Apple, trovata una vulnerabilità nel sistema di gestione di Mac e apparecchi iOS per le aziende - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/03/tecnologia/apple-trovata-una-vulnerabilit-nel-sistema-di-gestione-di-mac-e-apparecchi-ios-per-le-aziende-YhMBA93nnOMPB4xDveUEDK/pagina.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/03/tecnologia/apple-trovata-una-vulnerabilit-nel-sistema-di-gestione-di-mac-e-apparecchi-ios-per-le-aziende-YhMBA93nnOMPB4xDveUEDK/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Apple, trovata una vulnerabilità nel sistema di gestione di Mac e apparecchi iOS per le aziende
Ricercatori scoprono un modo per rubare le password WiFi e addirittura infiltrare un computer hacker all’interno della rete aziendale. Apple: non è un problema dei nostri software
Ibm aveva un progetto estremamente ambizioso: Watson, la risposta alla domanda di intelligenza artificiale del mercato. Ma le cose stanno andando parecchio male. E c’è un perché. Anzi, più di uno.
Money quote: “IBM is shrinking: In 2011, when the company first introduced the idea that Watson might be able to one day cure cancer, its revenues were $107 billion. They’ve gotten smaller every year since, ending up at $79 billion in 2017. That presents enormous problems for any CEO, who’s generally charged with growing the company, or, failing that, growing the stock price.”
https://slate.com/business/2018/08/ibms-watson-how-the-ai-project-to-improve-cancer-treatment-went-wrong.html
Money quote: “IBM is shrinking: In 2011, when the company first introduced the idea that Watson might be able to one day cure cancer, its revenues were $107 billion. They’ve gotten smaller every year since, ending up at $79 billion in 2017. That presents enormous problems for any CEO, who’s generally charged with growing the company, or, failing that, growing the stock price.”
https://slate.com/business/2018/08/ibms-watson-how-the-ai-project-to-improve-cancer-treatment-went-wrong.html
Slate Magazine
IBM’s Watson Was Supposed to Change the Way We Treat Cancer. Here’s What Happened Instead.
How the A.I. project to improve oncology went wrong.
E se il vero problema dell’America fosse che, dieci anni dopo, ancora sono sotto con la crisi finanziaria del 2007-2008?
Money quote: “It’s not hard to pinpoint the dawn of this deep gloom: It arrived in September 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers kicked off the Great Recession that proved to be a more lasting existential threat to America than the terrorist attack of seven Septembers earlier. The shadow it would cast is so dark that a decade later, even our current run of ostensible prosperity and peace does not mitigate the one conviction that still unites all Americans: Everything in the country is broken.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/america-10-years-after-the-financial-crisis.html
Money quote: “It’s not hard to pinpoint the dawn of this deep gloom: It arrived in September 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers kicked off the Great Recession that proved to be a more lasting existential threat to America than the terrorist attack of seven Septembers earlier. The shadow it would cast is so dark that a decade later, even our current run of ostensible prosperity and peace does not mitigate the one conviction that still unites all Americans: Everything in the country is broken.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/america-10-years-after-the-financial-crisis.html
Ci vuole un fisico bestiale. Oppure un consulente che metta assieme dieci trucchetti per riuscire a fortificare la propria mente, cioè il proprio spirito.
Money quote: “Mental strength and inner peace go hand in hand. Mentally strong people are confident that they can handle whatever life throws their way.
That's not to say they don't feel pain or that they don't get sad--they experience their emotions on a deep level. But they don't waste energy wishing things were different or trying to change other people. They stay focused on managing their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
They also make self-improvement a priority, because they know there's always room for improvement”
https://www.inc.com/amy-morin/10-things-mentally-strong-people-give-up-to-gain-inner-peace.html
Money quote: “Mental strength and inner peace go hand in hand. Mentally strong people are confident that they can handle whatever life throws their way.
That's not to say they don't feel pain or that they don't get sad--they experience their emotions on a deep level. But they don't waste energy wishing things were different or trying to change other people. They stay focused on managing their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
They also make self-improvement a priority, because they know there's always room for improvement”
https://www.inc.com/amy-morin/10-things-mentally-strong-people-give-up-to-gain-inner-peace.html
Inc.com
10 Things Mentally Strong People Give Up to Gain Inner Peace
Letting go of certain things can open the door to true contentment in life.
Avete presente la Terra di Mezzo di Tolkien? Il progetto ArdaCraft la sta ricreando. Con Minecraft. Una festa per gli occhi.
https://ardacraft.me/
https://ardacraft.me/
L’appendicetomia, cioè l'operazione per togliere una appendice infiammata, ovvero una appendicite acuta, serve ancora?
A quando pare basterebbe un po' di antibiotico per eliminare una procedura vecchia di più di un secolo.
Money quote: "“This long-term follow-up supports the feasibility of antibiotic treatment alone as an alternative to surgery for uncomplicated acute appendicitis,” the authors conclude."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/after-century-of-removing-appendixes-docs-find-antibiotics-can-be-enough
A quando pare basterebbe un po' di antibiotico per eliminare una procedura vecchia di più di un secolo.
Money quote: "“This long-term follow-up supports the feasibility of antibiotic treatment alone as an alternative to surgery for uncomplicated acute appendicitis,” the authors conclude."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/after-century-of-removing-appendixes-docs-find-antibiotics-can-be-enough
Ars Technica
After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough
In a five-year follow-up, nearly two-thirds of patients never needed surgery.
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Scusa iPhone XS: io aspetto iPhone XR - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/iphone-xr-contro-iphone-xs-conviene-aspettare/
https://www.macitynet.it/iphone-xr-contro-iphone-xs-conviene-aspettare/
Macitynet.it
Scusa iPhone XS: io aspetto iPhone XR
Perché tutti vogliono quel nuovo telefono di Apple che esce un mese dopo, anziché la versione S dell’apparecchio dell’anno scorso. Forse perché è davvero il migliore di questo 2018?
Microchip spia made in China? Non c’è niente da stupirsi, dice l’esperto - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/06/tecnologia/microchip-spia-made-in-china-non-c-niente-da-stupirsi-dice-lesperto-kOS3kGQ2VBJVRDWP0n9eOM/premium.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/06/tecnologia/microchip-spia-made-in-china-non-c-niente-da-stupirsi-dice-lesperto-kOS3kGQ2VBJVRDWP0n9eOM/premium.html
LaStampa.it
Microchip spia made in China? Non c’è niente da stupirsi, dice l’esperto
Secondo Antonio Varriale di Blu5 «sono anni che ne parliamo ma c’è un doppio problema: il rischio geopolitico del Made in China da una parte e una cultura troppo orientata alla protezione del software e non dell’hardware dall’altra»
Ufficio nuovo? Vecchio ufficio da rinnovare? Un po' di consigli utili per qunto riguarda la connettività soprattutto WiFi e la gestione degli apparecchi. Bello!
Money quote: "Our team just moved to a larger office in downtown San Francisco. On moving day, I was shocked to discover a bundle of rough-cut unterminated ethernet cables on one end, ripped-out punch-down jacks on the other, no uplink, and no Wi-Fi!
There’s no IT team at startups, and as software engineers, we might be called on to step up in a pinch. Here’s a smorgasbord of suggestions — some well-known and others obscure — that helped me get a reliable network running fast."
https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-triplebyte-solved-its-office-wifi-problems
Money quote: "Our team just moved to a larger office in downtown San Francisco. On moving day, I was shocked to discover a bundle of rough-cut unterminated ethernet cables on one end, ripped-out punch-down jacks on the other, no uplink, and no Wi-Fi!
There’s no IT team at startups, and as software engineers, we might be called on to step up in a pinch. Here’s a smorgasbord of suggestions — some well-known and others obscure — that helped me get a reliable network running fast."
https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-triplebyte-solved-its-office-wifi-problems
Triplebyte
How Triplebyte solved its office Wi-Fi problems
Our team just moved to a larger office with unterminated ethernet cables, no uplink, and no Wi-Fi. Here’s a smorgasbord of suggestions — some well-known and others obscure — that helped me get a reliable network running fast.
Se avete iniziato a giocare prima con le macchine virtuali e poi con i container (e sarebbe ora che lo faceste) sarete arrivati al limite, cioè a Kubernetes, al sistema di orchestrazione degli sciami di container. Che si dice abbia senso solo se gestite cluster di server. Ma non è vero. Forse non lo sapete, ma andare nel cloud anche per un progetto personale che gira su poche macchine, costa veramente poco. Tipo cinque dollari al mese. E funziona che sembra sparato con il cannone.
Money quote: "At the beginning of the year I spent several months deep diving on Kubernetes for a project at work. As an all-inclusive, batteries-included technology for infrastructure management, Kubernetes solves many of the problems you're bound to run into at scale. However popular wisdom would suggest that Kubernetes is an overly complex piece of technology only really suitable for very large clusters of machines; that it carries a large operational burden and that therefore using it for anything less than dozens of machines is overkill.
I think that's probably wrong. Kubernetes makes sense for small projects and you can have your own Kubernetes cluster today for as little as $5 a month."
http://www.doxsey.net/blog/kubernetes--the-surprisingly-affordable-platform-for-personal-projects
Money quote: "At the beginning of the year I spent several months deep diving on Kubernetes for a project at work. As an all-inclusive, batteries-included technology for infrastructure management, Kubernetes solves many of the problems you're bound to run into at scale. However popular wisdom would suggest that Kubernetes is an overly complex piece of technology only really suitable for very large clusters of machines; that it carries a large operational burden and that therefore using it for anything less than dozens of machines is overkill.
I think that's probably wrong. Kubernetes makes sense for small projects and you can have your own Kubernetes cluster today for as little as $5 a month."
http://www.doxsey.net/blog/kubernetes--the-surprisingly-affordable-platform-for-personal-projects
Cara Apple, fammi un MacBook così - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/cara-apple-fammi-un-macbook-cosi/
https://www.macitynet.it/cara-apple-fammi-un-macbook-cosi/
Macitynet.it
Cara Apple, fammi un MacBook così - Macitynet.it
C'è un vuoto nella linea di Apple, che Microsoft cerca di occupare con i nuovi Surface. Ma non ce la farà, se Tim Cook suona la carica (e se Jony Ive non esagera con il design)
Avete presente Street View di Google Maps? Ecco, mettendosi d'impegno e usando centinaia di fotografie trovate non so come, hanno fatto questa fantastica Street View di Manhattan anni Ottanta. Spettacolare!
http://80s.nyc/#show/40.6215/-73.9895
http://80s.nyc/#show/40.6215/-73.9895
80s.nyc
80s.NYC - street view of 1980s New York
Ok, come me, avete lasciato Facebook. Però ci sono problemi a restare fuori, perché tutti gli altri sono dentro. Soprattutto gli sconosciuti. Come fare? Ecco dei suggerimenti per il tossico sulla via della guarigione. (Il mio personale è: esci da Facebook e dimenticalo: Facebook non esiste)
Money quote: "I quit Facebook in 2010 and I’ve never missed it. I text with friends and family I want to keep in touch with. I’ve even started writing letters again.
I have a handful of people I love keeping in touch with, so I just keep in touch with them. I don’t need to use Facebook to do that. I don’t need them to steal any more of my data for the arguable convenience it provides."
https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-quit-facebook-for-good-from-10-people-who-have-76658c8b6ed8
Money quote: "I quit Facebook in 2010 and I’ve never missed it. I text with friends and family I want to keep in touch with. I’ve even started writing letters again.
I have a handful of people I love keeping in touch with, so I just keep in touch with them. I don’t need to use Facebook to do that. I don’t need them to steal any more of my data for the arguable convenience it provides."
https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-quit-facebook-for-good-from-10-people-who-have-76658c8b6ed8
Medium
How to Quit Facebook for Good, From 10 People Who Have
Last Friday, Facebook announced its largest security breach to date, compromising the data of nearly 50 million users. The news broke less than a year after Facebook came under fire for another…
Intervista a Tom Leighton, vincitore del Marconi Prize 2018 - il mio articolo per Wired.it
https://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2018/10/08/akamai-tom-leighton-marconi-prize-2018/
https://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2018/10/08/akamai-tom-leighton-marconi-prize-2018/
Wired
Intervista a Tom Leighton, vincitore del Marconi Prize 2018
Il Ceo di Akamai Tom Leighton, vincitore del Marconi Prize 2018, vede nel futuro della Rete sempre una vittoria delle periferie contro il centro
Self help sentimentale da parte di gente che non fa neanche finta di avere le qualifiche (peraltro inesistenti) per erogarlo. Fantastico. E poi l'argomento: la piramide dei bisogni di Maslow come chiave per la costruzione di una relazione (a senso unico) soddisfacente. C'è dentro tutto, manca forse solo un riferimento esplicito ad Ayn Rand e siamo a posto.
Money quote: "People in a relationship are generally in it for the benefits of having a whole spectrum of their needs fulfilled. Which means, they have to be able to fulfil those needs for each other. Maslow comes to mind with his famous hierarchy of human needs, relatively universal for everyone. The individual ways of fulfilling these, however, changes from one person to another, from a guy to a girl, from a feminine to a masculine type, from an INTP to an ESFJ and so on. As a straight male I can only base my non-scientific expertise on the specimen of women I’ve dated."
https://psiloveyou.xyz/your-partners-needs-according-to-maslow-8a2e5f654d67
Come bonus, ecco donne che stanno accanto/dietro ai loro uomini in maniera patologica.
Money quote: "Brett Kavanaugh’s wife, Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, sits beside her husband in her conservative Sunday best, her hands and ankles crossed demurely, and says pretty much what you’d expect a wife to say when her man is accused of two instances of sexual assault. Kavanaugh, she tells Fox News, is “decent, he’s kind, he’s good,” and she doesn’t need to interrogate him."
https://melmagazine.com/a-brief-history-of-the-wife-standing-by-her-man-interview-94b5e6a0f883
Money quote: "People in a relationship are generally in it for the benefits of having a whole spectrum of their needs fulfilled. Which means, they have to be able to fulfil those needs for each other. Maslow comes to mind with his famous hierarchy of human needs, relatively universal for everyone. The individual ways of fulfilling these, however, changes from one person to another, from a guy to a girl, from a feminine to a masculine type, from an INTP to an ESFJ and so on. As a straight male I can only base my non-scientific expertise on the specimen of women I’ve dated."
https://psiloveyou.xyz/your-partners-needs-according-to-maslow-8a2e5f654d67
Come bonus, ecco donne che stanno accanto/dietro ai loro uomini in maniera patologica.
Money quote: "Brett Kavanaugh’s wife, Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, sits beside her husband in her conservative Sunday best, her hands and ankles crossed demurely, and says pretty much what you’d expect a wife to say when her man is accused of two instances of sexual assault. Kavanaugh, she tells Fox News, is “decent, he’s kind, he’s good,” and she doesn’t need to interrogate him."
https://melmagazine.com/a-brief-history-of-the-wife-standing-by-her-man-interview-94b5e6a0f883
Medium
Your partner’s needs according to Maslow
How to “partner”…
Dopo due decenni passati a maneggiare email, compilare fogli excel e gestire cassetti e filze virtuali piene di documenti di vario genere da spostare, catalogare e archiviare, non posso che essere d'accordo: il computer ci rende sostanzialmente sempre più prigionieri di attività che richiedono meno competenze di quelle che si suppone siano le nostre specifiche attitudini o mansioni.
Money quote: "Deploying a technique called work value analysis, Sassone measured not only the amount of work conducted by his subjects, but also the skill level required for the work. He found that managers and other skilled professionals were spending surprisingly large percentages of their time working on tasks that could be completed by comparably lower-level employees.
He identified several factors that explain this observation, but a major culprit was the rise of “productivity-enhancing” computer systems. This new technology made it possible for managers and professionals to tackle administrative tasks that used to require dedicated support staff.
The positive impact of this change was that companies needed less support staff. The negative impact was that it reduced the ability of managers and professionals to spend concentrated time working on the things they did best."
http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/10/03/on-the-law-of-diminishing-specialization/
Money quote: "Deploying a technique called work value analysis, Sassone measured not only the amount of work conducted by his subjects, but also the skill level required for the work. He found that managers and other skilled professionals were spending surprisingly large percentages of their time working on tasks that could be completed by comparably lower-level employees.
He identified several factors that explain this observation, but a major culprit was the rise of “productivity-enhancing” computer systems. This new technology made it possible for managers and professionals to tackle administrative tasks that used to require dedicated support staff.
The positive impact of this change was that companies needed less support staff. The negative impact was that it reduced the ability of managers and professionals to spend concentrated time working on the things they did best."
http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/10/03/on-the-law-of-diminishing-specialization/
Calnewport
On the Law of Diminishing Specialization - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
On Productive Technology and its Discontents Recently, I've been dipping in and out of Edward Tenner's provocative 1996 book, When Things Bites Back. In following one of Tenner's footnotes I came across a fascinating 1992 academic study from the National…
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Rapporto Auditel - Censis: lo scenario dell'utilizzo dei dispositivi nelle case degli italiani
▶️ https://wp.me/p3bwIx-wKT
▶️ https://wp.me/p3bwIx-wKT
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
$ s/insanity/programming/g
$ s/insanity/programming/g
Forse una delle cose più sensate e intelligenti che potrete leggere sul coding. Ma una breve premessa è d'uopo: l'informatica è molto più che non scrivere codice, e infatti in inglese si distingue bene tra "computer science" come campo complessivo e "coding" come sottoinsieme. Da noi no: vale l'eguaglianza che essere informatici equivalga a scrivere codice, cioè ad fare i programmatori (e gli analisti nel senso che dava Ibm a questo termine ormai passato in cavalleria).
Ecco, all'interno di questa monumentale distorsione, alimentata dal fatto che (più o meno giustamente) la stragrande maggioranza delle persone non ha idea di cosa si parli e di quali siano le differenze in campo, c'è l'ulteriore idea che "scrivere codice sia divertente", cioè "fun" nel senso di sfidante, affascinante, emozionante etc. Se avete letto "Open" di Andre Agassi, uno che dice che per lui il tennis professionistico era tutto tranne che "fun", cominciate a capire di cosa parliamo.
So, dal calo di presenze in questo periodo su "Mostly, I Write" e dal ridotto numero di visualizzazioni che c'è stanchezza. Io continuo a leggere - è il mio lavoro - ma ho deciso di prendere una velocità diversa e limitare a due articoli (di altri) le condivisioni giornaliere, mettendo meno cose di Medium e di altre fonti a pagamento. Continuo a condividere i miei articoli. Però questo è per dire che, se decidete di leggere solo una cosa questa settimana, e amate l'informatica, qui di seguito c'è l'articolo perfetto per voi.
Money quote: "Coding isn’t the only job that demands intense focus. But you’d never hear someone say that brain surgery is ‘fun’, or that structural engineering is ‘easy’. When it comes to programming, why do policymakers and technologists pretend otherwise? For one, it helps lure people to the field at a time when software (in the words of the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen) is ‘eating the world’ – and so, by expanding the labour pool, keeps industry ticking over and wages under control. Another reason is that the very word ‘coding’ sounds routine and repetitive, as though there’s some sort of key that developers apply by rote to crack any given problem. It doesn’t help that Hollywood has cast the ‘coder’ as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male, with the power to thwart the Nazis or penetrate the CIA."
https://aeon.co/ideas/coding-is-not-fun-it-s-technically-and-ethically-complex
Ecco, all'interno di questa monumentale distorsione, alimentata dal fatto che (più o meno giustamente) la stragrande maggioranza delle persone non ha idea di cosa si parli e di quali siano le differenze in campo, c'è l'ulteriore idea che "scrivere codice sia divertente", cioè "fun" nel senso di sfidante, affascinante, emozionante etc. Se avete letto "Open" di Andre Agassi, uno che dice che per lui il tennis professionistico era tutto tranne che "fun", cominciate a capire di cosa parliamo.
So, dal calo di presenze in questo periodo su "Mostly, I Write" e dal ridotto numero di visualizzazioni che c'è stanchezza. Io continuo a leggere - è il mio lavoro - ma ho deciso di prendere una velocità diversa e limitare a due articoli (di altri) le condivisioni giornaliere, mettendo meno cose di Medium e di altre fonti a pagamento. Continuo a condividere i miei articoli. Però questo è per dire che, se decidete di leggere solo una cosa questa settimana, e amate l'informatica, qui di seguito c'è l'articolo perfetto per voi.
Money quote: "Coding isn’t the only job that demands intense focus. But you’d never hear someone say that brain surgery is ‘fun’, or that structural engineering is ‘easy’. When it comes to programming, why do policymakers and technologists pretend otherwise? For one, it helps lure people to the field at a time when software (in the words of the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen) is ‘eating the world’ – and so, by expanding the labour pool, keeps industry ticking over and wages under control. Another reason is that the very word ‘coding’ sounds routine and repetitive, as though there’s some sort of key that developers apply by rote to crack any given problem. It doesn’t help that Hollywood has cast the ‘coder’ as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male, with the power to thwart the Nazis or penetrate the CIA."
https://aeon.co/ideas/coding-is-not-fun-it-s-technically-and-ethically-complex
Aeon
Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex
Coding is seen as fun and glamorous, but that’s a sales pitch. In reality, it’s complicated, both technically and ethically
Bye bye Tsukiji. Il mercato del pesce fresco più grande al mondo, quello di Tokyo, dopo 83 anni ha chiuso.
Money quote: "“I feel so depressed,” said Teruo Watanabe, 78, who has worked as a tuna wholesaler in Tsukiji for 60 years. “I don’t like change.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/world/asia/tokyo-fish-market-tsukiji.html
Money quote: "“I feel so depressed,” said Teruo Watanabe, 78, who has worked as a tuna wholesaler in Tsukiji for 60 years. “I don’t like change.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/world/asia/tokyo-fish-market-tsukiji.html
Nytimes
As Tokyo Fish Market Closes, Sellers and Customers Honor an Era of Grime
Tsukiji, thought to be the world’s largest seafood market, is relocating. On its last day, few welcomed the prospect of an air-conditioned future.