Paul Lindner

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/

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Paul Lindner

February 9, 2021

FiraCode + Ligatures -- so nice!

Better late than never I suppose :)

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

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Paul Lindner

January 21, 2021

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!

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Paul Lindner

January 15, 2021

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

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Paul Lindner

January 12, 2021

New comment by lindner in "OpenSocial Specification"

hi5 (RIP) was originally a dating site and Pivoted to a Social Network.

Most profiles fake? I can say for sure that's not true. I maintained Postgres/Memcache/Graph DBs and the write load was real.

That said hi5 did engage in address book scraping and other dark patterns that you'd rather not see these days.

Fun fact: hi5 had a featured photos/profiles section based on popularity. Folks that ended up there deleted their account by 5x or more due to the unwanted attention their 'popular' photos garnered....

Paul Lindner

January 12, 2021

Regretted Attrition

Google's loss. dwb@ was a good one.

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Paul Lindner

January 11, 2021

New comment by lindner in "OpenSocial Specification"

So many thoughts about OpenSocial and the reference implementation, Shindig. I have it thank for my time at hi5, LinkedIn and then Google.

Some little known facts about OpenSocial

- Hangouts Apps (remember those?) were based on OpenSocial containers.

- OpenSocial powered the LinkedIn Apps Platform and Labs for a number of years. The team built Rails and Node apps and deployed on Joyent.

- Eric Schmidt gave a pep talk to the working group pre-launch and mentioned about how open always wins in the end...

- MySpace was concerned about the attack surface of 3p apps running in iframes. They toyed with the idea of requiring a webkit browser plugin to run apps (!). It did lead to Caja* as a project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project

- The work on OpenSocial led in small part to the Activity Streams spec which led to ActivityPub and thus the latest Fediverse protocols. I like to think of OpenSocial as dead, but a good organ donor.

Fun times...

Paul Lindner

October 29, 2020

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

@realTomBohn @fdp @Wissing @c_lindner #theotherlindner

Paul Lindner

October 29, 2020

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

@DeniaWolfgang @Kubicki @c_lindner

Paul Lindner

September 22, 2020

Me building stuff with parts I find in google3...

https://youtu.be/18cW_yHo3PY

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Paul Lindner

September 20, 2020

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

Paul Lindner

September 18, 2020

Please help a good friend give their little fella a life saving surgery. I'll match any contributions. https://t.co/QjZlI3f8QJ

Paul Lindner

September 9, 2020

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

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Paul Lindner

September 8, 2020

define:"Control Group"

https://nypost.com/2020/09/07/facebook-will-pay-users-to-log-off-before-elections/amp/

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Paul Lindner

August 25, 2020

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

@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

Paul Lindner

August 24, 2020

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...

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Paul Lindner

August 18, 2020

Google Certificates

Do I get a badge if I get certified?

https://www.coursera.org/google-it

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Paul Lindner

August 6, 2020

For those that haven't spent their 000 WFH budget.

https://www.winsted.com/

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Paul Lindner

August 4, 2020

Guessing that lithold will be with me a while longer...

https://www.googleplusdatalitigation.com/

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Paul Lindner

August 4, 2020

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.

2 stars 4 comments

Amplite liked this post

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Bottomless liked this post

Nov 20 2020 on twitter.com

Glad you got the site back up!

Johan Bové, Sep 24 2020 on social.johanbove.info

non–Status reply to test post–javascript parts: definitely.cn/2021/lindner-n…

Chris Neale, Jan 20 2021 on twitter.com

drag over “Reply to a site” still works

Chris Neale, Jan 20 2021 on twitter.com

once more from a fresh checkout

Chris Neale, Jan 21 2021 on twitter.com

Also on: [email protected] @lindner

Paul Lindner

August 4, 2020

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

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Paul Lindner

July 30, 2020

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.

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Paul Lindner

July 7, 2020

Sorry Chromebook, your screen lock timeout is way too short...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mHPeMGTJM

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Paul Lindner

June 9, 2020

"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.

Paul Lindner

June 2, 2020

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.

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Paul Lindner

May 28, 2020

"The Purpose of a System is What it Does"

Change, or replace, the system to get better outcomes.

https://www.mpd150.com/resources/

Paul Lindner

May 21, 2020

Oz Turns 10

I didn't see any posts about it in my stream, so I'll mention that Oz turns 10 years old today.

Thank you Oz for inspiring Apps Framework and Boq.

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Paul Lindner

May 17, 2020

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/

Paul Lindner

May 16, 2020

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

@slightlylate @KevinJHill Better put it in the freezer if you want your GPU to survive.

https://t.co/BWhQN7Rtbo

Paul Lindner

May 9, 2020

HTML EMAIL

Found in some email archives..

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 | ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN \ / AGAINST HTML MAIL |
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 |                       / \                   |
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Paul Lindner

May 5, 2020

Good times, good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edk2ZcW2GnQ

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Paul Lindner

May 4, 2020

Adding some new background music to the WFH mix. Come play! You can chat and make requests!

https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html

2 stars 1 comment

Hey, a Cover Song! liked this post

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May 17 2020 on twitter.com

sounds good! - currently playing through my recently reconnected 1980 era 'hifi' system :-)

Dan Mack, May 16 2020 on twitter.com

Also on: [email protected] @lindner

Paul Lindner

April 28, 2020

MessagingApps++

Installed Instagram just for chat.

It's... Really good. This is for 1:1 but the video and voice message sharing is simple, and you can respond by just lifting the phone to your ear. Kinda magical and beats the crap out of voice typing.

YMMV etc etc

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Paul Lindner

April 23, 2020

Lady Gaga is a Robot?

Just in case you wanted to know how AI is getting sucked into the conspiracy world..

https://www.thechembow.com/covid-19-flu-bug-or-computer-virus

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Paul Lindner

April 21, 2020

Flip Fone Follies..

Managed to teach an elderly aunt how to
- get text messages on her flip phone,
- so she could sign up for Skype
- so she could share her screen
- so I could help her diagnose her email problem
- using Windows Live Messenger
- by doing a Skype + Conference call with her ISP to change her password and settings.

So Skype requires a gmail/yahoo account (won't let you use a "business" account like kmtel) so sign up with phone was the only option.

Had to explain 'soft keys' plus there were 100 texts that had never been read.

Skype created account password wasn't confirmed, so had to change password

Windows Live Messenger is a hot mess. SO. MANY. BUTTONS.

pop3 + smtp with differing passwords (pop3 was fine, smtp not)

phew......

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Paul Lindner

April 17, 2020

Any covid-19 WebPass-for-business specials in SF? I have a potential customer...

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Paul Lindner

April 17, 2020

"You die Edison Carter or you live long enough to see yourself become Network 23"

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Paul Lindner

April 13, 2020

#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

Paul Lindner

April 12, 2020

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

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.

Paul Lindner

April 12, 2020

Ears

Spotty ambient song recognition on this mashup set.

Impressed that it got the Eminem song with the Imperial March overlay though

Humans still do it better.:)

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Paul Lindner

April 12, 2020

Replied to a post on hackers.town :

@[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'!!!

Paul Lindner

April 12, 2020

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

You had to work harder to listen to good music back then. @radiok remembers. I'm sure @djkevincole of #rev105 remembers.

Paul Lindner

April 12, 2020

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

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..

Paul Lindner

April 9, 2020

WFH

French Press + Vacuum Themos = Less time doing pour-overs

Also I don't think I'll be able to tolerate the MK coffee machine when all this is done....

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Paul Lindner

April 7, 2020

Happy Automata

This made my day...

https://twitter.com/happyautomata/status/1247554742034649088

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Paul Lindner

April 7, 2020

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

Paul Lindner

April 4, 2020

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

Connecting the community is definitely an 🌟essential🌟 service.

Stay safe and healthy!

Paul Lindner

April 4, 2020

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

Paul Lindner

April 2, 2020

Levity

Here's your mandated break from the serious stuff in my stream.

A grasshopper hops into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey, we've
got a drink named after you." The grasshopper says, "You've got a drink
named Steve?"

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Paul Lindner

April 2, 2020

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/

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