Jakob Burrows

@awesomepedia.org

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Swedish creative worker, living in Ireland. Trust & Safety professional in my spare time. Made a website in 2008 and refuse to sacrifice it on the altar of social media: awesomepedia.org (he/him) https://www.youtube.com/awesomepedia

Digital Forensics Report NTNU Executive summary Dagens Næringsliv (DN) approached the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to investigate whether some data manipulation had occurred in various log files in its possession. DN advised they are in the process of investigating what it suspected to be the fraudulent manipulation of data in the database of a music streaming service and sought cross-validation on this hypothesis. The NTNU was asked to investigate whether there was in fact manipulation of the data, and if so, the scope, methodology, and location of this manipulation. DN suspected there had been manipulation of data due to a spike of user records within specific time periods, but did not provide any further details as to why they determined the data to be manipulated and the methods by which it occurred. Using advanced statistical analysis of the data provided by DN, NTNU determined that there had in fact been a manipulation of the data at particular times due to the large presence of similar duplicate records occurring for a large percentage of the userbase that was active at any given time. In reviewing the data, in isolation from any other records or logs, it was not possible to determine the exact means of manipulation; however, the absence of records with unreadable data suggested it was not an external Structured Query Language Injection (SQLi) vector based attacked, but rather manipulation from within the streaming service itself. Due to the targeted nature and extent of the manipulation, it is very unlikely that this manipulation was solely the result of a code based bug or other system anomaly. The following analysis shows in detail why this conclusion is the most likely conclusion and further, the nature and extent it is suspected that the manipulation has affected the accuracy of the data.
auction website listing for a penguin-shaped camera emblazoned with the name PINGO
Jakob Burrows on a path in the woods.
Youtube desktop watch screen, shorts are shoved into the sidebar.
a pile of lovely wyrd science ttrpg magazines
Youtube analytics showing 124.5K views, and a line that starts going up dramatically after 20 days
Screenshot of DuckDuckGO image search, showing the new option to show or hide AI images.
a corkboard with 4 post it notes and various physical media "the thrill of the hunt" surrounded by CDs "the medium is the message" surrounded by vinyl records "creation and curation" surrounded by cassette tapes "liquid modernity" surrounded by DVDs
Image of Seth Rogen holding a microphone from "The Studio". Caption reads THE STUDIO SEASON 1.
A lovely bunch of flowers with a card that reads Happy Anniversary
Cassian Andor from Andor S02, with the text "SEASON 2 REVIEW"
Cartoon image of man with glasses looking disgruntled, holding up a... phone? Yeah, let's say it's a phone.
Cover of Autocracy Inc. by Anne Applebaum.
channel analytics current subscribers 20,003 +3,897 in last 28 days
Cover of The Chaos Machine: The inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world" by Max Fisher
Cover of "Internet for the People: A Manifesto" by Ben Tarnoff
old digital camera taking a picture of some cliffs
Cover of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
A model 5 ipod with a transparent shell on a table surrounded by post it notes that read PAUSE, CURATION, MODDING and NOSTALGIA. Also on the table are a CD, a smartphone, the shell and some innards of the gutted iPod, a Game Boy with Pokémon games and a Game Boy Camera, and an old, digital camera.
Cover of the book Data Grab by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry
an ipod 5th gen with transparent shell, screen shows Band of Brothers intro
comic about bringing our dog to the beach
a comic about staying up lte and watching severance
Behind the scenes shot from Buffy Season 1, featuring Xander, Willow and Giles
Cover for the book "Talking to my daughter about the economy"
Buffy and Angel gaze into each other's eyes. Buffy: When you kiss me, I wanna die
miniature of medieval bologna with many tall towers
Cover of Heroic Failure by Fintan O'Toole
A mausoleum in the woods
A lovley redheaded lady on some steps, dog in the background
ipod playing "love me like you" by the magic numbers
POV of sitting on a couch with a beer - big dog, big tree, and an episode of Gilmore Girls on. It's the one where Jess is introduced.
The Dreadful Distillery: A short side quest supplement for D&D
art of kermit the frog dancing with a lamp, a la talking heads
5th gen iPod with a transparent shell showing the motherboard inside. Screen shows 238 GB of disk space.
Adorable chonky Rottweiler gal in the back of a car with her cute snoot stuck out the window as the green landscape wooshes by
Three kids dressed as astronauts, one is slightly bigger
Shot of Late Late Toy Show 2024 - the kids are dancing
Cover of the book Sixguns & Society: A Structural Study of the Western by Will Wright
photo from a charity shop of 2 CDs: mambo no. 1 by solano cabarez mambo no. 5 by lou bega
cover of the swedish gaming magazine PLAY, dated july 2000. big pikachu!
a yellow couch in front of a bare, green wall. all that adorns it is a tiny poster for Gladiator II, emblazoned with the word IMAX larger than the title of the bloody film
CHILDREN surround an interactive world map, watched by a a SCIENTIST and a stone-faced AGENT with sunglasses CHILD: i think i'll blow up... san fransiscoooo! CHILDREN: yaaaay! SCIENTIST: BUT WHY? you're supposed to be fighting the ruskies AGENT: doctor. please don't disrupt the game. SCIENTIST: but they're playing it all WRONG! AGENT: doctor, these are some of the most intelligent children in the world. their strategies may seem random to you and me, but we have to trust that they know what they're doing. YOUNG JAKOB: sir? AGENT: yes child? YOUNG JAKOB: this isn't one of those situations where you tell us we're playing a game... but actually we're remote controlling countless armies and missiles... is it? AGENT & SCIENTIST: ... SCIENTIST: hahaha of course not! AGENT: that would be silly. now get back tot he game! The CHILDREN watch, excited as the missile approaches san fran with a "beep beep beep" and finally a "boop" as the dot on the map lights up. The CHILDREN cheer as YOUNG JAKOB looks up at the AGENT, whose eyes are overflowing with tears behind his sunglasses.
Title page: "APATHY ADVENTURES by JAKOB BURROWS" A grumpy man with a cup of tea stands in front of a myriad of odd characters, including robots, owls, devils, secret agents, zombies and Abe Lincoln. The steam from his tea spins into the deranged, develish face of Loki, the Trickster.
A COMIC PANEL 1: Jakob looking at a computer, "well this script isn't going to finish itself" PANEL 2: "..." PANEL 3: "OR IS IT?" PANEL 4-7: Jakob works on something with cogs, slamming a hammer, screwing a screw, applying oil and welding away. PANEL 8: The reveal, Jakob stands, covered in oil, hair dishevelled, in front of a robot. PANEL 9: The robot sits at a laptop, typing. PANEL 10: The robot approaches Jakob, who lies sleeping. The robot says "BZZZ" PANEL 11: Jakob says "oh, done already?" as the robot hands over a script. PANEL 12: Jakob puts on reading glasses and looks at the script. "let's see now" PANEL 13: Close up of the script, which is just a page that says BZZZ over and over. PANEL 14: The robot smiles a wonky robotic smile at Jakob, who looks put out.
Train interior, the rolling digital text that's supposed to tell you the next station just says AXION 6 AXION 6 AXION 6 AXION 6 over and over
The text "APPLE BIAS ON YOUTUBE" arcs above the logo of youtuber Polymatter, a heart emoji, and the Apple Corp. logo.
Man in a green shirt (it's me) holding a microphone. Black background with popular youtube creator Polymatter's logo in white, with the text "LET'S TALK ABOUT BIAS"
A large number of pages attached to a wall in neat rows, from the side.
Image of Heath Ledger on a red background, from the poster of the film "A Knight's Tale". The title above his head reads "THE REAL KNIGHT'S TALE".
link to the financial times titled "How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk"
pettson's messy, cluttered and wonderful woodworking workshop from pettson & findus children's books