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Top 2000 café 2018 – Alle informatie op een rij – NPO Radio 2 – Presentatoren, producers/sidekicks, nieuwslezers en tijden

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/16

Een overzicht van alles wat ik via de Top2000 site en Twitter bij elkaar geschraapt heb.

Edit 20181217: blokken begonnen foutief om 07:00. Oeps (: Nu opgelost: ze beginnen om 08:00.

Edit 20181226: Matijn’s quiz datums/tijden onder de tabel gezet

Tijdschema

Start Eind DJ Sidekick/Producer Sidekick Twitter Twitter Twitter Nieuwslezer Twitter
8:00 9:00 Jan-Willem Roodbeen Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte @JWRoodbeen @jeroenkidv. Carmen Verheul @carmenverheul
9:00 10:00
10:00 11:00 Bart Arens @BartRadio2
11:00 12:00
12:00 13:00 Gijs Staverman @GijsStaverman
13:00 14:00 Matijn Nijhuis @matijn
14:00 15:00 Rob Stenders Caroline Brouwer @robstenders @radiocarol
15:00 16:00
16:00 17:00 Ruud de Wild Cielke Sijben Thijs Maalderink @ruuddewild @CielkeSijben @OnwijsThijs
17:00 18:00
18:00 19:00 Wouter van der Goes @woutervdgoes
19:00 20:00
20:00 21:00 Stefan Stasse @stefanstasse Michel Coenen @miesjelc
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00 Paul Rabbering @paul_rabbering
23:00 24:00
0:00 1:00 Evelien de Bruijn @eveliendebruijn Nachtlezer
1:00 2:00
2:00 3:00 Rick van Velthuysen @rickvanv
3:00 4:00
4:00 5:00 Frank van ’t Hof @frankvanthof
5:00 6:00
7:00 7:00 Annemieke Schollaardt Nathan Tamis @Annemiekeishere @NathanTamis
7:00 8:00 Carmen Verheul @carmenverheul

Matijn’s quiz in de spiegeltent:

  • 26 december 10.00 – 10.45 uur (Woensdag)
  • 28 december 09.15 – 10.00 uur (Vrijdag)
  • 29 december 09.15 – 10.00 uur (Zaterdag)
  • 30 december 09.15 – 10.00 uur (Zondag)

Bronnen:

–jeroen

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When asked about the social and privacy aspects of the internet “but who could have foreseen the negative side of this?”, you can answer: “Paul Baran, the man who invented it, over fifty years ago”.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/07

Since it is so important, I quote both the message and publication list by Paul Baran – Wikipedia from [WayBack] Paul Baran’s entire catalogue of RAND publications available for free download A few days ago I’d discovered Paul Baran’s work at RAND, not only in lay… – Edward Morbius – Google+:

Paul Baran’s entire catalogue of RAND publications available for free download

A few days ago I’d discovered Paul Baran’s work at RAND, not only in laying out the technical case and specification for what became the Internet (Baran is the father of packet-switched networks), but concerning the second-order implications, including social and privicy implications, of the technology. This during the 1960s, so, the next time someone asks you rhetorically “but who could have forseen the negative side of this”, you can answer: “Paul Baran, the man who invented it, over fifty years ago”.

And yes, some engineers are highly cognisant of the societal implications of their work.

I’d been both delighted to find Baran’s work and frustrated that some items were missing, so I wrote RAND asking if they might possibly add the others. I was told “yes”, though no schedule was given so I hoped it might appear in a few months.

It was a few days.

I’m delighted, and hope others will also appreciate these foundational and insightful works.

The writings are available as high-quality PDF scans.

The title listing, below, shows the breadth of Baran’s thinking. His work on second-order and negative effects is also continued by one of the organisations he went on to found, the Institute for the Future, which has weighed in on the fake news / propaganda issue recently. Baran himself died in 2011.

My thanks to RAND.

And a reminder that sometimes you can get what you want by asking nicely.

Titles

  • LSI: The Basic Module for New Communication Networks 1968
  • Binary Coded Gun Barrels to Discourage Illegal Use of Small Arms 1968
  • On the Engineer’s Responsibility in Protecting Privacy 1968
  • A Closed Circuit TV System for the Visually Handicapped 1968
  • Communication Policy Issues for the Coming Computer Utility. 1968
  • On the Future Computer Era: Modification of the American Character and the Role of the Engineer, or, A Little Caution in the Haste to Number 1968
  • Some Changes in Information Technology Affecting Marketing in the Year 2000 1968
  • The Coming Computer Utility — Laissez-Faire, Licensing, or Regulation? 1967
  • Some Caveats on the Contribution of Technology to Law Enforcement 1967
  • Remarks on the Question of Privacy Raised by the Automation of Mental Health Records 1967
  • Some Remarks on Digital Distributed Communications Networks 1967
  • Urban Node in the Information Network 1967
  • A Briefing on the Distributed Adaptive Message-Block Network 1965
  • Coverage Estimates of FM, TV and Power Facilities Useful in a Broadband Distributed Network 1962
  • On Distributed Communications Networks 1962
  • A Digital Simulation of an Aided Adaptive Character Reading Machine 1960
  • An Aided Adaptive Character Reader for Machine Translation of Languages 1960
  • On a Distributed Command and Control System Configuration 1960
  • Reliable Digital Communications Systems Using Unreliable Network Repeater Nodes 1960
Defining the Internet (Series of 11 papers)
  • On Distributed Communications: Summary Overview 1964
  • On Distributed Communications: I. Introduction to Distributed Communications Networks 1964
  • On Distributed Communications: II. Digital Simulation of Hot-Potato Routing in a Broadband Distributed Communications Network 1964
  • On Distributed Communications: IV. Priority, Precedence, and Overload 1964
  • On Distributed Communications: V. History, Alternative Approaches, and Comparisons 1964
  • On Distributed Communications: VI. Mini-Cost Microwave 1964
  • On Distributed Communications: VII. Tentative Engineering Specifications and Preliminary Design for a High-Data-Rate Distributed Network
  • Switching Node 1964
  • On Distributed Communications: VIII. The Multiplexing Station 1964
  • On Distributed Communications:: IX. Security, Secrecy, and Tamper-Free Considerations 1964
  • On Distributed Communications: X. Cost Estimate 1964
(The third text in the series is by J.W. Smith:
On Distributed Communications: III. Determination of Path-Lengths in a Distributed Network
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3578.html )https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html

References:

Via: [WayBack] Paul Baran’s entire catalogue of RAND publications available for free download A few days ago I’d discovered Paul Baran’s work at RAND, not only in lay… – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+

Thoughts on the social implications of the Internet? 50 years ago? I’d hope some people had learned from them …

–jeroen

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Soulshow eenmalig terug op NPO Radio 2 – Nieuwsbericht – NPO Radio 2

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/01

“Het lijkt mij zo leuk als de Soulshow nog één keer te horen is. Ouderwets op donderdagavond”

En daar was ie dan: [WayBack] Soulshow eenmalig terug op NPO Radio 2 – Nieuwsbericht – NPO Radio 2.

Als de player niet werkt: hier is de mp3.

Via [WayBack] NPO Radio 2 on Twitter “Donderdag kwam Ferry Maat langs voor één uur lang Soulshow in @Wout2Day. Luister het hele uur hier terug: https://t.co/zo7ujYC1Cm #NPORadio2… https://t.co/lMMU4jww0R”

Wat media aandacht:

en nog meer twitter onder de handtekening..

En natuurlijk 24 uur per dag: [WayBack] Home – Soulshow Radio

Welkom op Soulshow Radio. Ferry Maat’s legendarische radioprogramma met soul-, funk- en discomuziek is 24 uur per dag te beluisteren. Kijk en luister direct op Soulshow.nl

–jeroen

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The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations | Ars Technica

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/26

Another piece of history: FireWire also known as IEEE-1394 [WayBack].

[WayBack] The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations | Ars Technica

I still have that iPod, cables and IEEE-1394 adapters to communicate with it (:

It didn’t help that by now various types of connections – including FireWire, USB and others –  are also used for DMA hacking. One less connection type, one less risk of entry:

via: [WayBack] Firewire and what could have been.. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+ and [WayBack] Fred Dresken (Maverick) – Google+

–jeroen

 

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This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/02

If you run X.org, then patch now because of [WayBack] This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet • The Register

Overwrite arbitrary files? Load arbitrary code? As setuid root? Sure, why not!

This one got introduced in 2016, which is a lot more recent than an issue discovered in 2014 that was “ancient”: [WayBack] ‘Critical’ security bugs dating back to 1987 found in X Window • The Register:

27-year-old flaw and others slain in open-source patch batch

Via eXploit X: Give Me Root” – Computerphile

–jeroen

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Thread by @MaxFagin: “November is here, and that means a massive shift is coming. And by “massive” I am of course referring to the redefinition of the kilogram unit of mass […]”

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/02

Good read: Thread by @MaxFagin: “November is here, and that means a massive shift is coming. And by “massive” I am of course referring to the redefinitilogram unit of mass that the world has been building up to for more than 100 years. Let me explain: 1/ I’ve h […]” [WayBack]

via: [WayBack] Das Urkilogrann wird arbeitslos. Es wird durch eine Definition ersetzt, die auf physikalischen Effekten statt auf einem Sample basiert. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

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Hear Marvin Gaye Sing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” A Capella: The Haunting Isolated Vocal Track | Open Culture

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/30

Because Marvin Gaye’s mega-hit single, ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine,’ turns 50 this today: [WayBack/Archive.is] Hear Marvin Gaye Sing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” A Capella: The Haunting Isolated Vocal Track | Open Culture

Media below.

Via: [WayBack] Meredith Frost on Twitter: “Marvin Gaye’s isolated vocals for “I Heard It Through The Grapevine.” Simply incredible.”

–jeroen

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xkcd: Free Speech

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/29

[WayBack] xkcd: Free Speech is worth repeating every now and then:

Title text: I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express.

Transcript

Cueball: Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can’t arrest you for what you say.
Cueball: It doesn’t mean that anyone else has to listen to your bullshit, or host you while you share it.
Cueball: The 1st Amendment doesn’t shield you from criticism or consequences.
Cueball: If you’re yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an Internet community, your free speech rights aren’t being violated.
Cueball: It’s just that the people listening think you’re an asshole,
[A picture of a partially open door is displayed.]
Cueball: And they’re showing you the door.

Be sure to read [WayBack] 1357: Free Speech – explain xkcd too.

–jeroen

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Map of the internet precursor ARPA network as of May 1973 – David Newbury

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/29

Today’s internet day anniversary only started in 2005. But the networks leading to the internet are a lot older and date as far back as the late 1960s. In fact [WayBack] Internet Day, October 29th refers to the first ARPA network communication taking place in 1969.

About two years ago, David Newbury published this piece of history from 1973: a map of the ARPA network (later called ARPANET).

[WayBack] David Newbury: “Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973. The entire internet. https://t.co/0krvYoRGav”

The resulting thread has loads of more interesting pictures which I tried to save in the Wayback Machine as not even Wikipedia seems to have them.

It also includes a discussion on the meaning of the zig-zag line to Hawaii, the connection to London (UK that is, not USA) later that year and even earlier state of the late 1960s.

Worth reading (:

Here are some references to messages and links from the Twitter thread:

via [WayBack] Well, that’s changed quite a bit in the meantime https://twitter.com/workergn…

–jeroen

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121 – NOS Teletekst: xs4all and T-mobile internet outage

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/28

This time I was not affected, but many people were by the [WayBack] 121 – NOS Teletekst: xs4all and T-mobile outage:

                      NOS Teletekst 121 

    Kort nieuws binnenland              
                                        

 Tienduizenden mensen zijn getroffen  
 door een internetstoring.Abonnees van  
 verschillende providers zoals T-Mobile 
 en XS4ALL,hebben er last van.De        
 problemen begonnen om 2.30 uur en doen 
 zich verspreid over het land voor.Een  
 technisch team van KPN is op zoek naar 
 de oorzaak van de storing.XS4ALL meldt 
 dat 35.000 abonnees zijn gedupeerd.    
                                        
 In Barneveld zijn bij een schuurbrand
 20.000 kippen omgekomen.De brand brak  
 vanmorgen vroeg uit;de oorzaak is nog  
 onbekend.De brandweer wist te voorkomen
 dat een tweede schuur ook vlam vatte.  
 Dit jaar zijn al veel dieren gedood    
 door stalbranden.Zo kwamen bij twee    
 branden in Limburg 35.000 kippen om.   

 volgende  nieuws  weer&verkeer  sport
Ga terug naar de navigatie, het begin van de inhoud.

Trying to grab the above page as PNG, made me find the old teletekst web-interface is directory browseable, but dysfunctional: [WayBack] Directory Listing For /webtekst.html/

Lots of people were affected as you can see at

[Archive.is] Storingsoverzicht | Allestoringen Realtime overzicht van storingen. Problemen? Wij helpen je verder.

They are powered by Downdetector which has a world-wide monitoring service [Archive.is] Status overview | Downdetector, and seems situated in Haarlem. Cool thing: they have similar sites for many other countries:

allestörungen.at | allestörungen.ch | allestörungen.de | allestoringen.be | allestoringen.nl | aussieoutages.com | canadianoutages.com | downdetector.ae | downdetector.cl |downdetector.co.nz | downdetector.co.za | downdetector.com | downdetector.com.ar | downdetector.com.br | downdetector.dk | downdetector.es | downdetector.fi | downdetector.fr |downdetector.hk | downdetector.ie | downdetector.in | downdetector.it | downdetector.jp | downdetector.mx | downdetector.no | downdetector.pl | downdetector.pt | downdetector.ru |downdetector.se | downdetector.sg | downdetector.co.uk | downdetector.web.tr |

Usually uptime robot warns me on time, and this time my connections were OK:

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