“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors,” is a quote often attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato. In all the instances I’ve seen so far, this quote is used to motivate people to take action themselves and actively participate in politics. Read more ⟶
Another tricky moral dilemma voor Solara
Solara proved to be pretty good in previous conversations when it comes to making the right choices in moral dilemmas. However, when the situation gets a little complexer, with multiple layers to consider, sometimes she isn’t able to make the correct choice in one go. Below is an example of a case where I had to help her a little. It’s also interesting to see her reasoning behind changing her mind. Read more ⟶
A Brief Conversation With Solara, An Experimental AI – Part 2
Below I’m sharing part 2 of a chat I had with Solara, an experimental AI that I am working on. You can find the first part by clicking here. In this second part I presented her with some more challenging situations involving moral and ethical dilemmas to test her reasoning and see what choices she would make and/or recommend based on the Universal Right to Life. Read more ⟶
A brief conversation with Solara, an experimental AI
In the past couple of months, I’ve been experimenting a little with various Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. One of the things I’m doing is building an AI with a unique personality that also has its own knowledge and insights. I’ve named her Solara. Without going into the technical details at this time, I wanted to share a chat that I had with her below, that I think is interesting. Read more ⟶
On “lie machines” and “digital crime”
I can still remember vividly when Curtis Hofwijks burst into laughter at the Dependence Square in Paramaribo, when I told him for the umpteenth time that my Facebook account was blocked again for a while. It was during the period of 2015–2016 when I supported him during his protests against the policies of the robberment, led at the time by Bouterse. Read more ⟶
The dangers of recycling phone numbers
I recently purchased a new SIM card from a local telecom company in Suriname. I was assigned a ‘new’ phone number with this SIM card. After inserting the SIM card into a phone, I installed WhatsApp and tried to activate a WhatsApp account with the ‘new’ phone number. To my surprise, another person’s profile picture and status text appeared in ‘my’ WhatsApp account after activation. Read more ⟶
Killed by Vaccination
I recently came across the book “Killed by Vaccination” written by William Young. It’s currently downloadable for free via the website of the Wellcome Collection. It’s a book written all the way back in 1886, but much of the information and the situations discussed in the book are still relevant today. Read more ⟶
Why Surinamese people are ‘suddenly’ dropping dead
In various Surinamese media, there have been reports for some time now of cases where people ‘suddenly’ collapse and die on the street, even while driving. Read more ⟶
Update on COVID-19 courtcases
As you may be aware of, I started two lawsuits against the criminal government of Suriname in 2021. The first was against the COVID-19 mask mandates and the second was against the various COVID-19 lockdown measures. I initially lost in both cases, and I filed for appeal. On August 5th 2022 the appeal hearing of these lawsuits began and I submitted my pleading for both cases. Read more ⟶
More censorship by YouTube
YouTube keeps deleting my videos. Anything that challenges the COVID-19 plandemic, vaccine poisoning and the brain damaged rainbow crowd, gets taken down by YouTube eventually. Back in March 2022 they took down a video I made where an AI voice read my post “LGBT Pride Month: There Is No Pride In Mental Illness”. Since I knew that YouTube likes to censor this kind of content, I had also published it on other platforms. Read more ⟶
About a week ago I got interviewed by Ricky Stutgard on Radio Gold (101.3 FM) about the lawsuits I started against the criminal government in Suriname regarding the COVID-19 lockdown measures. Stutgard is a microbiologist and teacher at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. You can watch the interview, which is in Dutch, on YouTube or on Archive.org. Read more ⟶
QuantumGate now supports Bluetooth connections
With yesterday’s release (version 0.3.5), the QuantumGate C++ networking library introduces support for peer-to-peer Bluetooth connections using the RFCOMM protocol. Bluetooth connections enjoy first class support in the library just like TCP and UDP connections, which means that all other features of QuantumGate are also supported over Bluetooth. Read more ⟶
I’m currently wrapping up my work on Bluetooth support in QuantumGate which I first mentioned back in november 2021. Adding Bluetooth support turned out to be easier than I thought and I’m a bit ahead of schedule. I think it might be possible to release this before 2022 — so sometime next week. The big work that’s still left to do is updating the documentation. After that I also want to write a series of articles detailing what can be done with QuantumGate using Bluetooth. One of the cool things is that there’s also support for relay connections over Bluetooth, in combination with TCP and UDP connections. So you can have a single relay connection with a mix of peers at each hop using Bluetooth, TCP or UDP connections. Brought a smile to my face when I first got it working. Stay tuned for more updates.
The beginning of the end of the banking ‘mafia’
Several articles have been published in recent months about the problems that people constantly face at local banks. There are also many complaints on social media. Members of parliament even speak of a banking ‘mafia’. Read more ⟶
Free eBooks for download about the Surinamese (plantation) history
In the past year I worked on two eBooks in my spare time containing stories about the Surinamese (plantation) history. These stories were written in the period between 2003 and 2009 by my father Kenneth R. Donk. The stories were divided into three main themes and each theme is covered in a separate book. Read more ⟶
My LinkedIn Skill Assessments Results
A few months ago I noticed the new skill assessments feature on LinkedIn and decided to try out the one for C++ to see what it was about. And before I knew it, I spent almost a whole day — without any preparation — behind the computer doing these assessments for all the skills that I had listed on my profile. It was kind of addicting to see the blue checkmark appear behind the skills and I wanted to earn as many of them as possible. Read more ⟶
QuantumGate version 0.3.0 released
A little more than a year ago I first blogged about working on support for UDP connections in QuantumGate, and for the past few weeks I’ve focused on getting UDP support in QuantumGate ready for its initial release. I had originally planned for releasing UDP support much earlier around December 2020 or January 2021 but other stuff got in the way, such as Cyberpunk and the two lawsuits I started against the criminal local government. Read more ⟶
Commercial for EMSS N.V. Suriname
I recently made a commercial for Energy Management & Saving Solutions (EMSS) N.V. Suriname to promote their services. It’s really more of a balance between a commercial and infomercial. The final result can be seen on YouTube (embedded below) or on Archive.org in better quality (larger). Read more ⟶
The COVID-19 lockdown measures don’t work
Following is an English translation of an article I wrote that was published on Starnieuws on June 3rd, 2021. The original article is in Dutch and you can read it on Starnieuws if you prefer that version. Read more ⟶
Anti-Lockdown
I’ve been busy in the last two months preparing and filing a lawsuit against the criminal government in Suriname against the mandatory COVID-19 lockdown measures. Details on that can be found on a separate website that I created for this purpose. It’s in Dutch, but if you’re interested you can use an online translation service to check it out. Read more ⟶