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Happy Towel Day: today is the 42nd towel day in remembrance of a truly remarkable author.
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/25
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NDC 2019 Keynote: Welcome to the Machine – Hadi Hariri – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/27
I am really glad this keynote got recorded. Still very relevant, it is as much about software development as it is about society.
Go watch it, as it gives you reason to think about your role in the software development process, and in the information fire hose at large.
Back in the days, David Intersimone was right when he created the regular blog post “Sip from the Firehose” (for early materials, see [WayBack] GetPublished – Author Information: Firehose).
The talk main thread is about current and ever growing overload of information which basically makes it disinformation, combined with the abundance of “AI” recording devices around you that basically make you the product.
Basically we reached all the tick marks of these books:
- 1984 (1949, by George Orwell)
- Amusing ourselves to death (1985, by Neil Postman)
- Brave New World (1931, by Aldous Huxley)
The session is not just about “how bad is the situation” (it is very), but also provides directions on how to get out of it for both people in the development process, as well as consumers, producers and sharers of information.
via:
- [WayBack] Gopal Sharma on Twitter: “Highly recommend watching this @hhariri talk: Welcome to the Machine. Probably won’t make you happy, but we all need to hear this.”
- [WayBack] Hadi Hariri auf Twitter: “Note to self – try to take a more Hollywood approach to talks…… “
–jeroen
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Thread by @doctorow on the RIAA using DMCA section 1201 to ban youtubedl from GitHub
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/31
A very interesting thread by @doctorow:
Late last week, the @RIAA sent a legal threat to @Github, claiming that the popular (and absolutely lawful) tool #youtubedl (which allows users to download Youtube videos for offline viewing, e……
Source: [WayBack] Thread by @doctorow on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
More on section 1201: [Wayback] Pluralistic: 24 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: RIAA kills youtubedl
There is also a great technical analysis at [Wayback/Archive.is] Analysis of the RIAA claims against youtube-dl · GitHub
This write-up follows the code paths in youtube-dl that get executed when you try to run it based on the claims of RIAA has put forward. This is a technical analysis, not a legal one.
via
- [Archive.is] Janos Pasztor on Twitter: “The analysis is now finished and public: … (Thanks for the help @jwildeboer ) /cc @leonardjfrench… “
- [Archive.is] Jan 😷 Wildeboer on Twitter: “So, the #RIAA ‘case’ against #youtubedl seems to be based on not understanding how developers work when they test their code. Le Sigh. But also #WhereIsMySurprisedFace Big fat thank yout to @janoszen for all the work here. cc @doctorow @EFF @glynmoody… “
–jeroen
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The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/03
From 5 years ago, but now more relevant than it ever was: [WayBack] The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
SCROOGLED
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. –Cardinal Richelieu
We don’t know enough about you. –Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Via:
- [WayBack] The toxic Smog of the Information Age …“Maya,” he said, “what do you know about Google and the DHS?” She stiffened as soon as he asked the question. One of the dogs began to whine. She looked around, then nodded up at the tennis courts. “Top of the light pole there; don’t look,” she said. “That’s one of our muni Wi-Fi access points. Wide-angle webcam. Face away from it when you talk.” In the grand scheme of things, it hadn’t cost Google much to wire the city with webcams. Especially when measured against the ability to serve ads to people based on where they were sitting…. – Edward Morbius – Google+
- [WayBack] “Sir, calm down, please. No, I’m not looking at your searches,” the man said in a mocking whine. “That would be unconstitutional. We see only the ads that show up when you read your mail and do your searching. I have a brochure explaining it. I’ll give it to you when we’re through here.”… – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+
–jeroen
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No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/09
If this is the norm inside world wide politics and business, what is outside the norm?
[WayBack] No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium
Via:
- [WayBack] Here’s a stunning development in the trump crime saga. The guy who owns the National Enquirer (and who paid off trump’s mistresses) just tried to blackmail Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. Bezos refused to be intimidated, and published what is happening (read it at the link). National Enquirer dude is going to prison for this attempt. How many past attempts of his have succeeded? – Peter van der Linden – Google+
- [WayBack] Cool reaction – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+
Related:
- [WayBack] Thread by @SethAbramson: “I’d like to be the first to ask, “What did Trump know about the Pecker-Bezos extortion attempt, and when did he know it?” Hard to believe Tr […]”
–jeroen
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