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*Research* - Privacy/Anonymous User Reputation Scoring

Looks interesting, going to have to spend some time wrapping my head around these concepts.


https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/zhai






 

What's the G+ tagline? Shouldn't we let users know?

How about +103403111903646616992's idea _"You are what you create"_


https://contently.com/strategist/2012/05/31/the-art-of-the-essential-startup-tagline/






 

 

Instead of "Don't be evil" --- "Can't be evil"

Discuss









 

Anyone from Security team want to sign on to this? Cory Doctorow asked me to send it onwards.


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/security-researchers-tell-w3c-protect-researchers-who-investig...






 

If your lucre feels filthy... drop it here.


https://supporters.eff.org/donate/






 

So who made the decision to support TPP? I'm guessing the decision making process was done in secret, just like the TPP negotiating process.

The ISDS sections of this flawed trade agreement are reason enough to take a pass.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-state_dispute_settlement#__sid=rd0






 

Who's involved with this? Might go just to catch up with TBL and Brewster...


http://www.decentralizedweb.net/






 

*GopherLeaks* - Gopher @30 and Email Retention...

I'm working with a journalist writing a long-form Gopher article. I have every. single. email. from the 90s. It was incredible and allowed me to get some facts straight, relive some past glories and groan at some bonehead moments.

So I'm sad that Googlers will never get to have the same experience 30 years from now. With our 18 month retention policy and corporate ownership you'd better start keeping a [paper] diary..

[_And wow, I sure was a cocky mf back then._ and here's a Stevens reference since I was a metalhead unix programmer back then..]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjjydz40rNI






 

People on the outside asking me about this. No clue.

Of course Incendiary Device could be a zippo for all we know...



http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Incendiary-devices-spark-fire-at-Google-7862600.php






 

Best typo found today:

*circlepickler*










 

uiconfig.textproto + boqlet.manifest

It's basically struts.xml

At least it's not Spring's applicationContext.xml (yet...)



https://struts.apache.org/docs/big-picture.html






 

ML Chip?

I wonder why we don't have custom ASICs for oh say -- Protos?

Or even better a *Guice Machine*

Of course then we'd need a special Guice keyboard. Extra @ signs, and a @Provides button.




http://www.rcsri.org/collection/symbolics-keyboards/






 

Would anyone be up for an Google Internal xprize for carbon reduction by gcu reduction? I'd put some dollars to that if the results were, say 2x the gain of buying LED bulbs or cow methane.

Anyone know what the mapping is from gcu->tonnes of carbon?

Mostly I just want to see the end of useless computation...









 

Today's Birthdaily Inspiration is an homage to my hi5 days. Cala 13 has only gotten better over the years and they can almost make Assange sound good...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Viral_(song)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjSCy1GC6Sc






 

Finally got around to buying more carbon offsets after many years and was happy to see Google offers access to their program:

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

However I'm likely switching to Terrapass in the future since they also can offset your water usage, and oddly enough their offsets cost half of what we price internally. Also auto-pay, so I won't slack off like I did before.

Oh and fwiw I've went from 12 tons to 5 tons estimated yearly usage.



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






 

 

So much good. they had me just for the alt-tab, but v1.1 is epic. Markdown compose!





http://www.boxyapp.co/






 

 

What's worse than deprecated or not ready yet?

Deprecated *AND* not ready yet.









 

I'd happily use this instead of Postmortem.


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






 

If you're considering influence peddling via NetPAC you should at least know who gains...


https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//publicpolicy/doc/NETPAC-Contributions-...






 

 

 

My latest step in my *Borgmon@Home* project.

https://rainforestautomation.com/rfa-z109-eagle/

I think I already saved the 9 this cost by adjusting our laundry schedule to hit better ToU rates and tracking down some vampire loads.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6242284384095970257/6242284386346022354?...






 

Anyone have a contact at npr.org?

Their pages are generating invalid Content-Type headers:

Content-Type: text/html;;charset=UTF-8

Fixing on our end, but someone should let them know..









 

Reposting this in the wake of the current Nest thermostat die-off. Customers respond really well when you

- Admit that you made a mistake
- And try to make things right.

I hope our friends at Nest invest in a similar response.


https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php






 

I have a dvd rip of a VHS transfer of some old Sun (we put the dot in .com) internet promotional clips.

You can see some of them over here:

http://planet-rla.com/digital-journey-2/

Happy to share if anyone wants




https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6239084702831613217/6239084706355357970?...






 

 

If you want more than 10 days of Nest data you're gonna have to send your creds to a shady guy named _WebPirate_


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6236206815904801937/6236206812873308466?...






 

New version of auth-refresh is out. Uses the new glogin / gcert command line commands to save you time every day.


https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/macroadwarrior-guide/XRCmHEZGOac/ICNZ-0W5AgAJ






 

The internet has all the answers



http://style.org/unladenswallow/






 

Now cards aggressively target when I switch to hl=en-UK to get the British voice for TTS


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6219438267743132305/6219438269857772130?...






 

Anyone know the Google-wide record for most reviewers on a CL?

I think someone's trying to break it...










 


It's not just me.

@112530828667788492083 can we please get a new design that has the destination adjacent to the POST button?

Invest in some eye tracking if you need to; but it's fairly obvious that people are not seeing the destination for their posts.








 

Missed this announcement; but I'm really happy to see that we're operating in this space.

Also, I want a few of these.



http://www.aopen.com/eu/aopen-collaborating-with-google-on-new-retail-technology






 

 

Uhhhhh, how would I have been able to influence this decision?

Backgound: we still need something like this to render snippets for sharing URLs to G+. Well, unless search wants to provide a low latency API/service to render a webpage with javascript and all that that.



http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html






 

A great read, but they missed out on another big issue - tons of content is semi-private and will be lost forever.



http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/?single_page=tr...






 

Here's a 30 day challenge.

Only consume Youtube and Play Music content in a language you barely know.

This is how much of the world interacts with our products.

All of a sudden you understand why lyric videos are so popular on Youtube. It also explains weird comments on G+ from people that are just playing around with English.

I've been doing something like that for a few days. It's eye opening.

Oh and if you're interested in music discovery from Suisse Romande see the link below.


https://www.youtube.com/user/LesReperagesCouleur3






 

about vaporwave -- somehow I missed this trend...

oh, and much A E S T H E T I C



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM






 

Rolling down 580 and Bus #37 is rattling on each bump and making it hard to even type this message. Is it time for some upgraded shocks?










 

So maybe it's just me, but I've misposted to the wrong target multiple times in the past week. I think it's because I'm used to the send-arrow being right next to the audience.

With Tau the Post button is on the bottom, thus my eye doesn't cross the default audience.

I thought that privacy had a requirement that the send be right next to the post button for exactly this reason.

cc +105287604880515191722 / +111378387414156670233 / +112530828667788492083









 

Kryptonite for fixjsstyle

* @param {!Element|null} card Card element.









 

Circles and People still matter

So Bindu just announced that she was limiting comments to Extended Circles (again) due to trolling and creepers. -(She deleted the post after a few hours..)- It's actually there, I just missed it.. (thanks Amber!)



https://plus.google.com/115989323496360706014






 

Never thought you'd see the day..

Oh and for those unfamiliar - the trippy logo is Camelia. Can you see the P6? Now you can...



http://perl6releasetalk.ticketleap.com/perl-tech-talk/details






 

Blast from the past..

- "Who gets to see this" was a much better way of telling people what's going on. (Even if 'Twitter' wasn't really a thing.
- Google Me? Google You?




https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0B6u4AdjA8gX8TnVzeWFONVUybzA/view






 

Juror PII in Alameda County is at risk from POODLE, FREAK, and LOGJAM attacks.

Chrome and Firefox refuse to connect. Safari is A-OK.

Of course this blacklisting is causing IT Admins grief. Glad I don't have to admin crap products with embedded ssl stacks..

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/o3vZD-Mg2Ic



https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ejuror.alameda.courts.ca.gov






 

*Faster than the speed of TAP*

Fixing a breakage before TAP found it....

I'd say something about the TAP Barrier....



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






 

Glad to see a new major tenant in Oakland. Still think it would've been a super place for Google. Alas alas..


http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-will-open-East-Bay-HQ-in-Oakland-s-Sears-6523178.php