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Johan Bové

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...

Johan Bové

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”

 

Johan Bové

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.

Johan Bové

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

Johan Bové

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. 

Johan Bové

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.

Johan Bové

Imagining a Better Online World: Exploring the Decentralized Web | Metropolitan New York Library Council

 

The World Wide Web started with so much promise: to connect people across any distance, to allow anyone to become a publisher, and to democratize access to knowledge. However, today the Web seems to be failing us. It’s not private, secure, or unifying. The Internet has, in large part, ended up centralizing access and power in the hands of a few dominant platforms.

But what if we could build something better, what some are calling the decentralized web?

In this series of six workshops, METRO will be joined by our partners at Internet ArchiveDWeb, and Library Futures to explore the ways in which moving to decentralized technologies may enhance your privacy, empower you to control your own data, and resist censorship:

 

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

In case of a cyber warfare - the internet probably won't work - keep your precious data save by keeping a local backup.

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

What is BGP? | BGP routing explained | Cloudflare

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most efficient routes for delivering Internet traffic.

Johan Bové

To 5G or not to 5G for a home Internet connection in the city of Düsseldorf, Germany - that is the question.

Johan Bové

Internet Archive Search: dweb meetup

Videos from the Dweb meetups on Internet Archive