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Human, Dustcake, Engineer
Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.
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TODO(lindner): attend tech debt conference
https://2019.techdebtconf.org/
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Your periodic reminder to reread 10 things. Not sure this is linked from anywhere but it still exists.
I'd like to see a required online course for history, philosophy and ethics on equal footing with "You Said What" and other legal mandated training.
https://www.google.com/about/philosophy.html
Is this even covered in Noogler training?
Login Keychain Problems? Try this one trick!
Updated to latest MacOS. Yay!
Repeated prompts to "unlock keychain". oh no!
I was determined to not reset my login keychain, because then you lose the TouchID gnubby and have to reimage the whole laptop. (May only apply to santa exceptions, maybe not..)
I finally got lucky and found a way to work around it. (and yes, I've let Techstop know about it)
1) Open Keychain app.
2) Click on login item in left pane.
3) Right click on login item, select 'Change settings for Keychain "login"'
4) In my case the Lock After setting was checked and had a large number
5) Change the timeout value and save.
You'll need to enter your keychain password a few times. But once you're done the keychain will possibly be updated and uncorrupted.
To verify you can run the gcert command in your terminal. You should not be prompted to unlock the keychain and touchid should be requested.
Theory: changing the expiration setting forces the keychain app to rewrite the keychain data structures fresh.
Martin Fowler with the hot takes. I for one hope that we can get away from the speed vs quality arguments that always pop up..
The building blocks of software development - languages, libraries, and platforms - change significantly every few years. The equivalent in the physical world would be that customers usually add new floors and change the floor-plan once half the building is built and occupied, while the fundamental properties of concrete change every other year.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html
Just got the password notification email on my personal dasher domain.
**hugs** to the teams dealing with unencrypted passwords.
Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution
Interesting:
Of course you have to trust your User Agent (Browser) to keep your browsing secret..
I finally finished the very long https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195941-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism Anyone else?
I have opinions, but I don't think I'll write them here... However reading the background on B.F. Skinner brought up childhood memories of coin operated "chicken playing tic-tac-toe" at the County Fair.
My fear is that the solution for data labeling is the Apps Flexible Orgs project which is all about implementing silos within a dasher domain. For example: large customer wants union vs non-union workers kept in separate Org Units and unable to communicate.
I'd link it, but I'm not sure if it's need-to-know or not...
“Instead of i7 they should have called it Pentium Pro MAX 8.”
https://twitter.com/davidcrawshaw/status/1128407291408023555
Requesting some additions to the Noogler curriculum:
1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality aka "bikeshed"
Undocumented Codebase
[actually it's the exploded wiring cabinet for my neighborhood that's transitioning to AT&T fiber...]
Happy that I was finally able to donate some vacation time. [Of course between the time I applied and the time it was used I was no longer maxed out...]
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/us-benefits/time-off/vacation/overview--emergency-vacation-don...
Arrived Sydney, Australia.
Smells like wild fires.
How long before Javascript starts looking like Perl?
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/class-fields
Alt Text in Action
Would be nice if all of our products supported Alt text as well as Mastodon does...
And if sharing with Louis Gray I'd say "Image of a rack mount server with long fsck times"
Red Hat, 20 Years
Red Hat turns 20 so they asked former folks for their memories. Here's something I dug up that might be of interest to folks 'round these parts..
... I never got a response on this email; but that might be because Red Hat was always late paying Google Invoices..
Looks like Joan is still here. Ray does not show up in Epitaphs.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/11/google-and-huawei-nexus-6p-settlement/
Notably, people who got Pixel 1XL phones will only get 0. In retrospect giving those phones out was a great investment...
'stories' from 'Github'
"stories" from. "GitHub"
In the developer ecosystem, branch conflicts are considered especially heinous.
On Github, the dedicated developers who resolve these vicious conflicts are members of an elite squad known as the Special Merge Unit.
These are their stories.
Dun Dun
Some days it feels like our whole industry is built on quicksand...
Also hope that Play Books folks are finding ways to help these folks transfer purchases over...
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/2/18292177/microsoft-ebooks-refund-stops-selling-digital-books-store
Press '+' to Pay Respects
Goodbye Google+, thanks for trailblazing tech, good times and connections made.
Please donate to @internetarchive to support the upkeep of the (finally real) Google+ Ghost Town.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190313142515/https://plus.google.com/+PaulLindner
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Tempted.. Nora Bateson takes the #cybernetics of her upbringing and takes it to a whole new level.
Cc +106683584710120301522 since posting to G+ collections are removed from my App..
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2019-04-02/our-inner-ecology-its-all-about-shifting-how-we-t...
#connectdogfood
I can't seem to create a post using the FAB on Web (Chrome Stable). Also if you make the window narrow the FAB button goes under the Posts.
[Also what is the experiment I can turn off to disable temporarily?]
News Archiving
""What we found was that the majority of news outlets had not given any thought to even basic strategies for preserving their digital content, and not one was properly saving a holistic record of what it produces.""
""What we found was that the majority of news outlets had not given any thought to even basic strategies for preserving their digital content, and not one was properly saving a holistic record of what it produces.""
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the-dire-state-of-news-archiving-in-the-digital-age.php
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G+ Museum Pieces...
Before we bury G+ it might be worthwhile to collect some memorabilia...
Marc Weber from the Computer History Museum asked if we wanted to contribute Google+ artifacts to CHM. They don't care about swag, but I could think of a few things that they might be interested in:
- The Obama + Dalai Lama framed print.
- The Buffalo? (Too big?)
- The Emerald Sea painting (did anyone save it?)
Open to suggestions....
[Too bad the Apiary whiteboard is long gone....]
Circles Circles Circles
So I thought I'd write an apps-script macro to help find Twitter profiles of my G+ circled people. [I'm assuming these contacts will go away on April 2nd, right Greg Wolfe ?]
Code works, but App Script barfs on the Twitter javascript used to render the follow buttons. So I just grabbed the html output and stuck it on a server and clicked the follow bu
tton...
If someone wants to poke at it and/or publish it (I have no time for either) have at it...
You can access it here:
And the xss-riddled code looks like this:
function doGet() {
var html = '<!DOCTYPE html>';
do {
var pageToken;
var connections = People.People.Connections.list('people/me', {
pageSize: 100,
personFields: 'names,urls',
pageToken: pageToken
});
connections.connections.forEach(function(person) {
// Skip people without URLs in their profile.
if (!person.urls) {
return;
}
person.urls.forEach(function(url) {
if (url.value && url.value.match(/twitter.com/)) {
var name = url.value;
if (person.names && person.names.length > 0) {
name = person.names[0].displayName;
}
html += '\n<br><a class="twitter-follow-button" href="' + url.value + '">';
html += 'Follow ' + name + '</a>\n';
}
});
});
pageToken = connections.nextPageToken;
} while (pageToken);
html += '\n<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
var output = HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(html);
output.setTitle('Google+ Follower Finder');
return output;
}
Moved my G+ following graph to Twitter more or less..
Wrote a hacky script to grab twitter URLs using the Google People API. Fed that into a web page with follow widgets
Hope to find more folks in the Fediverse https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/
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Live it Paul. I was trying to enable that feature back in 2012 ;) good to see your name!
, Mar 26 2019 on twitter.com
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Happy to see Uranium Club show up on @resonatecoop this morning.
https://resonate.is/profile/9203/
Always nice to see good stuff come out of Minneapolis.
A Poem for Code Red and Google+ turndown:
Here, in the melting structures of obsolete systems, is the fluid of possibility. It’s sticky with confusion, it smells like pain, & it stains the past w/ dyes of remorse. There is no blissy workshop to take to avert the discomfort. There is no formula for success. Just show up.
https://twitter.com/NoraBateson/status/1106099786791485440
In June 1995 I presented "Using Gopher with the World-Wide-Web" at GopherCon 95.
""Together the strengths of Gopher and WWW create a better, more integrated information system.""
http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNSeLizSGrHjpMZKQg21Sw15NQNTmMjA43mDtw66fNDSz/Webbedgopher.txt
#Web30 #ForTheWeb
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do you have any resources re: running a tls-enabled gopher server today?
, Mar 13 2019 on twitter.com
I haven't kept up with recent gopher protocol developments, but I do see some discussion on the gopher-project mailing list:
lists.debian.org/gopher-project…
, Mar 13 2019 on twitter.com
😂😂😂
, Mar 14 2019 on twitter.com
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Elizabeth Warren was secretly trying to tell us that we need to "break up" the global blobstore Spanner DB.
omg/13134
Thinking about holding a Wake for Consumer G+
"This ceremony allows one last interaction with the corpse, providing a time for the living to express their emotions and beliefs about death with the deceased."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_(ceremony)
Consumer G+ Wake
Anyone up for an HIRL before consumer G+ is gone for good?
This ceremony allows one last interaction with the corpse, providing a time for the living to express their emotions and beliefs about death with the deceased.
I ❤️ Standards
A long, long time ago I had an ISO bumper sticker with two cars colliding at equal heights. Can't seem to find any evidence of it existing anywhere, offline or online...
I'd recommend: Four Futures - Life After Capitalism.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/1847-four-futures
Take Care
CW: health, cancer, stuff like that.
So yeah, I've spent the past 5 days living at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. I spent my waking hours caring for my wife's basic needs as she recovers from an infection and progression of bone mets that caused much pain and suffering. We have a plan forward and are headed home today.
But that's neither here nor there. I don't want sympathy or anything like that; I post these updates to normalize and make visible the caretaker role that we all assume. Please use your sick leave, vacation, vacation donation time and finally short-term/long-term disability to care for your loved ones. You've earned it (and in the case of disability you're even paying premiums for it.)
I'll have a few more stories to share later on once I get caught-up. But for now behold the disco-light aesthetic of the Stanley Healthcare Bed-Check®. (It's basically a bed sensor and an alarm used to prevent people from falling). I highly doubt that it uses a cloud based TensorFlow prediction model.
@evacide Sounds like the long awaited Real Genius reboot... Who will play the Val Kilmer role is an open question...
Hmm, maybe mimic Ethereum?
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Licensing
- Reusable libraries/components MIT or Apache?
- Resonate-specific frontends/backends, AGPL? (like Mastodon?)
Note: AGPL would restrict participation by corp contributors (like myself)
@mattl wdyt?
If there’s a network component consider how much you’re concerned by SaaS and choose AGPLv3 or later. If not , GPLv3 or later.
For everything else Apache 2 License or CC0 deed.
, Feb 18 2019 on twitter.com
Hey Paul, why does AGPL prevent someone like you from contributing?
, Feb 18 2019 on twitter.com
Google and other companies restrict their employees from contributing to AGPL code.
I suggest giving some thought to negative/positive liberty., covered in "Decoding Liberation: the promise of free/open source sw"
sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~bcfoss/DL/
, Feb 18 2019 on twitter.com
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Is Utopia a Hospital?
Fred Turner --
A hospital is a place where people get together, work very hard over very long periods of time in defined roles, checking and rechecking each other’s work, and they work toward a benevolent goal of saving lives.
https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist
@lindner do you know if (some of) those sessions were recorded?
Greg, May 30 2019 on social.coop