"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.
cc +107239907223614146058 +115243107530846780027 +114418285744011589781 +105287604880515191722 +115114058966008692727 +105016019269323464412
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.
*Wildfire* was quite the system back in the 90s, seems like the Android Dialer or Google Voice could easily implement the best features today.
Some tidbits:
- When summoned Wildfire says "I'm here"
- Whispering in your ear could be done on phone, but also in real life if you had, say Google Glass.
More details from an old Fortune article:
http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/08/214362/index.htm
_For now, Wildfire is only for those willing to shell out big bucks. A business with a dedicated server pays an average of ,400 per user to get set up. Independent subscribers who buy the service from authorized service providers generally pay monthly charges of between 50 and 00. Lowering prices is the company's top priority. Competition is looming, but to date no one else has as sophisticated a product on the market._
I don't know much about co-ops and education. But this is an interesting development:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/google-opens-its-g-suite-for-education-to-home-school-co-ops/
Recruiter pitches from Facebook and Amazon on the same day.
Day is young maybe Apple or Microsoft can chime in too...
Who can beat this [[ping] * [market cap]] record?
*Memes are the Building Blocks of Perceived Reality*
PDF added to my reading list...
https://icitech.org/information-warfare-the-meme-is-the-embryo-of-the-narrative-illusion/
Wired UK with some good coverage of the #platformcoop movement including @resonatecoop
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-tech-cooperatives-changing-the-way-startups-do-business
Hi German folks! Please vote out racists like @c_lindner. I'd rather be mistaken in my mentions for singer @patricklindner_.
https://www.politico.eu/article/christian-lindner-german-liberal-fdp-angela-merkel-leaders-bakery-ta...
@freiheit_chris @ulfposh @Markus_Soeder @jensspahn @janfleischhauer @sebastiankurz @janboehm @RobertHabeck @c_lindner Most people mistake me for @patricklindner_
@KeineWunder bah! @ulfposh did you mistake me for @patricklindner_? I suppose that rebels are against Volksmusik too....
Will be interesting to see what Chrome team does with this.
It sure feels like a rollback situation, especially when we're breaking our own stuff.
This was 6 years ago and here I am still using emacs with a fuzzy copy of a Guice dependency injection graph in my head.
https://vimeo.com/36579366
Fantastic performance tonight in San Francisco by @[email protected] She's a fabulous performer and member of Doomtree Collective. Here's a thoughtful interview from 2015 about Doomtree's unique path to success:
http://www.minnesotabusiness.com/dessa-ceo
RT @bradfitz: The video of the @PerkeepOrg talk from @lejatorn and me at @lfnw the other day is already online:
https://t.co/rJSivYts5v
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Because social networks are what we do, you should understand how the bonds Google+ creates can spread contagions (both the good and bad kinds...)
http://ncase.me/crowds/
Reading "The World of Knowbots" from "The Digital Library Project". circa 1988
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/kahn-cerf-88.pdf
Thievery Corporation's Treasure from the Temple is on Resonate Coop:
Click through from https://thieverycorporation.com/treasures/
Give it some mutual aid :) If you're a member it's a good album, if you're not a member plz sign up!
xpost: https://social.coop/web/statuses/99893173661512731
Also: _"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance, however, any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice."_
https://mastodon.starrevolution.org/@Laurelai/99820508505212563
It'll be a a rich tapestry of technology, philosophy, ethics, and activism.
https://decentralizedweb.net/
I've had a deja vu feeling about Maven for awhile and finally was able to put my finger on it...
I present to you a clip from the 1985 film _"Real Genius"_.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTx_qTwQqjU
Cleaning up my Xmarks bookmarks so I can import them into @pinboard before they disappear forever. Interesting look back at the default bookmarks that came with Safari/IE etc.
https://helpdesk.xmarks.com/bookmark-manager-basics/import-and-export/