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By Katherine Druckman and Doc SearlsTechnology
Reality 2.0 episodes
- Episode 139: Permission Slip, a Consumer Reports Privacy App
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk to Don Marti about Permission Slip, the new data privacy app from Consumer Reports.
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- Introducing Permission Slip, the app to take back control of your data | Digital Lab at Consumer Reports
— Privacy is a right. This is a fact in many states, and it’s one of our fervent beliefs at Consumer Reports. But that doesn’t mean privacy is easy. Anyone who’s tried to make their digital life more private knows how much effort it requires. We create data in nearly every interaction we have with companies. Keeping track and chasing after this data can feel convoluted, frustrating, even futile.The right to privacy is only real if you can use it. So today, we’re announcing a new, experimental service by Consumer Reports to help you do privacy better. Enter: Permission Slip.- Permission Slip by CR
— Find out what companies know about usIt’s no secret that a huge number of companies are collecting, buying and selling data about us. Find out what information they collect, and take action to help protect yourself.- blog: Don Marti
52 min - Episode 138: Teaching Technology
Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers about teaching tech skills with online video and building communities.
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- BASH Scripting 101 - YouTube
- Shawn Powers - Wikipedia
— Shawn Powers (born 19 July 1975) is a journalist, Open Source evangelist, cartoonist, and online personality. He is currently a co-host at FLOSS Weekly..[1] on the TWiT.tv network, a frequent guest host on the Reality 2.0 podcast,[2] and an active blogger since 2006. Specializing in Linux, he is best known for his time as Associate Editor and columnist for Linux Journal from 2007 until its buyout in 2019.[3] His first article, Build Your Own Arcade Game Player and Relive the '80s![4] was featured on the 2007 cover of Linux Journal.[5] Powers became an editor of the magazine[6] shortly thereafter, writing the monthly Current_Issue.tar.gz and UpFront columns and answering letters to the editor. He was also the main personality on the Linux Journal YouTube channel,[7] and still creates content on his own channel.- shawnp0wers
— Learn everything, do what you love, and most importantly: be kind.39 min - Episode 137: Humans Are More Necessary Than Ever
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dan Miller of Opus Research about the future of Speech and AI.
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— Dan Miller has over 25 years experience in marketing, business development and corporate strategy for telecom service providers, computer makers and application software developers. Dan founded Opus Research in 1985 and helped define the Conversational Commerce marketplace by authoring scores of reports, advisories and newsletters addressing business opportunities that reside where automated speech leverages Web services, mobility and enterprise software infrastructure.- Eze Lanza: "Have you heard of https://you.…" - Mastodon Canada
— Have you heard of https://you.com ? The search engine added #chatGTP style chatbot. It's not perfect but these are examples of what the future of AI could look like.- You.com | The AI Search Engine You Control
- Say Goodbye to CCaaS: How The Conversational Cloud Will Evolve in 2022 -
— Here are the trends that should inform enterprise investment and deployment of Conversational AI, Cloud-based Contact Centers and Intelligent Assistance in the coming year.56 min - Episode 136: Happy New Year!
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk about Facebook's recent Irish problems, Google's Performance Max ad product, and digress into discussing the Houston food scene as we welcome back Reality 2.0 for 2023.
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- Data Protection Commission tries to make victory of its U-turn on Facebook and Instagram – The Irish Times
— Watchdog forced to toughen its decision on data protection complaint after European intervention- Data Protection Commission announces conclusion of two inquiries into Meta Ireland | 04/01/2023 | Data Protection Commission
— The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced the conclusion of two inquiries into the data processing operations of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”) in connection with the delivery of its Facebook and Instagram services. (Meta Ireland was previously known as Facebook Ireland Limited).- Inside Google’s Ad Display Network Black Box: Porn, Piracy, Fraud — ProPublica
— Google’s ad business hides nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We uncovered a network containing manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.- Meet Performance Max, The Blackest Black Box Of All Google Ad Products | AdExchanger
— Lost in the Sturm und Drang of Q4 (Q for quarantine) 2020, Google introduced a beta program called Performance Max, its first ad product spanning all Google-owned media.- GitHub - dmarti/CAPCA: California Advertising Placements on Criminal Activity Act
- LastPass Data Breach: It’s Time to Ditch This Password Manager | WIRED
— The password manager’s most recent data breach is so concerning, users need to take immediate steps to protect themselves.47 min - Episode 135: Experts Weigh in on ChatGPT
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Ezequiel Lanza and Tony Mongkolsmai about ChatGPT, generative AI, and open source software.
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- Attention is All You Need – Google Research
— The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles by over 2 BLEU. On the WMT 2014 English-to-French translation task, our model establishes a new single-model state-of-the-art BLEU score of 41.0 after training for 3.5 days on eight GPUs, a small fraction of the training costs of the best models from the literature. We show that the Transformer generalizes well to other tasks by applying it successfully to English constituency parsing both with large and limited training data.- fka/awesome-chatgpt-prompts · Datasets at Hugging Face
- Experts Warn ChatGPT Could Democratize Cybercrime - Infosecurity Magazine
— A wildly popular new AI bot could be used by would-be cyber-criminals to teach them how to craft attacks and even write ransomware, security experts have warned.- ChatGPT
1 hr - Episode 134: Email Disaster, Encrypted Backups and Chat GPT
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn have fun with ChatGPT, rant about email disasters, and chat about Apple's new encrypted backups.
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- ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
— We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.- AI tells me if AI will write novels. - vlogbrothers on YouTube
— In which a text-generation AI promises John that of course it won't replace him.- Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups - The Verge
— / Apple is expanding its iCloud security features and introducing support for security keys for two-factor authentication.- Rackspace confirms ransomware behind days-long email outage • The Register
— UPDATED Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers.The security snafu took down some of Rackspace's hosted Microsoft Exchange services on Friday afternoon. In its most recent update, posted at 0826 Eastern Time on Tuesday, Rackspace said it has now "determined this suspicious activity was the result of a ransomware incident," and has hired a "leading cyber defense firm to investigate."54 min - Episode 133: Hardware Supply Chains, Trust Agility, and Avoiding Vendor Lock-in
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more.
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- Why The U.S. Fell Behind In Phone Manufacturing - YouTube
- JMP: Your phone number on every device
- IIW
- Reality 2.0 on Mastodon
- Explore - Texas Observer Social
1 hr 9 min - Episode 132: Mastodon Lifeboats for Twitter Users
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin discuss the ups, downs, and how-tos of using Mastodon amid Twitter's recent instability.
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- Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC? | Techdirt
— Yesterday I tweeted out a question about whether or not there was anyone left at Twitter who remembered that the company was under a pretty strict FTC consent decree- Twitter stories at Techdirt.
- A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions
— The nine-word tweet was sent Thursday afternoon from an account using the name and logo of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co., and it immediately attracted a giant response: “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.”- Day #43 - Mastodon Verification, with Wordpress! - 90 Days of Mayhem!
- Debirdify
— This website allows you to search the people you follow on Twitter for possible Mastodon/Fediverse accounts. To use it, you need to click the button below and allow it to communicate with Twitter on your behalf. This is ‘read-only’: we cannot modify anything (write Tweets etc).- Fedi.Directory
— A small human-curated selection of interesting accounts to help you get started, or just to spice up your timeline.1 hr 11 min - Episode 131: Digital Wallets
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk digital wallets and current events.
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- The digital wallet will be the biggest instrument of personal agency since the browser—but only if we make it ours
— Apple and Google already have a wallet in your phone. Other developers want an open way to build alternatives. But the missing player in this is us. Let's step up.- Podcasts Killed the Radio Star - by Katherine Druckman
— As many of our listeners already know, podcasting originated with an idea to add enclosures to an RSS feed. After much lobbying from former MTV personality Adam Curry, Dave Winer, creator of the RSS format, famously updated RSS version 0.92 in 2001 with the addition of an tag, and while it took a few years to catch on with widespread adoption thanks largely to the Apple iPod, the rest, as they say, is history.- VRM Day 2022b Tickets, Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite
— This VRM Day will also host the November salon in the Ostrom Workshop's Beyond the Web series, hosted by Doc Searls and starring Roger McNamee. Respected for decades as an investor, musician, tech guru, philanthropist, and mentor to entrepreneurs—most notably Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook—Roger has made big waves recently with his bestselling book, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe- Elon Musk’s Twitter Layoffs Are Brewing Up a Perfect Storm for the Midterms | Vanity Fair
— Misinformation experts are sounding alarms as the tech billionaire sets out to reportedly axe half the company’s workforce and blow up its blue-check verification system ahead of Election Day. “Comms has gone dark,” one reporter tweeted. “To say I’m worried for next week’s election doesn’t even begin to cover it.”- IIW
— The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. We meet in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!- EmanciPay - Project VRM
— Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —as much as they likehowever they likefor whatever they likeon their own terms— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.54 min - Episode 130: What Happens to Twitter Now?
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls speculate about Twitter's future and discuss the evolution of audience engagement.
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- Things To Never Say To Someone Who Owns A Tesla
— Unless you’d like to get run over by a rich, angry tech bro with a chip on their shoulder, you might want to tread lightly when asking a Tesla driver about their car. Here are things you should never say to someone who owns a Tesla.- Reality 2.0 Episode 109: From Twitter to the Fediverse with Mastodon
— Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin about moving from Twitter to the Fediverse using Mastodon, including how to choose a server and find your niche.- Reality 2.0 Episode 110: More on Mastodon
— Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Shawn Powers have far too much fun continuing the conversation about Mastodon and the fediverse, with a dose of photography.- Twitter is about to be Musked - Burningbird
— The Musk buyout of Twitter is all but done, and even before the blo…ink dried on the contracts, the scent of Musk permeates the social service.49 min
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