La laurea triennale è diventata come la terza media e quella magistrale come il diploma delle superiori. Molti si sono resi conto che ci vogliono master "seri", specializzazioni, altro. E si entra nella zona del dottorato di ricerca, perché gli studenti più bravi sono quelli che sono più tentati (e corteggiati) dall'università. Ma davvero vale la pena fare tutta quella fatica per prendere un dottorato di ricerca?

Money quote: "One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as “slave labour”. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle. “It isn’t graduate school itself that is discouraging,” says one student, who confesses to rather enjoying the hunt for free pizza. “What’s discouraging is realising the end point has been yanked out of reach.”"

https://medium.economist.com/why-doing-a-phd-is-often-a-waste-of-time-349206f9addb

Tre utility per organizzare il Mac, parte seconda - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/tre-utility-per-organizzare-il-mac-parte-seconda/

Manyverse: il social (svedese) senza pubblicità che vive nel tuo telefono anche quando sei offline. Niente infrastruttura, bastano i client edge.

Money quote: "Manyverse is a social network mobile app with features you would expect: posts, threads, likes, profiles, etc. But it's not running in the cloud owned by a company, instead, your friends' posts and all your social data live entirely in your phone. This way, even when you're offline, you can scroll, read anything, and even write posts and like content! When your phone is back online, it syncs the latest updates directly with your friends' phones, through a shared local Wi-Fi or on the internet.

We're building this free and open source project as a community effort because we believe in non-commercial, neutral, and fair mobile communication for everyone."

https://www.manyver.se

Un blog fatto con GoogleDocs. No, sul serio. Ottimo per fare esperimenti domenicali.

Money quote: "The Simplest CMS

Integrate directly with Google Drive. Work from your phone or computer."

https://www.youdontneedwp.com

Newsletter domenicale già partita. Ci si iscrive a questo indirizzo: https://www.tinyletter.com/mostlyiwrite

Wwdc 2020, ecco tutto (ma proprio tutto) quello che Apple presenterà stasera - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/gadget/computer/2020/06/22/wwdc-2020-tutte-le-novita/

In inglese "Going Dutch" significa dividere il conto (il nostro "fare alla romana"). L'etimologia non la conoscevo: è divertente.

Money quote: "In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic and the English competed over international trade, colonies, and domination of the seas. Starting in 1652, the Dutch and English fought three wars over the next 22 years, battling over everything from herring to current-day New York. Propaganda meant that relations soured quickly, and both the English and the Dutch considered plagues and fires in the other country to be a punishment from God."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-does-going-dutch-come-from

Lui è Dieter Rams, uno dei più importanti industrial designer di sempre. Con Braun negli anni cinquanta e sessanta ha ridefinito la forma e l’uso di moltissimi oggetti quotidiani Per un periodo ha collaborato anche con Apple.

Potete usato come sfondo del vostro smartphone.

https://www.arun.is/dieter-rams-wallpapers/

Una bella intervista al ceo di Apple, per scaldarsi in vista della WWDC di stasera.

Money quote: “"Well, you know, people generally just dislike uncertainty, I would say as a general rule," Cook laughed. "I know very few people that thrive on uncertainty. They try to take an uncertain thing and make it a bit more certain. They do that by estimating where things are going, by predicting the worst that can happen and the best that can happen.

"And we have done all of those things, I would tell you. But the most important thing for us is, we viewed it as a challenge to overcome."”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-on-the-nexus-of-technology-and-social-change/

Tre utility per organizzare il Mac, parte seconda - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/tre-utility-per-organizzare-il-mac-parte-seconda/

L'anno del cammello: passare da Intel ad Arm e altre migrazioni - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/lanno-del-cammello-passare-da-intel-ad-arm-e-altre-migrazioni/

La macchina della verità che invece dice tante bugie. Bel reportage di Wired Usa.

Money quote: "From WIRED’s public records requests, it appears that few jurisdictions retain these records, making it nearly impossible to systematically identify bias in their programs. That comes as no surprise to William Iacono, professor of psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and law at the University of Minnesota. “[Demographic data] sounds like something these organizations don’t want to have,” he says. “Because if they have it, and someone asks for it, then it might reveal something that they’re not comfortable with. The examiner doesn’t really use an algorithm to figure out if people are employment worthy. The examiner’s decision is probably based primarily on the human interaction that the two people have.”"

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-polygraph-job-screening-black-mirror

Big Sur è grande, Apple cambia numero e arriva macOS 11 - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/big-sur-e-grande-apple-cambia-numero-e-arriva-macos-11/

Microsoft compra CyberX, investimento da 165 mln di dollari - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/microsoft-compra-cyberx-investimento-da-165-mln-di-dollari/

I cinque annunci della WWDC che cambieranno la nostra vita - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/i-cinque-annunci-della-wwdc-che-cambieranno-la-nostra-vita/

La storia di Montanelli, raccontata bene - il mio articolo per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/06/23/la-storia-di-montanelli-raccontata-bene/

Cybersecurity, in Italia picco di attacchi hacker durante il lockdown - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/cybersecurity-in-italia-picco-di-attacchi-hacker-durante-il-lockdown/

Cambiamenti climatici, Amazon mette sul piatto 2 miliardi di dollari - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cambiamenti-climatici-amazon-mette-sul-piatto-2-miliardi-di-dollari/

Se Google anziché scannerizzare libri si fosse messa a digitalizzare i fossili che stanno nei magazzini dei musei inutilizzati, probabilmente staremmo facendo strepitose scoperte paleontologiche. Il costo oltretutto sarebbe stato notevolmente inferiore.

Money quote: "“There are enormous amounts of data sitting in various museum collections,” says Peter Roopnarine, the curator of geology at the California Academy of Sciences and one of the authors of the paper, which was published last month in Biology Letters. “Our picture of what’s going on is based on whatever small fraction we manage to study, and publish upon.”"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fossil-online-database

Apple reinventa il mitico Newton con iPad e Scribble - il mio articolo per Macity (con refuso nel titolo, sorry!)

https://www.macitynet.it/apple-reinventa-il-mitico-newton-con-ipad-e-scriblble/