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Profile for Laurent Vanbever. Username @laurent, vanbever.ch. Role: admin

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Professor at ETH Zürich, originally from Brussels, Belgium. Head of the Networked Systems Group. Trying to make the Internet better, one pipe at a time.

Joined on Nov, 2022. 13 posts. Followed by 91. Following 52.

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Laurent Vanbever . @laurent,

I've not been using social media for a while (I guess I've grown tired of it) but I figured I would still share our 2023 activity report.

Teaching and services took a big share of our time. I don't mind it too much but also look forward to go back to "research first" in 2024!

Check the 1-pager for more info: https://nsg.ee.ethz.ch/pdf/activity_report_nsg_2023.pdf

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Laurent Vanbever . @laurent,

Here is a selection of the self-hosted services I run and like these days:

- linkding, bookmark service (github.com/sissbruecker/linkding)
- plex, media server (www.plex.tv)
- home assistant + homebridge, home automation (www.home-assistant.io + homebridge.io)
- Nextcloud, self-hosted Dropbox (nextcloud.com)
- Duplicati, encrypted cloud-based backups (duplicati.com)
- Squeezebox Server, audio streaming (github.com/Logitech/slimserver)
- GoToSocial, ActivityPub/Mastodon, github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
- Samba, file sharing
- Apache2, hosting + reverse-proxying

What are your current favorites? 🙃

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Laurent Vanbever . @laurent,

We humans are absolutely *terrible* at generating randomness. Case in point. You're asked to press the "f" & "d" keys randomly. After a few presses, a simple probabilistic model is likely to be able to predict your next key with a 60+% accuracy!

Try it here: people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/

Code: github.com/elsehow/aaronson-oracle

I thought I was better, I'm not.

(This BTW is known as Aaronson Oracle).

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