Can't believe that Google Photos still does not have a way to find photos without location/face tags. :(
You'd think we'd want this for better quality data as inputs.. People are motivated to add this data to get better maps/timelines...
https://b.corp.google.com/issues/25692898 for context..
Through some intermediaries I'm trying to help a Saudi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loujain_al-Hathloul get access to her Google accounts. It's difficult since she was jailed and tortured for three years, doesn't have access to the recovery email address or phone numbers.
Sadly the Account Recovery process is proving to be its own form of pain.
If anyone wants to further escalate case 2-0838000031065 I'd really appreciate it.. I've gone back and forth for a few days already on this.
Apparently Twitter was very proactive about getting her back on. I'd love for us to outperform their customer service!!!!!
What is this now? I just received a sketchy invite to my corp. address.. Hmm, the dark patterns are at play...
https://www.fishbowlapp.com/
https://www.fishbowlapp.com/
FiraCode + Ligatures -- so nice!
Better late than never I suppose :)
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
I'm in Dallas for a few weeks. If there are any Googlers that want to say hi in a socially distant way I'm up for it!
I have a chromebook with a noisy fan, so it sounds like a truck engine..
Actually kind of fun as the fan revs and slows. Launching gmail is like pressing down on the gas pedal hard :-D
A must watch documentary on voting rights now on Prime Video. Was lucky enough to see this at the Drive in a couple weeks back.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08FRQQKD5
cc @westwinddrivein @primevideo
Please help a good friend give their little fella a life saving surgery. I'll match any contributions. https://t.co/QjZlI3f8QJ
Used my WFH budget to buy a 500W/520Wh battery pack.... (I already have solar panels with bypass circuit to recharge..)
https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1303388835808595970
@lipsandskin Can someone tell me if this is the right way to summon the correct lindner? Bonus points if it sounds like you're summoning a demon =)
Heraufbeschwören den @c_lindner
Product Idea: Terraform for Teams using Google Calendar/GSuite.
Just let me put agendas and crontab lines in a text file and have it drive the whole thing. Right now it's all pointy-clicky and there's no way to rollback in a coordinated way.
Also would make it soooo easy to split a team into two or clone a team...
The known site I'm posting this from is finally back up after a few hours of fighting with podman networking, nftables and mysql unicode collation.
Income targeting seems.. problematic on a number of levels given the distribution of income by ethnicity and gender.. I probably don't want to know how we calculate rich vs poor traffic.
https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2580383?hl=en
Can't seem to find a way to get Desktop PWAs to work on a new laptop..
Currents/G+ isn't offering an install option and the PWA Anywhere app isn't really doing it's thing.
I seemed to have gotten some entries created but clicking on them opens a tab. Then I can go to the triple dot menu and click 'Open in Gmail' and the application window opens.
Sorry Chromebook, your screen lock timeout is way too short...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mHPeMGTJM
"Police Reform" is the new "Cage Free Eggs"
We don't need more humane oppression. Replace the system with one that is focused solving on human needs, not in reinforcing broken organizations.
Google could refuse to work with Law Enforcement Agencies until they clean up their act. Minimum legal effort and that's it.
Not doing so puts people at risk.
Our time and assistance is valuable and a privilege so we should prioritize good actors over bad.
"The Purpose of a System is What it Does"
Change, or replace, the system to get better outcomes.
https://www.mpd150.com/resources/
Finally solved a really weird network issue on my home network.
Multiple interfaces with different firewall rules on the same wire cause great confusion, but a few sysctl entries fix it.
https://netbeez.net/blog/avoiding-arp-flux-in-multi-interface-linux-hosts/
@slightlylate @KevinJHill Better put it in the freezer if you want your GPU to survive.
https://t.co/BWhQN7Rtbo
Adding some new background music to the WFH mix. Come play! You can chat and make requests!
https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html
#til that xscreensaver is on Android and usable as live wallpapers.
"Hacking the Gibson" adds some nice cyberpunk aesthetic to my home screen...
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html
Oh wow, I haven't read the issue cover-to-cover but I didn't see @waynecoyne mentioned there.
I'll make sure that I do this justice and will see if I can find an ANSI C (or A2) sized scanner for the cover art.
@[email protected] yeah, good times. Bad reception though! And Radio K only had a daytime AM license at the time. That's why they were 'open to 9pm'!!!
You had to work harder to listen to good music back then. @radiok remembers. I'm sure @djkevincole of #rev105 remembers.
Just amazing work by @chankfonts including design, content (and fonts!) and photography by @midwestartbuyer and tons of other people...
Will upload to @internetarchive when I'm happy with the results..
The @dnalounge webcast player sprouted a bridged IRC chat during the #deathguild DJ set. Will be really interesting once it switches back to the music video jukebox on https://www.dnalounge.com/musicvideos/
Stream it:
https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html
Traded Saturday morning cartoons for Saturday music. Teenage Kicks on The Current by Jim McGuinn followed by Dandelion radio.
https://www.thecurrent.org/programs/teenage-kicks
@thecurrent @jmcgnn @dandelionradio
Anyone Chicago Googlers here?
Apparently there's a fire-bowl on the roof of the Chicago office. I happen to know the artist that made it. He asked me if anyone had photos of it they could share.
If you do let me know and I'll get them to him!
[we was also a loyal G+ user back in the day!!!]
https://johntunger.com/
And here's the song of the same name by The Suburbs.
A huge shout out to Owen Murphy and John Richards for playing it this morning on KEXP and reminding us that we're not alone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAAkro0jKFY
@RadioCoachOwen @loserboy @TheSuburbsBand @kexp
It's my birthday and the world isn't fooling around, but we can do our best to help out the most vulnerable.
So help each other, be weird, have awe, sing, dance and be human!
It's live! loving your anecdotes and the narration by @yeahrightpos
I do think it's time for an at-home 'Summer Splash Party' where we put on our swim gear and dance to disco 🕺💃.
(check out the clip at 20:24!)
Thank you Dominik, I have been blessed with a treasure of digital memories to rediscover and share. So glad that you were able to enjoy my journey through the archives.
According to this interview with R.U. Sirius
"Howard Rheingold swears that he’s Michael Wilson, who was involved in the development of the TV show Burn Notice..."
https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-books-fiction/on-music-mondo-mayhem-an-interview-with-r-u-sir...
Also the same week I discovered there's a Jay's Longhorn documentary..
https://longhornfilm.com/
Oh wow.
Already have @djkevincole a few minutes in...
https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/first-avenue-closer-to-the-stars-preview-37031/
@FirstAvenue
Something about these times that I feel your loss as my own. 💔
Thank you for connecting the community and being there for everyone, as Ralph was there for you.
We'll all probably remember the first friend who contracted COVID-19. For me that's Andrea. She wrote about it on her Tinyletter.
Please read, if only to prepare yourself for what is to come.
https://tinyletter.com/slingshotannie/letters/an-abundance-of-caution
Not to be grim about it but everyone may want to consider doing your paperwork for medical power of attorney and/or a health directive. At the very least partners should consider adding each other as trusted "https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/life-care-plan/choose-agent" (which is what Kaiser calls it). You'd be able to access tests and communicate with Doctors on behalf of each other.
Having gone through this I feel very fortunate that I was able to make medical decisions for another and knew what the right thing was to do.