Human, Dustcake, Engineer
Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.
❤️ J9
news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner
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Comcast called me. Said I was running UDP portmapper on my external IP. Oops.
This was leftover from an experiment running NFSv4 across the net. [it sucked, used sshfs instead]
Also for those who've never experienced a reflection attack it's NASTY. Attacker sends forged source-address UDP packets so all responses go to the victim host. In the past NTP and DNS provided the vectors. Back in 2006 it was PharmaMaster and Blue Security:
Anyone from Security team want to sign on to this? Cory Doctorow asked me to send it onwards.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/security-researchers-tell-w3c-protect-researchers-who-investig...
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Attending day 2 of the Decentralized Web Summit. Hope to see some familiar and new faces.
Attending the Decentralized Web Summit day 2. Hope to see some familiar and new faces.
So who made the decision to support TPP? I'm guessing the decision making process was done in secret, just like the TPP negotiating process.
The ISDS sections of this flawed trade agreement are reason enough to take a pass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-state_dispute_settlement#__sid=rd0
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Who's involved with this? Might go just to catch up with TBL and Brewster...
http://www.decentralizedweb.net/
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*GopherLeaks* - Gopher @30 and Email Retention...
I'm working with a journalist writing a long-form Gopher article. I have every. single. email. from the 90s. It was incredible and allowed me to get some facts straight, relive some past glories and groan at some bonehead moments.
So I'm sad that Googlers will never get to have the same experience 30 years from now. With our 18 month retention policy and corporate ownership you'd better start keeping a [paper] diary..
[_And wow, I sure was a cocky mf back then._ and here's a Stevens reference since I was a metalhead unix programmer back then..]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjjydz40rNI
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People on the outside asking me about this. No clue.
Of course Incendiary Device could be a zippo for all we know...
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Incendiary-devices-spark-fire-at-Google-7862600.php
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uiconfig.textproto + boqlet.manifest
It's basically struts.xml
At least it's not Spring's applicationContext.xml (yet...)
https://struts.apache.org/docs/big-picture.html
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ML Chip?
I wonder why we don't have custom ASICs for oh say -- Protos?
Or even better a *Guice Machine*
Of course then we'd need a special Guice keyboard. Extra @ signs, and a @Provides button.
http://www.rcsri.org/collection/symbolics-keyboards/
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Would anyone be up for an Google Internal xprize for carbon reduction by gcu reduction? I'd put some dollars to that if the results were, say 2x the gain of buying LED bulbs or cow methane.
Anyone know what the mapping is from gcu->tonnes of carbon?
Mostly I just want to see the end of useless computation...
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Today's Birthdaily Inspiration is an homage to my hi5 days. Cala 13 has only gotten better over the years and they can almost make Assange sound good...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Viral_(song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjSCy1GC6Sc
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Finally got around to buying more carbon offsets after many years and was happy to see Google offers access to their program:
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/googlercarbonoffsets/home
However I'm likely switching to Terrapass in the future since they also can offset your water usage, and oddly enough their offsets cost half of what we price internally. Also auto-pay, so I won't slack off like I did before.
Oh and fwiw I've went from 12 tons to 5 tons estimated yearly usage.
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/googlercarbonoffsets/home
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AT&T pulling a Verizon here in California...
http://www.tellusventure.com/blog/att-tries-100-million-grab-from-california-taxpayers/
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Want to know who owns your code?
cs -l -local "case:yes f:my/google3/path/.*/OWNERS\$" \ | xargs -n 1 g4 owners \ | sed -e 's/ included.*$//' -e 's/,$//' \ | grep -v '^//' \ | grep -v piper-group-eng \ | egrep my/google3/path \ | sort | uniq
Sample output
So much good. they had me just for the alt-tab, but v1.1 is epic. Markdown compose!
http://www.boxyapp.co/
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Today's Inspiration: *Quantum Physics meets Hip Hop*
Loving this latest from P.O.S. He's such a decent guy. When Julie was starting chemo he tweeted a happy bday to her when I told him how he's been an inspiration to us working through his kidney transplant.
[guessing "daily" inspiration was a bit ambitious for this collection.]
More here:
and liner notes on the raps here:
Housing bubble? 1.1m? Nah, this is fine.
Either that or the market for messy homes is hot hot hot. Wonder if it comes furnished?
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/197-Cirrus-Ave-Sunnyvale-CA-94087/19546861_zpid/
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6258266053741395233/6258266052516266338?...
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If you're considering influence peddling via NetPAC you should at least know who gains...
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//publicpolicy/doc/NETPAC-Contributions-...
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Please don't unplug the anthrax/explosives detector.
#notacop
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6245647585107650705/6245647585352363186?...
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There's a good discussion on industryinfo about diversity and how haircuts factor into that. Don't want to derail that thread so posting here..
At 22 I went to work for the UN in Geneva. My wife and I drove 3h to Zurich to get our cuts at Time Tunnel. Geneva Salons were too snobby for a metalhead and a punk used to the Hair Police in Minneapolis.
Eventually we found found our counter cultural tribe at and
What I will say is that working and living abroad taught me valuable lessons on diversity, inclusion and empathy.
GBUS to Tracy/Modesto. 85 miles each way. New GBUS endurance record. wow.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Modesto,+CA/1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043/@37.5960...
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My latest step in my *Borgmon@Home* project.
https://rainforestautomation.com/rfa-z109-eagle/
I think I already saved the 9 this cost by adjusting our laundry schedule to hit better ToU rates and tracking down some vampire loads.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6242284384095970257/6242284386346022354?...
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Today I confidently said to my father in law that I could make it easy for him to insert photos into gmail. Sadly Google let me down here.
Root cause bug is here:
Basically no one has updated the gmail compose/onepick integration to read from photos.google.com data. Instead it only supports G+ photos and albums, which are not being created any more.
So I thought, let's turn on Drive integration and use Drive OnePick. Nope. It sucks. You don't get an inline image in the message, nor can you use the photo options you normally get.
Inbox does have something that works, but I'm not going to train my 80 year old father-in-law to use another email client right after I got him moved over from NetZero(!)...
Reposting this in the wake of the current Nest thermostat die-off. Customers respond really well when you
- Admit that you made a mistake
- And try to make things right.
I hope our friends at Nest invest in a similar response.
https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php
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I have a dvd rip of a VHS transfer of some old Sun (we put the dot in .com) internet promotional clips.
You can see some of them over here:
http://planet-rla.com/digital-journey-2/
Happy to share if anyone wants
#internetnostalgia
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6239084702831613217/6239084706355357970?...
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Automated Search Terms Page? It's basically XSS and SQL Injection attacks.
From: http://www.bevmo.com/catalogsearch/term/popular/
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6239020187224152225/6239020186677415666?...
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If you want more than 10 days of Nest data you're gonna have to send your creds to a shady guy named _WebPirate_
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6236206815904801937/6236206812873308466?...
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I guess they had to do something with the Chrome Bookmarks code base once they rolled it back.
See for the latest pitch deck and future plans.
So what does this mean for Spaces, which is also using search results?
What does it mean for collections?
Why can't we work together on this stuff instead of fragmenting? It's just so stupid.
Saw this recently and my wife asked if there was a _Code of the Google_?
*Code of the West*
1) Live each day with courage.
2) Take pride in your work.
3) Always finish what you start.
4) Do what has to be done.
5) Be tough, but fair.
6) When you make a promise, keep it.
7) Ride for the brand.
8) Talk less and say more.
9) Remember that some things aren't for sale.
10) Know where to draw the line.
New version of auth-refresh is out. Uses the new glogin / gcert command line commands to save you time every day.
https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/macroadwarrior-guide/XRCmHEZGOac/ICNZ-0W5AgAJ
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Now cards aggressively target when I switch to hl=en-UK to get the British voice for TTS
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6219438267743132305/6219438269857772130?...
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Sundar - you should really update your G+ tagline. People have commented on your posts that you're still listed as SVP, [and you *have* updated your twitter profile to CEO]
Also what changes would you like to see in G+ that would make you engage as you do on Twitter. You post and retweet at 8x the rate over there, yet you have similar engagement levels on your posts in both places.
For November:
7 retweets, 3 tweets
1 G+ Post.
Where's it happening, you ask? No one knows... :-p
Steven Rose, Jun 09 2016 on 1500wordmtu.com