Altra gente che combatte la nevrosi uscendo da Facebook - tre anni fa
Money quote: “Oggi sono su Twitter, che governo più facilmente e che non influisce né sul modo in cui leggo né sul modo in cui scrivo. Non so perché; credo abbia a che fare innanzitutto con la brevità del mezzo. E benché i caratteri a disposizione siano di recente raddoppiati, 280 battute spazi inclusi restano sempre poca cosa: inoltre, cerco sempre di condividere link esterni invece di elaborare aforismi arguti.”
http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/tre-anni-senza-facebook
Money quote: “Oggi sono su Twitter, che governo più facilmente e che non influisce né sul modo in cui leggo né sul modo in cui scrivo. Non so perché; credo abbia a che fare innanzitutto con la brevità del mezzo. E benché i caratteri a disposizione siano di recente raddoppiati, 280 battute spazi inclusi restano sempre poca cosa: inoltre, cerco sempre di condividere link esterni invece di elaborare aforismi arguti.”
http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/tre-anni-senza-facebook
Doppiozero
Tre anni senza Facebook
Ai primi di dicembre del 2014 mi sono disiscritto da Facebook d'istinto, senza solenni proclami (non ci vedevo nulla di solenne, e sono allergico da tempo ai proclami). Forse avrei potuto avvisare,
Cosa succede quando ci attrezziamo per fare in modo che il nostro gusto venga deciso attraverso metodi algoritmici? Perdiamo in umanità, sic et simpliciter
Money quote: "Philosophers in the 18th century defined taste as a moral capacity, an ability to recognize truth and beauty. “Natural taste is not a theoretical knowledge; it’s a quick and exquisite application of rules which we do not even know,” wrote Montesquieu in 1759. This unknowingness is important. We don’t calculate or measure if something is tasteful to us; we simply feel it. Displacing the judgment of taste partly to algorithms, as in the Amazon Echo Look, robs us of some of that humanity."
https://www.racked.com/2018/4/17/17219166/fashion-style-algorithm-amazon-echo-look
Money quote: "Philosophers in the 18th century defined taste as a moral capacity, an ability to recognize truth and beauty. “Natural taste is not a theoretical knowledge; it’s a quick and exquisite application of rules which we do not even know,” wrote Montesquieu in 1759. This unknowingness is important. We don’t calculate or measure if something is tasteful to us; we simply feel it. Displacing the judgment of taste partly to algorithms, as in the Amazon Echo Look, robs us of some of that humanity."
https://www.racked.com/2018/4/17/17219166/fashion-style-algorithm-amazon-echo-look
Vox
Have Algorithms Destroyed Personal Taste?
No one is original anymore, not even you.
Entro il 2025 BT, principale carrier telefonico britannico, chiuderà la rete di telefonia tradizionale e passerà tutto al VoIP. Siccome BT rivende capacità alle altre telco, lo switch riguarderà la quasi totalità del Regno Unito. Non è necessariamente una buona cosa (si risparmiano molti soldi sull'infrastruttura, ma si riesce a garantire il servizio universale anche in condizioni di crisi di capacità?), però è un segno della direzione dove stiamo andando anche noi.
Money quote: "BT is forging ahead with plans to shut its traditional telephone network in Britain, with the intention of shifting all customers over to IP telephony services by 2025.
The closure of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is part of plans by BT toward internet-based voice calls via a fibre network. As such it will be looking to close a chunk of exchanges.
Yesterday, Openreach wrote to its communications providers about the move. The broadband division will open consultation next month on the withdrawal of its Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) products, which are reliant on the PSTN."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/19/bt_pushes_ahead_with_plans_to_switch_of_traditional_telephone_network/
Money quote: "BT is forging ahead with plans to shut its traditional telephone network in Britain, with the intention of shifting all customers over to IP telephony services by 2025.
The closure of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is part of plans by BT toward internet-based voice calls via a fibre network. As such it will be looking to close a chunk of exchanges.
Yesterday, Openreach wrote to its communications providers about the move. The broadband division will open consultation next month on the withdrawal of its Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) products, which are reliant on the PSTN."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/19/bt_pushes_ahead_with_plans_to_switch_of_traditional_telephone_network/
The Register
BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone network
Consultation next month following plan to shift Brits over to VoIP
Siamo divenetati mille. Anzi, come dice una amica lettrice di questo canale, siamo un numero palindromo, 1001 (e spero presto ancora di più). Grazie. Condivido questa piccola perla di saggezza su come dare più bassi alle AirPods senza bisogno di cacciarsele a forza dentro le trombe d’Eustachio. Valga come monito per chi le ha e come sollievo per chi invece non le possiede...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16664958/airpods-bass-hack-diy-foam-covers-how-to
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16664958/airpods-bass-hack-diy-foam-covers-how-to
The Verge
This simple AirPods hack can dramatically improve the sound quality
And they still fit in the charging case
Un tentativo interessante per chi sviluppa: una macchina virtuale universale per più linguaggi ed ecosistemi
Money quote: "GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python 3, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++.
GraalVM removes the isolation between programming languages and enables interoperability in a shared runtime. It can run either standalone or in the context of OpenJDK, Node.js, Oracle Database, or MySQL."
http://www.graalvm.org
Money quote: "GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python 3, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++.
GraalVM removes the isolation between programming languages and enables interoperability in a shared runtime. It can run either standalone or in the context of OpenJDK, Node.js, Oracle Database, or MySQL."
http://www.graalvm.org
Un bel po' di tempo fa ho avuto la possibilità di recensire Setapp, l'app store in abbonamento per macOS. Una esperienza più che notevole. Si tratta di un piccolo servizio di culto Made in Ukraina, che continua a crescere anche se per adesso ha numeri ridotti (17mila abbonati). Secondo me però è notevole. E non sono l'unico a pensarlo. Quasi quasi faccio un'altra prova.
Money quote: "
How it works
For $9.99 a month, users get access to Setapp's catalog of apps, which includes everything from file organization apps to translation apps and study aids for the periodic table of elements. You might have to pay thousands to buy any of these apps on their own, but for the flat monthly fee, you can access as many as you want through the Setapp icon on your Mac."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/setapp-profile-apple-subnoscriptions-for-enterprise.html
Money quote: "
How it works
For $9.99 a month, users get access to Setapp's catalog of apps, which includes everything from file organization apps to translation apps and study aids for the periodic table of elements. You might have to pay thousands to buy any of these apps on their own, but for the flat monthly fee, you can access as many as you want through the Setapp icon on your Mac."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/setapp-profile-apple-subnoscriptions-for-enterprise.html
American Airlines sta tagliando via alcuni dei 28 biglietti da 250mila dollari una tantum che permettono infiniti voli in business class (con un supplemento di altri 150mila si aveva diritto ad un ospite ogni volta, sempre gratuitamente). Peccato...
Money quote: "American had been hit hard by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. They’d posted a $76m loss in 1980, and were grappling with new competition, reduced ticket prices, and a changing industry that threatened to sink them into irrelevancy.
The airline’s newly-elected president, Robert Crandall, was on a mission to “cut American down to the bone” and lead a massive expansion from the ground up"
https://thehustle.co/aairpass-american-airlines-250k-lifetime-ticket/
Money quote: "American had been hit hard by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. They’d posted a $76m loss in 1980, and were grappling with new competition, reduced ticket prices, and a changing industry that threatened to sink them into irrelevancy.
The airline’s newly-elected president, Robert Crandall, was on a mission to “cut American down to the bone” and lead a massive expansion from the ground up"
https://thehustle.co/aairpass-american-airlines-250k-lifetime-ticket/
thehustle.co
The rise and demise of the AAirpass, American Airlines’ $250k lifetime ticket
In the 1980s, American Airlines sold an unlimited lifetime ticket, called the AAirpass. They had no idea what they’d gotten themselves into.
Gli amanti
Money quote: ““I love you,” she says. “Write, write. The days are long and difficult. I need your letters to live. Sleep. Lie down.” She asks for his opinion on projects, and he responds with equal respect for her work”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/11/illicit-love-letters-albert-camus-and-maria-casares/
Money quote: ““I love you,” she says. “Write, write. The days are long and difficult. I need your letters to live. Sleep. Lie down.” She asks for his opinion on projects, and he responds with equal respect for her work”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/11/illicit-love-letters-albert-camus-and-maria-casares/
The Paris Review
Illicit Love Letters: Albert Camus and Maria Casares by Stephanie LaCava
April 11, 2018 – For the past few weeks, I’ve fixated on a collection of primary source material that reads like a tidy work of epistolary fiction. It’s a big book,
Pensavo solo Nietzsche fosse matto. Ma anche Wittgenstein mica scherzava...
Money quote: “He cut a strange figure in Trattenbach. Since, earlier, he’d tried to apply for work under a false name and had been found out, he was open this time about his background—the citizens knew he was descended of one of the richest families in Austria. Yet he lived in ostentatious poverty: he slept in the school kitchen and ate cocoa and oatmeal for dinner out of a pot he never cleaned. The adults of the village distrusted him from the beginning, but he made a more positive impression on some of his students. When one biographer visited Trattenbach fifty years later, he met with former pupils who still remembered Wittgenstein’s lessons, some of which were as charmingly philosophical as one might hope: one student recalled being introduced, at that young age, to the Liar’s Paradox (the Cretan who declares “All Cretans are liars …”).”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/05/wittgenstein-schoolteacher/
Money quote: “He cut a strange figure in Trattenbach. Since, earlier, he’d tried to apply for work under a false name and had been found out, he was open this time about his background—the citizens knew he was descended of one of the richest families in Austria. Yet he lived in ostentatious poverty: he slept in the school kitchen and ate cocoa and oatmeal for dinner out of a pot he never cleaned. The adults of the village distrusted him from the beginning, but he made a more positive impression on some of his students. When one biographer visited Trattenbach fifty years later, he met with former pupils who still remembered Wittgenstein’s lessons, some of which were as charmingly philosophical as one might hope: one student recalled being introduced, at that young age, to the Liar’s Paradox (the Cretan who declares “All Cretans are liars …”).”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/05/wittgenstein-schoolteacher/
The Paris Review
Wittgenstein, Schoolteacher by Spencer Robins
March 5, 2015 – What the philosopher learned from his time in elementary-school classrooms. Every philosophy major has at some point had to answer the standard challenge:
Intelligenza artificiale e intelligenza tradizionale. Un articolo spettacolare. Inizia con una storia da brivido - che serve anche per accreditare l'autore come uno tosto - e poi diventa una ricostruzione notevole e molto comprensibile di quel che ci aspetta.
Money quote: "There is a different narrative that one can tell about the current era. Consider the following story, which involves humans, computers, data and life-or-death decisions, but where the focus is something other than intelligence-in-silicon fantasies. When my spouse was pregnant 14 years ago, we had an ultrasound. There was a geneticist in the room, and she pointed out some white spots around the heart of the fetus. “Those are markers for Down syndrome,” she noted, “and your risk has now gone up to 1 in 20.” She further let us know that we could learn whether the fetus in fact had the genetic modification underlying Down syndrome via an amniocentesis. But amniocentesis was risky — the risk of killing the fetus during the procedure was roughly 1 in 300. Being a statistician, I determined to find out where these numbers were coming from. To cut a long story short, I discovered that a statistical analysis had been done a decade previously in the UK, where these white spots, which reflect calcium buildup, were indeed established as a predictor of Down syndrome. But I also noticed that the imaging machine used in our test had a few hundred more pixels per square inch than the machine used in the UK study. I went back to tell the geneticist that I believed that the white spots were likely false positives — that they were literally “white noise.” She said “Ah, that explains why we started seeing an uptick in Down syndrome diagnoses a few years ago; it’s when the new machine arrived.”"
https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7
Money quote: "There is a different narrative that one can tell about the current era. Consider the following story, which involves humans, computers, data and life-or-death decisions, but where the focus is something other than intelligence-in-silicon fantasies. When my spouse was pregnant 14 years ago, we had an ultrasound. There was a geneticist in the room, and she pointed out some white spots around the heart of the fetus. “Those are markers for Down syndrome,” she noted, “and your risk has now gone up to 1 in 20.” She further let us know that we could learn whether the fetus in fact had the genetic modification underlying Down syndrome via an amniocentesis. But amniocentesis was risky — the risk of killing the fetus during the procedure was roughly 1 in 300. Being a statistician, I determined to find out where these numbers were coming from. To cut a long story short, I discovered that a statistical analysis had been done a decade previously in the UK, where these white spots, which reflect calcium buildup, were indeed established as a predictor of Down syndrome. But I also noticed that the imaging machine used in our test had a few hundred more pixels per square inch than the machine used in the UK study. I went back to tell the geneticist that I believed that the white spots were likely false positives — that they were literally “white noise.” She said “Ah, that explains why we started seeing an uptick in Down syndrome diagnoses a few years ago; it’s when the new machine arrived.”"
https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7
Medium
Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the mantra of the current era. The phrase is intoned by technologists, academicians, journalists and…
Isola di San Giulio, al centro del lago d'Orta. Una meraviglia. La conosciamo poco in Italia, figuriamoci fuori. Eppure...
Money quote: "n the 12th century, the little island became the grounds for a basilica. Even today, centuries later, the basilica is the crown jewel of the picturesque patch of land. A new seminary was built in the 19th century, which unfortunately saw some of the island’s older buildings demolished in its wake. It’s now a Benedictine monastery, which is still in use today. A smattering of quaint houses dot the island, which were once home to members of the clergy."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/isola-san-giulio
Money quote: "n the 12th century, the little island became the grounds for a basilica. Even today, centuries later, the basilica is the crown jewel of the picturesque patch of land. A new seminary was built in the 19th century, which unfortunately saw some of the island’s older buildings demolished in its wake. It’s now a Benedictine monastery, which is still in use today. A smattering of quaint houses dot the island, which were once home to members of the clergy."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/isola-san-giulio
Atlas Obscura
Isola San Giulio
A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.
Nell'affascinante caso del conflitto interno (fino a un certo punto) del Poeta residente di questo canale, anche il sottoscritto ha immodestamente avuto il suo piccolo ruolo
Money quote: "C’è un conflitto, e se ne è mirabilmente accorto un amico storico, che ogni tanto — bontà sua — mi usa, sul piano esistenziale, come “ragazza brutta con cui la ragazza bella va a passeggio”… Ma che non manca di lesinarmi benevolmente il suo punto di vista, che in questo caso mi ha aperto la mente. "
https://medium.com/@rrcorsi/narciso-e-pennadoro-aspettando-di-risolvere-il-conflitto-psicologico-del-poeta-277e29c8500f
Money quote: "C’è un conflitto, e se ne è mirabilmente accorto un amico storico, che ogni tanto — bontà sua — mi usa, sul piano esistenziale, come “ragazza brutta con cui la ragazza bella va a passeggio”… Ma che non manca di lesinarmi benevolmente il suo punto di vista, che in questo caso mi ha aperto la mente. "
https://medium.com/@rrcorsi/narciso-e-pennadoro-aspettando-di-risolvere-il-conflitto-psicologico-del-poeta-277e29c8500f
Medium
“Narciso e Pennadoro”: (aspettando di) risolvere il conflitto psicologico del poeta
Conduco una vita ritirata per una serie di motivi, il primo dei quali è che non ho un briciolo di autostima sin da ragazzo. Il secondo è…
Design italiano per le poltrone verticali. Per fortuna dei designer non andranno mai in produzione...
Money quote: “It seems well thought out, it’s reportedly very functional, and it even looks good. But I’ll still never sit on one”
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90168628/the-airplane-saddle-is-a-standing-seat-for-super-economy-flight
Money quote: “It seems well thought out, it’s reportedly very functional, and it even looks good. But I’ll still never sit on one”
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90168628/the-airplane-saddle-is-a-standing-seat-for-super-economy-flight
Co.Design
The Airplane Saddle Is A Standing Seat For Super-Economy Flights
Howdy, pardner, please buckle your seatbelt and put your phone on airplane mode.
Bill Harris, l'ex co-fondatore e Ceo di PayPal, che due cose sui pagamenti forse le sa, non si tira indietro. I BitCoin e le altre criptovalute sono uno scam.
Money quote: "I’m tired of saying, “Be careful, it’s speculative.” Then, “Be careful, it’s gambling.” Then, “Be careful, it’s a bubble.” Okay, I’ll say it: Bitcoin is a scam."
https://www.recode.net/2018/4/24/17275202/bitcoin-scam-cryptocurrency-mining-pump-dump-fraud-ico-value
Money quote: "I’m tired of saying, “Be careful, it’s speculative.” Then, “Be careful, it’s gambling.” Then, “Be careful, it’s a bubble.” Okay, I’ll say it: Bitcoin is a scam."
https://www.recode.net/2018/4/24/17275202/bitcoin-scam-cryptocurrency-mining-pump-dump-fraud-ico-value
Altro che Matteo Salvini: la Gran Bretagna ci ha donato gente come Enoch Powell e discorsi famosi come "Rivers of Blood".
Money quote: ““As I look ahead,” Powell said, “I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood,’” an allusion to a line in Virgil’s Aeneid. He maintained that it would not be enough to close Britain’s borders—some of the immigrants already settled in the country would need to be sent “home.” If not, he declared, attributing a quote to one of his constituents, “in this country, in 15 or 20 years’ time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/558344/
Money quote: ““As I look ahead,” Powell said, “I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood,’” an allusion to a line in Virgil’s Aeneid. He maintained that it would not be enough to close Britain’s borders—some of the immigrants already settled in the country would need to be sent “home.” If not, he declared, attributing a quote to one of his constituents, “in this country, in 15 or 20 years’ time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/558344/
Slacktyping è un utile noscript in Ruby che, quando il vostro interlocutore scrive, simula che state scrivendo anche voi nello stesso momento. Ovviamente poi non postste niente. Genio.
https://github.com/will/slacktyping?files=1
https://github.com/will/slacktyping?files=1
GitHub
will/slacktyping
slacktyping - i'm typing when you're typing
Arriva Venom, e potrebbe essere un film Marvel da paura veramente, di quelli vietati ai minori ma non per le parolacce e le sparatorie. No-no
Money quote: "There are some other things going for Venom, in no particular order: beloved thespian Michelle Williams plays Hardy’s girlfriend; Riz Ahmed is the creepy corporate villain experimenting with the symbiote, an oddly perfect role for him; a bespectacled Jenny Slate shows up at a bodega; Brock is a seasoned reporter who opens interviews with questions like “DO YOU CONDUCT SECRET EVIL EXPERIMENTS THAT KILL PEOPLE, RIZ AHMED?” and expects a response; Woody Harrelson is rumored to show up as Carnage, and I can’t stop thinking about it; the film is R-rated."
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/4/24/17275006/venom-trailer-new-tom-hardy-michelle-williams-jenny-slate-ruben-fleischer
Money quote: "There are some other things going for Venom, in no particular order: beloved thespian Michelle Williams plays Hardy’s girlfriend; Riz Ahmed is the creepy corporate villain experimenting with the symbiote, an oddly perfect role for him; a bespectacled Jenny Slate shows up at a bodega; Brock is a seasoned reporter who opens interviews with questions like “DO YOU CONDUCT SECRET EVIL EXPERIMENTS THAT KILL PEOPLE, RIZ AHMED?” and expects a response; Woody Harrelson is rumored to show up as Carnage, and I can’t stop thinking about it; the film is R-rated."
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/4/24/17275006/venom-trailer-new-tom-hardy-michelle-williams-jenny-slate-ruben-fleischer
The Ringer
Venom Finally Appears in the New ‘Venom’ Trailer—and It Is Freaky
After teasing us for months, the latest glimpse of the upcoming Sony movie reveals Tom Hardy’s slimy antihero in all its menacing glory
Mentre il mondo esplode attorno a Facebook, Google zitta zitta sta facendo altre cose. Non solo la traccia delle licenze open source per utilizzare il codice e i servizi dell'azienda, ma anche un nuovo servizio a pagamento per le aziende che consente di gestire le identità di più servizi non di Google.
È un antico obiettivo: il sistema di gestione di tutte le identità digitali. Chi conquista questo, vince tutto. Ci ha già provato Microsoft, ci hanno provato alcuni dei big del B2B (Oracle, SAP), adesso ci riprova Google, che finora aveva giocato la carta del B2C
Money quote: "Enable employees to work from anywhere, on any device, with one-click access to all the apps they need. Employees can focus on their work, and you can more easily manage thousands of identities as people join, move, and leave the organization. Our single sign-on supports SAML 2.0 and OpenID and works with hundreds of applications out of the box, including SAP SuccessFactors, Salesforce, as well as GCP and G Suite apps like Docs and Sheets."
https://cloud.google.com/identity/
È un antico obiettivo: il sistema di gestione di tutte le identità digitali. Chi conquista questo, vince tutto. Ci ha già provato Microsoft, ci hanno provato alcuni dei big del B2B (Oracle, SAP), adesso ci riprova Google, che finora aveva giocato la carta del B2C
Money quote: "Enable employees to work from anywhere, on any device, with one-click access to all the apps they need. Employees can focus on their work, and you can more easily manage thousands of identities as people join, move, and leave the organization. Our single sign-on supports SAML 2.0 and OpenID and works with hundreds of applications out of the box, including SAP SuccessFactors, Salesforce, as well as GCP and G Suite apps like Docs and Sheets."
https://cloud.google.com/identity/
Google Cloud
Cloud Identity | Google Cloud
Protect company data, maximize IT efficiency & transition to a digital workspace with a unified identity, access, app & device management platform.
L’idea che alla base di un rapporto di coppia ci sia l’altruismo anziché diventare dipendenti dal proprio partner è intrigante.
Money quote: “And what happens when shit goes down? Because other people are outside of our control, and dumping a huge chunk of our emotional wellbeing into external things — like another human being’s decisions and behavior — is reckless at best. The only person you have full control over is yourself.
Dependency is not love.”
https://medium.com/@krisgage/the-purpose-of-a-relationship-8a32a6b0afbc
Money quote: “And what happens when shit goes down? Because other people are outside of our control, and dumping a huge chunk of our emotional wellbeing into external things — like another human being’s decisions and behavior — is reckless at best. The only person you have full control over is yourself.
Dependency is not love.”
https://medium.com/@krisgage/the-purpose-of-a-relationship-8a32a6b0afbc
Medium
The Purpose Of A Relationship
It’s not about our partner making us happy
Addio al 3D Touch: ne sentiremo la mancanza. O forse no - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/addio-al-3d-touch-ne-sentiremo-la-mancanza-o-forse-no/
https://www.macitynet.it/addio-al-3d-touch-ne-sentiremo-la-mancanza-o-forse-no/
Macitynet.it
Addio al 3D Touch: ne sentiremo la mancanza. O forse no. - Macitynet.it
Apple starebbe per eliminare la tecnologia di interazione basata sulla forza del tocco da alcuni dei suoi futuri iPhone. Ragioni economiche, di marketing o di opportunità?