The Eternal Doorman

They did this to me. After three or four days locked in a solitary cell, they woke me up in the middle of the night and a guy said "open your mouth" I thought he wanted to see my decaying teeth but he took a swab and just shut the door and walked away. So if anybody needs to know my DNA then just ask the FBI! This was in September 2022 and I voluntarily entered the asylum process, I did not attempt to enter the US illegally.  Subscribe to Al Jazeera English .  I thought at the time that it was probably just my friend Bob Müller pissing on the Statue of Liberty. Subscribe to Useful Idiots . 

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It works! I'm not the only one. Check the comments .  In ten short minutes I lost weight, stopped smoking and drinking, my posture is better and my grey hair, wrinkles, bunions and arthritis are gone.  Also my left leg has grown and is now the same length as my right, no more walking in ever decreasing circles for me! Thanks Craig, I recommend your program.  Subscribe to Eleanor Morton . 

This is a very good talk. He started Allthenticate to develop and market this system.  Subscribe to FUTO . 

It does exactly what it says on the tin. They breached the South African Treasury as well as the US National Nuclear Security Administration. See this Bloomberg article:  Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack . Subscribe to Low Level . 

Subscribe to Applied Science . See the video description for some links:  Here's the python example that was the inspiration for this: https://web.archive.org/web/20180630083729/http://www.pyrunner.com/weblog/2016/05/26/compressed-sensing-python/  and here's Steve Brunton's Compressed Sensing playlist: There is a book to go with this series:  Data Driven Science & Engineering  by Steven Brunton & Nathan Kutz. Subscribe to Steve Brunton . Here's Nathan Kutz giving an example in Matlab. Here's the web page for his book Data Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation : https://faculty.washington.edu/kutz/KutzBook/KutzBook.html Ben actually explains it better than Nathan Katz does. As well the broad-band assumption in the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem there is another assumption which is that the samples are taken at regular intervals and this is what allows high-frequency aliasing. Otherwise the sample frequency is clumped and this has an anti-...

 ... and it's not an Uber! She hasn't mentioned Eric Yeung, the CEO of Zoom yet, ...   Subscribe to Angela Collier .

SMA100 series is a broader category than you might at first have thought, ... If you subscribed to their Patreon you'd know this already:  Defensive Security Podcasts . Subscribe to Defensive Podcasts . 

Google tags this with a link to the UK NHS web site: They're aborting their trip because there's no public transport except for the buses, and due to gasoline shortages the bus fares have doubled or in some cases tripled during fiestas. They're in Magdalena, on the Rio Itonomas about 80 Km from the frontier with Brazil. They got there two days ago:   A few weeks ago there was an amazing  son et lumière  show in the Parque de la Familia in Cochabamba: Subscribe to Diario de un Altobeniano . 

This is just horrifying! Subscribe to Level1 Techs . This is what Modular are trying to manage, but I think they're barking up totally the wrong tree. They're building software infrastructure for AI which people need to manage the complexity of software development, and in the process they're making software development even more complex. That's just thermal runaway. 1:27:35 Ben Seidel's question about the boundary between parsing and lexical analysis is a good one. He's asking about this in a very general context, which is that of any language defined by a context-free grammar. So he's reading in a grammar defined by some BNF-type syntax, and wants to figure out what sort of lexical analyser to generate that can be used by that parser. Subscribe to Cliff Click . At some point people are going to wake up and realise that this not the right thing to concentrate on:  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer .  See  Testing Blogger's Automatic Google Sear...

What a beautiful place! It reminds me of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. Cleaning the boat: 5:08 Just as she's talking about all the insects and things that get in a great big hornet walks across the lens of her phone!  Subscribe to Ribeirinha da Amazônia Fabiola Alves Pedrosa . Juan Browne at Oshkosh, ... another lake, another country. I know which one I'd prefer to be at! Subscribe to Blancolirio .

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I knew this was possible, but he thought it through and got it to work! Now we can start to watch Elon Musk's space trash landing, ... See  Angela Collier Building A Radio Telescope in Her Back Yard . Subscribe to Consistently Inconsistent .

It's on their Patreon . It has an interesting discussion about problems of securing Open Source software, especially things like Mastodon servers, which rely on a large collection of dependencies from node.js, Ruby on Rails, etc. Subscribe to Defensive Podcasts .

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Oh but the reality is  so  much worse!  Subscribe to Gdiddlydog .

I walked from El Alto and lived here from August until December 2015. This video was posted on 2nd September 2022, whilst I was lying on the floor of a cell in San Ysidro, CA . Subscribe to Diario de un Altobeniano . Here's a walking tour posted yesterday Subscribe to El Nao POV .

This report seemed unusually thoughtful and intelligent to me. Singapore is trying hard to maintain its sovereignty and hold its neutral stance in the BRICS vs. US Hegemony Economic War. Subscribe to CNA .

... there are some beautiful shots of crossing the Mississippi! See  Dan Gryder on Oshkosh .   Subscribe to Trent Palmer . Nathan's been learning about NSF funding cuts: But he's done a really nice demonstration of how to analyse dynamical systems and how important it is to understand your tools. See his Desmos calculator . This was a followup to this talk See The higher order partial derivatives of Okamoto's function with respect to the parameter . Subscribe to Chalk .

One is through the eyes of a very rich architect, ... This house is in Altacañada , near Los Angeles. Subscribe to The Lookout .

In a village called Chaco there is a stone castle built in 1935 by Paraguayan prisoners of war, on the orders of  José Luis Tejada Sorzano , president of Bolivia during and immediately after the Chaco war . On Coripata, see this 1997 study Coripata: tierra de angustias y cocales . 19:50 One of the reasons for the shortage of gasoline is that the government are apparently prioritising its use for gold mining. He also did a trip to Tarata , 30 Km south of Cochabamba:   Subscribe to Diario de un Altobeniano .

Because it focuses on actual exploits, this history starts about 14 years after Paul Karger and Roger Shell wrote the Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis . Subscribe to  IBM Technology .

EEA Airventure Oshkosh is a big fly-in and Dan and many others think that it's a whole lot of accidents just waiting to happen. Most experienced pilots seem to find it frightening.  Subscribe to Probable Cause . Juan Browne is there: Subscribe to Blancolirio .  ... and Trent Palmer and some friends ... Subscribe to Trent Palmer .

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Eric Schlaepfer is there too with the Monster 6502 , a 50 KHz 6502 made entirely from discrete components. See  Adventures in Code Land . Toby is there somewhere too, ...  Subscribe to CuriousMarc . Jeff Geerling is there too: Subscribe to Level 2 Jeff .

I found a guitar left on the street corner, and it set me thinking about poor old Robert Johnson. See  Beyond the Crossroads: the tragic real life of Robert Johnson . Subscribe to  TheDeuceWithin . Here's a beautiful little documentary on Robert Johnson and his music made by two young Australians who travelled from Mississippi to Chicago and then New York.  Subscribe to devilbluefilms . Subscribe to  Emiel Efdée . Subscribe to  Tony Bonyata . Here's an interview with Nick Cave at the Museum Voorlinden in the Netherlands recorded in 13th December 2024. 1:07:46 The Mercy Seat piano solo. I'm a long way behind on The Red Hand files . But this one is absolutely fantastic, and asks a question I would have asked, and something I've often wondered:   How do you cope on tour?  I definitely need to work on my stagecraft! But I've just been reading back through them and they're all brilliant. I got to the question  What do you make of Nicolas Cage s...

This was filmed during the floods that happened whilst I was there in 2014. That was how I lost all my documents in Rurrenabaque. I spent several nights sleeping near those houses where the people were killed in the landslide. ( 38:17 ). See  Bolivia, in the Green Hell of the Amazon Forests .   See  Les routes de l'impossible Saison 7 Bolivie, au coeur du déluge .   Subscribe to Les Routes de L'impossible .

This is a beautiful little film. I thought it was made near Charazani , but it was all filmed in the Cordillera Oriental in Chuquisaca, which is a place I have never seen. Subscribe to Walter Valda Cine .

This was a voting machine planned to be used in the 2006 elections in the Netherlands. It used a four-line 40 character LCD display driven by the Hitachi HD44780 controller . The problem was the manufacturer could not source enough display controllers with the European character set in ROM, so they used the user-defined characters in CGRAM to display the text. Because the software displayed the same string repeatedly in a loop, and repeatedly reprogrammed the CGRAM each time it displayed the character (which was unnecessary, because the CGRAM is persistent provided the power supply to the driver is is maintained) the extra delay in programming the one accented character, the e-grave appearing in "Christen Democratisch Appèl", changed the AM audio frequency emitted by the display and enabled someone with an AM radio within a few meters (up to 25 in some cases) of the voting booth to know when a vote for the CDA had been cast. Subscribe to  votingcomputerleak . See Electronic V...

Why does his YouTube channel have fewer subscribers than mine? He used to earn a living as a music journalist. Here's his zoom interview with warren Ellis:  Subscribe to Cursed Murphy .

See Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel .  Subscribe to Imilla Skate . And DW Español did a 25 minute mini-doc on them:  Subscribe to DW Español .

It was on June 26th. See  One Hertz Challenge : Here's his entry:  HP 115BR, the clock that once sync'ed the world . It's a really interesting insight into the nature of laboratory time. Speaking of Hackaday, I updated my post on Random numbers:  Generating Random Bits with Avalanche Noise . Subscribe to Curious Marc .

The miners in Bolivia were one sector of the economy that Evo Morales' MAS party social infrastructure didn't reach. In 2015 they were bombing government offices. See another interview with Ruth:  Documentary - Dicing with Death: Bolivia, The Yungas in The Clouds . 1:59 It looks like they've built a road bridge from Rurrenabaque to San Buenaventura. That wasn't there in 2013!  Subscribe to Arte TV .

She says this is a 100K subscribers celebration, but maybe she means 300K? It's about a kit that NASA are sending people as part of the Radio JOVE project . Apparently when Jupiter's magnetosphere interacts with solar storms it resonates somehow and emits a radio signal called The Jovian Decametric Radio Emission : "After the accidental discovery of radio bursts from Jupiter, scientists sought to understand what caused this radio emission. They started with careful observations, recording the times they heard Jupiter and how intense Jupiter's decametric radio bursts were. (The word decametric means tens of meters since the wavelength of the radio bursts are in the tens of meters). After collecting these radio data they compared it with other information they had about Jupiter. They began to match the Jupiter radio bursts with the rotation of the planet." So what they are observing are the changes in intensity of this radio emission on a timescale scale of about 1...

... mainly Boeing 787s. At  14:55 he explains the whole fuel switch system in great detail. It does not involve any software control at all: it's a direct electrical connection to a relay which controls power to an electro-mechanical valve that controls the fuel supply to the engines, so it's completely independent from the FADEC system in the engine. I also saw another description on the Mover and Gonky show, see below, of the actual microswitch which is multi-pole, so a separate connection goes to the flight data recorder. It does seem like sabotage would be very difficult to do like this. See Juan Browne, Stig Aviation and Taking Off on the Air India 787 Crash  and also  Juan Browne on the Air India 787 Preliminary Accident Report  and Captain Dan Gryder with a Theory About Air India Flight 171 . Subscribe to Stig Aviation . The Mover and Gonky Show on the Flight 171 Crash:  Subscribe to The Mover and Gonky Show .

Another Tony Comiti production. I thought they could use cable-ways like this in San José de Uchupiamonas to get to  la banda , a flat area lying in the loop of a meander of the Rio Tuichi. When the river is flowing fast crossing by canoe is difficult, especially with a heavy load. Subscribe to Les Routes de l'impossible .  

It's a really nice little school. And her iPhone had an adventure at the bottom of the lake. It was in five meters of water for over twelve hours, I think, but they found it and it still works! Subscribe to  Ribeirinha da Amazônia Fabiola Alves Pedrosa .

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They are aiming at making it usable for  everybody! What program crashed? What's in the core dump? Who cares?  I wonder about Raspberry Pi too. Their Raspberry Pi Connect : Raspberry Pi Connect gives you free, simple, out-of-the-box access to your Raspberry Pi from anywhere in the world. It is a secure remote access solution for Raspberry Pi OS, allowing you to connect to your Raspberry Pi desktop and command line directly from any browser.   This is a way to allow you to make a peer-to-peer connection between two machines when both peers agree to do so by connecting to the same central server, without either peer having a well-known name or having to listen for incoming connections. Only when both peers have a simultaneous connection to the same central server can they establish a direct connection.  I haven't tried it, because for some reason I don't understand, it requires you to enable auto-login on your machine for it to work. But why? When you couple this with ...

Buck Shlegeris is CEO of Redwood Research . See Ming Li, Xin Chen, Xin Li, Bin Ma, and Paul M. B. Vitányi The Similarity Metric .  A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new “normalized information distance,” based on the noncomputable notion of Kolmogorov complexity, and show that it is in this class and it minorizes every computable distance in the class (that is, it is universal in that it discovers all computable similarities). We demonstrate that it is a metric and call it the similarity metric  See also   Rudi L Cilibrasi and Paul M B Vitányi Fast Phylogeny of SARS-CoV-2 by Compression . The compression method to assess similarity, in the sense of having a small normalized compression distance (NCD), was developed based on algorithmic information theory to quantify the similarity in files ranging from words and languages to genomes and mus...

Can't somebody find something useful for these kids to do? Subscribe to Trent Palmer .

... apparently it helps.  But first they have to terrorize you, ...  Subscribe to Planet Wild . They need to make this tribal unification process into transferable social technology: See  https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/Mashco-Piro . Subscribe to The Telegraph . Maybe it's better than spending your money on cocaine, ... see  Project Paradise - Everything Feels "Off"  and  McKenna Academy - Wisdom of the Leaf Coca Summit : the Inca runners used coca leaves like we use coins, they probably used bags of leaves like we use gold bullion. See  Documentary - Dicing with Death: Bolivia, The Yungas in The Clouds  and People in El Dorado in Venezuela Using Gold Nuggets as Money .

Patreon is not doing them any favors: see  https://www.patreon.com/defensivesec If you click membership options: I had essential and functional cookies enabled. Maybe it's just my phone is hacked though. See  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer .

If you assume the EADR data is absolutely correct then this is the sort of explanation that you need. I guess they will have to try to identify the voices on the cockpit voice recorder and do an investigation into the private lives of both pilots. See  Juan Browne on the Air India 787 Preliminary Accident Report  and  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer .  Subscribe to Probable Cause . 

Another Tony Comiti production. See https://javafilms.fr/film/dicing-with-death-guatemala-under-the-mayan-sky/ I made this today: and this yesterday   See  Carl Popper on Induction and Knowledge as a Greatest Fixpoint . See also Documentary - The face of the Southern Border that nobody shows: Chiapas and Guatemala . Subscribe to Best Documentary .

Well, that's how I take his idea of the falsifiability criterion of Scientific Knowledge . Maybe that's shooting from the hip a bit, ...     It's is as if he's responding to this: see Curt Jaimungal Intervew with Jenann Ismael . Subscribe to Philosophy Overdose .  And after making that I was reading Wade Davis ' book One River and I read this description of Richard Evans Schultes ' in Oaxaca, Mexico , looking for the original "Magic Mushrooms" teonanácatl . It's a really superb book. For the first time in ages I am getting into trouble staying up too late because I can't stop reading. He is a really great writer.  See  Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel  and  Documentary - Narco Jungle: The Darien Gap .

Compare with the original  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer . This is about Computer Security and large tech companies.  Made in the USA. Broadcom still make these 8 character displays and you can get them here for £47.35 each. They draw 250mA per display and have 16 user-definable characters stored in flash memory . This is the programmer for them, so the military can hack their own fonts, I guess. The datasheet has the built-in character definitions, artistically laid out: See  Hitachi HD44780U LCD Display Fonts . Here's their HP 9825 Repairathon . Subscribe to Curious Marc . I've been thinking a lot about abstraction in documentation recently. It is really frustrating to me that companies like Intel and ARM insist on producing typeset PDF files of their manuals. These are all in some metalanguage that has to be translated. The metalanguage is English because these were originally American and British companies,  respectively, but the act...

This is by far the best such documentary about this that I've seen, and I have seen quite a few. Some are filmed from a different perspective though. There is one by some young men that looks interesting, but I haven't seen it all yet. Subscribe to Official W5 . Yesterday I did a walk-and-talk about this:  See  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer . Lissie - America See  Lissie - America (Simon & Garfunkel) . I found America, ... See  Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel .

Made in the USA. Broadcom still make these 8 character displays and you can get them here for £47.35 each. They draw 250mA per display and have 16 user-definable characters stored in flash memory. This is the programmer for them, so the military can hack their own fonts, I guess.. The datasheet has the built-in character definitions, artistically laid out: See Juan Browne on the Air India 787 Preliminary Accident Report  and  Hitachi HD44780U LCD Display Fonts . Here's their HP 9825 Repairathon . Subscribe to Curious Marc . I've been thinking a lot about abstraction in documentation recently. It is really frustrating to me that companies like Intel and ARM insist on producing typeset PDF files of their manuals. These are all in some metalanguage that has to be translated. The metalanguage is English because these were originally American and British companies,  respectively, but the actual data the manuals contain is language-neutral. The task of the technical...

I learned from this that in the state of Chiapas alone there are 12 different languages spoken. I tried to get Union Juarez once. I only made it as far as Rosario Ixtal, near Cacahuatan but I found a place to live there, so it was a success. I didn't realize I was only 1.75 Km away from the frontier with Guatemala though. I met some girls working in a restaurant in Cacahuatan once who were from Guatemala, so I think the frontier is fairly permeable around there. Subscribe to  Jorge De León .

This is some classy film-making going on (especially the deja vu at 2:42 ). It was filmed 14 Sept 2020, after I left for La Paz. See  Yet Another Blog  (15 Sept 2020).  The skate park is Parque Urbano Ollantay , not too far from the place where I got bitten by a dog  in April 2011. Nearby there is a long avenue called 27 de mayo  which is lined with busts of Bolivia's military heroes through history, though many of them have been partly destroyed and many are missing. It was not lit at night, and there were dogs and homeless encampments in the bushes. At the top is a monument to Las Heroinas de la Coronilla : Las "Heroínas de la Coronilla" fueron un grupo de mujeres bolivianas que lucharon contra las fuerzas realistas en Cochabamba el 27 de mayo de 1812, durante la Guerra de la Independencia de Bolivia. Lideradas por Manuela Gandarillas, se enfrentaron al ejército español en la colina de San Sebastián, conocida como La Coronilla, mostrando un gran valor y sacr...

See  Juan Browne, Stig Aviation and Taking Off on the Air India 787 Crash . You can download the report from  https://aaib.gov.in/What's%20New%20Assets/Preliminary%20Report%20VT-ANB.pdf . It does, perhaps, explain why the flight recorder was located 1,000 feet away, because the wreckage was spread over a distance of 1,000 feet: "The wreckage, from the first impact point till the last identified aircraft item, was distributed in [sic] an area of approx. 1000 ft x 400 ft". So the tail section impacted first and that's where they found the aft EAFR. Subscribe to Blancolirio .  Subscribe to Al Jazeera English . Now the Internet of Experts is speculating that it was pilot error/insanity, but there is going to have to be a long and very difficult cyber-forensic investigation of the software systems in the switch sensors and the cockpit data recorders, because they have to rule out sabotage. There's a company in Israel that are experts in this kind of whole-system se...

Las cholitas bolivianas se han convertido en un legado histórico por su lucha social. Hoy, tocan la cumbre de los sueños y la superación, por medio de la fortaleza e identidad. Sus atuendos son belleza cultural con un mensaje de respeto, confianza, poder y tradición. Acompaña a Vogue a conocer las hazañas en skateboard de las “mujeres de polleras” desde las calles de La Paz, Ciudad del Cielo, Bolivia. See  Bolivia’s Cholita skaters ImillaSkate fight for gender equality and indigenous pride with clothing .  Subscribe to Vogue México y Latinoamerica . 

I learned how to pronounce Gárfunkel from David Lynch: see  David Lynch's Weather Report April 20, 2022 : Still my favorite cover of hers. This is just beyond anything! Subscribe to Lissie .

Another Tony Comiti production. See https://javafilms.fr/film/dicing-with-death-venezuela-the-curse-of-the-black-gold/ . Subscribe to  Les Routes de l'impossible .

I'll never forget hearing Evo Morales saying "Los Bolivianos, son buenos trabajadores" and he meant it.  But if your economy relies on selling the products produced by those people ( 21:51 ) to be able to import enough gasoline to fuel the transport system they rely on, then you are basically just selling the people into slavery. See  Guardian - We tracked Bolivia’s fugitive president to his remote jungle hideout  and  Documentary - Dicing with Death: Bolivia, The Yungas in The Clouds . Subscribe to Best Documentary .

33:00 Monkeys and Bananas!  Now we're talking:  Toby on The Hardest Soviet Exam and Jade on Non-deterministic Newtonian Mechanics . She's my favourite philosopher of physics! See  Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction ,  John Baez on Symmetric Monoidal Categories A Rosetta Stone and Noson S. Yanofsky on Diagonalization, Fixed Points, and Self-reference and  Scott Aaronson on How To Script a Time Travel Movie . Subscribe to Curt Jaimungal . 

I am surprised there aren't digital filters than can't somehow match these different transfer functions ( 4:12 ). I guess that people do know how to do these kinds of things, but they keep it to themselves and sell the results and get rich, while the rest of us shell out for overpriced microphones. It's also about Robot CPU semantics. See  Matt Godbolt Explains "Young Man, It's Robots All The Way Down!" . Subscribe to Computerphile .

This one is an absolute banger! Adderall , dividerall, whatever. I got 87 and a half litres. Is that OK? Subscribe to Julie Nolke . Patreon doesn't use AI to generate their "share" images, clearly: See  Her Patreon Post . Charlotte Dobre does a kind of domestic help-line show, for now,... Subscribe to Charlotte Dobre . 

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Made in 2021. See https://javafilms.fr/film/dicing-with-death-bolivia-the-yungas-in-the-clouds/ There is a reason why the Inca didn't bother with wheels, but nobody talks about it any more. I did. Bolivia has plenty of Hydrogen. See  Doing Stuff With Airships . All we need to do is get people to trust in the common good, so they can trust others to transport their goods, but they don't, after years of experience, I suppose. I stopped watching this at 25:20 . See  Guardian - We tracked Bolivia’s fugitive president to his remote jungle hideout  and  People in El Dorado in Venezuela Using Gold Nuggets as Money .  See also  Documentary About Bolivia  and  Bolivia’s Cholita skaters ImillaSkate fight for gender equality and indigenous pride with clothing . Subscribe to  Best Documentary . This was made a couple of years ago. Ruth is lovely. She gave me a job as "sereno" at Sadiri, near Tumupasa, which I did for several months in late 2013/2014...