Kyle Rankin

This week on The Film 5.0 Podcast, Roll Camera, we're thrilled to have the talented writer and director Kyle Rankin as our special guest! You might know Kyle from his work on films like "The Battle of Shaker Heights," " Infestation", and his latest intense thriller, " Run Hide Fight." In this episode, hosts Steve Hiller and Linda Gacsko dive deep into Kyle's journey as a filmmaker. We reminisce about the making of The Battle of Shaker Heights, where Kyle, Steve, and Linda first worked together, and explore the challenges and triumphs of casting his latest project. Kyle also shares some fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, including a scene involving a deer that you won't want to miss! Join us for an entertaining and insightful conversation that offers a glimpse into the creative mind of a filmmaker pushing boundaries and telling compelling stories. Whether you're a film buff, aspiring director, or just looking for a good time, this episode has something for everyone.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls learn all about Project Bluefin, a new cloud native friendly Linux distribution, from its creator, Jorge Castro, and Kyle Rankin, its newest enthusiast. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Jorge Castro and Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation — The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability. Announcing Project Bluefin — Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud-native nerds. We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything but we're too lazy to maintain anything. So we automated the entire delivery pipeline in GitHub. Open Source: The Nerd Version of Formula One — In this first episode of Open at Intel Season 2, we broaden our conversation to discuss the very human aspects of open source software and the always-personal Linux* desktop, but with a cloud native twist. Jorge Castro, Developer Advocate at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation* (CNCF), and my fellow Intel Open Source Evangelist Chris Norman join me to geek out on taking the desktop cloud native with immutable Linux* and talk open source community sustainability.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about his journey into Kubernetes and the cloud native landscape. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation — The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability. Getting started | Kubernetes — This section lists the different ways to set up and run Kubernetes. When you install Kubernetes, choose an installation type based on: ease of maintenance, security, control, available resources, and expertise required to operate and manage a cluster. Cloud Native Landscape

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about a proposal for authenticating content with cryptographic signing, and saving the internet. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it. — LLMs break the internet. The going rate for GPT-4 is $0.06 per 1000 tokens, or about $0.00008 per word. New open source models like Dolly and StableLM will drop costs even further, and without the content restrictions. Thought has never been so cheap. Creative expression has never been so accessible. Also spam, phishing, harassment mobs, and mass influence ops have never been so cheap, so accessible. You thought the internet was a mess before? Get ready for bots that beat the Turing test, synthesize your voice, generate fake social consensus at scale. We’re seeing the beginnings of this already. Expect a tidal wave of spam, identity theft, phishing, ransomware over the next 36 months. See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart - Washington Post — AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities, from writing sophisticated term papers to holding unnervingly lucid conversations. Chatbots cannot think like humans: They do not actually understand what they say. They can mimic human speech because the artificial intelligence that powers them has ingested a gargantuan amount of text, mostly scraped from the internet.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to prolific tech author, Kyle Rankin, about how he recently self-published his latest book, and how that differs from his many experiences with traditional publishers. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Kyle Rankin - Books and Publications Spotlight | Lulu — Kyle Rankin has over two decades of professional Linux experience, and was a long-time systems administrator with a particular focus on infrastructure security, architecture, automation, and troubleshooting. He is the author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course (self-published, 2023), Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks (Pearson, 2017), DevOps Troubleshooting (Addison-Wesley, 2012), The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 2013), Knoppix Hacks, 2nd Edition (O’Reilly, 2007), and Ubuntu Hacks (O’Reilly, 2006), among other books. Rankin was an award-winning columnist and tech editor for Linux Journal, and speaks frequently on Open Source software including at SCALE, FOSDEM, O’Reilly Security Conference, Linux Fest NorthWest, BSidesLV, CactusCon, OSCON, Linux World Expo, and Penguicon.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers about Shawn's head's appearance at the recent SCaLE conference and 3D printing, all while having a little too much fun. Hit play if you always wondered about our Myers-Briggs types. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: FreeCAD: Your own 3D parametric modeler — Your own 3D parametric modeler Ender-3 3D Printer Southern California Linux Expo - YouTube What the Heck is FreeCAD and why do I care? | SCALE 20x — What is FreeCAD? What makes it different? More importantly, what makes it useful to you and when? What the Heck is FreeCAD and why do I care? - YouTube

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Why The U.S. Fell Behind In Phone Manufacturing - YouTube JMP: Your phone number on every device IIW Reality 2.0 on Mastodon Explore - Texas Observer Social

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin discuss the ups, downs, and how-tos of using Mastodon amid Twitter's recent instability. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC? | Techdirt — Yesterday I tweeted out a question about whether or not there was anyone left at Twitter who remembered that the company was under a pretty strict FTC consent decree Twitter stories at Techdirt. A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions — The nine-word tweet was sent Thursday afternoon from an account using the name and logo of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co., and it immediately attracted a giant response: “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.” Day #43 - Mastodon Verification, with Wordpress! - 90 Days of Mayhem! Debirdify — This website allows you to search the people you follow on Twitter for possible Mastodon/Fediverse accounts. To use it, you need to click the button below and allow it to communicate with Twitter on your behalf. This is ‘read-only’: we cannot modify anything (write Tweets etc). Fedi.Directory — A small human-curated selection of interesting accounts to help you get started, or just to spice up your timeline.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about the data cars collect, where it goes, and how we’re really just driving around in a smart phone that we don’t even own. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? – The Markup — A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you’ve probably never heard of I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too. - The New York Times — Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you. Locked In A Remote Control Car – Purism — It’s rare to find modern technology that’s actually on your side. For the most part when technology advances today, new features are less for your benefit, and more to benefit the company that made them. Tesla Removes About 80 Miles Of Customer's Available Battery Capacity Via Software Restriction — Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has some of the most advanced cars on the planet. Software updates allow new features to be added for free, such as better performance or enhanced safety features. But having a car that is dominated by software can have its drawbacks, too. Ford, GM Push Harder to Stop New Car Flipping and Price Gouging — Some dealers are overpricing such popular cars and trucks as the Ford F-150 Lightning and Chevy Corvette Z06, but the automakers are

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Holmes Wilson about Quiet, a Tor-based peer-to-peer messaging project. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Holmes Wilson and Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: GitHub - ZbayApp/monorepo — An early prototype for a peer-to-peer alternative to Slack and Discord.