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This talk will gives a brief introduction to BitTorrent and a side project Arvid started 20 years ago, along with lessons learned along the way. Especially in network programming. Recorded at StockholmCpp 0x2F, https://www.meetup.com/stockholmcpp/events/301321428/ The event was hosted at Berotec, https://berotec.se/ More information about C++ Usergroups in Sweden at https://swedencpp.se

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Eskil Steenberg's talk at BSC 2025 on the importance of finished software. Eskil's links: - https://quelsolaar.com - https://x.com/eskilsteenberg - https://twitch.tv/quel_solaar BSC links: - https://BetterSoftwareConference.com - https://x.com/BetterSoftwareC - https://www.twitch.tv/BetterSoftwareConference Chapters: 0:00:00 Talk 0:39:07 Q&A

Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer. View the web archive through the Wayback Machine. Collection: Wikipedia Outlinks July 2011 Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started July, 2011. These files are currently not...

Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer. View the web archive through the Wayback Machine. Collection: Wikipedia Outlinks July 2011 Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started July, 2011. These files are currently not...

After we finish reading a book, our memories of it quickly fade and can even get distorted. Andrew Elfenbein has studied how the things we read get transformed in memory. What we remember may diverge from what’s in the book, but that doesn’t mean we’re sloppy readers – we’re actually using highly sophisticated skills without even noticing. By understanding this process we can better appreciate how...

Students at a Bucks County middle school learned from home on Wednesday after an 11-year-old boy fired a gun near the school building on Tuesday afternoon. NBC10's Leah Uko has more on the details on the investigation. SUBSCRIBE TO NBC10: VISIT the NBC10 channel for the latest news and exclusive reports: http://on.nbc10.com/jhXM8hP Have a Roku device? Add the free NBC10 app right now for live...

With Martin Fowler and Kent Beck. At The Pragmatic Summit: www.pragmaticsummit.com. See a writeup of the talk: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cycles-of-disruption-in-the-tech Watch the session with Q&A also included: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-summit-recordings 0:00 Intro 2:11 Ideas from Agile/TDD/refactoring that stuck 9:04 Historical analogies: micro...

337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw April 13, 2026

In this podcast episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with artist and writer James Bridle about what we actually mean when we say "intelligence." They discuss…

As institutions unravel, Rebecca Solnit argues despair is a mistake—and that a more compassionate, just world is already being born.

Episode 353 The world might feel dark right now, but life is actually getting better, rapidly. From the rise of feminism and antiracism to environmental movements and shifting understandings of gender, the Western world looks nothing like it did 75 years ago.  Yet despite so many historic victories for rights and ideas in recent times, it often feels like we’re living in dark times - with progress...

My conversation with Rebecca Solnit

Too often, AI feels like something that’s done to us, not with us or for us. It will affect every aspect of our lives. But AI is neither poison nor panacea. It is and will be what we make it. Now is the moment to shape the future of AI for people. This panel will explore how we build the ecosystem and infrastructure to ensure that people will benefit the most from AI. Experts in AI, philanthropy,...

Poet Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb in 1996 as an online repository for obscure avant-garde art that, by virtue of having little commercial potential, was hard to find. Audio was an early component of the archive, owing to Kenneth’s interest in sound poetry, an even more obscure art form. Since then he’s served as the chief, […]

Interviewed by Grady Booch on September 5, 2006, in Ashland, Oregon, X3715.2007 © Computer History Museum John Backus led a team at IBM in 1957 that created the first successful high-level programming language, FORTRAN. It was designed to solve problems in science and engineering, and many dialects of the language are still in use throughout the world. Describing the development of FORTRAN, Backus...

'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan Technology and AI are often thought of as being neutral, objective, technical, or apolitical. Our conversation with Dan McQuillan will examine the political stakes of AI, asking what can and should be done—particularly by students and universities. About the speaker Dr. Dan McQuillan is a Senior Lecturer in Critical AI at Goldsmiths, University of London....

How would you stay in touch if the Internet went down? Can you set up your own long-range communication network with mates? In this video, tech workers Mar, Liam, and Marissa cover what mesh network communication is, when it’s useful, and how to get started with a LoRa board and Meshcore. 📌 *Timestamps* 00:00 Welcome 01:10 Why you should set up your own communication infrastructure 05:46 Options...

This live feed from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida will provide continuous views of the Artemis II Moon rocket beginning on Saturday, Jan. 17 with rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B. In the coming weeks, NASA will complete final preparations of the rocket and, if needed, rollback SLS and Orion to the Vehicle Assembly Building for additional work. While the Artemis II...

In this episode of The Weekly Wrap, Steve Eisman breaks down the five long-term structural themes he thinks are crucial to understanding the market in 2026. He explains how tech has come to dominate the stock market and why consumer sectors matter less than ever. He also takes a look at the impact of Index Investing and answers a mailbag question on PayPal’s collapse. 00:00 - Intro 01:15 - Venezue...

In this intimate conversation, visionary Jefferson Hack meets with icon Tilda Swinton to reflect on her ever-expanding artistic legacy, shaped by creative relationships that continue to redefine the boundaries of cinema. Swinton meditates on the alchemy forged when singular minds dance together – from her earliest work with avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman, filming the un-filmable with Sally Pot...

The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software d...

So, about this AI thing ...

To watch other videos from the AI and the Digital series, check out the full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0BjGYn0j1l-cQJamqtohtjbbp2wJN2Ey&si=OxdXZ-hToZGiqIw3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people’s life chances, and even su...