The fuel for furious hacking, when you been up since 3am fixing someone else’s code
Don’t be fooled by the “we care about privacy” smokescreen from Google and Facebook; they’re still leaving themselves with an all-access pass to your data to continue doing evil www.axios.com/what-appl…
wonder if this is why my massive Photos collection has barely uploaded anything, after two days? (or perhaps it’s the fact my Photos file is now ~500GB)
One of my “favorite things” at GT is the set of websites that you can only access from off campus via VPN (requiring you to manually enter a Duo 2FA code), but then require you to log in and do another round of Duo 2FA. “Hell of an over-engineer!”
Got spam from @georgiatech Athletics; I admit I’m finding the subject line “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate” pretty tone def in our current world. Yes, I know it’s an old slogan about a childish “rivalry”, but it’s kinda pathetic that a university is frivolously encouraging “hate”.
I made the decision on the weekend (for various reasons) to pull most of my photos into Apple Photos. Photos is taking … a while. I may have miscalculated? 🙄
I’ve been working OT for the past few weeks, not really playing or watching Overwatch; just peeked at the app and caught the last few minutes of SFS beating VAN in the stage 2 playoffs … first loss for VAN! Wish I’d seen it, actually ….
Looking for good people who have interesting things to say about AR/VR games and the web. “Asking for a friend”
Especially interested in ideas about the place of big sites (kongregate, itchio, etc)
Upgraded son’s iPhone for his bday, his old SE has become my fav AR dev device. Weird. It’s more than fast enough to do WebXR/AR (using WebXR Viewer), and it’s nice and small
Weirder; it’s faster than the X series phones for this. Something is amis
See you in the Clyde Auditorium (remote, VR edition!) for the #CHI2019 opening keynote! It’ll be 4am here in Atlanta, but I have coffee!
(Accessible through our Discord server at discord.gg/QGDUnNm )
That moment when you realize you left a Hubs tab open in one of the CHI channels, because someone starts talking to you over audio (!!) … ghosts in the machine!
(Also: hmm, I wonder if anyone was in the room when I was having “debugging challenges” yesterday… eeek)
We’re getting our Discord server set up with Hubs rooms for the 17 CHI livestreams, starting tomorrow!
I’ll be here watching the opening keynote, 4am EST. If you’re not at CHI, and want to hang out with others watching the streams, come join us.
A little home made lardons makes the Brussels sprouts taste better ….
Call for Mozilla Research Grants for 2019H1 are open! Detailed topics we’re interested in, and instructions for submitting, available at mozilla-research.forms.fm/mozilla-r…
Is my GT school faculty email list trying to tell me something?
(2/2) To support our social VR CHI video co-watching, I created a discord server, where we’ll find each other and organize (note: hubs can be accessed on desktop and mobile, you don’t need to use VR). If you’re interested, join discord.gg/pKeU5K9
(½) HCI and academic friends … especially people NOT going to CHI! Some of us are going to use Mozilla Hubs to co-watch some of the talks, to explore how social VR could help with accessibility and a better-than-watching-the-stream-alone remote experience
The Uberization of Academic Conferences … I honestly don’t know what to think about this, but I imagine some pretty funny/sad dystopian short stories based on the near-future evolution of this chi2019.acm.org/for-atten…
After reading more about current/modern travel/street cameras, I have a better understanding of what I want. small “enough”. Very little lens “bump” in the pocket. Fast, fixed (not interchangeable) prime lens.
Current candidate: FujiFilm X100F https://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/x/fujifilm_x100f/
Teenage son sleepover party: 6 boys, 4 PCs (Fortnite, Overwatch) on desks, XBox One (assorted) and Switch (Assorted) on two big screen TVs. One big room. Hue lights + disco. Lots of chips and pizza. Ill-defined bedtime.
Thinking of getting a compact, mirrorless, high quality camera. Something akin to the Leica D-LUX 7.
I admit I’m a bit nervous buy Luxury brands, and haven’t really dug into current market much. I like the image quality of my D750, I just don’t carry it much..
Hangouts and WebEx are finicky about finding my camera, so I plugged in a Cam Like 4K and my Nikon D750 for a couple of video conferences today. OMG that’s so much better than a web cam! But, D750 shuts off after short time; need a new camera for this, so sweet! Canon SL3?
Overwatch now has a custom workshop where you can script your own behaviors and characters.
I personal have little interest in this. The last thing I want to do when I get done with programming for work is program for play.
Was waiting for a call, accidentally answered a robocaller (yes, it’s at the point where I never answer my phone because of the volume of robocalls.)
Just sat the phone down and let them talk, sadly they hung up after 2 minutes, according to my phone log