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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New Kill Oz Theme songs.

Sadly out of print, but was able to buy this on vinyl over on eBay...



http://petdance.com/nr/discography/comps/busted-at-oz/

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@NLAPandora @internetarchive Thanks to @jgoerzen there's a 2007-era archive of gopherspace at https://t.co/2CtFKcT5LJ

Me, At Conference. _*Oh, I work for Google*_ .... space time warps.

Next time I might just use a fictitious company. If we can agree on a secret name Googlers can just nod understandingly when I say "Oh, I work for Massive Dynamics".



http://www.siegelgale.com/brand-naming-8-great-fake-company-names/

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Where's the schema.org markup? Where do I file bugs?

Guess I should just be happy that there's an RSS feed here... https://blog.google/rss/


https://blog.google/

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Attending the Long Now Member Summit today #longnow20 https://longnow.org/events/02016/oct/04/long-now-member-summit/

I'll be at this thing today. Will take notes and have a post trip report.


https://longnow.org/events/02016/oct/04/long-now-member-summit/

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Important article by Vint Cerf in the latest CACM.



http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/10/207755-were-going-backward/fulltext

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Finding is somewhat ironic that the project to turn down Oz is called Deathstar. Past project G+ names included *MorningStar* and *NorthStar*

Oh and the follow on _Falcon_ project is aptly named, as you can see below...


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Ello added a http://go/+sub button.




http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9ad48e023e0e67d4a8cda3fc9&id=9c89f17d97&e=91cf3b6099

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Added a new ubiquity instance recently. I'm happy to say that I've moved my home directory to a git repo. For internal usage git on borg is a good choice.

gob-ctl create user/lindner/dotfiles
cd ~
git init
echo "*" > .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit -m "initial commit"
git remote add origin sso://user/lindner/dotfiles
git push -u origin master

The trick I mention below for append only files also works for .dremel_history



http://www.1500wordmtu.com/2016/my-new-favorite-way-to-manage-home-directories-with-git

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Did Someone say *Megadeth*?

So I had to laugh at the Events Demo using Megadeth. Back in the day we used email to coordinate our outings.

\m/ forever!

Oh and I ended up losing my glasses and contracting a skin infection. Totally worth it.

_>From the farthest reaches of the net, donnell@ux.acs.umn.edu said:_
_._
_> so... dread is little more than 24 hours away. what are your bags?_

_Sorry folks, can't make this one, was really considering it, but......_
_databases calling and this other ton of work....._

_> let us move this email through, doodz, so we do not leave anyone out of_
_> this most excellent event (well, besides motorhead and metal church on_
_> the 4th of june at first ave, and the "clash of the titans" with
. slayer, megadeth, and anthrax on the 9th at Trout aire ;)._

_Say does anyone need a ticket to the clash of the titans. I bought_
_four, so far three are spoken for. Since it's general admission It_
_doesn't matter where you get your ticket, just as long as you get it._
_I also have room in my 79 Duster Partymobile for one more passenger._

_So who will it be? Who's brave enough to mosh it up with me?_

_See ya in the PIT!_



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFRpvYyY7Y

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@colemickens Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has

Boq history.

NikkoNodes actually sounds kinda cool...
Nikkoify not so much...


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tx0CS03rsUfREx36CNoq2Yr0uZNZn9LPU4dAMe5DhgY/view?_escaped_fragme...

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