3353-Fall-2023-Readings
Created Wednesday 03 January 2024
than the Official Syllabus - but you should check out both.
Week 12 - Privacy and Social Media
https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS3353/2022-%20LIS3353-PrivacyFULL.pdf
./2023-Fall 15 - LIS3353-Social Media.pdf
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
As Buyers Circle, Could Twitter Be Better Off As A Nonprofit? : All Tech Considered : NPR
Facebook fake-news writer - I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me
Battling coronavirus misinformation in the age of social media | Coronavirus | The Guardian
For Rogue Twitter, You Need Burner Phone, Anonymous Email
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
RSS Is Better Than 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
https://www.wired.com/story/tim-wu-explains-why-facebook-broken-up/
Week 11 - Algorithms and Milkshakes I
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 10 - Freely Available Information
https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_Freely_Available_Information.html
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/streaming-libraries-dvds-blu-rays.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/why-sci-hub-matters/
https://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/http://computationalculture.net/article/book-piracy-as-peer-preservation
https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/15/lets-compete-on-innovation/
Piracy?
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537
Browse : http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html
(Take special note of the "fifth" fair use factor)
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/10/07/fair-use-decided-who-has-most-money
TRADEMARK
GNU GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
https://opensource.com/article/17/9/open-source-licensing
Week 9 - From Compression to Thinking Machines
./3353-Compression-to-Thinking.pdf
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-does-file-compression-work/
So. I couldn't find a solid, but simple, explanation of image compression. So I just asked ChatGPT to explain it to a highschooler.
Image Compression, by ChatGPT
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 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
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 - The Internet
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://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890527/fcc-net-neutrality-rules-law-usa-internet-access
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
P2P
https://ipfs.io/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
Week 6 - Linux and the Command Line
No specific readings: but BEFORE THURSDAY review the below and come considering an option. Please EXPLORE and READ; don't just "click links and I'm done"
Preferred: Real or Virtual Install.
For a real OR virtual install, you will need a distribution. Any will do, presently I recommend one of the following:
https://mxlinux.org/
https://linuxmint.com/
https://ubuntu.com/ as a last resort for new computers?
Or again — ANYTHING here, check the leaderboards!
https://distrowatch.com/
For a virtual install, you will need the above AND ALSO some virtualization software.
Most of you can still use https://www.virtualbox.org/
New fancy M1 mac people, you can't, but you can use https://mac.getutm.app/ - watch for which type, usually you'll want the specific Ubuntu flavor
VMware and others are also acceptable; https://www.ubackup.com/enterprise-backup/linux-vm-on-windows-10.html
Specific Virtualbox/UTM Links and Resources
If you got it like that...buy something with Linux preinstalled:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
https://www.raspberrypi.com/
https://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/laptop-computers-with-linux-installed-or-preloaded/
Windows Subsystem for Linux, the Linux Subsystem for Windows
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
Mac?
If nothing else works for you, you can probably just use the native terminal for the upcoming assignment.
But I'm going to ask you what else you tried first.
Cloud?
Yes, it's possible. Also messy; you can probably do this for free but it's a lot of wrangling.
But if you're familiar with eg. AWS or other hosts, this may work for you: The following are only examples
https://ubuntu.com/blog/launch-ubuntu-desktop-on-google-cloud
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-gfwokwmdnbtn6
(amazon and google aren't the only game in town..)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/linux (this breaks my brain, but here we are!)
https://docs.digitalocean.com/developer-center/install-ubuntu-desktop-on-a-droplet/
https://www.vultr.com/docs/install-gui-environment-for-ubuntu/
Week 5 - 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/
Monopoly?
http://lowendmac.com/2008/rise-of-microsoft-monopoly/
Cultural Defeat of Microsoft
https://www.devever.net/~hl/windowsdefeat
https://backchannel.com/why-i-m-saying-goodbye-to-apple-google-and-microsoft-78af12071bd#.mg44d9omw
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3088755/windows/a-lawsuit-over-an-unwanted-windows-10-upgrade-just-cost-microsoft-10000.html
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/
Week 4 - Math and Instructions
https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_not_Math_and_Instructions.html
What is code?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
What programming is
http://siderea.livejournal.com/1241996.html
Basic Binary
http://www.mathsisfun.com/binary-decimal-hexadecimal.html
(also this — brilliant!) - https://i.imgur.com/NQPrUsI.gifv
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 3 - Hardware and Virtualization
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-tech-firms-are-resisting-the-right-to-repair/2023/01/19/759b0da0-97f6-11ed-a173-61e055ec24ef_story.html
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2020375/the-ai-boom-could-create-a-new-gpu-shortage.html
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/2023-01-10/john-deere-vows-to-open-up-its-tractor-tech-but-right-to-repair-backers-have-doubts
Does Moore's Law Matter?
http://www.slashgear.com/is-moores-law-still-relevant-for-pcs-0780747/
(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
—
https://opensource.com/resources/virtualization
https://www.weave.works/blog/a-practical-guide-to-choosing-between-docker-containers-and-vms (you can stop before the "weave" thing)
Backlinks: FSU Courses:LIS3353:Previous Readings