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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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La storia dei Captcha (dietro l'acronimo c'è una dei nomi più assurdi che abbia mai incontrato: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). E cosa significano per l'intelligenzaa artificiale.

Money quote: "Because CAPTCHA is such an elegant tool for training AI, any given test could only ever be temporary, something its inventors acknowledged at the outset. With all those researchers, scammers, and ordinary humans solving billions of puzzles just at the threshold of what AI can do, at some point the machines were going to pass us by. In 2014, Google pitted one of its machine learning algorithms against humans in solving the most distorted text CAPTCHAs: the computer got the test right 99.8 percent of the time, while the humans got a mere 33 percent."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
Silenzio, parla l'hacker

Money quote: "What is it about the computer that makes it become such an obsession for young guys?

Well, it's power at your fingertips. You can control all these computers from the government, from the military, from large corporations. And if you know what you're doing, you can travel through the internet at your will, with no restrictions. That's power; it's a power trip."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/anon.html
Per i più interessati a seguire le mie peripezie giornalistiche, mentre settimana scorsa ero a Shanghai ho continuato a scrivere per CorCom, ma il grande firewall della Cina mi ha impedito di acchiappare le notizie pubblicate e rimetterle qui. Rimedio in giornata, pian piano
Com'è stare a Hong Kong durante i giorni delle proteste.

Money quote: "The time and location of protests are set via social media alchemy; once you get notified about one, you descend through a spotless mall onto a bright and clean train platform, get whisked away by a train that arrives almost immediately, step out into another mall, then finally walk outside into overwhelming heat and a gathering group of demonstrators.

When it’s over, whether the demonstrators have dispersed of their own will, or are running from rubber bullets and tear gas, you duck into another mall, and another train, and within minutes are back in a land of infinite hypercommerce, tiny alleys and posh hotels with their lobby on the 40th floor of a skyscraper."

https://idlewords.com/2019/08/a_walk_in_hong_kong.htm
CloudFlare, cdn tra le più importanti al mondo, offriva da tempo il servizio di dns privato e gratuito con l’app 1.1.1.1 che utilizzo con ottimi risultati. Adesso hanno attivato Warp che è una vpn più dns privato. È come Gmail un sevizio freemium: se usare il mio referral abbiamo più dati protetti al mese.

Ottimo sia su Android che su iOS. Ve lo consiglio.

#1dot1dot1dot1

https://warp.plus/Pqf7
Lo so, siete vecchi come me. E non ne capite niente di TikTok. Con Snapchat ce l'avete fatta, con Twitter ci state dentro, con Facebook vi sentite quasi a vostro agio, ma con TikTok proprio no. Beh, ecco qui la guida buona anche per fare il test Invalsi sui social (scherzo)

https://medium.com/@mattprd/how-tiktok-is-changing-the-world-and-youre-missing-it-fa283338649a
Il sito di Anobii è momentaneamente down per un aggiornamento importante: cerchiamo di far fuori lo spam nei forum (che si è accumulato letteralmente per anni) e dobbiamo creare le pre-condizioni per operare bene e il più velocemente possibile

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2019/09/26/stiamo-aggiornando-i-server-siamo-offline-ancora-per-qualche-ora/
Potrebbe essere un'ottima idea o una tavanata galattica. In ogni caso, ci stanno provando. Ecco "Dark".

Money quote: "Backends today are too complicated to build. Dark is designed to massively reduce that complexity. Dark is a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure for building backends. You write in the Dark language, using the Dark editor, and your program is hosted on Dark’s infrastructure. As a result, you can code without thinking about infrastructure, and have safe instant deployment, which we’re calling “deployless”."

https://medium.com/darklang/unveiling-dark-e0be6f1e0b06