Godwin's law; but for content recommendations..
h/t to Ray Cromwell who had the movie Iron Sky recommended in Google Feed..... (which has hitler riding a dinosaur on the moon....)
I started selfhosting my Known instance at https://1500wordmtu.com
The folks at withknown.com are nice, but their focus isn't on end-users these days and I need to get this on SSL, plus would like to use more plugins. [And if all goes well this posts to my social.coop mastodon account!]
Dark Agile and the importance of making space for diversity.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html
Surprised it took until 2018 to get an Interviewing Moma badge.
/me looks at badge... looks at CLs-submitted-through-Cider badge.... looks back....
"I don’t just believe in miracles,” says the father of the internet, “I use software — so I rely on them"
https://twitter.com/mpesce/status/1071917179094818816
Just wow. What a way to run a platform....
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/seized-cache-of-facebook-docs-raise-competition-and-consent-questi...
A group of dependencies is called 'a liability'
https://twitter.com/teabass/status/1069580787694084096
Would love to see the Ads team run retro banner/video ads on April 1st.
Or offer this as an option in Google Contributor...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-first-ever-banner-ad-on-the-web/523728/
@SarahJamieLewis The @worldbrain Memex system is working well for me. Full text index of all the pages I visit. Injects search results in Google/DuckDuckGo. Recommended. (https://t.co/7f4pklLb9M)
The @worldbrain Memex system is working well for me. Full text index of all the pages I visit. Injects search results in Google/DuckDuckGo. Recommended.
Before there was Commons Clause or Affero the University of Minnesota Gopher team tried to license the server code with carve-outs for non-commercial use.
https://t.co/1rcNIjN8bo
(https://t.co/xLP7jqv09E)
Before there was Commons Clause or Affero the University of Minnesota Gopher team tried to license the server code with carve-outs for non-commercial use.
http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/vms/networking/gopher/gopher-software-licensing-policy.ancient
So in these trying times it's always good to celebrate #momentsofjoy -- those little things that make life good.
My moment of joy is recently finding Computher and 8 Bit Weapon in my music stream.
https://computeher.bandcamp.com/album/bliptastic
https://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com/album/the-8-bit-weapon-collection-1998-2012
go/tacotown is now deprecated code wrapped in a dead product (Buzz) and contained in another deprecated product (consumer G+).
content warning: excessive food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUWersr7pc
And I sure hope it doesn't get wrapped in a big Apps deprecated blueberry pancake.
@BrokeAssStuart @Benioff @markpinc @zynga I'll never forget when High-level Zynga folks bragged about the 1247830millions they made from the "Tip the Dealer" feature on Texas Hold'em.
That was in 2008 -- so yeah, sorrow all the way down.
"Turns out G+ was a load-bearing member holding up YouTube"
h/t https://social.coop/@jjg/100909481088731798
Reviewing a doc and looking for suggestions on an evocative way of conveying non-technical user of a product? Here's the passage I flagged:
And not just a lot of people, but everyday people -- people like our mothers, our gym-buddies, that one friend that DMs you all the funny tweets.
I didn't see any specific replacement suggestions on:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/So_simple,_your_mother_could_do_it
Backup and Sync at 1-2 file/sec after deselecting a large folder.
filed details b/111688571
Try harder lil' ChangeBufferPersisted.GetEntriesWithDirectionAndAction, you can do it!
With Inbox out of the way Hop might gain traction.... (and then will likely be acquired by the Assistant team /s). That said it's amazing what .5m in seed funding can do these days. Pretty impressive given those constraints.
https://gethop.com/
This is a fascinating discussion between Danah Boyd and Douglas Rushkoff. It Covers:
- "Amplification, Freedom of Speech and platform paternalism.
- Networks vs Groups/Community and how to stop tribalism.
- Why Media Literacy isn't enough to combat fake news.
- Google's Original Sin:
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/10/business/technology-google-and-yahoo-settle-dispute-over-search-p...
Actual interview starts around 13 minutes in.
https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-102-danah-boyd/
Short writeup of the dweb summit. Dragonfly makes it a bit too easy for reporters to draw contrasts.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/decentralisation-next-big-step-for-the-world-wide...
Javascript module loading is giving me deja vu for the old a.out vs elf vs.coff..
The solution then, as now. Statically link everything...
A ton of great content here including Vint's talk on Digital Preservation.
As a Googler you'll want to have a thick skin and open mind for many of these.
https://decentralizedweb.net/videos/
The feature that Facebook shipped in response to G+ is being retired... #courage
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/09/facebook-is-shutting-down-friend-list-feeds-today/
The Talk: "Internet Infrastructure Challenges with Decentralized Web" was really quite good. The associated article that goes with this is also worth a read, especially as 5G arrives and ISPs try to become "The Cloud".
http://thenewstack.io/game-nodes-network-operators-vs-cloud-operators
Lotus Concept Video (2014)
Missed this one the first time..
I do have some issues with this. I agree with the goal of having technology help us be more human. However to achieve the goals of this system one would have to restructure our lives to have most activities be technology-mediated. That means conforming our norms to the technology platforms which makes us less than human.
Oh and it was a pre-Uber world....
http://go/lotusprinciples
http://go/lotusvideo
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RwipB98dLpdDgyNElWZXlSbkM2d2t0LUlTOGZjdw/edit
*Fearless Cooperation: Giving eval() to your worst enemy for fund and profit*
_Tidbits form the Decentralized Web Conference 2018_
Brian Warner described a new Javascript Secure Execution Environment from Agoric.
"Imagine if you could have safely executable json"
This is based on early Caja work done at Google by many folks. Looks pretty interesting:
https://github.com/Agoric/Jessie
Looks like Mark Miller left Google to work there too...
@YellzHeard @codecooperative Donated. Might be interesting to connect these coders to the new @codeforamerica "Clear My Record" project https://t.co/YBY82mZCcY that @lourmoore is running. (https://t.co/OGrEo8eXZM)
@SIMSdoomtree I'd love to see you and the rest of the @DOOMTREE collective on the @resonatecoop streaming service some day.
Interesting day at the Distributed Web conference.
- spoke to knapsack for hope which sends data over satellite into Iran.
- at a workshop for Mesh networks where the Catalan blocking was front and center
- with people from the DAT and IPFS community who are building p2p systems to circumvent censorship.
Another world is possible.
It's a Mailbox...
My wife's aunt/uncle use a shared email account. They use it for everything including personal conversations.
I wonder if our identity PMs take *that* into consideration!
Can Google Duplex do two phase commit?
Just had the worst experience getting two medical schedulers to get a series of events coordinated. Total disaster.
Ended up getting everyone on a conference call to work out the details, would be hard pressed to see an AI accomplish that...
#til hangouts chat web UI is responsive if you narrow the window.
.. that combined with running in a chromeless window is much better than the native app, since you don't have to re-auth in two places all the time:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app=https://chat.google.com
#DWebSummit is coming the end of this month. There will be... surprises...
Also check out that entirely stippled web site...
Bye Bye Bluefin
Today I removed the last remnants of the Google+ mobile basic frontend, aka Bluefin (see http://go/bluefin)
And congratulations to the team for leaving me some traps:
- Removing protos lead to global js compile errors. Turns out that a bunch of random code relied on mobile basic soy_globals.
- To calculate a URL path the following was done:
- Execute a java method.
- ... that instantiates a soy template *places.soy*
- ... that executes {mbPlaceUrl(....) }
- ... which is provided by a soy plugin
- ... that runs some other java code!
Well played, well played indeed.
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https://j.gifs.com/7aNxzY.gif
Does Alphabet have a 30 year or 300 year plan?
The Softbank 30 year plan from 2010 is pretty thought provoking. (It's already 8 years old, but still feels forward thinking.)
https://cdn.softbank.jp/en/corp/set/data/irinfo/presentations/vod/2010/pdf/press_20100625_01.pdf
Also see
https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/about/philosophy/vision/
for more...
Blender put all their videos on PeerTube after getting shut down on Youtube.
PeerTube uses ActivityPub standards and WebTorrent to serve up videos. It's under rapid development and has progressed a lot since the last time I checked in with them..
https://video.blender.org/
RT @SarahJamieLewis: In the Dat protocol white paper under Network Privacy, there is a section that reads: "There is an inherent tradeoff i…
Protip: don't fill your GCP disk 100%. Instance starts but you can't login since there's no place to put an ssh key..
The fixes are.. Not good. (resize not supported on OS, so have to clone, mount on new VM, and then build a new VM with the cloned disk...)
Probably just going to burn it down and start over...
This is Nancy O'Malley scaremongering in the Alameda County DA race. Also check out the bowl of Cheetos and the ashtrays.