Super interesting details on internet (standards) beginnings.
Commenting on one RFC a day in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first RFC.
Source: 365 RFCs — Write.as
Author: Bojan Bjelić
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Encounter: 365 RFCs
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Encounter: How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
Turns out, a lot of it, actually.
Source: How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
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The article is from 2018, and I have to confess I didn’t look for more recent statistics, but I can imagine it only got worse. I did a quick of search on this topic, and a lot of articles date from 2018, so it seems the attention just turned to other topics, but I don’t think the actual problem went away.
Also relevant
The Fake Web: How Nonhuman, Fraudulent And Invalid Traffic Is Taking Over The Internet (18 Feb 2022)
The ‘Dead-Internet Theory’ Is Wrong but Feels True – The Atlantic (31 Aug 2021)
All the levels of redirection (Rant 14 Sep 2012)
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Encounter: Visidata
A terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data.
Short review
Wired:
- Very fast on big datasets
- Easily get the data overview hitting Shift+I (hide irrelevant columns using “-“)
- Reformatting dates by using regexs (for grouping by day, month etc.)
- Quickly get an aggregation by choosing a method and hitting Shift+F (hide other columns)
Tired:
- UI, or lack thereof
- Specifying the delimiter in the command line when invoking the tool
Grouping docs
https://www.visidata.org/docs/group/
Github
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Reference: Import existing source code to GitHub
If you’ve got local source code you want to add to a new remote new git repository without ‘cloning’ the remote first, do the following (I often do this – you create your remote empty repository in bitbucket/github, then push up your source)
- Create the remote repository, and get the URL such as
git@github.com:/youruser/somename.gitorhttps://github.com/youruser/somename.gitIf your local GIT repo is already set up, skips steps 2 and 3 - Locally, at the root directory of your source,
git init2a. If you initialize the repo with a .gitignore and a README.md you should do agit pull {url from step 1}to ensure you don’t commit files to source that you want to ignore ;) - Locally, add and commit what you want in your initial repo (for everything,
git add .thengit commit -m 'initial commit comment') - to attach your remote repo with the name ‘origin’ (like cloning would do)
git remote add origin [URL From Step 1] - Execute
git pull origin masterto pull the remote branch so that they are in sync. - to push up your master branch (change master to something else for a different branch):
git push origin master
- Create the remote repository, and get the URL such as
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Encounter: untools – Tools for better thinking
Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
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Encounter: I’m a very slow thinker
Original post: https://sive.rs/slow
Quotes:
I’m a disappointing person to try to debate or attack. I just have nothing to say in the moment, except maybe, “Good point.” Then a few days later, after thinking about it a lot, I have a response.
People say that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s a knee-jerk emotional response to something in your past.
When you’re less impulsive and more deliberate like this, it can be a little inconvenient for other people, but that’s OK. Someone asks you a question. You don’t need to answer. You can say, “I don’t know,” and take your time to answer after thinking. Things happen. Someone expects you to respond. But you can say, “We’ll see.”
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Encounter: Monocle
“a pocket sized AR device for the imaginative hacker”
A new packaging for AR et.al.
Source: https://www.brilliantmonocle.com/
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Encounter (again): This Person Does Not Exist
This person does not exist With the flood of AI generated imagery, can we still distinguish what is real and what is “fake”? Is it really fake if it was generated by an algorithm?
This website shows a new face every time it is loaded, and that person does not actually exist. It’s using StyleGAN2 and was created in 2019, but I ran into this again and was fascinated (again).
With each load, a new face is shown, and that person does not actually exist. This was created in 2019, but I ran into this again and was fascinated (again).
It is actually still a very good algorithm, very few flaws, at least to my untrained eye (see how can you tell below).
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
Related
Have I Been Trained
Reverse identification of images used to train models.
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models
Which face is real
http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/
Our aim is to make you aware of the ease with which digital identities can be faked, and to help you spot these fakes at a single glance.
How can you tell
https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/learn.html
TLDR; Potential tell offs
- Water-splotches
- Background problems
- Eyeglasses
- Asymmetries
- Hair
- Fluorescent bleed
- Teeth
Stable Attribution
https://www.stableattribution.com/
Stable Attribution’s algorithm decodes an image generated by an A.I. model into the most similar examples from the data that the model was trained with.
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Book review: Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
It’s an interesting idea, and some intriguing concepts on the abilities of understanding very different beings and civilisations. I was very much put off by prejudices towards women, even some misogyny.
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