-1GC-3-Golden Grove (7)
LON-123-1-New Forest (12)
SVL-MOT1-5-Triskelion (8)
NYC-9TH-14-F-324-Uptown Training (16)
The AI for Climate Change talk mentions Jevons' Paradox, which explains why efficiency gains actually increase usage of a resource.
describes how one might use intervene. Interesting reading.
It concludes with:
Findings from the modeling highlight the need to implement
a system of interventions that can influence the strength and
direction of each of the feedback loops within the system being
intervened with, if CE are to be more reliably reduced than
they are at present. Single interventions are much less likely to
succeed and are, in fact, less efficient at producing the desired
results. Further, because the system is constantly evolving,
intervening with it requires a responsive, holistic approach, while
maintaining focus on a long-term goal.
...then Google said "Let there be iGoogle"; and there was iGoogle. And Google saw that the javascript was good and separated the gadgets from the container origins....
Fast forward over 10 years and this serving system is still the underlying force keeping light from darkness. After a good run in Social it was exiled to an uncertain fate with the ever faithful +111756696344385606909 and other true believers keeping it alive.
Exiting the wilderness between PAs it finally found a new home with +109533200203018540387 and +111563624442337972165 into a reliability reset fueled future.
But Gapi needs your help. Please help it find an L5 so it can grow and thrive as it fully migrates to new infrastructure
Somewhat amazed that 'Carbon Copy' (Cc) lives on in the email vernacular given that most people have never had to deal with the physical version...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_copy
So has anyone made a poster with Udi Manbar's "It's our problem" statement?
It was one of the more inspiring things I had seen when I was watching old TFIFs (when we could do that..)
See the attached Noogler training deck and consider how things have changed today. (Also a reminder of go/gthink and the insight reports on https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/gthink/g/resources/analyst-insights-reports)
if users can't spell, it's our problem
if they don't know how to form the query, it's our problem
if they don't know what words to use, it's our problem
if they can't speak the language, it’s our problem
if there is not enough content on the web,
it’s our problem
if the web is too slow, it’s our problem
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZBLK7WfoLHRveZs8FiSlMvgVlkKWNKDhiEgi2Ocy4W8/edit#slide=id.i1...
tfw you get music recs from your VP.
Also, let's never let Google become ITT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptR_YwCs3o
The latest by the always excellent Cassie Kozyrkov
#datadriven
https://towardsdatascience.com/your-dataset-is-a-giant-inkblot-test-b9bf4c53eec5
I'm curious if anyone has mapped the reliability crisis with a System Dynamics Lens. Some of the proposed actions hit some of the archetypes on the nose....
For example a one-size fits all release shepherding process takes resources away from efforts that to address the underlying reliability problem. (Fixes that Fail)
Reliability metrics operate on a delay so you get oscillation of investment and failure (shifting the burden)
If anyone would like to workshop a systems diagram for reliability I'd be interested in workout out the feedback loops.
I highly recommend the book
and the image below come from this pdf of .It's the 6502 source for Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set. (Released a while back, but new to me..) How far we've come....
Oh and MAKE1 MAKE2 and MAKE3 is your blaze build. Here's MAKE1:
CALL -151
3F2:69 FF 5A
BLOAD GPAK.OBJ,A300
BLOAD CDRAW.O,A480
BLOAD PCSA800.PIC,AB00
BLOAD DLIST.O,A910
BLOAD SWAP.O,D2,AA00
BLOAD TST.O,D1,AB00
BLOAD GOATARI.O,D2,AB45
BLOAD BOOT.O,D2,AE00
BLOAD BOOT2.O,AE80
BLOAD ZAP1.O,AF00
BLOAD DOWNLOAD.O,D1,A00
https://github.com/billbudge/PCS_Atari800
I can think of one use for blockchains:
Create TAPchain, MPMchain, PiperChain
- For each day archive TAP results and MPM builds to long-term storage.
- Create a sorted list of hashes of that content, publish it.
- Write the location of that document and it's hash to the blockchain of your choosing.
When the next legal issue arises, we'll be ready.
The same pattern could also be used for provable data for any type of content we process. Maintain side-chain and publish to a permissionless, public blockchain.
Alternate idea is to use trillian and create a certificate transparency like system; but that's not quite as usable for something that needs to stick around for many years, vs triggering warnings/audits for bad behavior.
Bluetooth MAC randomization is not enough anymore... Prepare to implant a heartbeat randomizing defibrillator if you want privacy out-and-about....
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/07/05/the-pentagons-new-heartbeat-detection-lase...
Small world. Bumped into @micropixie today in the Mission. A reminder to support your local artists and musicians. Also do check out "Dark Sight of the Moon" which is vg
https://micropixie.bandcamp.com/
Totally unconventional company...
[but we have a long way to go before we match Yahoo, Verizon and Oracle with sports sponsorships...]
https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/sponsor/20190627-01.html
Fulton pointed out that generational change, and how it is handled, is often one of the most critical moments in any organization that hopes to last more than a decade or two. In times of generational change, much of the ability for a successful transition comes from the founding DNA and governing systems that were set up at the organization’s inception.
Is a 3GB+ GPU Process on Chrome Stable normal these days?
Is there a way to debug that?
At least there's chrome://gpuclean/ now -- before I was just killing off the GPU Process by hand....
Logging into Dreamhost after a few years.
Yep, it's time to fix another hacked Wordpress blog for a friend...
In honor of the recently departed Google+ community/page here's a recent squirrel eating a strawberry from my neighbor in Montclair Oakland.
They expertly trolled the folks there with the subject "Who's stealing my strawberries!"
cc David Bresbis who I remember being a fan...
I hope you have access to the Internet to see that I liked your tweet
Raj Iyengar, Oct 09 2019 on twitter.com