Qual è il futuro di Windows sui computer di Apple? - il mio lungo e interessante articolo per Macity ("interessante" se siete flippati di virtualizzazione ed emulazione)
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https://www.macitynet.it/qual-e-il-futuro-di-windows-sui-computer-di-apple/

Una lista definitiva, per chi vuole auto-aiutarsi, dei libri che rendono più produttivi. Commentata da chi di produttività se ne intende (oggettivamente).

Money quote: "Deciding to “be more productive” is one of those goals that sounds really good — because who doesn’t want to get more done in fewer hours or waste less time on social media? — but is actually hard to do well. That’s because productivity is such a slippery concept, with a different meaning for every person, depending on what they ultimately want to accomplish. And what helps one person stay on track might be the productivity tool that successfully guides another.

So for this reading list on the best productivity books and books on time management, I reached out to a broad range of experts from academia, business, journalism, and tech."

http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-productivity-books.html

iOS 14 dona un cuore nuovo ai vecchi iPhone - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/06/29/news/ios-14-dona-un-cuore-nuovo-ai-vecchi-iphone-1.39021248?refresh_ce

Nei momenti di tristezza, per elaborare un lutto (un'assenza, una separazione, una dipartita) in Giappone un signore ha costruito una piccola cabina telefonica con un telefono di quelli vecchi, che non è connesso a niente. Messaggi nel vento, insomma: vocali verso dev/null. È un posto dove andare a piangere e parlare in solitudine con chi non c'è più.

L'idea è stata di Itaru Sasaki, che aveva perso un cugino. Poi il terremoto/maremoto/incidente nucleare del 2011 hanno devastato anche l'are di Otsuchi, dove vive l'uomo, e lui ha dato l'accesso alla cabina del telefono ai suoi vicini. Pian piano la voce si è sparsa e oggi c'è gente che va in Giappone e si ritaglia un paio di giorni solo per poter fare una telefonata a qualcuno che non c'è più.

Money quote: "Otsuchi can be reached from Tokyo by high-speed train. Take the train to the Otsuchi (Otsucki) station. It can also be accessed by a car ride which is about 7 hours by taking the Tohoku expressway. The phone booth is just outside the city, north of Dai Chiwari 11, but not as far north as Dai Chiwari 12. It's the land side of the railway line. Use the published coordinates if you have GPS."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wind-telephone

Progetto Gutenberg, perché sarà sotto sequestro per sempre - grande articolo del mio amico Raffaele Angius per Wired

https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2020/06/30/progetto-gutenberg-sequestro/

Con l'estate arriva la stagione dei lunghi viaggi in treno e in macchina. Questa potrebbe essere la soluzione definitiva per grandi e per piccini: orinatoi portatili

Money quote: "What exactly is a Travel John? It’s essentially a plastic funnel attached to a paper bag that’s filled with crystals. You press the funnel to your body to urinate into the bag, the crystals absorb the liquid, turning into a gel that contains the liquid and smell. Then you can throw the bag right into the trash. The Travel John also comes in a Travel Jane variety (complete with its own as-offensive-as-you-can-imagine pink box). But there’s no actual difference between the John and Jane products beyond the packaging. The funnel is designed to be unisex, and from reading reviews across the web, it seems to work as advertised."

https://www.fastcompany.com/90518559/meet-the-summers-sleeper-hit-product-a-bag-you-pee-into

Sensori su abbonamento, la nuova strategia di Sony - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/sensori-su-abbonamento-la-nuova-strategia-di-sony/

Italtel spinge sul cloud, partnership strategica con Aws - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/italtel-spinge-sul-cloud-partnership-strategica-con-aws/

Noi abbiamo una normativa ottocentesca, con tanto di registri professionali, patenti e brevetti, e poi il sistema piuttosto laborioso di trascrizione e registrazione delle proprietà immobiliari. Negli Usa il real estate sta venendo disrupted, come dicono quelli che parlano mezzo inglese e mezzo italiano.

Il punto è che la tecnologia digitale sta alterando le dinamiche e stiamo andando rapidamente verso una serie di servizi che rendono il bene casa una cosa completamente diversa, un po' come è successo con il carsharing, per intendersi, ma applicato alle compravendite, non alle vacanze.

Money quote: "In the US, we’ve seen the rise of what real-estate insiders call “iBuyers.” These companies include the real-estate tech giant Zillow and the brokerage Redfin, as well as lesser-known startups Opendoor, Knock, and Offerpad. First, they use algorithms (and other technologies) to assign value to homes. Prospective sellers in a few select markets (namely cities with lots of uniform, newish housing stock such as Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Phoenix) can visit the websites or apps of these companies, enter in a few details of their homes, and get an all-cash offer and close in days. The companies then re-list these homes for sale on the open market, hoping to turn a profit.

But don’t call them “flippers”: The homes the iBuyers purchase directly from consumers typically are not distressed or in needing of hefty renovations. The goal of these companies to make the process of selling a home so easy and worry-free for consumers—you don’t need to hire an agent, schedule showings and open houses, or finagle over price—that consumers will take a slightly lower price than they could get on the open market. Then, the iBuyers re-list them for slightly more—a slim margin of gain, but at increasingly higher volumes of sales."

https://qz.com/1383672/you-might-find-your-next-home-on-amazon/

Huawei fuori dalle reti di Tlc europee? Costerebbe 40 miliardi di Pil - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/huawei-fuori-dalle-reti-di-tlc-europee-costerebbe-40-miliardi-di-pil/

Coronavirus, in calo le fake news ma non abbastanza - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/coronavirus-in-calo-le-fake-news-ma-non-abbastanza/

La storia di quei ragazzi che fecero Unix. E la particolare giocosità di uno di essi.

Money quote: "Thompson had passed some of his time after the demise of Multics writing a computer game called Space Travel, which simulated all the major bodies in the solar system along with a spaceship that could fly around them. Written for the GE-645, Space Travel was clunky to play—and expensive: roughly US $75 a game for the CPU time. Hunting around, Thompson came across a dusty PDP-7, a minicomputer built by Digital Equipment Corp. that some of his Bell Labs colleagues had purchased earlier for a circuit-analysis project. Thompson rewrote Space Travel to run on it.

And with that little programming exercise, a second door cracked ajar. It was to swing wide open during the summer of 1969 when Thompson’s wife, Bonnie, spent a month visiting his parents to show off their newborn son. Thompson took advantage of his temporary bachelor existence to write a good chunk of what would become the Unix operating system for the discarded PDP‑7. The name Unix stems from a joke one of Thompson’s colleagues made: Because the new operating system supported only one user (Thompson), he saw it as an emasculated version of Multics and dubbed it “Un-multiplexed Information and Computing Service,” or Unics. The name later morphed into Unix."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix

Più efficienza e ricavi: chi utilizza l’intelligenza artificiale “stacca” i concorrenti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/piu-efficienza-e-ricavi-chi-utilizza-lintelligenza-artificiale-stacca-i-concorrenti/

La nuova sfida delle banche: ecco rischi e opportunità dei token - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/la-nuova-sfida-delle-banche-ecco-rischi-e-opportunita-dei-token/

L’estate è il momento migliore per fare esperimenti ed esplorazioni. Per questo sono tornato ad esplorare Linux e *BSD come possibili strumenti di lavoro più leggeri, ad esempio per quando sono in viaggio (ammesso che si tornerà a viaggare, un giorno). Sono ambienti in cui sono molto meno produttivo che con macOS (lo so per esperienza) ma quando ho riflettutto su quanto invece io sia realmente produttivo con l'iPad Pro ha ridotto la distanza con Unix. E così, leggiucchiando in giro, sto trovando un po' di storie di gente che passa a Linux o *BSD. Ma è possibile che siano ancora/di nuovo delle alternative sensata per il dekstop o è solo una mia idea? Beh, comunque, questo ragazzetto qui sotto è passato a FreeBSD (bella scelta) e tiene Windows 10 al calduccio in una macchina virtuale. Contento lui.

Money quote: "My line of work requires me to maintain some form of Windows installation, so I decided to keep it in a VM rather than dual booting as I was developing code and not running any high-end visual stuff like games. My first thought was to install Arch or Gentoo Linux, but the last time I attempted a Gentoo installation it left me bootless. Not that there is anything wrong with Gentoo, it was probably my fault, but I like the idea of some sort of installer so I looked at rock-solid Debian. My dad had installed Debian on his sweet new cutting-edge Lenovo laptop he received recently from work. He often raves about his cool scripts and much more effective customized experience, but often complains about his hybrid GPU support as he has an Intel/Nvidia hybrid display adapter (he has finally resolved it and now boasts his 6 connected displays).

I didn’t want to install Windows again, but something didn’t feel right about installing some flavour of Linux. Back at home I have a small collection of FreeBSD servers running in all sorts of jails and other physical hardware, with the exception of one Debian server which I had the hardest time dealing with (it would be FreeBSD too if 802.11ac support was there as it is acting as my WiFi/gateway/IDS/IPS). I loved my FreeBSD servers, and yes I will write posts about each one soon enough. I wanted that cleanliness and familiarity on my desktop as well (I really love the ports collection!). It’s settled – I will run FreeBSD on my laptop. This also created a new rivalry with my father, which is not a bad thing either."

https://www.manios.ca/blog/2018/01/finally-moving-away-from-windows/

A quanto pare ci sono problemi con il link precedente. Passando dall’Internet archive dovrebbe funzionare

Advertising, l’Antitrust Uk pensa a una task force sui mercati digitali - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/advertising-lantitrust-uk-pensa-a-una-task-force-sui-mercati-digitali/

Pagamenti, le banche eruopee lanciano la sfida a Visa e Mastercard - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/pagamenti-le-banche-eruopee-lanciano-la-sfida-a-visa-e-mastercard/

Ci sono delle cose che gli architetti debbono sapere. Alcune belle, altre strane, molte surreali, spesso sorprendenti. Una lista intrigante.

Money quote:
49. What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri.
50. What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe.
51. What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
52. Where the CCTV cameras are.
53. Why Mies really left Germany.
54. How people lived in Çatal Hüyük.
55. The structural properties of tufa.

https://www.readingdesign.org/250-things