La stansetta per parlare di tecnicologia in generale, senza dover sapere cos'è arduino.
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Soumahoro ha fatto un tweet sul DL "Codice di condotta" delle ONG per i salvataggi in mare. Ho letto due commenti inerenti alla discussione, il resto è merda. Il danno che hanno fatto alla sx questi neanche si rendono conto. https://twitter.com/aboub...
For me, what [Meet, Skype, Teams, Zoom] all do is offer convenience and ease, with underlying complex technology, but nothing truly immersive. I keep thinking it’s because we’ve turned business tools into communication tools. It’s like using PRWire to send holiday cards.
Many people effectively rate a computer today on how well it can access social media, and a computer that can’t is therefore useless. This means you permit these companies to determine when the computer you spent your hard-earned money on should go in the trash. That decision probably won’t be made maliciously, but it certainly won’t be made to benefit you.
These are private companies and they get to decide how they will spend their money and time. But we, in turn, shouldn’t depend on them for anything nor expect anything from them, and we should think about finding ways to extricate ourselves from them and maintain contact with the people we care about in other fashions. On our systems in particular this will only get worse and it doesn’t have to. The power they have over our wallets and our public discourse is only — and entirely — because collectively we gave it to them.
I don’t think a liberal arts education makes you a better person. It ought to enable you to more accurately describe things. […]
On the one hand, of course, no education will prevent you from putting your mind to really troubling purposes. At the same time, there’s a lot of thinking in Silicon Valley that is there to describe reality in a way that wouldn’t immediately seem plausible. […] It allows very wealthy men, usually, to escape confrontation with what they really are doing. […] There are all these tech CEOs who believe they are the victims of random meanies on Twitter. And you think, how can you be so blind so as to not understand what the power differentials are here?
These are philosophical ideas that allow them to do this, even if they’re not very good ones. The ideas allow for an obfuscation of reality rather than a more penetrating analysis of it.
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Mi spiegate la polemica su Burioni e le consulenze e la Capua che non ha più la cattedra e se l'espresso ha solo fatto un'inchiesta sulle consulenze (come mi è parso di capire) che sono perfettamente legittime o se sono una speculazione derivata dall'emergenza di cui non doveva sapere niente nessuno e per questo l'atteggiamento gnè gnè di Burioni?
"Amazon’s moves this week could prove presciently symbolic for a permanent transfer of traditional jobs at local small businesses to unreliable, part-time work for tech giants that distribute products and services through online platforms — the “Amazonification” of our economy.
This Amazonification is already underway. The consumer shift to online retailers away from meatspace malls and boutique shops has been the subject of hand-wringing and prognostication for years, and, if anything, the evolution was moving slower than many feared. "
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“This unofficial Page was created because people on Facebook have shown interest in this place or business. It's not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated with Samantha Rae Anna Jespersen's Butthole.”
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Il link punta a "The WELL - State of the World 2020: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky", lettura attualissima e consigliatissima.
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Pensavo più a un effetto-vertigine tipico del periodare lungo e scevro da punteggiatura con incursioni di frasi secondarie che alcuni conoscono come tipico della scrittura di effevene che un tempo frequentava questi lidi o perlomeno lidi precedenti a questo ma niente non riesco ad essere sufficientemente caotico.
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"[…] restano ancor oggi almeno 52 anni di buco nella storia dell’Olivetti – dalla morte di Adriano – che andrebbero approfonditi, studiati e ricordati. Anni ancora più rilevanti e più istruttivi dei decenni precedenti. Anni che ci parlano del progressivo smantellamento dell’Olivetti, di Comunità, di Ivrea, di Pozzuoli e degli innumerevoli prodotti del genio di Adriano, e che ci potrebbero dire molto di più della storia pur gloriosa ma troppo singolare dell’Olivetti nel secondo dopoguerra."
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Mike Subelsky, a Baltimore tech entrepreneur, [has] mixed feelings echo those of many Americans about the emerging dark side of digital life. “For my generation, the internet was the equivalent of landing on the moon. But the internet seems to have made some things so much worse,” he said. “I’m not sure this is the world I want my kids to be growing up in.”
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[a proposito della sentenza Cucchi] "Se qualcuno ha usato violenza, ha sbagliato e pagherà. Questo testimonia che la droga fa male sempre e, comunque, io combatto la droga in ogni piazza"
Ho sentito lo spezzone con le domande del giornalusta di Fanpage, che non ha mai perso pazienza ne si è fatto distrarre dalle cazzate doc. Bravo bravo. Ma sono troppo pochi
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Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn’t making enough money,
so they’re shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of
its customers acquired effective July 1.
Customers will receive refunds.
This puts the difference between DRM-locked media and unencumbered media
into sharp contrast. I have bought a lot of MP3s over the years,
thousands of them, and many of the retailers I purchased from are long
gone, but I still have the MP3s. Likewise, I have bought many books from
long-defunct booksellers and even defunct publishers, but I still own
those books.
When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing
the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn’t
get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash
refund for the price you paid.
People sometimes treat me like my decision not to sell my books through
Amazon’s Audible is irrational (Audible will not let writers or
publisher opt to sell their books without DRM), but if you think Amazon
is immune to this kind of shenanigans, you are sadly mistaken. My books
matter a lot to me. I just paid $8,000 to have a container full of books
shipped from a storage locker in the UK to our home in LA so I can be
closer to them. The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some
kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I
can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy
any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary
works, they could not have done a better job.
If you’ve got an ereader and want to actually own your books, I heartily recommend using cailbre to scrape the DRM off and so you can backup the files.
Seconding calibre as a brilliant tool for ebook management in general.
calibre is good
and it’s free and open source software!
Cailbre helped me properly access ebooks my dad bought for me ages ago whose encryption keys had been outmoded and were no longer available for my new laptop’s os! Nearly 15 of the books he’d given me I hadn’t even had a chance to read before then, but the free copy of cailbre I got online had all of the old, outdated encryption program keys!!
Among the tools it is offering, Amazon’s image recognition product is the most controversial. […] Civil rights groups have called it “perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed”, and called for Amazon to stop selling it to government agencies, particularly police forces. City supervisors in San Francisco banned its use, saying the software is not only intrusive, but biased - it’s better at recognising white people than black and Asian people.
Mr Vogels doesn’t feel it’s Amazon’s responsibility to make sure Rekognition is used accurately or ethically.
“That’s not my decision to make,” […] “This technology is being used for good in many places. It’s in society’s direction to actually decide which technology is applicable under which conditions.
“It’s a societal discourse and decision - and policy-making - that needs to happen to decide where you can apply technologies.”
[Vogels] likens ML and AI to steel mills. Sometimes steel is used to make incubators for babies, he says, but sometimes steel is used to make guns.