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World Domination Fundraising Day #365

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See  Uplink 2026 , in particular  https://ctx.graphics/  and  https://openrndr.org/ . See also  EWD196  which was published in 1967 in SOSP '67: Proceedings of the first ACM symposium on Operating System Principles. Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software . 

Israel Assassinating Journalists

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Subscribe to  Kim Iversen . Subscribe to  The Katie Halper Show .  See  Fiorella Isabel talking with Marwa Osman  and  Dimitri Lascaris talking with Marwa Osman .  Journalists should definitely not be using WatsApp to communicate! See  Maddy on the Dark Web . 

Maddy on the Dark Web

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There is a bit about the Tech Learning Collective that is interesting ( 6:33 ). My comment : That was interesting, but I didn't get any of the blurred-out stuff. I feel privileged to have led such a sheltered life! It's a pity that people like the Tech Learning Collective need to share the same space as all that garbage. For a while it looked like port-knocking might be a way to make private networks. Do you know about that? It requires communities to meet IRL first and establish some shared secrets to bootstrap the secure connection. Maybe that's why I don't have access to any private networks. Maybe ask someone at the TLC about this. I actually wrote an article about this on my blog in 2014 called "Shadow TCP stacks in OpenBSD" but if you Google that you won't find it. Even if you put in the blog domain name it won't tell you anything. The first sentence reads "This design outline concerns the implementation of a protocol for dynamic routing b...

Olive Badger on Claude "Mythos"

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This whole LLM thing is just a giant collective brain-fart. See  Hak5 - Security News  and  Toby on YouTube's AI Curation of Content Providers . Subscribe to  Olive Badger .  The dodgy accounting behind the AI "business plan" Subscribe to  The Tech Report .  This made me despair. Subscribe to  Topos Institute . 

Hak5 - Security News

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It's a madhouse! They're only a few thousand short of 1M subscribers, so subscribe to Hak5 and get them a new plaque. 

Toby on YouTube's AI Curation of Content Providers

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It's a bit depressing! My comment : 5:37 There are actually a few theorems in his "biography" The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll. Not so bizarre, though I couldn't immediately prove them so maybe they are? Also if you include some of his other books like Sylvie & Bruno and A Mathematical Tale,  I think you could make a video.  This is quite an interesting glimpse into how "the algorithm" "works" (it definitely doesn't!) I wish the people who work there (all ten of them that aren't sub-contractors in India) took their responsibility a bit more seriously. And another :  10:55 I think they have a serious problem which is the enormous amount of disk/memory space needed to store all the uploads. They only make money from views, so it stands to reason they would prefer people to make videos that are viewed than ones that just sit there and only get a few incomplete views per year. I am really surprised they don't have quotas to dis...

Ringo Starr - Long Long Road

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Laura Pausini - Immensamente

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She wrote the script and shot the video herself. It's really good. Subscribe to  Laura Pausini . Song written by Umberto Tozzi Subscribe to  Umberto Tozzi . 

Dimitri Lascaris talking with Marwa Osman

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