Paul Lindner

Bitcoin Lightning talk today:

_Come learn about the bitcoin Lightning Network! The Lightning Network is a "layer 2" bitcoin protocol designed to address some of bitcoin’s technical limitations in regards to scaling. Compared to on chain bitcoin payments, it promises instant payment speed measured in milliseconds to seconds, scalability capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network, lower cost and improved anonymity. Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka roastbeef) is a former Google intern and currently works on Lightning Network at Lightning Labs. He will give a deep dive into latest developments in the implementation of Lightning Network._

More info: https://lightning.network/, http://lightning.community/

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=ZGcxZDNhZjBnaW9sZDhwZ2tjYjl0Ymo...

http://lightning.network/

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Even though this was clearly a red light being run, it was this AI's first offense, so we should just give it a warning and a stern talking-to....

*An Update on the Oz Monolith*

So it's a little over been two weeks since we turned down most of Oz for frontends. Project Death Star removed most Google+ traffic. Purple Hummus removed contacts.google.com. Project Falcon got iOS G+ on FEDS. And the OneGoogle Notifications Widget is now exiting too.

There's still much more to do, Apiary APIs, widgets and more need to go. And lots of code to delete as you can see in the Rise and Fall of Oz by # of files below.

Thanks to everyone that removed services/code, and let me know if you're missing a killoz teams badge.

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So, at every point in this story, there is gross negligence and incompetence, be forewarned.

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Remember to test your backups and be careful with rm -rf

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I guess just in case I was running some perl script I downloaded off of Matt's Script Archive on port 7888

plindner@arcwelder:[beaker]/google3$ host 172.25.65.58
58.65.25.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer security-scanner-amer-3.cbf.corp.google.com.

But it appears I can't make it stop :(

https://scarf.googleplex.com/checkip?target=100.109.7.129&list=

05:52:51.515942 IP 172.25.65.58.43577 > 100.109.7.129.7888: Flags [P.], seq 0:432, ack 1, win 229, options [nop,nop,TS val 1188697399 ecr 2097041011], length 432
        0x0000:  4560 01e4 1784 4000 3b06 ccee ac19 413a  E.....@.;.....A:
        0x0010:  646d 0781 aa39 1ed0 c325 02b0 5897 25e2  dm...9...%..X.%.
        0x0020:  8018 00e5 069a 0000 0101 080a 46da 1537  ............F..7
        0x0030:  7cfe 4e73 4745 5420 2f66 6f72 6d2f 6175  |.NsGET./form/au
        0x0040:  6b74 696f 6e2e 6367 693f 6d65 6e75 653d  ktion.cgi?menue=
        0x0050:  2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e  ../../../../../.
        0x0060:  2e2f 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f65 7463 2f70  ./../../../etc/p
        0x0070:  6173 7377 6420 4854 5450 2f31 2e31 0d0a  asswd.HTTP/1.1..
        0x0080:  486f 7374 3a20 6172 6377 656c 6465 722e  Host:.arcwelder.
        0x0090:  6d74 762e 636f 7270 2e67 6f6f 676c 652e  mtv.corp.google.
        0x00a0:  636f 6d3a 3738 3838 0d0a 4163 6365 7074  com:7888..Accept
        0x00b0:  2d43 6861 7273 6574 3a20 6973 6f2d 3838  -Charset:.iso-88
        0x00c0:  3539 2d31 2c75 7466 2d38 3b71 3d30 2e39  59-1,utf-8;q=0.9
        0x00d0:  2c2a 3b71 3d30 2e31 0d0a 4163 6365 7074  ,*;q=0.1..Accept
        0x00e0:  2d4c 616e 6775 6167 653a 2065 6e0d 0a43  -Language:.en..C

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Need an ML algorithm to detect sleep-typing and sound a wake up alarm. Then I can:

M-x drowsiness-mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_drowsiness_detection

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*Needed: Tap Counter Job Ladder*

[Posting since most people had not heard of this...]

_"Thank you. What do you do here?" He said, "I'm a tap counter." I'm like, "You're a what?" He goes, "Well Jeff Hawkins, the CEO, says, 'If any task on the Palm Pilot takes more than three taps of the stylus, it's too long, and it has to be redesigned.' So I'm the tap counter."_

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_pogue_says_simplicity_sells#talk

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Achievement unlocked. Google Now tells me about my own posts on my own site.

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No, please no. Treating omnipresent surveillance as normal at an early impressionable age feels like a step too far.

As such, there are some cringe-worthy quotes in this one...

"custom built AI with baby-centric features"

_"Aristotle was specifically designed to grow up with a child"_ -- [does anyone seriously believe that someone will be running this device 10 years from now?]

_"E-commerce functionality tied directly to key retail partners will enable Aristotle to automatically reorder or look for deals and coupons on baby consumables, formula and other baby products when it detects you are likely running low on the specific item."_

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mattels-nabi-brand-introduces-first-ever-connected-kids-room...

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“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"  Saving the bits isn't enough.

A Christmas message from Björk.

Wishing everyone the curiosity, surreality and poetry of the season.

original: http://www.1500wordmtu.com/2016/a-christmas-message-from-bj%C3%B6rk

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Looks like I'm the latest to suffer from the 6p rapid battery drain hardware defect... :(

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Sad that they didn't call it G-Love and Special Sauce

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/deepcompatibility/home

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Still riding the blindfolded roller coaster with my wife and her metastatic breast cancer. We got a good 18 months from the 1st treatment. Fingers crossed that this new wonder drug will be even better.

I had a whole rant queued up about cancer drugs, Google's specialty pharmacy and Pfizer pricing Ibrance at 0k/month. Alas, MacOS+Chrome ate it.

Instead you can read this article and understand how we end up with ridiculous 80 monthly ransom payments copays. (Seriously life-and-death isn't subject to price elasticity of demand!)

http://www.fiercepharma.com/sales-and-marketing/pfizer-s-ibrance-pricing-shows-multiyear-market-anal...

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Subject: Greetings from Dropbox; Yes, I'm working on a weeknight :)

Hi Paul,

They say, "The early bird gets the worm," well this early worm would really enjoy a conversation about your skills, goals, and interest. To be brief, you have an excellent educational and technical background and I'd enjoy the opportunity to discuss your expertise a bit further (Not tonight of course).

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This looks a lot like https://getvau.lt/

So good.

http://www.gifcities.org/?q=google

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Vint Cerf speaks today at noon! Via VC or in MTV-1950

_We create digital content in enormous and growing quantities every day. Much of this content requires software to be displayed (images, videos) or manipulated (e.g. spreadsheets and text documents) or executed (e.g. video games). In some cases, specific operating systems and hardware are needed for support. We face a challenge to preserve digital content over periods of hundreds or years because the software and associated hardware may no longer exist. There are legal issues associated with copyright of content and licensing of software as well as business models that must somehow be sustained for long periods of time. This talk will outline some of the challenges and possible solutions._

https://liveplayer.googleplex.com/view/2016-10-27-43705620-31

Location: MTV-1950-1-Bodega Bay Tech Talk

Reserved VC rooms:

RES-EXPL-10-Mount Rogers
NYC-9TH-15A239-Raft of Otters
DUB-1GC-4-Fangorn
This talk will be recorded

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Yeah, I was there... Back in May of 2006 Typepad, LiveJournal and TuCows got taken down by a massive (at the time) DDoS.  I recall it was 2-4 GBps of reflective DNS traffic.  Scott Berinato covered it pretty well in the Wired article Attack of the Bots.

For the record we were able to get back up using Akamai DNS Hosting, MCI/UUNet DDoS mitigations, and a cleverly placed GRE tunnel.  Oh and a bunch of great Ops work from Lisa Phillips, Matt Peterson, Peter Wohlers and others.  I think I still have the commemorative t-shirt we did with TuCows.

And here we are 10 years later.  Same stuff, yet in many ways worse.

It's high time we get to fixing the underlying protocols and infrastructure to make these types of attacks a thing of the past.  It's time to Redecentralize.

 [Fancy graph from: Netcraft, Blue Security Shuts Down, Citing DDoS Attacks]