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Marcel Waldvogel Dec 23, 2023

I'm trying out the #ThreadOfThreads idea: Keeping one (actually one each for English and German) of Fediverse threads I authored.

I start with a top-ten list of articles (or threads for those articles), according to the page views.

Happy #HolidayReading season!

🔟 «Right to be forgotten» void with #AI? (2023-03)
A description how hard it is to eliminate results from AI #ChatBot responses and what this means to our rights.
#RTBF #Privacy #LLM #ChatGPT
https://netfuture.ch/2023/03/right-to-be-forgotten-void-with-ai/

«Right to be Forgotten» void with AI?

In a recent discussion, it became apparent that «unlearning» is not something machine learning models can easily do. So what does this mean to laws like the EU «Right to be Forgotten»? The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is the right to have private information about a person be removed from In

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9️⃣ Generating Multi-Architecture Docker Images Made Easy (2020-05)
#Docker (and therefore #Kubernetes) images are a versatile, high-level way of providing service and application abstraction. To some extent, it is platform-independent. However, it is not automatically processor-independent. Creating multi-architecture docker images is easier than what you think; using them is trivial (i.e., automatic).

Here my experiences for adding that to a few projects:
https://netfuture.ch/2020/05/multi-arch-docker-image-easy/

Generating Multi-Architecture Docker Images Made Easy

Docker is cool and portable, but distributing Dockerfiles comes at a disadvantage: The demands on the build environment are high. Distributing Docker images solves this, but building them for an architecture other than your CPU architecture seems complicated. Here is a simple solution.

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8️⃣ Configuring an NTS-capable NTP server (2022-01)
NTP (Network Time Protocol) is probably how your computer or mobile device knows about the current time, often accurate to only a few milliseconds.

Keeping accurate time is of essence to many applications, including whether a security certificate has expired.

#NTS is to #NTP what #HTTPS is to #HTTP: It provides authenticity of the source and prevents modification in-transit. And easy to upgrade.

https://netfuture.ch/2022/01/configuring-an-nts-capable-ntp-server/
https://netfuture.ch/public-nts-server-list/

Configuring an NTS-capable NTP server

The choice of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers supporting NTS is still very limited. Here is some advice to get it to run smooth and trustworty.

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7️⃣ A business-driven #Blockchain flowchart (2022-06)
Ever wondered whether your business needs a blockchain? This simple chart guides you through that process.

Originally by Rene Jan Veldwijk on 🐦; published with permission.

https://netfuture.ch/2022/06/a-business-driven-blockchain-flow-chart/

More on Blockchain and related stuff: https://netfuture.ch/hitchhiker/

A business-driven blockchain evaluation flow chart

Yesterday, Rene Jan Veldwijk posted a blockchain decision flowchart he had previously used in a presentation. As it deserves wider visibility and bridges nicely between the DHS/NIST blockchain flow chart and the data life-cycle, I decided to put it online (Rene Jan Veldwijk: "Kein Problem. Ab

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6️⃣ Blocking AI Crawlers with robots.txt (2023-07)
Can you prevent your content from being used by #AI companies? Not really. But here are some attempts to get you at least part of the way there. And what we should be doing to have the choice.

#LLM #ChatGPT
https://netfuture.ch/2023/07/blocking-ai-crawlers-robots-txt-chatgpt/

How to block AI crawlers with robots.txt

If you wanted your web page excluded from being crawled or indexed by search engines and other robots, robots.txt was your tool of choice, with some additional stuff like <meta name="robots" value="noindex" /> or <a href="…" rel="nofollow"> sprinkled in. It is getting more complicated

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5️⃣ Bitcoin block timing statistics (2022-03)
I absolutely have now clue why this article is in the 2023 top-5 of my most read English-language articles. (And I kind of forgot why I even did the research behind it in the first place.)

But hey, feel free to look how often and how much the interval deviates (and deviated) from its 10 minutes interval target.

#Blockchain #Bitcoin #Statistics #Interval
https://netfuture.ch/2022/03/bitcoin-block-timing-statistics/

This is more useful, probably: https://netfuture.ch/hitchhiker/

Bitcoin Block Timing Statistics

Bitcoin wants to be a universal payment means, providing rapid transactions. Here is an analysis on the blockchain timing, based on their timestamps. More on blockchain in this overview and in the simple, humorous, yet thorough article «Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blockchain». Data sets D

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4️⃣ Git, PGP and Blockchain: A comparison
Most people, when they want #Blockchain, they are only interested in what #Git version control and #Timestamping actually deliver. Often, they do not even want immutability, but just transparency about the changes.

(And with that, you already know most of the article's content. But feel free if you want to know more in-depth.)
https://netfuture.ch/2022/02/git-pgp-blockchain-comparison/

Again: If you are interested in #Blockchain stuff: Here's more: https://netfuture.ch/hitchhiker/

Git, PGP, and the Blockchain: A Comparison

The Blockchain, a cryptographically linked list with additional restrictions, is often touted to be the most significant innovation towards democratization of the digital landscape, especially the Internet. However, the ideas did not come out of thin air, but have ancestors and relatives. An attempt

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3️⃣ Web3 is just expensive P2P (2022-05)
Wow, we've already reached the top-3! This article is why I had to activate real caching for my poor box; Wordpress wasn't able to handle the 40k accesses within a few hours. 😊

#Web3 is about decentralization. We already had that some 20 years ago, it was called peer-to-peer networking. It worked reasonably well. #Web3 essentially adds even more complexity and thus desperately needs a way to finance that complexity.
#P2P
https://netfuture.ch/2022/05/web3-is-just-expensive-p2p/

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2️⃣ Transparent, Trustworthy Time with NTP and NTS (2021-12)
Number two is an old-timer, but still going strong.

The first article in the #NTS series, it introduces the need for a secure time mechanism. And why it is important that Internet time also make the (easy!) move from #NTP to NTS. It is almost as painless as moving from #HTTP to #HTTPS today, thanks to @letsencrypt and the #ACME protocol (Automated Certificate Management Environment)
#LetsEncrypt
https://netfuture.ch/2021/12/transparent-trustworthy-time-with-ntp-and-nts/

Transparent, Trustworthy Time with NTP and NTS

Many processes, especially those related to security, rely on, if not perfectly accurate, so at least trustworthy time. However, time is large transported unsecured over the public Internet. Finally, this is going to change.

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Marcel Waldvogel Dec 23, 2023

Aaaaand the winner iiiis: 😊

1️⃣ How does ChatGPT work, actually? (2023-01)
A relatively easy-to-grasp explanation how #ChatGPT works, yet still accurate on a high level. Starting with an explanation of ChatGPT's little cousin, #NanoGPT, and then describing the differences.

Essentially it is a dual translation of #AndrejKarpathy's #NanoGPT video: Format from video to text; target audience from programmer to general public.

Enjoy!
https://netfuture.ch/2023/01/how-does-chatgpt-work-actually/

How does ChatGPT work, actually?

ChatGPT is arguably the most powerful artificial intelligence language model currently available. We take a behind-the-scenes look at how the "large language model" GPT-3 and ChatGPT, which is based on it, work. This text also appeared in German 🇩🇪 : «Wie funktioniert eigentlich ChatGPT?»

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