LIS3353 - Technologies for Information Professionals

— Linux Install Guide —

Practical Final Project Information

Here is the +Official Syllabus - but About the Class is probably more useful to you.

See you in class!

Week 11 - From Compression to Thinking Machines

https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS3353/3353-Compression-to-Thinking.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20200901073754/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/18/why-we-still-need-to-study-the-humanities-in-a-stem-world/

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-does-file-compression-work/

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/image-compression

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-conversational-ais-like-chatgpt-work-ivan-voras/

https://weaviate.io/blog/how-ai-creates-art
Longer:
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusion/

https://futurism.com/singularity-explain-it-to-me-like-im-5-years-old
vs
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

Week 10 - Advanced Practical Linux and hackery

OH WOW perfect:
https://lifehacker.com/tech/self-host-apps

https://www.hacktivate.app/why-teach-kids-to-hack
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine/

(this would have been better a few weeks ago, but my goodness this is the best article about passwords I've ever read and I'm not even halfway through it, I just stopped to post it here)
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

https://opensource.com/resources/virtualization

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/emulation-or-virtualization-what-s-the-difference/
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/virtualization-vs-containerization/

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

For the Practical ☺
https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2016/07/bash-salaries.aspx
https://alexpetralia.com/posts/2017/6/26/learning-linux-bash-to-get-things-done

https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/what-is-bash-used-for/

https://www.ubuntupit.com/snap-vs-flatpak-vs-appimage-know-the-difference/
https://www.linux.com/topic/desktop/how-install-and-use-docker-linux/

Week 9 - Social Media and Privacy

https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS3353/2023-Fall%2015%20-%20LIS3353-Social%20Media.pdf
https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS3353/2022-%20LIS3353-PrivacyFULL.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html

Privacy, broadly
https://robindoherty.com/2016/01/06/nothing-to-hide.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/the-clouds-my-mom-cleaned-my-room-problem/245648/
https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide

Little Brother?
https://eyes.daylightingsociety.org/
https://defaultnamehere.tumblr.com/post/139351766005/graphing-when-your-facebook-friends-are-awake

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Social Media Is a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Mind
Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition | Facebook | The Guardian
Taibbi on Facebook: Can We Be Saved From the Social Media Giant? - Rolling Stone
Battling coronavirus misinformation in the age of social media | Coronavirus | The Guardian
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
RSS Is Better Than Twitter

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2024/11/21/bluesky-vs-x-can-the-decentralized-platform-dethrone-elon-musks-x-twitter/
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktokers-speculate-meta-tiktok-ban/

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-facebook-dystopian-whistleblower-leaks-experts.html
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/29/22752850/mastodon-trump-truth-social-network-open-source-gab-legal-notice

Week 8 - Anonymity and Social Surplus

https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS3353/FALL-2022-%20LIS3353-anonymity-AND-social-surplus.pdf

In the news:
http://mashable.com/2017/03/31/isp-claim-wont-sell-browsing-history/#t0iFiYqefiqw
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/28/so_my_isp_can_now_sell_my_browsing_history_what_can_i_do/

Tor
http://lifehacker.com/what-is-tor-and-should-i-use-it-1527891029
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/4/4802512/nsa-failed-to-compromise-tor-network-but-exploited-browser-vulnerabilities

Anonymity?
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/09/21/why-pseudonymity-is-such-an-important-concept-and-what-anybeat-is-doing-about-it/

Voting:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/06/estonians-get-to-vote-online-why-cant-america/

https://biznology.com/2018/01/online-communities-best-thing-internet-not-worst/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/technology/how-the-internet-is-saving-culture-not-killing-it.html
https://www.wired.com/story/why-teens-arent-partying-anymore/

Playing with toys while people are dying?
https://medium.com/@mode7games/playing-with-toys-while-people-are-dying-f8ed35ef8b25

Social Surplus
http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/clay-shirkys-cognitive-surplus-is-creating-and-sharing-always-a-more-moral-choice-than-consuming/

Flashmobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob
http://www.smartmobs.com/2006/10/03/ice-cream-politics-flash-mob-in-belarus/
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/CompPrivConst/HereComesEverybody (read only the Chapter 7:Faster and Faster bit)

Networked Production
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/craigslist-is-ugly-janky-old-schooland-unbeatable/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/media-copyrightlaw/benkler_3487.jsp

"Slacktivism"
http://www.meta-activism.org/2013/03/its-not-slacktivism-if-it-changes-culture/

Week 7 - Algorithms and Milkshakes

https://jrm4.com/slides/Algorithms_and_Milkshakes.html

this just in...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australia-facebook

How Encryption Works
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/05/how-internet-encryption-works

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/encryption3.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
A little more on SSL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6088583/which-symmetric-key-algorithm-does-ssl-use

Summary of NIST's Rules — surprised?
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/
https://www.govtech.com/security/Widely-Used-Password-Advice-Turns-Out-to-Be-Wrong-NIST-Says.html

Apple's Method
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/why-cant-apple-decrypt-your-iphone.html

Hashing for Verification
http://www.howtogeek.com/67241/htg-explains-what-are-md5-sha-1-hashes-and-how-do-i-check-them/

https://tiptopsecurity.com/what-is-cryptographic-hashing-md5-sha-and-more/

Week 6 - The Internet and Linux Continued

https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_The_Internet.html

The history:
http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/internet.html
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/

The barriers
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/08/28/15404/how-big-telecom-smothers-city-run-broadband

https://www.datafantic.com/how-much-time-do-we-waste-waiting-for-websites-to-load/

DIY? Mesh, et al
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37974267
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-a-diy-network-plans-to-subvert-time-warner-cables-nyc-internet-monopoly
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/

The net; today:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/
https://backchannel.com/the-end-of-the-internet-dream-ba060b17da61#.y01ca2r1d

Censorship?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220209053205/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/technology/8chan-cloudflare-el-paso.html

P2P
https://ipfs.io/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

Week 5 - Linux and the Command Line

https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_Linux_and_Text_and_Power.html

https://www.linux.com/what-is-linux/
https://opensource.com/resources/linux

This week will be a bit different, we will focus on getting you a working version of Linux.

Linux Install Guide

Week 4 - History of Operating Systems

https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_History_of_Operating_Systems.html

Apple
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/rise-fall-rise-apple-history/

WOZ!
https://gotopia.tech/articles/210/fascinating-life-stories-about-Apple-from-Steve-Wozniak
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-says-steve-jobs-elon-musk-are-similar-except

Cultural Defeat of Microsoft
https://www.devever.net/~hl/windowsdefeat

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/

https://thomasbandt.com/the-day-windows-died (LANGUAGE!)

Linux
https://web.archive.org/web/20210427033605/https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/apple-steals-innovation-from-the-heart-of-the-linux-community/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-and-open-source-have-won-get-over-it/

https://itsfoss.com/windows-10-inspired-linux/

http://www.naughtycomputer.uk/free_software_better_than_open_source.html

https://techtalk.gfi.com/do-operating-systems-matter-anymore/

Web as OS
https://tscreativ.substack.com/p/is-the-next-operating-system-the

Phones?
https://www.techradar.com/opinion/the-iphone-vs-android-battle-isnt-about-technology-its-about-us

https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/now-more-than-ever-chromeos-is-linux-with-googles-desktop-environment/

Week 3 - Software I - Math and Instructions

https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_Software_I_-_Big_Ideas_and_Math.html
https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS3353/3353-binarynew.pdf

What is code?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

What programming is
http://siderea.livejournal.com/1241996.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20200901073754/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/18/why-we-still-need-to-study-the-humanities-in-a-stem-world/

Basic Binary
http://www.mathsisfun.com/binary-decimal-hexadecimal.html

(also this — brilliant!) - https://i.imgur.com/NQPrUsI.gifv

(and this, goofy! - https://looo.lol/

Basic Algorithms
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question717.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140716042310/https://medium.com/@_marcos_otero/the-real-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-e95fa9f16c04

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/deep-learning-isnt-dangerous-magic-genie-just-math/

https://www.mathsisfun.com/hexadecimal-decimal-colors.html

Week 2 - Hardware

https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_Hardware.html

IN THE NEWS

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/intel-details-everything-that-could-go-wrong-with-us-taking-a-10-stake/

https://gizmodo.com/tech-giants-are-scrambling-to-comply-with-emerging-right-to-repair-laws-2000492474

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/nvidia-becomes-worlds-most-valuable-company-2024-06-18/

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/com-basics/hardware-guide/

Does Moore's Law Matter?
http://www.slashgear.com/is-moores-law-still-relevant-for-pcs-0780747/

IoT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2014/05/13/simple-explanation-internet-things-that-anyone-can-understand/#4614fcdd1d09

(Warning, strong language ahead. But, it makes for perhaps the most frank and honest discussion I've seen on the topic)
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pgkdm7/when-the-internet-of-things-starts-to-feel-like-the-internet-of-shit

Does HARDWARE Matter?
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2494720/computer-hardware/preston-gralla--does-hardware-matter-anymore-.html

On Shenzhen
https://medium.com/wonk-bridge/shenzhen-the-tech-capital-of-the-world-7b1a0469c39f

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