kripy

Frog in a Blender. All time.

In Australia, Telstra is required to keep the payphone network up and running. You can make free outgoing calls to landlines and mobile phones. And I just read that you can call inbound as well (which I did not know). Now the fun begins.

Clue to their DB setup?

Ever wonder much the meeting is costing? The clock is ticking. Head hours around the room. Wonder no more.

Introducing Meet Calc.

"Can everyone see my screen?", "You're on mute.", "Sorry, I was on mute.", "Let's circle back on that.", "I'll send a follow-up email.", "We're running over.", "Quick question...", "Let's take this offline.", "Can you repeat that?", "Sorry, you cut out.", "I have a hard stop at...", "Let's park that for now.", "Who's taking notes?", "Can we get five minutes back?", "I think we lost Esk.", "Before we wrap up...", "Action items?"

Select the number of participants, drop in the individual hourly rates, and hit Start meeting. Then start sweating.

You're welcome.

OP here. It's not about the content: it's weird art.

Tracking his flight: https://www.flightradar24.com/VJT199/35db3268

And SHTML for Server Side Includes.

I remember the good old days of the transparent 1×1 pixel gif to keep table cells in check.

“By default, WASTE listens to incoming connections on port 1337. This was probably chosen because of 1337's leet connotations.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE

Correct. The Facebook Pixel Helper is used to test that the pixel has been installed correctly and events, both standard and custom, are firing correctly.

Reminds me of the math [1] behind the Middle Out sequence (NSWF) in Silicon Valley.

[1] https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-math-behind-that-dick-jo...

Not about the man so much but about the business he built up and then sold, Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time [1] is a wild read into Australian private equity.

[1] https://foragerfunds.com/news/dick-smith-is-the-greatest-pri...

> Clearly just for entertainment and not information Facebook alternative, in which GPT bots produce a significant fraction of posts, impersonating users and making stuff up. Everyone quickly learns you can't trust it, but it can still be cute/fun/humorous.

Billy Chasen developed faux-social network called Botnet. Unfortunately, it looks like it's gone and I doubt that name would have lasted long in the App store let alone how he managed to get it through.

https://www.wired.com/story/botnet-social-network-where-ever...

They're not hiding the fact.

From their website [1]: "When you choose to connect your financial accounts to an app using Plaid, you will be prompted to enter the username and password associated with those accounts. Plaid then links your accounts to the app you want to use so you can share your data."

[1] https://plaid.com/how-it-works-for-consumers/

if int(guess) == int(lulu + boonie):

There ... I fixed it.

I use json.pizza [1] on the web but have not hit it at scale. Likely it would choke. Still a great little tool.

[1] https://json.pizza/

Perform an audit on yourself. Both Facebook [1] and Google [2] have pages where you can check third-party apps that you have connected with. You might be surprised what you find.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications&ref=setti...

[2] https://myaccount.google.com/security

Let's not forget that Flash was the backbone of the ad industry back in the day as it was leveraged to produce rich media in the form of banners and interactive ads.

Or for those that want it, have a dong on / dong off preference.

"The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) has created a list to show the approximate time you need to learn a specific language as an English speaker." [0] French ranks in Category I: you wonder if the same method would apply for a Category V language.

[0] https://effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/languag...

Facebook kept it a lot simpler: you can just iterate through integers. 1 - 3 have been deleted but if you navigate to https://www.facebook.com/4 it redirects to https://www.facebook.com/zuck and so on. All the original founders are sub 10.

This reminds me of Matt Webb's piece titled "Instagram as an island economy"[1] where he writes about the concept of encoded labour: "Every "user" of Instagram is a worker. There are some people who produce photos -- this is valuable, it means there is something for people to look it. There are some people who only produce comments or "likes," the virtual society equivalent of apes picking lice off other apes."

[1] http://interconnected.org/home/2012/04/11/instagram_as_an_is...

Interesting that osquery is developed by Facebook and Santa is developed by Google. I do some work with Facebook and during a video conference with one of their employees the connection dropped out. When we reconnected I asked what happened and they said that the machine updated itself. I thought this was kind of an odd time to update and dropped it into the conversation and was told that their laptops are updated every day. Without an understanding of the inner workings of Facebook it seems like they may be snapshotting employee machines, daily.

The original REST API had a quasi-RSS feed[0].

[0]: https://twittercommunity.com/t/can-you-get-your-twitter-feed...

One thing I would like to see is a revoke all apps button. Why does this have to happen on an app by app basis? Easy enough to do this via their API.

Rise of the headless CMS.

Particularly relevant now that the Australian Federal Government has come out and said that "the cost of Government IT has jumped to nearly $10 billion.": http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-28/federal-governments-$1.... And you wonder why?

Contactless payment systems are prevalent in Australia. And even before tap to pay we were able to insert cards, enter a PIN and pay. What has happened in China is that they payment systems have been baked into the apps where, in Australia, this occurs at the terminal (EFTPOS as an example) which is app agnostic and tied directly back to the bank gatewys.