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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

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






 


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






 

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






 

*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






 

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.

 

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 :(

https://scarf.googleplex.com/checkip?target=100.109.7.129&list=

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

 

"Scoutjet is the web crawler for IBM Watson"


http://www.scoutjet.com/






 

drowsiness-mode

Need an ML algorithm to detect sleep-typing and sound a wake up alarm. Then I can:

M-x drowsiness-mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_drowsiness_detection

 

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






 

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."_

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_pogue_says_simplicity_sells#talk

 

Now...

Achievement unlocked. Google Now tells me about my own posts on my own site.

 

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."_

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mattels-nabi-brand-introduces-first-ever-connected-kids-room...

 

_“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/






 

6p

Looks like I'm the latest to suffer from the 6p rapid battery drain hardware defect... :(

 

gHarmony

Sad that they didn't call it G-Love and Special Sauce

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/deepcompatibility/home

 

Just heard Superfreak in La Place Cafe.

Was on the first cassette I ever owned. (First vinyl? Kiss Destroyer)

I wonder if people will remember their "firsts" going forward in a cloud based world....


https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXylLDTLqOEfkqa9onz7nF8OZV2Oot6mB9FrzK2DdmieX2Wg5iup7sNmAC...






 

Happy Holidays from the Google+ Death Star Project team and the Chewbacca family.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3a5j8PgQxg






 

Got the Holiday Gift blues? Watch Robot Reindeer.

ROBOLIGHTS combines your two favorite things: Robots and Christmas into a 3 acre theme park of crazy. Visit it before the authorities shut it down.

https://www.facebook.com/ROBOLIGHTS




https://photos.google.com/






 

Yes Virginia Eternabugs do get fixed!

Looking forward to real videos in presentations instead of animated GIFs..

b/7390256






 

I hope our Phoenix UX folks are keeping tabs on Imzy. Lots of interesting interaction twists going on. Things I like:

- Custom screen names per community.
- Responsive OneUp design shows post on left, comments on right.

...and is +116834966192427446812 moonlighting as their character artist?


https://www.imzy.com/gaming/post/first_ever_imzy_gaming_awards






 

Specialty Pharmacy Pfizer Farce

Still riding the blindfolded roller coaster with my wife and her metastatic breast cancer. We got a good 18 months from the 1st treatment. Fingers crossed that this new wonder drug will be even better.

I had a whole rant queued up about cancer drugs, Google's specialty pharmacy and Pfizer pricing Ibrance at 0k/month. Alas, MacOS+Chrome ate it.

Instead you can read this article and understand how we end up with ridiculous 80 monthly ransom payments copays. (Seriously life-and-death isn't subject to price elasticity of demand!)

http://www.fiercepharma.com/sales-and-marketing/pfizer-s-ibrance-pricing-shows-multiyear-market-anal...

 

 

Here's your friday lol, includes the extra special Google dis:

_You know rappers like to sell drugs_
_But you do it on the streets_
_And you deader than Google buzz or Google+_

http://genius.com/Ytcracker-bitcoin-baron-lyrics


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfg1Gtcg08