Android senza Google: cosa succederà in Europa - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/amp/221786/mobile/app/2018/10/23/android-senza-google
https://www.wired.it/amp/221786/mobile/app/2018/10/23/android-senza-google
Wired
Android, l’era post Google porterà migliaia di app-clone
Dopo la multa della Ue, Google mette le sue app a pagamento per i produttori che vendono nel Vecchio continente, e probabilmente finirà come in Cina: telefoni Android con decine di store diversi. Quali saranno le opportunità per i consumatori europei?
Le giovani generazioni Z e successive cercano di farsi una ragione che una volta mettessimo i cd vergini nel computer, e masterizzassimo cd audio da sentire tipo in auto o nello stereo di casa (Psst: cd in auto?? nello stereo di casa?? cos'è lo stereo di casa??
Preparatevi a sentirvi molto vecchi (o a condividere le perplessità)
Money quote: "you basically put a blank disk in the cd drive of the computer and add the songs to the disk (like you would add files to a usb drive?)"
https://twitter.com/tamaranians/status/1053838589652623361
Preparatevi a sentirvi molto vecchi (o a condividere le perplessità)
Money quote: "you basically put a blank disk in the cd drive of the computer and add the songs to the disk (like you would add files to a usb drive?)"
https://twitter.com/tamaranians/status/1053838589652623361
Twitter
alyssa
Maybe its just the generation z in me but how did people burn CDs? Like how did you just get a blank CD and put songs on it? https://t.co/EVUVaDX645
Il Narvalo è bellissimo nella sua bruttezza: il corno è un incisivo ipertrofico e arrotolato su se stesso (ha fatto da ispirazione al mito nientemento che degli unicorni). Vive in condizioni proibitive e oggi rischia di estinguersi per il cambiamento climatico in corso e le nuove abitudini di altri, giganteschi esseri di metallo che solcano i mari
Money quote: "Unlike unicorns, narwhals occupy space in the real world. The whales mostly congregate in Arctic waters around Greenland, Russia, and northern Canada, where they're known to dive nearly a mile deep, and surface for air in between fractured ice. But today, their landscape is changing.
In recent years, as their native waters have warmed and ice cover has shrunk, ship traffic has increased in the region. "
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/narwhals-endangered-by-ships
Money quote: "Unlike unicorns, narwhals occupy space in the real world. The whales mostly congregate in Arctic waters around Greenland, Russia, and northern Canada, where they're known to dive nearly a mile deep, and surface for air in between fractured ice. But today, their landscape is changing.
In recent years, as their native waters have warmed and ice cover has shrunk, ship traffic has increased in the region. "
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/narwhals-endangered-by-ships
Atlas Obscura
Narwhals Are Real, And They Could Be in Real Trouble
As Arctic waters warm, shipping traffic is rapidly increasing in their favored habitats.
Questo qui sarà anche un professore di filosofia in una prestigiosa università anglosassone etc etc, ma i suoi argomenti mi convincono molto, molto poco. A partire dall'idea che il motore delle automobili sia stato progettato per funzionare a benzina
Money quote: "An Aristotelian account comes to this: foods similar to the foods that our ancestors ate in their natural environments are the foods that we are designed to flourish on. When we deviate from design, we run risks. Eating naturally is eating what we’ve been designed to eat, just like a car that is designed to run on gasoline, not diesel or oil. The question is: who or what designed us for the natural foods that fuel us? Neither Aristotle nor most of those deeply beholden to him in the succeeding ages could answer detailed questions about that, from a scientific standpoint. It took Charles Darwin in the 19th century to introduce those answers.
Darwin would say that our ancestors, who managed to make good use of the foods available in their environment, survived to pass on their genes to us. They were naturally ‘selected’ for preservation. As their descendants, we inherit their body type, which does well eating those same types of foods. Not everyone around at the same time as our ancestors had bodies like theirs, of course. Those who found the available food indigestible were poorly nourished, so they couldn’t flourish. They couldn’t pass on their own body type to a line of descendants who would last until today for anyone to inherit that body type. Gradually, selection designed bodies to make good use of the natural foods available."
https://aeon.co/essays/is-eating-natural-food-the-same-as-eating-whats-healthy
Money quote: "An Aristotelian account comes to this: foods similar to the foods that our ancestors ate in their natural environments are the foods that we are designed to flourish on. When we deviate from design, we run risks. Eating naturally is eating what we’ve been designed to eat, just like a car that is designed to run on gasoline, not diesel or oil. The question is: who or what designed us for the natural foods that fuel us? Neither Aristotle nor most of those deeply beholden to him in the succeeding ages could answer detailed questions about that, from a scientific standpoint. It took Charles Darwin in the 19th century to introduce those answers.
Darwin would say that our ancestors, who managed to make good use of the foods available in their environment, survived to pass on their genes to us. They were naturally ‘selected’ for preservation. As their descendants, we inherit their body type, which does well eating those same types of foods. Not everyone around at the same time as our ancestors had bodies like theirs, of course. Those who found the available food indigestible were poorly nourished, so they couldn’t flourish. They couldn’t pass on their own body type to a line of descendants who would last until today for anyone to inherit that body type. Gradually, selection designed bodies to make good use of the natural foods available."
https://aeon.co/essays/is-eating-natural-food-the-same-as-eating-whats-healthy
Aeon
What are natural foods?
The glass of orange juice at the breakfast table tells a tale about what’s natural, what’s whole and what’s healthy for us
Cosa può succedere a chi è stato coinvolto nel furto di dati su Facebook - il mio articolo per La Stampa (Premium)
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/24/tecnologia/cosa-pu-succedere-a-chi-stato-coinvolto-nel-furto-di-dati-su-facebook-JzxrrrCUGys9HwgBeOwKVL/premium.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/24/tecnologia/cosa-pu-succedere-a-chi-stato-coinvolto-nel-furto-di-dati-su-facebook-JzxrrrCUGys9HwgBeOwKVL/premium.html
La Stampa
Cosa può succedere a chi è stato coinvolto nel furto di dati su Facebook
Non sono stati hacker al servizio di qualche potenza internazionale, ma spammer e ladri di identità digitale quelli che hanno rubato informazioni personali di 30 milioni di iscritti a Facebook. Serviranno per truffe digitali e cyberestorsioni che andranno…
Trasferimento di potere. Per chi si occupa di storia e soprattutto di antropologia applicata alla computer science e sta indagando l'open source: come funziona la creazione di progetti ampi come ad esempio Linux o Apache? C'è un esercito di sviluppatori coordinati da una figura che si chiama "Benevolent Dictator For Life" o BDFL in inglese, cioè Benevolo Dittatore a Vita. Ce ne sono pochissimi, tipo Linus Torvalds, ma il loro ruolo è centrale. I grandi progetti di software open source non sono democrazie. Guido van Rossum, olandese classe 1956, è il BDFL di Python. O meglio, lo era. Perché ha da poco salutato tutti e lasciato il suo ruolo, senza il casino sollevato dal "volontario esilio: vado mi curo e torno" di Torvalds.
La mossa di van Rossum invece è spiegata bene nella sua mail, e potrebbe interessare quegli storici o antropologhi che studiano l'open source di cui sopra.
Money quote: "Now that PEP 572 is done, I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.
I would like to remove myself entirely from the decision process. I'll
still be there for a while as an ordinary core dev, and I'll still be
available to mentor people -- possibly more available. But I'm basically
giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on
your own."
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-July/005664.html
La mossa di van Rossum invece è spiegata bene nella sua mail, e potrebbe interessare quegli storici o antropologhi che studiano l'open source di cui sopra.
Money quote: "Now that PEP 572 is done, I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.
I would like to remove myself entirely from the decision process. I'll
still be there for a while as an ordinary core dev, and I'll still be
available to mentor people -- possibly more available. But I'm basically
giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on
your own."
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-July/005664.html
Ok, stiamo lavorando all'idea di trattare gli elefanti come persone: la quantità e complessità di materia grigia e sistema nervoso è quella. Mancano degli sviluppi importanti, ma c'è chi ci pensa. Perché?, direte voi. Boh, rispondo io, dopo aver letto l'articolo. Però, insomma: pensateci. Un elefante senziente nel senso morale ed etico che diamo alla parola. Altro che il solito pianeta delle scimmie, no?
Money quote: "However, if elephants do have all the raw mental material it takes to be persons, a time could come in the near future when we might draw them into a more expansive kind of personhood. The behavioural economics experiments that a colleague and I are planning to run with a group of semi-wild, female elephants in South Africa should begin to test the plausibility of this arresting speculation.
The idea of according elephants the status of persons might seem ridiculous, or naively romantic, or both. But there are sound reasons for taking it seriously, and I think these reasons are both scientifically and morally important. "
https://aeon.co/essays/if-elephants-arent-persons-yet-could-they-be-one-day
Money quote: "However, if elephants do have all the raw mental material it takes to be persons, a time could come in the near future when we might draw them into a more expansive kind of personhood. The behavioural economics experiments that a colleague and I are planning to run with a group of semi-wild, female elephants in South Africa should begin to test the plausibility of this arresting speculation.
The idea of according elephants the status of persons might seem ridiculous, or naively romantic, or both. But there are sound reasons for taking it seriously, and I think these reasons are both scientifically and morally important. "
https://aeon.co/essays/if-elephants-arent-persons-yet-could-they-be-one-day
Aeon
The elephant as a person
Elephants might have the necessary capacities for personhood – we just need to help them acquire the cognitive scaffolding
Apple e la privacy, una storia che viene da lontano - il mio articolo per Il Sole 24 Ore.
Money quote: "La domanda retorica che Cook si pone e pone ai suoi ascoltatori di Bruxelles (ma indirettamente a noi, visto che l'uomo è perfettamente consapevole di quanto i media tradizionali e digitali amplifichino i suoi messaggi, sopratutto quelli più politici) è in realtà la chiave per leggere il Cook-pensiero, evoluzione e diversificazione non solo dalla visione del futuro minimalista e iper-lucida di Steve Jobs, ma anche dal pensare comune tra i big della Silicon Valley, abitata dai “vecchi” digerati della generazione di Bill Gates e Larry Ellison, ma anche dalla Generazione X di Larry Page e Sergei Brin, e dai giovani Generazione Z come Mark Zuckerberg. Ma andiamo con ordine."
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-10-25/apple-e-privacy-storia-che-viene-lontano-071050.shtml?uuid=AEsAEMVG
Money quote: "La domanda retorica che Cook si pone e pone ai suoi ascoltatori di Bruxelles (ma indirettamente a noi, visto che l'uomo è perfettamente consapevole di quanto i media tradizionali e digitali amplifichino i suoi messaggi, sopratutto quelli più politici) è in realtà la chiave per leggere il Cook-pensiero, evoluzione e diversificazione non solo dalla visione del futuro minimalista e iper-lucida di Steve Jobs, ma anche dal pensare comune tra i big della Silicon Valley, abitata dai “vecchi” digerati della generazione di Bill Gates e Larry Ellison, ma anche dalla Generazione X di Larry Page e Sergei Brin, e dai giovani Generazione Z come Mark Zuckerberg. Ma andiamo con ordine."
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-10-25/apple-e-privacy-storia-che-viene-lontano-071050.shtml?uuid=AEsAEMVG
Il Sole 24 ORE
Apple e la privacy, una storia che viene da lontano
Seguire la guida dell'Unione Europa per la privacy, tracciata nella Gdpr. Opporsi al “complesso industriale per i dati”, contro la trasformazione
Era un campo di concentramento per prigionieri civili giapponesi-americani negli Stati Uniti. Una delle varie pagine vergognose della storia americana. Oggi è diventato un museo. Se vi capita, pare sia veramente interessante da visitare.
Money quote: "Life in the camps was harsh. When internees began arriving, the structures in the camps were still under construction. The shoddily built barracks let in drafts of dust during the summers and snow during the winters. At Topaz, temperatures in the summers frequently exceeded 100°F and in the winters the average temperature was below freezing. To speed up construction of the camp, internees were connoscripted to work on the buildings. No furniture was provided, so they had to fashion their own with scraps of wood the army threw out. The perimeter of the camp was lined with a barbed wire fence and guard towers."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/topaz-museum
Money quote: "Life in the camps was harsh. When internees began arriving, the structures in the camps were still under construction. The shoddily built barracks let in drafts of dust during the summers and snow during the winters. At Topaz, temperatures in the summers frequently exceeded 100°F and in the winters the average temperature was below freezing. To speed up construction of the camp, internees were connoscripted to work on the buildings. No furniture was provided, so they had to fashion their own with scraps of wood the army threw out. The perimeter of the camp was lined with a barbed wire fence and guard towers."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/topaz-museum
Atlas Obscura
Topaz Museum
A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.
Sono affascinato dalle collezioni "strane". Ma in questo caso è pazzesco. E Metal Gear Solid non è neanche uno dei miei videogiochi preferiti...
Money quote: "I ask Bayu what the most important item in his vast collection is to him. "It has to be the life-sized, wearable Ludens suit," he says. "Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa both signed it, and Shinkawa even sketched Ludens on the shoulder armour. This is probably the only suit like this in the world!""
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-guys-metal-gear-solid-collection-is-incredible/
Money quote: "I ask Bayu what the most important item in his vast collection is to him. "It has to be the life-sized, wearable Ludens suit," he says. "Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa both signed it, and Shinkawa even sketched Ludens on the shoulder armour. This is probably the only suit like this in the world!""
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-guys-metal-gear-solid-collection-is-incredible/
PC Gamer
This guy's Metal Gear Solid collection is incredible
Inside one superfan's shrine to Hideo Kojima.
Per me, che vado in giro con la tag del frequent flyer di Cathay Pacific (il mitico Marco Polo Club) attaccata alla valigia, è uno schiaffo anche nell'orgoglio. Probabilmente avranno anche i miei dati, chissà. La cosa fastidiosa è che non c'è modo di saperlo, perché non c'è un modo per verificarlo.
Money quote: "Cathay Pacific, one of the main airlines in Hong Kong, says records on as many as 9.4 million passengers may have been stolen in a data breach.
The airline said in a statement Wednesday that there was “no evidence” that passenger data had been misused, but warned that passenger names, dates of birth, nationalities, phone numbers, email and postal addresses, and passport and identity card numbers may have been taken. Historical travel information and remarks made by customer service was also accessed."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/cathay-pacific-passenger-data-stolen-breach/
Money quote: "Cathay Pacific, one of the main airlines in Hong Kong, says records on as many as 9.4 million passengers may have been stolen in a data breach.
The airline said in a statement Wednesday that there was “no evidence” that passenger data had been misused, but warned that passenger names, dates of birth, nationalities, phone numbers, email and postal addresses, and passport and identity card numbers may have been taken. Historical travel information and remarks made by customer service was also accessed."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/cathay-pacific-passenger-data-stolen-breach/
Se fate la startup è facile che pensate al settore del B2C, dei prodotti per i consumatori. Invece, dovreste pensare meglio e farla per il settore B2B, i prodotti per le aziende. Le probabilità che ci riusciate sono enormemente maggiori.
Money quote: "B2B, however, is in your own control. The problems are known. You can just ask businesses what their problems are and make products to solve them."
https://www.atrium.co/blog/b2b-vs-b2c/
Money quote: "B2B, however, is in your own control. The problems are known. You can just ask businesses what their problems are and make products to solve them."
https://www.atrium.co/blog/b2b-vs-b2c/
Tutto sui trend digitali della Nigeria (interessante)
https://terragongroup.com/insight/digital-trends-for-nigeria-in-2018/
https://terragongroup.com/insight/digital-trends-for-nigeria-in-2018/
2001 Odissea nello spazio, spiegata bene (da Jack Kirby) - Cose scritte un po’ di tempo fa per Fumettologica
https://www.google.com/amp/www.fumettologica.it/2017/09/2001-odissea-nello-spazio-jack-kirby/
https://www.google.com/amp/www.fumettologica.it/2017/09/2001-odissea-nello-spazio-jack-kirby/
Fumettologica
2001 Odissea nello spazio, spiegata bene (da Jack Kirby) - Fumettologica
Non tutti lo sanno, ma Jack Kirby adattò a fumetti il monumentale film 2001 Odissea nello spazio girato da Stanley Kubrick.
È un articolo strano. La premessa è ovvia e più che condivisibile, almeno dal mio punto di vista. E anche il fatto che sia una delle cose più difficili da fare: eliminare il superfluo, essere e non avere, fare di più con meno.
Mi interessava il ragionamento, però. E lui fa un giro lungo e sinceramente poco condivisibile (perché le persone non sono aziende, perché le leggi dell'economia sono leggi sociali applicate ai mezzi di produzione e non alle persone, etc) per arrivare però a conclusioni sensate. Strano. Si fa leggere, però.
Money quote: "Being forced to work on a single monitor led to the discovery of something I hadn’t questioned before: do I really needed two monitors to get stuff done? Or, instead, was a lot easier to work on a single monitor?"
https://medium.com/@dsilvestre/simplify-life-what-can-you-remove-b4bd8b050197
Mi interessava il ragionamento, però. E lui fa un giro lungo e sinceramente poco condivisibile (perché le persone non sono aziende, perché le leggi dell'economia sono leggi sociali applicate ai mezzi di produzione e non alle persone, etc) per arrivare però a conclusioni sensate. Strano. Si fa leggere, però.
Money quote: "Being forced to work on a single monitor led to the discovery of something I hadn’t questioned before: do I really needed two monitors to get stuff done? Or, instead, was a lot easier to work on a single monitor?"
https://medium.com/@dsilvestre/simplify-life-what-can-you-remove-b4bd8b050197
Medium
Simplify Life: What Can You Remove?
To simplify life, think subtraction, not addition. When you consistently question what you can remove, you design a simple and happy life.
Anche se stai andando bene, forse non stai facendo giusto. Occhio.
Money quote: "Throughout my career — whether this business or another — fulfillment eluded me, and I couldn’t figure out why. Neither money, nor accolades signified a cure. Take a look at the laundry-list of painfully successful individuals that slip into deep depression and you’ll understand it’s a harder code to crack than meets the eye.
I was bound to be a part of this group if I didn't figure it out (by no means am I immune to reverting back, but I feel pretty good about what I’m about to tell you). It didn’t matter how big the business got — the more it grew, the less responsible I felt."
https://psiloveyou.xyz/whats-even-better-than-happiness-69cc53c16aa6
Money quote: "Throughout my career — whether this business or another — fulfillment eluded me, and I couldn’t figure out why. Neither money, nor accolades signified a cure. Take a look at the laundry-list of painfully successful individuals that slip into deep depression and you’ll understand it’s a harder code to crack than meets the eye.
I was bound to be a part of this group if I didn't figure it out (by no means am I immune to reverting back, but I feel pretty good about what I’m about to tell you). It didn’t matter how big the business got — the more it grew, the less responsible I felt."
https://psiloveyou.xyz/whats-even-better-than-happiness-69cc53c16aa6
P.S. I Love You
What’s Even Better Than Happiness
A short expression of a monumental actualization.
La storia delle palme di Los Angeles è pazzesca e meravigliosa al tempo stesso. Oltre che totalmente artificiale. Vivamente consigliata. Buona domenica.
Money quote: "Palms, though they weren’t native to the Riviera, became indelibly associated with it. And the American developers eyeing Southern California got some ideas. Hey, they thought. This big chunk of desert-y scrubland we own is not that dissimilar from the Mediterranean sites of the Riviera. What if we took a page from their book, and started branding Los Angeles?"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-are-there-palm-trees-in-los-angeles
Money quote: "Palms, though they weren’t native to the Riviera, became indelibly associated with it. And the American developers eyeing Southern California got some ideas. Hey, they thought. This big chunk of desert-y scrubland we own is not that dissimilar from the Mediterranean sites of the Riviera. What if we took a page from their book, and started branding Los Angeles?"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-are-there-palm-trees-in-los-angeles
Atlas Obscura
Why Are There Palm Trees in Los Angeles?
Turns out it's an image thing.
Il browser text based e moderno è qua
Money quote: "Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs."
https://www.brow.sh/
Money quote: "Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs."
https://www.brow.sh/
Browsh
A fully interactive, realtime and modern browser rendered to TTY
Svelato il OnePlus 6T, lo smartphone migliora con la community - il mio articolo per il Sole 24 Ore da New York
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-10-29/svelato-oneplus-6t-smartphone-migliora-la-community--170931.shtml?uuid=AEvQycXG
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-10-29/svelato-oneplus-6t-smartphone-migliora-la-community--170931.shtml?uuid=AEvQycXG
Il Sole 24 ORE
Svelato il OnePlus 6T, lo smartphone migliora con la community
OnePlus, ha presentato il suo ultimo telefono, lo OnePlus 6T con schermo amoled da 6,41 pollici e sblocco dello schermo con impronta digitale sotto lo schermo. Look minimalista, design coerente, tecnologie innovative e soprattutto una community che sta crescendo…
C'è gente strana su questo pianeta. Come il tizio (peraltro morto d'infarto) che ha scavato per 23 anni sotto casa sua, in Armenia, riportando alla luce un tempio.
Money quote: "Over the course of the 23 years that he spent digging his unique underground temple, Levon Arakelyan pulled out an estimated 450 truckloads of rubble, exclusively by metal bucket. He gave it all to a local company which used it in various construction projects.
Levon worked on his magnus opus until the day he died, in 2008, at the age of 67. He succumbed to a heart attack, but his wife believes it was the work and lack of rest that killed him."
Money quote2: "Levon Arakelyan’s 23-year-project is now the main tourist attraction in Arinj."
http://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/man-spends-23-years-carving-sprawling-underground-temple-under-his-house.html
Money quote: "Over the course of the 23 years that he spent digging his unique underground temple, Levon Arakelyan pulled out an estimated 450 truckloads of rubble, exclusively by metal bucket. He gave it all to a local company which used it in various construction projects.
Levon worked on his magnus opus until the day he died, in 2008, at the age of 67. He succumbed to a heart attack, but his wife believes it was the work and lack of rest that killed him."
Money quote2: "Levon Arakelyan’s 23-year-project is now the main tourist attraction in Arinj."
http://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/man-spends-23-years-carving-sprawling-underground-temple-under-his-house.html
Oddity Central
Man Spends 23 Years Carving Sprawling Underground Temple Under His House
Levon Arakelyan, an Armenian builder, spent 23 years digging an underground temple under his house after his wife asked him to dig a storage pit for potatoes.