Such a lovely bloke, he’s taken some absolutely classic pics
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The amount of time I spent staring at that photo of kids in the crowd when doing some website stuff for Zac who ran Crossfire.
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I interviewed Chrome Ball about interviewing and interviews for a platform I just launched which is a bit like a skateboarding version of Longreads.
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Rest in peace.
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Not skating but fascinating in my opinion.
Imagine being an OG IT head learning to hack to avoid an abusive childhood only to end up mining 80,000 BitCoins just because nobody else could understand it yet.
Well worth watching this. The scaffolding beneath the internet revealed and exploited.
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I saw that a few years back and it’s really good. This popped up in my recommendations on the weekend…
…and halfway through watching it and remembered the Gummo interview and gave it a second viewing and it was well worth it. There’s a follow up with him a year on from his first interview.
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Yeah I used to watch a lot of his vids but had to stop because I’m surrounded by that kind of stuff too often. The Gummo follow up one is great too.
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Watched many of these too, so harrowing but very important. In a world that makes you forget that these people with underworld lives and bad situations are actually real and have real feelings, not just emotional NPC’s in your first person life that you can frown upon and degrade.
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There has to have been a push in the collective yt algorithm because I got suggested two or three of his videos yesterday too. Mine were linked to puff daddy though - which links back to something else I watched.
If you enjoy the ins and outs of hacking and the like, as mentioned numerous times on here previously, Darknet Diaries is a good one.
Not interviews but along similar lines - This, (Defcon), can understandably get a little niche at points but there’re some great hacking/IT/Tech talks here.
And finally, I’ve really been enjoying these of late - not hacking related, just a street photographer stopping people for a chat and a photo.
I’m pretty insular these days and kind of keep myself to myself and I’m perfectly happy this way. It’s not that I’m naturally unsociable but, for a good while, more often than not, I’ve decided that I can’t be arsed with talking to people all that much. In part, watching these short videos has somehow made me come out of my self imposed shell a bit and I’ve found myself chatting to total strangers and, I’d like to think, both parties have come away from the conversations smiling and feeling better about other humans.
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The Lazarus Heist by BBC is really good - it’s about how a group of hackers sponsored by North Korea kicked off by hacking Sony Pictures after the movie The Interview, leading to digital bank heists, money launderinga and all that good stuff.
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That series was really good^
World of Secrets on the WS is good too - there’s a new series called ‘Finding Mr Fox’ just out, about a crew of Brazilian sailors who were employed to deliver a newly renovated yacht from Brasil to Europe. When coast guards inspected the boat they found a shit ton of cocaine hidden in the water tanks. The crew maintain they had no idea the bugle was on the boat, and the dude that they were delivering the yacht to (Fox) dissapeared.
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Thanks for the reminder, it’s already in the list!
