Loved chatting with Vienna's classical radio station!
We also covered tech/
@snowstormnet
❄️ & other things- classical music radio being a very reasonable place for this I'm sure😇
It's being translated/dubbed into German for the air but here's some excerpts from transcript
Since the war, snowflake's network capacity went up by an order of magnitude.
Huge thanks to everyone, each and every person who volunteered as a snowflake proxy to help keep the internet free & open ❄️
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 + EEG + AI model pre-trained on my auditory cortex to generate visuals from my brainwaves live as I perform in front of ~8000 people
I'm glad snowflake has helped many bypass online censorship globally, including unblocking Tor.
It's remarkable that the prototype I threw together years ago is what has now been working for internet freedom globally; thanks for highlighting my work ❄️💜
#CCC
#C37C3
#snowflake
If you weren't able to watch it live,
@RogerDingledine
's Lecture on Tor censorship attempts in Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan at
#C37C3
is now available to stream online:
@BasedBeffJezos
Is she wearing something like a neuralink, or EEG device?
Is that fast enough to play the piano with her?
Or is this AI generated?
Or is she a robot?
Wow! in todays world, I cannot even trust my eyes 🫤
Few know that 100 years ago, Rachmaninoff funded Sikorsky, saving the company from the brink and enabling R&D for the first viable helicopter...
So basically we can thank a classical pianist for the existence of the modern helicopter
The arts used to fund serious tech...
🎹🚁
why were there so many advocates for digital privacy a decade ago compared to today, when the situation is far more dire and centralized?
did everyone give up?
Team
@snowstormnet
has written quite a lot of code behind the scenes... exciting things to share!
We expanded capacity for the venue since it filled up rather quick -- see you in NYC! Huge thanks
@koto9x
@dj_dave____
Solo'd with a symphony for the first time... Can confirm, feels good when dreams become reality 💜🎶
#Prokofiev
#PianoConcerto
No. 2
(Not bad for never having gone to music conservatory, right?)
As founding engineer for Google Ideas (now Jigsaw), very glad to see Google finally standing strong on internet freedom. Hope they continue...
Should improve and move beyond wrapper around big tech services as we've had more decentralized methods from the beginning 💁🏻♀️
To help break the information blockade,
@Jigsaw
has a free tool called Outline that is easier to use and more reliable than VPNs. Allows anyone to set up a cloud server anywhere in the world and proxy for large numbers of individuals.
@McFaul
@juliaioffe
There's much more to do to scale this former research project into a real production system: global censorship circumvention infrastructure
A core team is already forming. I'm hiring. Ping me if you have the chops & want to help protect internet freedom & our future
Today Scriabin turns 150 years old…
So I got inspired to try one of his crazy “piano poems” about taking wing and crashing into a star ☄️
Full recording:
#piano
We're very happy to see that Twitter is now offering an .onion address. 🐦🧅
For many years Tor users have been looking for such a feature. Thank you Twitter!
Now is a vital time to help people stay connected and .onion services help to do this.
Seems this little project has had some real impact on many folks who'd otherwise be left in the dark, especially in the past month and half with iron curtain 2.0 and such situations...
@DanielleFong
the gifted program I was in as a 7yr old - where we had fun doing things like designing Mars missions - doesn’t exist anymore
now I play piano concerts… despite no formal training, because of the serendipity of an old bookstore in Amsterdam, & paying attention, not institutions
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 + EEG + AI model pre-trained on my auditory cortex to generate visuals from my brainwaves live as I perform in front of ~8000 people
As we hit initial scaling limits, the dip is from the server switchover / upgrade on the tor-snowflake bridge.
Another upgrade happened recently, as we stabilize & prepare for *really* scaling this thing up, and expanding to many more use-cases...