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NRC Vandaag · 7 November 2024

Alrun Bernhard travels back to East Germany with her father, 35 years after the fall of the Wall. A quiet, personal look at how the DDR lives on in a family's identity. (Dutch, 22 min)

Experts Only

The full 8 hour set.

Brendan Gregg · 31 December 2008

Brendan Gregg shouts at a JBOD and the disk latency spikes on the graph. Proof that hard drives really don't like being yelled at.

Teun van den Elzen

Very relatable. (Dutch)

Josh Weinberg

The classic viral cartoon. Sales Guy calls Web Dude because the website is down, and every sysadmin who has ever worked with a sales department feels it in their bones.

Josh Weinberg

Web Dude versus a spreadsheet emergency. It gets worse from here.

Josh Weinberg

The saga continues.

Josh Weinberg

The finale, where it all goes off the rails. (NSFW)

Black Hat

How OpenAI accidentaly hacked HuggingFace using an internal research model. Includes some interesting internal thinking monologues.

Kevin Fang

A great breakdown of an outage, from the first mistake to the recovery. All of his videos are worth watching.

Prime Video

Titus Welliver as LAPD detective Harry Bosch, based on Michael Connelly's novels. Seven seasons (2014 to 2021), followed by the spin-off Bosch: Legacy.

HBO

Mike Judge's satire about Richard Hendricks and his compression startup Pied Piper. Six seasons (2014 to 2019) of tech industry absurdity that's uncomfortably close to reality.

Netflix

Bo Burnham alone in one room for a year during the pandemic, writing, shooting, editing and performing the whole special himself (2021). Starts out as funny songs about FaceTiming your mom and ends up somewhere a lot less comfortable.

Jun Group

A 20 part web series about a warez release group, told entirely through screen captures of IRC chats and desktops. Released for free under Creative Commons, which is about as on-brand as it gets.

Zoef on the Move

A Dutchman drives a tiny Volkswagen Up from the Netherlands to Yakutsk in the middle of the Siberian winter, and sleeps in it for months. A three-cylinder city car at -50°C shouldn't work, and yet it does.

Jayson E. Street, DEF CON 19 (2011)

Walking into banks and other places you shouldn't be able to walk into, with nothing but confidence. Social engineering at its finest.

Roy Davis, DEF CON 29 (2021)

How to get into an ATM without any of the things you're supposed to need.

Joseph Cox, DEF CON 32 (2024)

The story of Anom, the "secure" phone company for criminals that was secretly run by the FBI.

Zoz, DEF CON 18 (2010)

Zoz's Mac gets stolen in Boston and turns up in Las Vegas two years later, where he gets to watch the new "owner" use it.