3353-Spring-2022-Readings
Created Wednesday 03 January 2024
Week 14 - Privacy and Wrapping up
Slides:
https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS3353/2022- LIS3353-PrivacyFULL.pdf
https://jrm4.com/FSU_Courses/LIS3353/LIS3353-hope.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
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/
https://qz.com/797778/silicon-valley-thinks-its-the-heir-to-1960s-counterculture-but-theres-no-revolution-here/
On "Innovation"
https://startuptown.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/innovation-is-based-on-government-policy/
http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/04/how-maintainers-not-innovators-make-the-world-turn/477468/
http://www.businessinsider.com/screen-time-limits-bill-gates-steve-jobs-red-flag-2017-10?r=UK&IR=T
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42030109
http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
And, not mandatory, but a good start:
Probably start here and rewind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCczbSF-B8#t=28m26s
and then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1s7Mo3sac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khO76Mpo9dg
Week 13 - 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 11 - Social Media
./2023-Fall 15 - LIS3353-Social Media.pdf
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 10 - Anonymity (and Social Surplus?)
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 9 - A & M II
https://jrm4.com/slides/Mo-Milkshakes.html
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145297807/crypto-crash-ftx-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/21/cryptocurrency-explainer/
https://jrm4.com/Journal/2021/06/16/Why_Cryptocurrency_is_Here_to_Stay.html
https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/how-to-identify-a-crypto-pump-and-dump-scheme
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2016/04/17/why-many-smart-contract-use-cases-are-simply-impossible/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbwj5/what-are-nft-explainer-meaning-crypto
https://nftgamef.com/nft-problems/
The following is 100% ONLY MY PERSONAL OPINION and should not be relied upon as legal or financial advice.
https://jrm4.com/Journal/2022/01/04/On_Hex,_Pulsechain,_and_PulseX,_the_crypto_things_Im_into.html
Week 8 - 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 7 - Software II - From Numbers to Thinking
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.mathsisfun.com/hexadecimal-decimal-colors.html
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
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AI
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/
Week 6 - 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://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 5 - Linux and the Command Line
https://jrm4.com/slides/Linux_And_the_Command_Line_-_Raw_Slides.html
The basics:
https://www.linux.com/what-is-linux/
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/getting-up-to-speed-with-the-linux-desktop-operating-system/
Continuation of an idea from last time:
https://zyst.io/is-microsoft-boiling-us-to-death
Read AT LEAST the first 4 sections (Intro, MGBs, Tanks and Batmobiles, BitFlinger, and GUIs) — the rest is optional, but pretty good:
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/in_the_beginning_was_the_command_line/
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https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
https://simplystatistics.org/2017/06/13/the-future-of-education-is-plain-text/
What you can do with very little:
https://opensource.com/life/16/6/linux-laptop-haitian-family
a little "language" in here, forgive me
http://web.archive.org/web/20101202135616/http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
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
AND FINALLY:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/whats-our-next-fight
Dont have to read - but a good reference:
http://oliverelliott.org/article/computing/tut_unix/
Week 4 - History of Software
https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_Software.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 3 - Software I - Why code?
http://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_Software_and_Code.html
What is code?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
What programming is
http://siderea.livejournal.com/1241996.html
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/natasha-jen-pentagram-graphicdesign-230218
https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
https://modelthinkers.com/mental-model/the-lindy-effect
Week 2 - Hardware and Virtualization
https://jrm4.com/slides/LIS-3353_-_Hardware.html
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://www.bbc.com/news/business-58230388
https://www.pcmag.com/news/inside-the-gpu-shortage-why-you-still-cant-buy-a-graphics-card
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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)
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