Siamo destinati alla estinzione. E probabilmente ce lo meritiamo. Perlomeno, i negazionisti del caldo e del colpo di sole sicuramente si. Che brutta gente.
Money quote: "Si generas callo solar puedes recibir el sol sin problemas como todos los animales de la tierra. No hay un solo animal al que el sol le haga daño y ninguno utiliza protector solar. El sol no causa cáncer, nunca lo ha causado y nunca lo causará"
https://elpais.com/smoda/bienestar/2024-08-13/el-callo-solar-no-existe-los-peligros-de-la-tendencia-viral-que-invita-a-tomar-el-sol-sin-proteccion.html
Money quote: "Si generas callo solar puedes recibir el sol sin problemas como todos los animales de la tierra. No hay un solo animal al que el sol le haga daño y ninguno utiliza protector solar. El sol no causa cáncer, nunca lo ha causado y nunca lo causará"
https://elpais.com/smoda/bienestar/2024-08-13/el-callo-solar-no-existe-los-peligros-de-la-tendencia-viral-que-invita-a-tomar-el-sol-sin-proteccion.html
El País
El callo solar no existe: los peligros de la tendencia viral que invita a tomar el sol sin protección
Una nueva tendencia negacionista anima a tomar el sol de manera progresiva y sin protección para que la piel genere resistencia de forma natural. ¿El objetivo? Obtener el nivel máximo de bronceado sin riesgos. Expertos aclaran el fenómeno.
In effetti quasi dimenticavo di diverlo. C'era chi temeva che Mostly Weekly andasse in vacanza, ad agosto. Ma no, è sempre qui con voi. Domenica scorsa abbiamo parlato di identità e filtri, per esempio. E molte altre cose. Se volete, potete abbonarvi, tanto la mia newsletter è gratuita.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/284/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/284/
Mostly Here
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Archiviamoci sì, ma in luogo di mare
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Ci sono quelli che gestiscono le loro famiglie come se fossero aziende: software, criteri e logiche di funzionamento: da Slack ai calendari su Google. Sembra folle a chi ha un'età, ma invece potrebbe avere molto, molto senso. Una sorta di "consumerization" al contrario: una "enterprisation"?
Money quote: "Priti, 46, says that she and her husband communicate about all home logistics through the project-management tool Trello. Stevie, 37, and her husband, Shawn, use Discord to talk about anything family-related: They have a channel for chores, grocery lists, each child’s medical info, date-night ideas, and even family values (also an intriguing one named #rats). Nedra uses OurFamilyWizard for messaging, shared expenses, updates, and tracking custodial days across two households, while other co-parents told me they are helped by Maia, Splitwise, and Skylight."
https://www.romper.com/life/marriage-slack-asana-trello
Money quote: "Priti, 46, says that she and her husband communicate about all home logistics through the project-management tool Trello. Stevie, 37, and her husband, Shawn, use Discord to talk about anything family-related: They have a channel for chores, grocery lists, each child’s medical info, date-night ideas, and even family values (also an intriguing one named #rats). Nedra uses OurFamilyWizard for messaging, shared expenses, updates, and tracking custodial days across two households, while other co-parents told me they are helped by Maia, Splitwise, and Skylight."
https://www.romper.com/life/marriage-slack-asana-trello
Romper
The Couples Who Run Their Families Like A Corporation
Are Slack and a shared Google calendar the secret to managing the mental load of parenting?
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"Alien: Romulus", la mia recensione di un film che secondo me lascia una traccia. Di sangue sul muro, direi.
Lo spiego meglio (anzi, lo spiego bene) su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/08/alien-romulus-recensione-film/
Lo spiego meglio (anzi, lo spiego bene) su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/08/alien-romulus-recensione-film/
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Personalmente non foro i paywall altrui e casomai cerco articoli archiviati altrove per il pubblico interesse. Ma nella infosfera anglofona ci sono vari tentativi di farlo. Questa estensione per Chrome (che non uso: né l'estensione mé Chrome) è uno dei più efficaci, mi dicono.
Money quote: "Extension allows you to read articles from (supported) sites that implement a paywall. You can also add a domain as custom site and try to bypass the paywall. Weekly updates are released for fixes and new sites."
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Money quote: "Extension allows you to read articles from (supported) sites that implement a paywall. You can also add a domain as custom site and try to bypass the paywall. Weekly updates are released for fixes and new sites."
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
GitHub
GitHub - bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Contribute to bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Science Projects
I lavori scientifici attorno agli LLM e a GPT sono spesso interessanti. Questo si interroga se gli LLM siano un simulatore di mondi basato sulle parole affidabile (avete capito cosa voglio dire, vero?)
Money quote: "Virtual environments play a key role in benchmarking advances in complex planning and decision-making tasks but are expensive and complicated to build by hand. Can current language models themselves serve as world simulators, correctly predicting how actions change different world states, thus bypassing the need for extensive manual coding? Our goal is to answer this question in the context of text-based simulators. Our approach is to build and use a new benchmark, called ByteSized32-State-Prediction, containing a dataset of text game state transitions and accompanying game tasks. We use this to directly quantify, for the first time, how well LLMs can serve as text-based world simulators. We test GPT-4 on this dataset and find that, despite its impressive performance, it is still an unreliable world simulator without further innovations. This work thus contributes both new insights into current LLM's capabilities and weaknesses, as well as a novel benchmark to track future progress as new models appear."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06485
I lavori scientifici attorno agli LLM e a GPT sono spesso interessanti. Questo si interroga se gli LLM siano un simulatore di mondi basato sulle parole affidabile (avete capito cosa voglio dire, vero?)
Money quote: "Virtual environments play a key role in benchmarking advances in complex planning and decision-making tasks but are expensive and complicated to build by hand. Can current language models themselves serve as world simulators, correctly predicting how actions change different world states, thus bypassing the need for extensive manual coding? Our goal is to answer this question in the context of text-based simulators. Our approach is to build and use a new benchmark, called ByteSized32-State-Prediction, containing a dataset of text game state transitions and accompanying game tasks. We use this to directly quantify, for the first time, how well LLMs can serve as text-based world simulators. We test GPT-4 on this dataset and find that, despite its impressive performance, it is still an unreliable world simulator without further innovations. This work thus contributes both new insights into current LLM's capabilities and weaknesses, as well as a novel benchmark to track future progress as new models appear."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06485
arXiv.org
Can Language Models Serve as Text-Based World Simulators?
Virtual environments play a key role in benchmarking advances in complex planning and decision-making tasks but are expensive and complicated to build by hand. Can current language models...
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Ti fanno ceo di un'azienda perché hai idee strategiche fuori dal comune, recitano i manuali di management, che evidentemente ha letto anche lui. Forse per questo Hanneke Faber, amministratore delegato di Logitech, ha recentemente discusso della possibilità di vendere un giorno un mouse che i clienti possano utilizzare "per sempre". Il dirigente ha dichiarato che un mouse di questo tipo non è "necessariamente molto lontano" e si baserà su aggiornamenti software, probabilmente forniti attraverso un modello di abbonamento.
Money quote: "To be clear, Logitech hasn't announced concrete plans to release such a product. But Faber seemed optimistic about the idea of a mouse that people never need to replace. The challenge, she admitted, is finding a business model that supports that idea without requiring an exorbitant hardware price. "Our stuff will have to change, but does the hardware have to change?" she asked. "I’m not so sure. We’ll have to obviously fix it and figure out what that business model is. We’re not at the forever mouse today, but I’m intrigued by the thought.""
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subnoscription/
Money quote: "To be clear, Logitech hasn't announced concrete plans to release such a product. But Faber seemed optimistic about the idea of a mouse that people never need to replace. The challenge, she admitted, is finding a business model that supports that idea without requiring an exorbitant hardware price. "Our stuff will have to change, but does the hardware have to change?" she asked. "I’m not so sure. We’ll have to obviously fix it and figure out what that business model is. We’re not at the forever mouse today, but I’m intrigued by the thought.""
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subnoscription/
Ars Technica
Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subnoscription
Exec says mouse that requires a regular fee for software updates is possible.
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La calda estate di Mostly Weekly. Prima e dopo Ferragosto, sempre avanti tra Kowloon e la cattiveria dell'AI.
Leggete la newsletter online oppure abbonatevi. È gratuita.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/285/
Leggete la newsletter online oppure abbonatevi. È gratuita.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/285/
Mostly Here
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Alle porte di Hong Kong la città murata di Kowloon
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Letture per la domenica
Ce l'ho aperto nel browser da tempo e mi incanta ogni giorno. È una sezione animata di Kowloon, la walled-city accanto ad Hong Kong. Ho letto libri, fumetti e decine di altre cose su Kowloon. Ho visitato il giardino che ne rimane. E sono sempre sotto shock quando ci penso.
Money quote: "Learning about the strange and extraordinary story of Kowloon Walled City feels like it was a rite of passage for my particular flavor of Internet nerd during the late oughts. It lurks in various footnotes as a trivia item, but these fail to convey its truly staggering scope. At its height, its roughly 35,000 inhabitants lived in what is almost certainly the most densely populated living arrangement that human beings have ever experienced in all our history, with about 1.3 human beings per square meter of a surveyor's map. That's over 115 times as dense as habitation in present-day New York City. That's about 29 times as dense as Manila, the world's most densely populated city at the time of this writing."
https://cohost.org/belarius/post/6677850-architectural-cross
I riferimenti sono a questo libro (nel sito ci sono altre immagini favolose)
https://www.spoon-tamago.com/detailed-cross-section-of-the-kowloon-walled-city-created-by-japanese-researchers/
Il libro di fotografie "City of Darkness" è un capolavoro
https://www.greggirardpictures.com/product/city-of-darkness-revisited-with-slipcase
L'ultimo fumetto a Kowloon
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Generic_Romance
Ce l'ho aperto nel browser da tempo e mi incanta ogni giorno. È una sezione animata di Kowloon, la walled-city accanto ad Hong Kong. Ho letto libri, fumetti e decine di altre cose su Kowloon. Ho visitato il giardino che ne rimane. E sono sempre sotto shock quando ci penso.
Money quote: "Learning about the strange and extraordinary story of Kowloon Walled City feels like it was a rite of passage for my particular flavor of Internet nerd during the late oughts. It lurks in various footnotes as a trivia item, but these fail to convey its truly staggering scope. At its height, its roughly 35,000 inhabitants lived in what is almost certainly the most densely populated living arrangement that human beings have ever experienced in all our history, with about 1.3 human beings per square meter of a surveyor's map. That's over 115 times as dense as habitation in present-day New York City. That's about 29 times as dense as Manila, the world's most densely populated city at the time of this writing."
https://cohost.org/belarius/post/6677850-architectural-cross
I riferimenti sono a questo libro (nel sito ci sono altre immagini favolose)
https://www.spoon-tamago.com/detailed-cross-section-of-the-kowloon-walled-city-created-by-japanese-researchers/
Il libro di fotografie "City of Darkness" è un capolavoro
https://www.greggirardpictures.com/product/city-of-darkness-revisited-with-slipcase
L'ultimo fumetto a Kowloon
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Generic_Romance
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Software Monday
Una introduzione al concetto di Local-first software, un'idea della quale ho anche parlato nella mia newsletter poche settimane fa. Non si tratta di software no-cloud, ma di software che sono locali prima e cloud dopo, se serve.
Money quote: "Cloud apps like Google Docs and Trello are popular because they enable real-time collaboration with colleagues, and they make it easy for us to access our work from all of our devices. However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost.
In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data."
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/282/
Una introduzione al concetto di Local-first software, un'idea della quale ho anche parlato nella mia newsletter poche settimane fa. Non si tratta di software no-cloud, ma di software che sono locali prima e cloud dopo, se serve.
Money quote: "Cloud apps like Google Docs and Trello are popular because they enable real-time collaboration with colleagues, and they make it easy for us to access our work from all of our devices. However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost.
In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data."
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/282/
Inkandswitch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Viviamo tempi interessanti. Questa notizia, di un mese fa, ad esempio, sposa tre livelli diversi e li mette tutti assieme. Chissà quali saranno i risultati, se mai ne vedremo. Comunque, l'educazione e l'AI sono una cosa che in un modo o in un altro succederà per forza.
Money quote: "Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of experience at ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Tesla, opens new tab.
Education platforms have taken advantage of the boom in generative artificial intelligence since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 to improve and create digital learning content.
A teacher would design courses on the Eureka Labs platform, but they would be aided by an AI teaching assistant to guide students through the learning material, Karpathy said in a post on X."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/former-openai-tesla-engineer-andrej-karpathy-starts-ai-education-platform-2024-07-16/
Money quote: "Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of experience at ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Tesla, opens new tab.
Education platforms have taken advantage of the boom in generative artificial intelligence since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 to improve and create digital learning content.
A teacher would design courses on the Eureka Labs platform, but they would be aided by an AI teaching assistant to guide students through the learning material, Karpathy said in a post on X."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/former-openai-tesla-engineer-andrej-karpathy-starts-ai-education-platform-2024-07-16/
Reuters
Former OpenAI, Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy starts AI education platform
Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of experience at ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Tesla .
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Hobby estivi. Io leggo e scrivo con i miei tempi e le cose che voglio io. Altri costruiscono una Wii grande come un portachiavi. È l'estate, baby.
Money quote: "Last summer, while Wesk was developing the Final Destination OMEGA, he and I discussed creating a Wii micro build even smaller than the GC Nano.
The first build to ever FULLY utilize the OMEGA trim. The smallest functional Wii ever made, barely larger than the outline of the OMEGA trim itself. A literal keychain Wii!"
https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6474/
Money quote: "Last summer, while Wesk was developing the Final Destination OMEGA, he and I discussed creating a Wii micro build even smaller than the GC Nano.
The first build to ever FULLY utilize the OMEGA trim. The smallest functional Wii ever made, barely larger than the outline of the OMEGA trim itself. A literal keychain Wii!"
https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6474/
BitBuilt - Giving Life to Old Consoles
Worklog - Kawaii
A @Wesk and Yveltal collaboration!
Last summer, while Wesk was developing the Final Destination OMEGA, he and I discussed creating a Wii micro build even smaller than the GC Nano.
The first...
Last summer, while Wesk was developing the Final Destination OMEGA, he and I discussed creating a Wii micro build even smaller than the GC Nano.
The first...
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Le bestioline di Hayao Miyazaki: decine e decine di tipologie diverse di cosette e cosine che popolano i suoi film. questa è una guida piuttosto completa.
Money quote: "With so many weird little guys running around Miyazaki’s filmography, it seems time to honor and celebrate them. Not every creature in a Miyazaki movie is a weird little guy. We love Totoros of all sizes and we had a fox-squirrel pet of our own, like Nausicaä’s Teto. But those are individual creatures. A key aspect of Miyazaki’s weird little guys is how numerous they are. They’re a swarm, frequently providing little moments of comic relief as they move coal or swim through the sea. Their designs are quite simple, but their meaning frequently is not."
https://www.vulture.com/article/miyazaki-weird-little-guys.html
Money quote: "With so many weird little guys running around Miyazaki’s filmography, it seems time to honor and celebrate them. Not every creature in a Miyazaki movie is a weird little guy. We love Totoros of all sizes and we had a fox-squirrel pet of our own, like Nausicaä’s Teto. But those are individual creatures. A key aspect of Miyazaki’s weird little guys is how numerous they are. They’re a swarm, frequently providing little moments of comic relief as they move coal or swim through the sea. Their designs are quite simple, but their meaning frequently is not."
https://www.vulture.com/article/miyazaki-weird-little-guys.html
VULTURE
A Guide to Miyazaki’s Weird Little Guys
Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, such as “The Boy and the Heron,” are full of strange li’l creatures. Get to know your soot sprites from your kodama from your warawara.
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Julia Evans ha fatto un'altra delle sue fantastiche Wizard Zines, questa volta dedicata a Git: "How Git Works!"
Money quote:
I wrote this zine for people who have been using git for years and are still afraid of it. As always – I think it sucks to be afraid of the tools that you use in your work every day! I want folks to feel confident using git.
My goals are:
- To explain how some parts of git that initially seem scary (like “detached HEAD state”) are pretty straightforward to deal with once you understand what’s going on
- To show some parts of git you probably should be careful around. For example, the stash is one of the places in git where it’s easiest to lose your work in a way that’s incredibly annoying to recover form, and I avoid using it heavily because of that
- To clear up a few common misconceptions about how the core parts of git (like commits, branches, and merging) work
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/04/25/new-zine--how-git-works-/
Money quote:
I wrote this zine for people who have been using git for years and are still afraid of it. As always – I think it sucks to be afraid of the tools that you use in your work every day! I want folks to feel confident using git.
My goals are:
- To explain how some parts of git that initially seem scary (like “detached HEAD state”) are pretty straightforward to deal with once you understand what’s going on
- To show some parts of git you probably should be careful around. For example, the stash is one of the places in git where it’s easiest to lose your work in a way that’s incredibly annoying to recover form, and I avoid using it heavily because of that
- To clear up a few common misconceptions about how the core parts of git (like commits, branches, and merging) work
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/04/25/new-zine--how-git-works-/
Julia Evans
New zine: How Git Works!
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday!
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Stiamo per fare un'altra, spettacolare cavolata ambientale, spinti dall'avidità, fondamentalmente. Se la evitiamo, però, è meglio: potremmo non morire asfissiati senza più ossigeno nell'atmosfera: sui fondali degli oceani ci sono dei noduli di metallo che avviano piccole realizoni elettrolitiche e separano l'ossigeno dall'idrogeno nell'acqua. È una cosa che ignoravamo, spettacolare, ma che rischiamo di far fuori molto rapidamente. E sarebbe un problema.
Money quote: "He and his colleagues carried out their research in an area of the deep sea between Hawaii and Mexico - part of a vast swathe of seafloor that is covered with these metal nodules. The nodules form when dissolved metals in seawater collect on fragments of shell - or other debris. It's a process that takes millions of years.
And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.
But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo
Money quote: "He and his colleagues carried out their research in an area of the deep sea between Hawaii and Mexico - part of a vast swathe of seafloor that is covered with these metal nodules. The nodules form when dissolved metals in seawater collect on fragments of shell - or other debris. It's a process that takes millions of years.
And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.
But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo
Bbc
Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean
The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.
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Il punto sulle presidenziali americane e certi gattini spaziali dagli occhi inquietanti. Mostly Weekly sta scollinando anche agosto. È gratuita qui
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/286/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/286/
Mostly Here
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Piccoli aiuti e grandi auto-aiuti
Letture per la domenica.
Che bello sarebbe se le aziende fossero di proprietà anche di chi ci lavora. Qui si approfondisce l'idea.
Money quote: "That’s right, this manufacturing company will become a unicorn this year—one of only 6,000 companies in the world earning more than $1 billion in revenue. But unlike Walmart, Amazon, and Apple, it’s not just the executives getting paid out.
“It’s not like 80 percent of the company is owned by management and the rest is owned by employees, it’s really well spread across all functions,” Ruger tells me. “We've got a number of people that have been here 15, 20 years and they have $1 million plus balances, which is really cool for a person that came out of high school and runs our rollformer. You can’t do that everywhere.”"
https://www.elysian.press/p/employee-ownership
Che bello sarebbe se le aziende fossero di proprietà anche di chi ci lavora. Qui si approfondisce l'idea.
Money quote: "That’s right, this manufacturing company will become a unicorn this year—one of only 6,000 companies in the world earning more than $1 billion in revenue. But unlike Walmart, Amazon, and Apple, it’s not just the executives getting paid out.
“It’s not like 80 percent of the company is owned by management and the rest is owned by employees, it’s really well spread across all functions,” Ruger tells me. “We've got a number of people that have been here 15, 20 years and they have $1 million plus balances, which is really cool for a person that came out of high school and runs our rollformer. You can’t do that everywhere.”"
https://www.elysian.press/p/employee-ownership
The Elysian
Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for exiting to employee-ownership.
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Lunedì tech
Kaspersky se ne sta andando dagli Usa perché sono un’azienda di cybersecurity russa. E le due cose (cybersecurity e Russia) a quanto pare negli Usa non vanno bene. E presto neanche in Europa, mi sa.
Money quote: ""Today's Final Determination and Entity Listing are the result of a lengthy and thorough investigation, which found that the company's continued operations in the United States presented a national security risk--due to the Russian Government's offensive cyber capabilities and capacity to influence or direct Kaspersky's operations--that could not be addressed through mitigation measures short of a total prohibition," the Bureau of Industry & Security said.
"Any individual or business that continues to use Kaspersky products and services assumes all the cybersecurity and associated risks of doing so."
One day earlier, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) also banned the company from selling its software and delivering Kaspersky antivirus updates, effective September 29, over potential cybersecurity risks to national security.
Kaspersky told BleepingComputer on Monday that it would completely shut down its business in the United States because the Biden administration's decisions would make the operations "no longer viable."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-is-shutting-down-its-business-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=danielmiessler.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ul-no-441-substrate-openais-agi-levels-us-literacy-rates
Kaspersky se ne sta andando dagli Usa perché sono un’azienda di cybersecurity russa. E le due cose (cybersecurity e Russia) a quanto pare negli Usa non vanno bene. E presto neanche in Europa, mi sa.
Money quote: ""Today's Final Determination and Entity Listing are the result of a lengthy and thorough investigation, which found that the company's continued operations in the United States presented a national security risk--due to the Russian Government's offensive cyber capabilities and capacity to influence or direct Kaspersky's operations--that could not be addressed through mitigation measures short of a total prohibition," the Bureau of Industry & Security said.
"Any individual or business that continues to use Kaspersky products and services assumes all the cybersecurity and associated risks of doing so."
One day earlier, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) also banned the company from selling its software and delivering Kaspersky antivirus updates, effective September 29, over potential cybersecurity risks to national security.
Kaspersky told BleepingComputer on Monday that it would completely shut down its business in the United States because the Biden administration's decisions would make the operations "no longer viable."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-is-shutting-down-its-business-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=danielmiessler.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ul-no-441-substrate-openais-agi-levels-us-literacy-rates
BleepingComputer
Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States
Russian cybersecurity company and antivirus software provider Kaspersky Lab will start shutting down operations in the United States on July 20.
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La migliore sintesi del pensiero di Cory Doctorow sulla "enshittification" che abbia incontrato
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Cory Doctorow, giornalista e attivista per i diritti digitali, discute ancora del fenomeno della “enshittification”, un processo in cui un’azienda o un prodotto, inizialmente progettati per favorire gli utenti (e per attrarne il maggior numero possibile), col tempo si trasformano, peggiorando in qualità per privilegiare il profitto a scapito di tutto il resto.
“If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product, and if you are paying for the product, you’re still the product.”
TL;DR:
Il degrado di Internet: Doctorow sottolinea come, una volta, Internet fosse un luogo “buono”, ma che oggi è diventato uno spazio in cui le aziende sacrificano la qualità dei servizi per aumentare i profitti. Tra gli esempi ci sono Google, che un tempo offriva risultati di ricerca pertinenti, e Amazon, che vendeva prodotti di qualità.
La dinamica della “enshittification”:
- Fase 1: Le aziende iniziano trattando bene gli utenti per attrarli.
-Fase 2: Una volta acquisiti gli utenti, peggiorano i servizi per aumentare i guadagni.
-Fase 3: Infine, deteriorano ulteriormente la qualità del servizio per massimizzare i profitti, riducendo al minimo i benefici per utenti e partner commerciali.
Il “Twiddling”: Questo concetto si riferisce alle modifiche nascoste nei sistemi digitali per manipolare prezzi, risultati di ricerca e altri parametri fondamentali, sempre con l’obiettivo di massimizzare i profitti, spesso a scapito degli utenti.
Perdita di controllo da parte degli utenti: Con l’avvento di leggi e tecnologie che impediscono l’interoperabilità, gli utenti hanno perso la capacità di modificare o riparare i propri dispositivi e software, diventando sempre più dipendenti dalle aziende che li controllano.
La necessità di cambiamento: Doctorow propone di ripristinare la concorrenza, migliorare la regolamentazione, garantire l’interoperabilità e rafforzare il potere dei lavoratori della tecnologia come misure necessarie per creare un “nuovo buon Internet” che non possa essere facilmente corrotto.
L’obiettivo è costruire un Internet che preservi l’autodeterminazione tecnologica degli utenti, proteggendoli dall’eccessivo controllo aziendale, e che possa affrontare le sfide globali come il fascismo, l’emergenza climatica e il genocidio.
Chi ha una certa età sa che Internet quando è nato prometteva di essere un luogo aperto, democratico, inclusivo, di dialogo positivo. E’ una visione ancora possibile?
“If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product, and if you are paying for the product, you’re still the product.”
TL;DR:
Il degrado di Internet: Doctorow sottolinea come, una volta, Internet fosse un luogo “buono”, ma che oggi è diventato uno spazio in cui le aziende sacrificano la qualità dei servizi per aumentare i profitti. Tra gli esempi ci sono Google, che un tempo offriva risultati di ricerca pertinenti, e Amazon, che vendeva prodotti di qualità.
La dinamica della “enshittification”:
- Fase 1: Le aziende iniziano trattando bene gli utenti per attrarli.
-Fase 2: Una volta acquisiti gli utenti, peggiorano i servizi per aumentare i guadagni.
-Fase 3: Infine, deteriorano ulteriormente la qualità del servizio per massimizzare i profitti, riducendo al minimo i benefici per utenti e partner commerciali.
Il “Twiddling”: Questo concetto si riferisce alle modifiche nascoste nei sistemi digitali per manipolare prezzi, risultati di ricerca e altri parametri fondamentali, sempre con l’obiettivo di massimizzare i profitti, spesso a scapito degli utenti.
Perdita di controllo da parte degli utenti: Con l’avvento di leggi e tecnologie che impediscono l’interoperabilità, gli utenti hanno perso la capacità di modificare o riparare i propri dispositivi e software, diventando sempre più dipendenti dalle aziende che li controllano.
La necessità di cambiamento: Doctorow propone di ripristinare la concorrenza, migliorare la regolamentazione, garantire l’interoperabilità e rafforzare il potere dei lavoratori della tecnologia come misure necessarie per creare un “nuovo buon Internet” che non possa essere facilmente corrotto.
L’obiettivo è costruire un Internet che preservi l’autodeterminazione tecnologica degli utenti, proteggendoli dall’eccessivo controllo aziendale, e che possa affrontare le sfide globali come il fascismo, l’emergenza climatica e il genocidio.
Chi ha una certa età sa che Internet quando è nato prometteva di essere un luogo aperto, democratico, inclusivo, di dialogo positivo. E’ una visione ancora possibile?
Medium
“Disenshittify or Die”
My speech from Defcon 32.
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