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Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.
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Here's the video of the winners of the Twitter bug bounty/CTF for algorithmic fairness. It's a judo trick to get AI failures recognized in the same way as insecure code.
Background
https://hackerone.com/twitter-algorithmic-bias?type=team
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22617972/twitter-photo-cropping-algorithm-ai-bias-bug-bounty-resu...
https://github.com/twitter-research/image-crop-analysis
@cowchimp
I was curious too and did a visually similar image search and found that it's by @matiasenelmundo
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Matiasenelmundo
What I need right now is a way to sort Google photos by image similarity. Appears that thumbnails and minor metadata updated versions were uploaded over the past years.
Or can you search by filename? Bunch of them begin with "thumb_"
Unintended consequences of Google Image Search.
THE VCE exam body has been left red faced after a doctored artwork depicting a huge robot helping socialist revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution was accidentally included in this year’s year 12 history exam taken by 5700 students.
https://www.theage.com.au/education/history-transformed-in-vce-exam-20121114-29ce7.html
You heard about Young Karl Marx, but have you heard of VI Lenin Evangelion ?
I'm curious if anyone has mapped the reliability crisis with a System Dynamics Lens. Some of the proposed actions hit some of the archetypes on the nose....
For example a one-size fits all release shepherding process takes resources away from efforts that to address the underlying reliability problem. (Fixes that Fail)
Reliability metrics operate on a delay so you get oscillation of investment and failure (shifting the burden)
If anyone would like to workshop a systems diagram for reliability I'd be interested in workout out the feedback loops.
I highly recommend the book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-systems and the image below come from this pdf of https://thesystemsthinker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Systems-Archetypes-I-TRSA01_pk.pdf.
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"
Googlers, don't be smug, doesn't look like Google Express supports Food Stamps either..
[And at least Amazon offers discounted Prime membership to people with EBT cards.]
That said if you don't have the learned experience of being poor you might want to check out today's talk "Growing Up Poor In America" - Lisa 'Tiny' Garcia at 11am PT
Livestream at http://go/tiny-kim
[original image sourced from https://imgur.com/MUuZ9sr]
Anyone else subscribed to *The Morning Paper*? Interested in starting a reading group? I found them when I was reading up on Honey Badger BFT and have been a fan since.
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/08/end-to-end-optimized-image-compression/
#googplus
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:
https://b.corp.google.com/u/0/issues/26608412
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(!)...
I guess they had to do something with the Chrome Bookmarks code base once they rolled it back.
See http://go/stars 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.
Trigger ACTION_SEND from Android Chrome? (with a photo?)
I know that chrome allows you to trigger specific intents (see linked page) But instead I just want to trigger ACTION_SEND with text and optional image pixels generated by the browser...
Maybe @112427496122904544974 knows?
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents
#googplus
Some feedback on Collections after actually using them for realzies:
- The aspect ratio of the cover image is really hard to deal with. You can't crop regular images easily and you can't letterbox easily.
- I'd like to make a collection as 'Draft' so I can get it looking nice before I send it out to the world.
- I'd love to see a 'People mentioned this collection' in the sidebar. [and other aggregates, like places, hashtags, maybe a word cloud?]
- I wish I could back-date things. Or at least allow for manual ordering.
- What about Pinned/Hero Post for a Collection?
- Will public collections have non-obfuscated URLs?
- Do we filter these oddball urls for naughty words?
I love it when things just f'ing work.
- I read an internal G+ post by @118054148122560925848 about bad snippets on http://grpc.io/
- Commented, said I'd ping folks.
- Pinged grpc TL @117058620747746997157 on hangouts
- He creates a group chat with @117889162726815756319
- I say here's my github id
- Added to project.
- I clone it and realize it's jekyll
- minimal yak shaving getting jekyll up and running
- in the meantime a new image is uploaded
- git fork, clone, edit, push
- create pull request
- merged.
- DONE
A big image for a big project and a descriptive snippet.
http://www.grpc.io/
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Someday ...
Originally shared by Singularity Utopia
It is possible to do #responsivewebdesign with a G+ badge? I want the badge large for big screens so I set the width to 450 but it doesn't resize to fit like all my other elements, here in the image you can see the badge when zoomed-in is off the screen. Can you allow (make happen, implement) a 100% width instead of 450?
Here it is live: http://singularity-2045.org/
A tale of automation woe. Read from the bottom..
A Windows 7 deployment image was accidentaly sent to all Windows machines, including laptops, desktops, and even servers. This image started with a repartition / reformat set of tasks.
As soon as the accident was discovered, the SCCM server was powered off – however, by that time, the SCCM server itself had been repartitioned and reformatted.
Google+ has some common sense content rules in the User Content and Conduct Policy [1] You'll notice there is no section on censorship based on viewpoint.
The issue described by Eric Raymond below is much more mundane. It's actually a problem in the way Google+ previews web snippets.
A couple of weeks ago we introduced the new Article embed type. You'll notice these posts by their distinctive large-photos with a ragged-edge. This new code caused the problem.
The markup on theblaze.com uses the http://schema.org/NewsArticle markup. That, combined with some other factors causes the preview processing to fail. This issue was reported to us on April 1st and a fix will be released to production early next week.
I opened an issue on our developer site to track this issue since it does affect a handful of other sites that use the NewsArticle markup. Feel free to Star it to receive updates:
https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=805
[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/+/policy/content.html
Originally shared by Eric Raymond
G+ may be engaging in non-viewpoint-neutral censorship of news articles relating to firearms.
This link:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/04/gun-control-advocates-who-say-more-guns-equal-more-crime-...
results in post blocking when it's either pasted in the link box or pasted in text with the preview image not removed. Others have reported that all firearms-related articles from The Blaze, but not non-firearms-related articles, are blocked.
Something more specific than blocking of firearms-related images is going on, as the Geeks with Guns G+ community would have noticed that a lot sooner than now.
Google has some explaining to do.
Now we know why all the Noogler Helium balloons were replaced with pinwheels!
Congrats @105461895807395473744!
Couple of little things:
- Can you spec a better image for the snippet?
- Perhaps add more detail in your title?
- Add a rel="publisher" attribute to your Google+ page link.
http://www.google.com/loon
#googplus
I was talking to Brett Slatkin about authorship and he mentioned the Google Consumer surveys offers an A/B image survey that would be perfect for Authorship profile photo optimization.
You also get geographic/demographic breakdowns so I suspect that it's a good deal more informative than the OK Cupid bestface system.
What do you think? Does this image embody 'Flowers'? #photohunt
Looks like we're not quite #onegoogle for image filtering.
TL;DR -- SIte displays porn content from freebase/knowledge graph that violates AdSense ToS.
_A quite strange thing happened recently. I have a news website and I'm using Freebase API to provide readers for more in depth information about the content of news articles. The site runs Google's AdSense ads._
_Following the publication of a local news, on the sidebar containing text and images downloaded through Freebase API, an image of a woman with her bare breasts was displayed._
_Well, that image, made available by Freebase, which is a Google product, was considered obscene by the team of AdSense (also a Google product), which decided to suspend the service. A sort of vicious circle of Google, exercising a censorship on itself._
_Given the impossibility to make Google people understand that the visualization of such kind of images was occasional and not intentional, I'd prefer to avoid such problems in the future. Hence, I'd like to know whether there's some way, when using Freebase API, to filter out images considered obscene by the AdSense team._
#googplus
Thinking of posting this externally.... Already left as a comment on a post. I think it might help people understand what's at stake.. I just need to find a creative commons image of dollars in a mattress :)
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Keeping all your data on your own hard drive? Do you keep your money in your mattress?
Just like most of us keep our money in a bank/credit union, most of us should keep our data in a trusted place and only carry around what we need at a given moment.
#googplus
Anyone know how to debug gmail issues? I don't know which dogfood just bit me.
All of a sudden I saw my mail in my inbox dissappearing 4-5 per second inside the offline gmail chrome app. First time I ever saw the 'happy sun' image which I assume is what you get when your inbox is empty.
Not sure if it's the Chrome app or the dogfood android or something else.
All inboxen are affected back to Feb 19.
Also if you sent me email and need a response ping me on chat until I sort this out...
#googplus
Begone vile techcrunch transparent image seen in too many shares..
See http://b/5827537 for more detail and to lament that this fix took a whole year..
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5833776330904352769/5833776339214430850
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Upgraded to Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" in-place on the same image I've had since Redhat 6.2. It was a little more challenging than some upgrades due to moving everything into /usr, but overall it's working well.
And the origin of the name is pretty interesting, check it out:
Take your Security vitamins!
Security reviews may seem unpleasant, but they're really important to defend our users against the bad folks out there and just plain unintentional sloppiness.
I have to commend the team, their diligence revealed some hair raising issues in a SaaS partner that could have had disastrous consequences for us and all of said partner's customers.
[image CC BY-NC-SA from http://www.flickr.com/photos/teeves/]
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5717225082897424049/5717225079236654674
#googplus
Hey instagrammers -- anyone know what the canonical web presence for Instragram is? I see that they link to web.stragr.am on the offical Instagram blog, however it's not 'official'..
@109016304695129264328 @110242419133439594545 know anything more?
@106853593867879252009 - who's looking into expanding image social search corpus...
http://web.stagram.com/n/jeera
#googplus
curious as to why there was a globe favicon next to Merc news articles I viewed the page source..
<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">');
document.write('<link rel="icon" href="http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">');
</script>
Why oh why.....
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico
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Hey look, it's the Fedora Project! On Google+
Check out Fedora 16 if you're into Linux distros. I just finished upgrading the home server last night and it's running smooth. (even if systemctl reminds me way too much of solaris SMF)
Fun fact: I've been upgrading the same system image since Red Hat 6.0. No reinstalls.. and since I never had a CD/dvd all upgrades were via rpm/yum.
