So when is YouTube music moving to Moffett Place 3?




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Moffet Place has source-routed elevators... 1st I've ever seen this...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENWVRcMGDoU about bin packing elevators.

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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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Typo of the day -- MEATADATA

"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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Telling the Guatemala based @UPS phone support reps that "Even Comcast gives you a 2 hour window" is a losing strategy

_“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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Paid for AF4 shipping, got BE1

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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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/

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Yes Virginia Eternabugs do get fixed!

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

b/7390256

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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

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Dyn acquired by Oracle?

I've been wanting to move my secondary DNS off them for a while. Recommendations anyone?

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/21/oracle-acquires-dns-provider-dyn-subject-of-a-massive-ddos-attack-...

#til about hash array mapped tries


https://idea.popcount.org/2012-07-25-introduction-to-hamt/

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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

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Typo of the day -- derp learning

YUDA - great logo, even better tool.

Oh and I'm already #34 on the scoreboard.

https://yuda.corp.google.com



https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6353721735624836113/6353721735448299490?...

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Listening to DEF CON soundtracks today, including what must be the only song ever written about ssh...

http://music.gravitasrecordings.com/track/ssh-to-your-heart-featuring-shannon-morse

Paging the Spaces team! Talkshow had some neat features that might be apropros. Controlling the "Microphone" was one of them..

+112802115175816406059 +114740374810943095093


https://medium.com/talkshow/we-are-shutting-down-talkshow-on-december-1-98ea1dacf3c8

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Google+ WBS == 16.2 :(



http://www.webbloatscore.com/

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Needed to fire up an Etherium test node so I thought I'd give Azure a shot since they have a nifty dev-labs tool built for it.

Pretty nice. I had a VM up and running with 00 credit in about 15 minutes, even with recovering my live.com password account.



https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/

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Weekly GFE pushes? What year is it?

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As I said on http://g/opensource-discuss :

_We’re Google. The 10x solution is to replace DNS. (And I’m only half-joking.)_


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Releasing this under Affero GPL LICENSE would have been an epic troll.


https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-nomulus-open-source.html#__sid=md1

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20% project Idea

Create Google+ Communities based on donation match data from https://give.corp.google.com/b

Then expand that further, let anyone make communities with a recurring membership fee, or private profiles with a membership. Sort of like Patreon.. but better.





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Am I the only that's shocked that GFE pushes are paused for over a week?

If so I hope that people point out how much of a SPOF this is. [And maybe we'll finally be able to open the huge urlmap.production.any in cider without problems]




https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/prod-notify-all/QuvZJiC0TKc/io_-O0nCAgAJ

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Found some weekend reading based on the abstract alone.


_Although it has been a part of the dark underbelly of the Internet since its inception, recent events have brought the discussion board site 4chan to the forefront of the world's collective mind. In particular, /pol/, 4chan's "Politically Incorrect" board has become a central figure in the outlandish 2016 Presidential election. Even though 4chan has long been viewed as the "final boss of the Internet," it remains relatively unstudied in the academic literature.
In this paper we analyze /pol/ along several axes using a dataset of over 8M posts. We first perform a general characterization that reveals how active posters are, as well as how some unique features of 4chan affect the flow of discussion. We then analyze the content posted to /pol/ with a focus on determining topics of interest and types of media shared, as well as the usage of hate speech and differences in poster demographics. We additionally provide quantitative evidence of /pol/'s collective attacks on other social media platforms. We perform a quantitative case study of /pol/'s attempt to poison anti-trolling machine learning technology by altering the language of hate on social media. Then, via analysis of comments from the 10s of thousands of YouTube videos linked on /pol/, we provide a mechanism for detecting attacks from /pol/ threads on 3rd party social media services._


https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452

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All-in on Ubiquity

Turned off my HP workstation for the last time.

You can get 6CPU, 32GB mem, 300GB disk hosts these days. They're actually pretty decent for most work. You lose hyperthreading but you get 46MB cpu cache. I/O feel relatively snappy.

Get your own https://portal.corp.google.com/

Of course I look forward to the day when all of this runs on GCE and I can remount my block device on a n1-highmem-32 (32 cpus, 208GB memory !!)




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