BRB reading whitepaper. Happy that it's not yet another ethereum smart contract.

[also have you noticed that having a whitepaper is a prereq for startups these days...]


https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf

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Now playing in the G MinusOne war room. 10% 10% ! !




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

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*Google+ vs Facebook GIFs - 2011*

So I hear that body slam GIFs are all the rage now. Of course back in 2011...

Many more cringe-worthy things here:

https://zahidlilani.com/2011/07/19/hilarious-google-plus-gif-animations/



https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6438194510653877985/6438194508238025506?...

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Know your Space Cat Heritage...


http://www.cameronsworld.net/

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There are days when I'm ashamed of the industry I work in.

Of course the medical industry should feel shame too. This is all about treating disease as a big money making opportunity. Just feels like ghouls feasting off the misfortune of others.



http://gizmodo.com/how-a-company-you-ve-never-heard-of-sends-you-letters-a-1795643539

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Launching +1 button evolving banners...



https://play.google.com/music/m/Thzqqdnh7rpdhjodtkdkricg4z4?t=Anvil_Of_Crom_From_Conan_The_Barbarian...

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*Paul* Added *Groove Thang* to *Bumper Music*

[manually constructed activity post]

Plug for my bumper music playlist[2] that you can use to spice up your meetings and give it that TGIF vibe. Suggestions welcome, description below:

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Waiting for people to show up for your meeting? Add some Bumper Music! [1] These are instrumental tracks that can be easily faded out at any point.

Retrospective? Let's do the Time Warp!

Your "classic" weekly sync? Apache, Frankenstein, Hocus Pocus, and Green Onions have you covered.

Top Secret Project meeting? Moby's James Bond

Or just spice up your boring all hands with some electro/synth/funk.

Suggestions welcome!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_music
[2] https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXynB0Y7GSMNgd3XrzHLe5CQOatDMjcWYhS0Gn7R7ACZuOmlJLQJ9vez4G...





https://play.google.com/music/m/Tur2wrgcwhqev3aymylzwn2d2em?t=Groove_Thang_2006_-_Remaster_-_BEF

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Always good to reread the *As We May Think* essay.

Dr Bush foresaw much of our modern life. Well, except for the Taboola/Outbrain ads you'll find in the Atlantic. Pretty sure that Lovecraft predicted those...


https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/#article

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And here I am redacting Google+ widget logs so we don't track you across the web...

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/6320398


https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169421

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*What are you listening to?*

Remember those days when you had your chat status connected to your music player, and your Livejournal posts included your music and mood? Was that just a fad?





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Sad to see Imzy go down.. So much potential...




https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/imzy_is_shutting_down

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I highly recommend reading the updated *ACM Code of Ethics*. You can draw a straight line from those principles to Product Excellence, Focus on the User and more.

I also wonder how many Googlers actually belong to a professional organization? Do people think of themselves more as Professionals? Artisans? Proto Plumbers?



https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/5/216328-listening-to-professional-voices/fulltext

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https://m.xkcd.com/1838/

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Seeing these strong words being posted in a few places. I probably need to create a Silicon Valley Apostates collection...

Oh and it's Maciej Cegłowski, fair warning...


http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm

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Anyone know what's the latest on Macaroons? They seem to solve a large set of problems in a general way...


https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html

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TL;DR: OMG! Your aggregated data is not protecting privacy...

Also if you're not familiar with k-anonymity this is a good place to start...



https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/15/trajectory-recovery-from-ash-user-privacy-is-not-preserved-in-ag...

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I highly recommend The Product Excellence Workshop. Take it with your team for an even stronger experience. The instructors +101977395828280125935 and +100280079678510579493 deftly covered a large body of knowledge.

It's also good to see the H.E.A.R.T. model covered in formal training. People like
+114097187269026141752 and friends have done well to evangelize this in Social/G+ over the years.

Lots more at http://go/peworkshop and more resources at https://product-excellence.googleplex.com/



https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hHF-4S5VYcTUNLMEl0bDVaOUk/view

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Anyone else subscribed to *The Morning Paper*? Interested in starting a reading group? I found them when I was reading up on Honey Badger BFT and have been a fan since.




https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/08/end-to-end-optimized-image-compression/

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Happy to see this...

https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/


https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/internet/hbos-silicon-valley-joins-the-push-fo...

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CitC on mac, really hope security kittens are in my favor..

https://g3doc.corp.google.com/devtools/srcfs/g3doc/mac-citc.md




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I still have business cards with code.google.com on them....



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QoS is awesome. Returns 429 to GoogleBot when under load.

And Google+ is fortunate to have +103629377878623483645 implementing and developing it. Thanks!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KFDiTrQe9lWDJOMWx3a0xCb28/view

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So when is YouTube music moving to Moffett Place 3?




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This is a very well written article about how the film/content industries are attempting (and failing) to keep up with archiving their data.

Reading about LTO I now understand why gtape is moving to http://go/chronicle and http://go/timelock (Also interesting that timelock has a Q2 OKR for 500PB, which is 10x the size of the film archive mentioned in the article.)

I'm also curious if Google has had to delete data that we've regretted. Do we have all of the old street view data?



http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/the-lost-picture-show-hollywood-archivists-cant-outpace-obsole...

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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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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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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..]




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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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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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Typo of the day: SQWEh




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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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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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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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"Scoutjet is the web crawler for IBM Watson"


http://www.scoutjet.com/

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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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_“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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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...

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



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

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