Tutto su Mojave, il nuovo sistema operativo del Mac - la mia gallery per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/06/tecnologia/tutto-su-mojave-il-nuovo-sistema-operativo-del-mac-Z63tAwC9PKo1Tjz1B3aPOK/pagina.html

Non potevo non condividerlo...

Sto rientrando in Italia da Taiwan via Hong Kong (dove sono per una giornata). All'andata ho visto un bel film in aereo, che è su Netflix: Kodachrome. La storia è stata ispirata da un articolo del New York Times del 2010 sulla chiusura dell'ultimo posto dove venisse sviluppata la pellicola di Kodak.

Money quote: "Demanding both to shoot and process, Kodachrome rewarded generations of skilled users with a richness of color and a unique treatment of light that many photographers described as incomparable even as they shifted to digital cameras. “Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,” Paul Simon sang in his 1973 hit “Kodachrome,” which carried the plea “Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html

Windows 95: l’ultimo sistema operativo onesto sulla Terra

Money quote: “All good things come to an end and Windows 95 was shut down for good in 2001. While, obviously, it’s not a viable operating system nowadays, the first real attempt of Microsoft to build a computer system available to everyone left a valuable legacy.

What really stands out are the main qualities that Windows 95, as a product, had and that are not common nowadays. It had a memorable launch, it was honest regarding its objectives, focused on the user, objective and transparent.“

https://medium.com/@Imaginary_Cloud/why-we-should-all-be-using-windows-95-5b63ad50e9e8

L’adesivo che tutti vorreste sul coperchio del vostro Mac, no?

Money quote: “:wq”

https://squaredesign.com/builds/wq/

Ok, questa è una cosa un po’ da programmatori hardcore, lo ammetto (e ammetto di non esserlo, sia chiaro). Però la Shell Style Guide di Google è molto interessante perché apre un buon numero di punti che vale la pena sapere sugli obiettivi e sullo stile (il termine in inglese acquista comunque una connotazione che non è come da noi meramente estetica) con il quale gestire le cose che fogliamo fare nella shell. E già che c’è, si toglie anche un paio di sassolini dalla scarpa...

Money quote: “Formatting

While you should follow the style that's already there for files that you're modifying, the following are required for any new code.

Indentation

▶ Indent 2 spaces. No tabs.”

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml

L’uomo di Tsushima è senza dubbio il capolavoro di Bonvi ed è anche uno dei fumetti che amo di più, probabilmente per l’età nella quale l’ho letto e per la già forte passione per il Giappone e la sua storia (anche se qui l’accento è sulla Russia zarista e la nascente rivoluzione). La battaglia di Tsushima è uno snodo fondamentale del ‘900 e Bonvi lo rese in maniera magistrale, pur modificandolo e forzandone alcuni passaggi. Sarebbe bello ce ne fosse una edizione più recente. In compenso, potete rallegrarvi con questo alato e ficcante saggio del buon Alberto Brambilla su Fumettologica, che offre testo e contesto al capolavoro di Bonvi.

Money quote: “La collana Un uomo un’avventura è stata, dopo l’ideazione della rivista Linus, la singola iniziativa editoriale che più ha ridefinito, mettendola in crisi, la tradizionale distinzione tra fumetto popolare e fumetto d’autore in Italia. Sergio Bonelli la aveva fortemente voluta ed aveva chiamato a parteciparvi le maggiori firme del fumetto nazionale, per creare dei veri e propri romanzi a fumetti di argomento e ambientazione liberi. L’unico vincolo era dato dal filo rosso reso esplicito sin dal titolo: dovevano essere storie d’avventura.

In una collana ricca di storie drammatiche, perlopiù di ambientazione bellica, realizzate da maestri del fumetto realistico/naturalistico quali Pratt, Toppi, Battaglia o Berardi&Milazzo, il vertice venne però da un’opera scritta e disegnata da un outsider, l’unico autore umoristico di tutta la collana: L’uomo di Tsushima di Bonvi, appunto.”

http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/05/uomo-di-tsushima-bonvi-fumetto/

Cosa vuol dire essere una coppia in senso romantico e qual è la prospettiva del buddismo al riguardo da un punto di vista scientifico, cioè neuro-biologico.

Money quote: “Let’s begin with some basics about biology. In a healthy relationship, you feel good when your partner is around. No surprise there. But you might not know that the good feeling happens because you and your partner regulate each other’s nervous systems”

https://aeon.co/essays/does-buddhist-detachment-allow-for-a-healthier-togetherness

Facebook pubblica i post privati di 14 milioni di utenti - il mio articolo per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/08/tecnologia/un-bug-di-facebook-rende-pubblici-i-post-privati-di-milioni-di-utenti-xKpBIPT6FAukDtQlfzNyzJ/pagina.html

La storia dell’avvocato che estorce soldi ai big della comunicazione perché non pagano le foto che utilizzano nei loro prodotti editoriali.

Money quote: “Liebowitz works on contingency and does a volume business, both of which are unusual approaches for a copyright attorney. His escalation tactics have unnerved his media-industry targets, who have grown accustomed to amicably resolving minor infringement cases long before a lawsuit is filed. “His whole scheme seems to be: He throws out a demand of something between $25,000 or $30,000 to start, and basically is negotiating down from there,” said one attorney who has faced Liebowitz. My sources for this story were reluctant to cite specific settlement amounts, which makes it impossible to say exactly how much money Liebowitz has won for his clients—and for himself”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/richard-liebowitz-why-media-companies-fear-and-photographers-love-this-guy.html

🏄🏻‍♀️ Non lasciare che gli altri ti risucchino le energie https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/30646-10-ways-you-might-be-giving-other-people-too-much-power-over-your-life-without-even-realizing-it

Perché la tacca dell’iPhone non è come tutte le altre tacche (mal copiate)

Money quote: “Interestingly, not all notch designs are created equal and some of the Android copycats we’ve seen thus far have sported horrible looking implementations. As it turns out, there’s more to the iPhone X notch design than meets the eye. “

http://bgr.com/2018/05/27/iphone-x-vs-android-notch-design-looks-better-explanation/

Arrabbiato. Riconoscente? A proposito di Anthony Bourdain

Money quote: “Uneasily settled back into my hometown, I fought to push the dogs of my recent past down into the cellar of my soul where their bark did not seem so loud”

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/08/i-owe-anthony-bourdain-so-much.html

WWDC 2018, non s'interrompe così un'emozione - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/wwdc-2018-non-sinterrompe-cosi-unemozione/

Dos è megl che quater - il mio post per Il Post che racconta un po’ di cose sulle grandi opportunità degli aerei di linea a due motori

https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2018/06/09/dos-e-megl-che-quater/

La foto della domenica. Voglia di anni Ottanta

Una riflessione apparentemente “leggera” nella pagina delle opinioni del New York Times su cosa significhi e quale impatto abbia sulle nostre vite avere quarant’anni. (Hint: per una donna molto più che non per un uomo)

Money quote: “Forty isn’t even technically middle age anymore. Someone who’s now 40 has a 50 percent chance of living to 95, says the economist Andrew Scott, a co-author of “The 100-Year Life.”

But the number 40 still has symbolic resonance. Jesus fasted for 40 days. Muhammad was 40 when the archangel Gabriel appeared to him. The Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years. Mr. Brandes writes that in some languages, 40 means “a lot.”

And age 40 still feels pivotal. “The 40s are when you become who you are,” a British author in his 70s tells me, adding ominously, “And if you don’t know by your 40s, you never will.””

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-survive-your-40s.html

Uno Yurt è la tenda dei nomadi della Mongolia. Oggi sta diventando uno strumento per un nuovo genere di campeggiatori

Money quote: “The Mongols are said to have built their yurts from saplings laced together with leather thongs. The rafters might have been either painted or plain. Felt was used for the walls and roof. It is not clear to me how they transported the yurt; the folded walls would be quite a burden for a horse.”

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/yurt/

Dentro Amazon la cosa più importante sono le recensioni, perché spostano le persone da un prodotto all’altro e modellano i risultati delle ricerche. Amazon è gigantesca. L’economia delle recensioni false è un fenomeno gigantesco.

Money quote: “At just over $760 billion, Amazon is the world’s second most valuable company, behind Apple. CEO Jeff Bezos recently revealed the company counts more than 100 million paying Amazon Prime members globally, the $119-per-year membership that gets subscribers — the most devoted Amazon customers — free two-day shipping; music, TV, and movie streaming; access to an e-book library; and more. The company operates 13 third-party seller marketplaces around the world, and rents space to house those sellers’ inventory in more than 150 warehouses. In 2017, third-party merchants brought in $32 billion of revenue, and nearly 300,000 new sellers joined the marketplace last year alone.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/amazon-fake-review-problem

Non vi sbagliate, la “giapponesizzazione degli Stati Uniti” segue e non precede la “giapponesizzazione dell’Italia”. Grande articolo del New Yorker, btw.

Money quote: ”Stripped down to its most minimalist outlines (an approach that Kondo would surely approve), a life of uncluttered simplicity represents a fantasy. Why should Americans be so compelled by one from Japan? Close to twenty years ago, the answer would have been “because Japan is the global imagination’s default setting for the future,” as the author William Gibson wrote in 2001. “The Japanese seem to the rest of us to live several measurable clicks down the time line.” Gibson was referring to a Japan of trendy gadgets and services, such as high-tech cell phones and robot sushi bars, the flashy products of a hyper-consumer metropolis that inspired the creators of such films as “Blade Runner” and “The Matrix.” But what Gibson wrote about products was just as true about other, less visible trends in Japanese society: economic stagnation; a plunging fertility rate; a dramatic postponement of the “normal” milestones of adulthood, such as getting married or simply moving out of the family home; a creeping sense of ambivalence about what the future might hold. Seventeen years later, America has finally caught up. We don’t buy into Kondo’s life-changing magic just because we think Japan is cool; we also buy because our country is, in many ways, increasingly like Japan”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-united-states-of-japan

Il senso di cosa sia l’informatica -e il computer- dal punto di vista del loro scopo sociale: uno strumento per potenziare la capacità della nostra mente, per sostituirsi a noi nel lavoro o per comunicare con altre persone? Le visioni di Google, Microsoft, Apple.

Money quote: “This is technology’s second philosophy, and it is orthogonal to the other: the expectation is not that the computer does your work for you, but rather that the computer enables you to do your work better and more efficiently. And, with this philosophy, comes a different take on responsibility. Pichai, in the opening of Google’s keynote, acknowledged that “we feel a deep sense of responsibility to get this right”, but inherent in that statement is the centrality of Google generally and the direct culpability of its managers. Nadella, on the other hand, insists that responsibility lies with the tech industry collectively, and all of us who seek to leverage it individually.”

https://stratechery.com/2018/techs-two-philosophies/