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Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Dave Mills Stories

Dave Mills was known as Father Time as one of the people behind the NTP, or Internet time protocol 

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WORLD POSSIBLE - GuideStar Profile

World Possible develops technology solutions and supports social entrepreneurs who help bridge the digital divide in communities that lack internet. We believe every person on earth should have access to world-class educational content and it is our aim to get those to them.

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Great example of an actual live "sneaker net" application using RACHEL devices and an Android app - it allows to transfer messages and data bundles from areas without Internet connection to Internet connected regions.

http://datapost.site/

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

A new week brings a new Android issue to resolve. The phone now goes into screen lock whenever I play a video from Firefox. Having a hard time ploughing through loads of crappy websites to be able to find any thing remotely related to find out what to do about this. The Internet is a mess.

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Pure HTML page, without images, styling or animations or transitions are still web pages, bringing information across the Internet to anyone with a connection and a browser.

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Watching a live coding stream while on a high speed train with spotty network connection is not great. It is amazing it kinda works, for sure. But we're not in the always connected high speed internet future yet.

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230418 - Leg Ver1 - Leg Ver1.pdf

Resolution recognizing the irreplaceable public value of libraries, including online
libraries like the Internet Archive, and the essential rights of all libraries to own,
preserve, and lend both digital and print books to the residents of San Francisco and
the wider public; supporting the Internet Archive and its public service mission; and
urging the California State Legislature and the United States Congress to support
digital rights for libraries, including controlled digital lending and the option for
libraries to own their digital collections.

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Just had a terrible experience with an "emotional agent", an AI powered assistant application which represents a virtual person which is supposed to assist patients that are suffering from stress. The experience with the system was anything but relaxing. Mostly because of the assumptions made by the developers of the application: not everyone has the latest powerful macbook, not everyone connects to the internet through a high-speed connection, not everyone is actually using a laptop, some people still use a PC where a camera and a microphone setup is a bit more complicated to set up. Also the scripting of the session was really bad. If this was a benchmark for these kind of systems, then there is still a lot of work to be done.

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

I don't think anybody would miss my personal "homepage" site but myself. Having one of those pessimistic moments where I am thinking - is having an online "presence" even and at all worth it for me? What is it really contributing to the Internet? I have some visitors, which I see through good old AwStats, but am I making their day or providing them with an answer to a longing question? Probably not...

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p2p-basel 2023 day 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

talks from day 1 of p2p basel 2023 https://p2p-basel.org
 
1: authenticated prefix relations: old and new append-only log designs by aljoscha meyer
 
2: presentation by christian f. tschudin about the computer networks group at university of basel and a quick-fire demonstration of the group's secure scuttlebutt-related projects
 
3: presentation by christian f. tschudin on "TinySSB and Header Compression"
 
4: Martijn De Vos, “TrustChain: A Lightweight, Distributed Ledger for Universal Work Accounting”
 

5: Andre Staltz, “Near future in SSB JS and Manyverse”

 

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Not kidding; is replacing my Internet searching using questions really fast. It is incredible how fast answers come back. It's like having a savvy colleague who you can reach out to at any given time and responds in a few seconds. I now have https://chat.openai.com/chat open in a tab basically all the time.

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A one year old silver mackrel male mainecoon cat, head, close up, relaxed, photo realistic #midjourney #ai

A one year old silver mackrel male mainecoon cat, head, close up, relaxed, photo realistic #midjourney #ai

Wondering if Midjourney actually found a painting of a Main Coon and also added the signature of the original artist in the bottom left?

A quick Internet search found these images:

- https://images.saatchiart.com/saatchi/1296793/art/6518775/5588451-UWDRWYLT-7.jpg

- https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/6c/24/196c240cbf3384b02af56a8f2b81b4e1.jpg

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

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NYT Link Rot.pdf

Also at https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37367405

Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s found on the web can also be modified, moved, or entirely disappeared. This often-irreversible decay of web content is commonly known as linkrot. It comes with a similar problem of content drift, or the often-unannounced changes––retractions, additions, replacement––to the content at a particular URL. 

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Reading the 134 pages of the bill, I understand the proposal to be a state-run "antivirus" program that must be installed on every digital device and server connected to the Internet, analyzing every text, image and video. If it finds something, you will be reported automatically to Interpol and the program will read the file and remove it from your device and any other server. Before you can use any device, you must identify yourself, no matter if it is a cell phone or a computer.