*SocialExperienceLevel.SLICK_AS_VIC* -- some documentation may be out of date...
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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
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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
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*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
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Here's some Cute Penguins, Cute Dogs and Beautiful Landscapes to brighten your day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAhIBRTdblQ
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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
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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
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/
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""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
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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
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New comment by lindner in "Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications"
Everyone should be using Matrix. Not just open source developers.
It's near feature parity with Slack and it's also one of the best IRC clients around. I used to run ERC in a tmux session just so I could stay connected and not lose messages. No more.
Anyone set up a Mastodon instance locally?
If not I'll probably run one myself at some point.
https://mastodon.social/about
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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$
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
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...
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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/
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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...
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Microsoft Teams -- from the always useful CompeteWatch community...
https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/14/microsoft-teams-office-365/
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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
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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: ,
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
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New comment by lindner in "A self-driving Uber ran a red light last December, contrary to company claims"
Even though this was clearly a red light being run, it was this AI's first offense, so we should just give it a warning and a stern talking-to....
In the wake of OnHub's being factory reset I'm resurrecting this post.
I can get an immediate 0 out of Comcast for a service outage just for asking. We're better than Comcast, right? right?
https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php
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https://omg.corp.google.com/#/show-incident/4289
A distributed system is on in which the failure of a gaia flume you didn't even know existed can render your own OnHub unusable...
http://www.azquotes.com/quote/585930
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*In Search of... define:sgamster*
Google search and Google translate are stumped by "sgamster", which appears in lyrics from the short-lived Welsh Hiphop band Tystion.
If you go to the Tystion wikipedia page you'll find a link to
http://www.axkx15.dsl.pipex.com/tystion%20page.htm
that seems to have some translated lyrics. Digdug has this listed as high quality but it doesn't appear in searches.
And based on that, I'm guessing *Timewaster* is the answer.
h/t to the John Peel Radio show for this deep cut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUwOQwBJCaU
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Oz Monolith
*An Update on the Oz Monolith*
So it's a little over been two weeks since we turned down most of Oz for frontends. Project Death Star removed most Google+ traffic. Purple Hummus removed contacts.google.com. Project Falcon got iOS G+ on FEDS. And the OneGoogle Notifications Widget is now exiting too.
There's still much more to do, Apiary APIs, widgets and more need to go. And lots of code to delete as you can see in the Rise and Fall of Oz by # of files below.
Thanks to everyone that removed services/code, and let me know if you're missing a killoz teams badge.
Typo of the day -- MEATADATA
Also on: @lindner Paul Lindner
So, at every point in this story, there is gross negligence and incompetence, be forewarned.
So, at every point in this story, there is gross negligence and incompetence, be forewarned.
We all make mistakes, and we all know that, but we don't seem to anticipate our own mistakes. We seem to proceed as if being careful means it won't happen to us.
Not everyone who runs a web service is competent. Not everyone who is not competent to run a web service knows it. Not everyone who uses a web service for valuable data realises what they are doing.
GitLab only lost six hours, but presumably with a large active userbase. Losing six months, even if you've only got tens of active users, that's tens of very unhappy people. Why don't we see this coming?
Reading through the thread, it's notable that this community of role-players already has a term: Total Party Kill. They should, in a sense, be emotionally prepared to lose characters, which is what has apparently happened. Most commentators are supportive, a few are angry.
Ouch. What a Profanity Removed. :(
I wonder how many postmortems feature some variation of this: "The logs for each day show the backup starting and ending, with no exceptions or errors, all the way up to today." The general idea of "backup seemed to work, restore didn't" seems awfully familiar.
Remember to test your backups and be careful with rm -rf
Remember to test your backups and be careful with rm -rf
Scanning
I guess just in case I was running some perl script I downloaded off of Matt's Script Archive on port 7888
plindner@arcwelder:[beaker]/google3$ host 172.25.65.58
58.65.25.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer security-scanner-amer-3.cbf.corp.google.com.
But it appears I can't make it stop :(
05:52:51.515942 IP 172.25.65.58.43577 > 100.109.7.129.7888: Flags [P.], seq 0:432, ack 1, win 229, options [nop,nop,TS val 1188697399 ecr 2097041011], length 432
0x0000: 4560 01e4 1784 4000 3b06 ccee ac19 413a E.....@.;.....A:
0x0010: 646d 0781 aa39 1ed0 c325 02b0 5897 25e2 dm...9...%..X.%.
0x0020: 8018 00e5 069a 0000 0101 080a 46da 1537 ............F..7
0x0030: 7cfe 4e73 4745 5420 2f66 6f72 6d2f 6175 |.NsGET./form/au
0x0040: 6b74 696f 6e2e 6367 693f 6d65 6e75 653d ktion.cgi?menue=
0x0050: 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e ../../../../../.
0x0060: 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f65 7463 2f70 ./../../../etc/p
0x0070: 6173 7377 6420 4854 5450 2f31 2e31 0d0a asswd.HTTP/1.1..
0x0080: 486f 7374 3a20 6172 6377 656c 6465 722e Host:.arcwelder.
0x0090: 6d74 762e 636f 7270 2e67 6f6f 676c 652e mtv.corp.google.
0x00a0: 636f 6d3a 3738 3838 0d0a 4163 6365 7074 com:7888..Accept
0x00b0: 2d43 6861 7273 6574 3a20 6973 6f2d 3838 -Charset:.iso-88
0x00c0: 3539 2d31 2c75 7466 2d38 3b71 3d30 2e39 59-1,utf-8;q=0.9
0x00d0: 2c2a 3b71 3d30 2e31 0d0a 4163 6365 7074 ,*;q=0.1..Accept
0x00e0: 2d4c 616e 6775 6167 653a 2065 6e0d 0a43 -Language:.en..C
drowsiness-mode
Need an ML algorithm to detect sleep-typing and sound a wake up alarm. Then I can:
M-x drowsiness-mode
Launching today, see spike in 404s. One contributing factor? https://plus.google.com/+whitehouse is no more.
still accessible at:
https://plus.google.com/105479712798762608629
As "The Obama White House"
fun times. fun times.
https://plus.google.com/105479712798762608629
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Tap Tap Tap
*Needed: Tap Counter Job Ladder*
[Posting since most people had not heard of this...]
_"Thank you. What do you do here?" He said, "I'm a tap counter." I'm like, "You're a what?" He goes, "Well Jeff Hawkins, the CEO, says, 'If any task on the Palm Pilot takes more than three taps of the stylus, it's too long, and it has to be redesigned.' So I'm the tap counter."_
Telling the Guatemala based @UPS phone support reps that "Even Comcast gives you a 2 hour window" is a losing strategy
Aristotle
No, please no. Treating omnipresent surveillance as normal at an early impressionable age feels like a step too far.
As such, there are some cringe-worthy quotes in this one...
"custom built AI with baby-centric features"
_"Aristotle was specifically designed to grow up with a child"_ -- [does anyone seriously believe that someone will be running this device 10 years from now?]
_"E-commerce functionality tied directly to key retail partners will enable Aristotle to automatically reorder or look for deals and coupons on baby consumables, formula and other baby products when it detects you are likely running low on the specific item."_
_“Digital objects last forever—or five years, whichever comes first."_
You owe it to yourself to read _"Through A Glass, Darkly: Technical, Policy, and Financial Actions to Avert the Coming Digital Dark Ages"_ by +100430532548191465832. Saving the bits isn't enough.
http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/chtlj/vol33/iss2/1/
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“Digital objects last forever—or five years, whichever comes first."
“Digital objects last forever—or five years, whichever comes first."
You owe it to yourself to read "Through A Glass, Darkly: Technical, Policy, and Financial Actions to Avert the Coming Digital Dark Ages" Saving the bits isn't enough.
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A Christmas message from Björk.
A Christmas message from Björk.
Wishing everyone the curiosity, surreality and poetry of the season.
And another call to test your restore procedures.
Paul Lindner, Feb 07 2017 on 1500wordmtu.com