Linus Torvalds Ted Talk Feb 2016

Linus Torvalds is the person behind Linux.

I will spare you the long bio details, if you are looking for that I suggest you to read his Wikipedia page Here



 

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk review and opinion

In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Linus Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," proclaims Torvalds. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."

This are two quotes from this great Ted talk. The video as 21.30 minutes so it is not a boring long interview at all. Everyone can and should take a look at it.

Linus Torvalds is no entertainer, he his a programmer. But the interview gives us access to the "Human" side of Torvalds and as great entertainment value, even if you are not into technology and Linux.

The interview takes us behind the story of how linux was created, and explain how and why Linus Torvalds as chosen to make Linux open source, instead of going the easier commercial route.

The big controversy point on the interview is when Linus Torvalds chooses Edison over Tesla

Personally I would take Tesla over Edison any day :) But Torvalds point was that Edison actually got the job done, while Tesla would have great ideas but no final product.

You can watch the video below, or just see it on the official TED webpage LINK

 

 

Silk Road is dead. What next?

On this article I will talk about Silk Road from the beginning to the end, and I will talk about what's coming now that Silk Road is dead.

1- What Silk Road was
2- What happened to Silk Road
3- Consequences
4- Whats happening now

1- Silk Road was a dark net Market best know for selling all kinds of drugs Worldwide.
Silk Road was launched on February of 2011 and operated under the Tor network.
The original onion address was http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion untill it got seized by the FBI back in 2013



 

2- What happened to Silk Road was that it got really big, the media started to be all over it and it got the attention of the US government.
After grabbing the atenttion from autoritys, small dealers started to get caught and convicted here and there.
Untill finally the FBI was able to locate the real location of the server, from there they infiltrated deep on the website and eventually were able to arrest the supposed owner/creator/administrator Ross William Ulbricht AKA"Dread Pirate Roberts"
3- A consequence of all this, was that the Dark Web gained notoriety, more and more Illegal markets started to emerge. Inclusive soon after the FBI closed the Silk Road Market the Silk Road 2 Market was created by three administrators of the original Silk Road website relaunched it under the name Silk Road 2, this website was operational from Nov 06 2013 untill Nov 06 2014.
Silk Road 3 would follow, but this one was just a rebrand of another Dark Web Market "Diabolus"
4- What we have now is a crazy uprising of new dark web markets. It seems that for each market the authorities take down, 2 more appear to replace them.

 

Eduardo Galeano Tribute

Eduardo Galeano, was a Journalist, a Writer, a philosopher, but specially a real Rebel!

 



 

This post is a tribute I make to one of my idols. Eduardo Galeano.

Iam not going to enter in great details about his life, for that you can find much better results like this Wikipedia link.

But still Iam going to give you the normal details:

Name: Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano

Nationality: Uruguayan

Death: 13 April 2015

For the rest of the stuff you really should check Wikipedia. And a bog I found with great information About Eduardo Galeano: autonomies.org

Now, about how I got to know the work of Galeano?

A few years ago (2009), I was taking part on a lot of social movements across Europe; specially where I live in. When we are with other activists, we are not only talking about how to destroy the police and take the government down :) (sometimes we do but not always).

One day, a friend told me about the work of Eduardo Galeano, and how much he could relate what was happening in Europe at the time, offcourse I went to research him and found the books "memories of fire" those were the first three books I read from Galeano but much more would follow.

A few years after I got to know him, he become really mainstream by his appearance on the Spanish Occupy movement, where he gave the most amazing interview you can see in this video: (Spanish only sorry) No point in trying subtitles to English they are all wrong :(



 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQPvBwgUUg

 

There are some greate quotes from this Interview, one that I like the most is:

“Este mundo de ‘mierda’ está grávido de outro!”

That means: "This shitty world is pregnant with another one"

This because people were complaining against several "injustices" and Galeano point is: Maybe the world is not perfect now, but with this persons rising up it will become.

 

And this brings me to the next video I show you, this time translated into English. The right to dream.

In it Galeano approaches several topics but mainly focus on World injustices and what should change by using the right to dream.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y15JyHP1jbk

 

This last video I chose to show you it's named "Vivir sin Miedo" or "Live without fear" Is an amazing video to exemplify all the wisdom and sweetness of this amazing men.

In it Eduardo Galeano appeals every person to live without fear in a way they can act to change the society were they live in.

These are small videos, around 10 minutes each. I recommend you watch them and after search for related videos there are hundreds of videos from Eduardo Galeano on youtube, not all of them in English, but its never too late to learn Spanish :)

Offtopic - The quote I have on the image on the start of the post was taken from this interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rygqfWagvhQ

 

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Dedicated to the script kiddies out there!

 

I want to dedicate a video to the script kiddies out there, on the dark and the public web alike.
On this video we can see a scene from Jurassic Park in which dr. Ian Malcom gives a speech to mr. Hammond explaining what is wrong in using the technology to create Jurassic Park.

First the video, then I explain why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLvdmifDSk

The best hacker in the world

Who is the best hacker in the world?

Earlyer today I found a blog securefreak.wordpress.com that I went to visit.
One of the posts that catched my eye was “Who is the greatest “hacker” in the world?” I went in and found this text:

The Best “Hacker” in the World
Posted on March 18, 2013 by securefreak

Today I was asked by a good friend of mine “Who is the greatest
“hacker” in the world?”. After thinking about it for several hours
I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to know. I say
this because in my opinion the “greatest hacker” is the one that
has never been caught in whatever his/her endeavors have been.
There are people such as ex-hacker Kim Dotcom for example, who all
though very impressive and I must give credit where it is due, is
very talented, was still caught and did serve time in jail. Maybe
it is just my skewed view of the hacker community but there has to
be another individual who has come away with more information and
damage and has never been caught. Any people reading this post
please feel free to comment and give your opinion on who you
believe is the “greatest hacker in the world”.

In the text he talks about Kim Dotcom as his favorite/best hacker in the world.
He is a very talented programmer, obviously as great skills, he is the fundator of Megaupload which was a great service for file sharing.