Chi segue questo canale sa che sono allergico a molte cose. I formati chiusi sono una di queste. Ma in realtà sono allergico anche ai formati scomodi e ai formati stupidi o utilizzati a sproposito. È il caso di chi fa pdf e li mette sul web. Pensavo fosse una mia idiosincrasia. Adesso c'è la scienza che lo sostiene.
Money quote: "Jakob Nielsen first wrote about how PDF files should never be read online in 1996 — only three years after PDFs were invented. Over 20 years later, our research continues to prove that PDFs are just as problematic for users. Despite the evidence, they’re still used far too often to present content online.
PDFs are typically large masses of text and images. The format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online. Neither time nor changes in user behavior have softened our evidence-based stance on this subject. Even 20 years later, PDFs are still unfit for human consumption in the digital space. Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page."
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/
Money quote: "Jakob Nielsen first wrote about how PDF files should never be read online in 1996 — only three years after PDFs were invented. Over 20 years later, our research continues to prove that PDFs are just as problematic for users. Despite the evidence, they’re still used far too often to present content online.
PDFs are typically large masses of text and images. The format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online. Neither time nor changes in user behavior have softened our evidence-based stance on this subject. Even 20 years later, PDFs are still unfit for human consumption in the digital space. Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page."
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/
Nielsen Norman Group
PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later
Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them. They’re unpleasant to read and navigate and remain unfit for digital-content display.
Arriva Factorio (finalmente). Videogioco in cui costruire qualcosa, qualunque cosa, è diventato lo scopo finale.
Money quote: "It took us 8.5 years. It has been an incredible ride and we have arrived at the destination!
Factorio is leaving early access. This opens the game up to all the players who just don't play early access games, the same with reviewers who only cover finished games, which is very understandable.
For this special occasion, we created a launch trailer. It tries to capture the story of the development in 45 seconds."
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360
Ma c'è anche chi sostiene che il gioco abbia molto in comune con il software engineering. Pensa te.
https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/
Money quote: "It took us 8.5 years. It has been an incredible ride and we have arrived at the destination!
Factorio is leaving early access. This opens the game up to all the players who just don't play early access games, the same with reviewers who only cover finished games, which is very understandable.
For this special occasion, we created a launch trailer. It tries to capture the story of the development in 45 seconds."
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360
Ma c'è anche chi sostiene che il gioco abbia molto in comune con il software engineering. Pensa te.
https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/
Factorio
Friday Facts #360 - 1.0 is here! | Factorio
Hello, the atmosphere in the last week was kind of special. We experienced the feeling of the final release being on the horizon many times. And we were shown that it isn't the case time and time again. So it feels very special when it is actually becoming…
Forwarded from Riccardo
Poi: domani uscirà (forse, perché sono al pronto soccorso per un impicio familiare da questa mattina alle 11! e menomale che ho l’M1 altrimenti avrei finito la batteria da un pezzo) l’ultima puntata* della stagione di tilde. Sarà una puntata strana, diversa in tutto. Un esperimento che abbiamo inseguito per mesi e che adesso proviamo a mandare online. Potrebbe non piacervi, o forse sì. Io non ho ancora capito se è ridicola oppure no. Ma mi raccomando di fare attenzione alle parole usate (non da noi, scoprirete da chi) perché non sono il frutto di una mente “usuale”.
*: a dire il vero ne seguirà una con le dovute spiegazioni tecniche.
*: a dire il vero ne seguirà una con le dovute spiegazioni tecniche.
Un'estate vegana, per una dieta etica e sana - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/06/17/unestate-vegana-per-una-dieta-etica-e-sana/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/06/17/unestate-vegana-per-una-dieta-etica-e-sana/
Anobii
Beget
Abbiamo fatto una cosa strana, Riccardo e io. Abbiamo un podcast, Tilde.show, lo sapete, e adesso finiamo la prima stagione.
Da mesi volevamo fare una cosa prima di finire, però: far condurre una puntata dall'intelligenza artificiale. Questo vuol dire, per noi, che la rete neurale capisce il tema che le indichiamo e sviluppa tutta la puntata, ci fa le domande, lancia i nostri (lunghi) contributi audio, commenta le risposte e chiude persino la puntata. Insomma: l'intelligenza artificiale al comando!
La puntata la trovate qui sotto: farla non è stato facile, perché ovviamente è successo di tutto nel frattempo. Però siamo riusciti a trovare uno scorcio per usare una istanza di GPT-3, l'intelligenza artificiale di OpenAI.
Volevo che lo sapeste: è la prima puntata di un podcast pensata e condotta da una intelligenza artificiale di cui io abbia notizia, sicuramente in Italia ma penso anche in molti altri posti (non dico “tutti” perché sai mai che in Venezuela o in Cina qualcuno non l’ha già fatto, però non penso). Ed è una figata assoluta che l'abbiamo fatta noi due, Riccardo e io. Sul serio!
Si ascolta qui:
https://tilde.show/podcast-17/
Da mesi volevamo fare una cosa prima di finire, però: far condurre una puntata dall'intelligenza artificiale. Questo vuol dire, per noi, che la rete neurale capisce il tema che le indichiamo e sviluppa tutta la puntata, ci fa le domande, lancia i nostri (lunghi) contributi audio, commenta le risposte e chiude persino la puntata. Insomma: l'intelligenza artificiale al comando!
La puntata la trovate qui sotto: farla non è stato facile, perché ovviamente è successo di tutto nel frattempo. Però siamo riusciti a trovare uno scorcio per usare una istanza di GPT-3, l'intelligenza artificiale di OpenAI.
Volevo che lo sapeste: è la prima puntata di un podcast pensata e condotta da una intelligenza artificiale di cui io abbia notizia, sicuramente in Italia ma penso anche in molti altri posti (non dico “tutti” perché sai mai che in Venezuela o in Cina qualcuno non l’ha già fatto, però non penso). Ed è una figata assoluta che l'abbiamo fatta noi due, Riccardo e io. Sul serio!
Si ascolta qui:
https://tilde.show/podcast-17/
Questo ragionamento, fatto da un consulente, sui "requisiti obbligatori" in azienda si potrebbe applicare benissimo a molte altre situazioni. Comunque, illuminante.
Money quote: "The big question on managers' minds (either consciously or unconsciously) when approving a policy change is "if I do this and anything goes wrong, will I get blamed?". This should not be the basis of choice but in practice it sadly is. This is where things go wrong. The people who would most benefit from the change (and thus have the biggest incentive to get it fixed) do not get to make the call. Instead it goes to people who will see no personal benefit, only risk. After all, the current policy has worked well thus far so don't fix it if it is not broken. Just like no one ever got fired for buying IBM, no manager has ever gotten reprimanded for choosing to uphold existing policy."
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/08/most-mandatory-requirements-in.html
Money quote: "The big question on managers' minds (either consciously or unconsciously) when approving a policy change is "if I do this and anything goes wrong, will I get blamed?". This should not be the basis of choice but in practice it sadly is. This is where things go wrong. The people who would most benefit from the change (and thus have the biggest incentive to get it fixed) do not get to make the call. Instead it goes to people who will see no personal benefit, only risk. After all, the current policy has worked well thus far so don't fix it if it is not broken. Just like no one ever got fired for buying IBM, no manager has ever gotten reprimanded for choosing to uphold existing policy."
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/08/most-mandatory-requirements-in.html
Blogspot
Most "mandatory requirements" in corporations are imaginary
In my day job I work as a consultant. Roughly six months ago my current client had a non-negotiable requirement that consultants are not all...
Nella loro foga revisionista che desidera riscrivere molto più che non la sola società, ma anche la storia, gli americani scoprono e si stupiscono che in Francia non sia possibile fare tabelline sulla diversità etnica nelle startup anche per via del retaggio della seconda guerra mondiale e dell'occupazione nazista.
Money quote: "The startup scene in France has the same problem that plagues the industry everywhere -- too little diversity. Trouble is, in France you can’t measure it.
While observers say the venture capital and tech scene is overwhelmingly White, out of step with the makeup of the rest of the country, it’s mostly illegal to track people’s ethnicity. France has rules preventing firms from keeping tabs on the metric, which originate in part from the Nazis’ use of labels to target Jewish people and other minorities during World War II."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/world-war-ii-era-obstacle-is-curbing-french-startup-diversity
Money quote: "The startup scene in France has the same problem that plagues the industry everywhere -- too little diversity. Trouble is, in France you can’t measure it.
While observers say the venture capital and tech scene is overwhelmingly White, out of step with the makeup of the rest of the country, it’s mostly illegal to track people’s ethnicity. France has rules preventing firms from keeping tabs on the metric, which originate in part from the Nazis’ use of labels to target Jewish people and other minorities during World War II."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/world-war-ii-era-obstacle-is-curbing-french-startup-diversity
Bloomberg.com
World War II-Era Obstacle Is Curbing French Startup Diversity
The startup scene in France has the same problem that plagues the industry everywhere -- too little diversity. Trouble is, in France you can’t measure it.
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
Ma parliamo di ciclo, il mio è sparito, all’improvviso è tornato ingombrante come non mai, ora spero solo sparisca per sempre. Due link uno dice di come cambia dopo il vaccino https://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2021/04/21/coronavirus-vaccini-donne/ 🩸 l’altro del perché è importante parlare anche di mestruazioni https://www.valigiablu.it/mestruazioni-conversazione-sociale/
WIRED.IT
Quello che le donne dovrebbero sapere sulla vaccinazione contro Covid-19
Al di là del raro rischio di trombosi, i vaccini anti-Covid potrebbero comportare alterazioni delle mammografie e nella pianificazione di trattamenti per la fertilità
Sembra veramente ieri e invece sono già passati due anni dall'estate in cui ho provato per dodici giorni una Tesla Model 3. È stato un test atipico anche per uno come me che cerca di scrivere cose atipiche. E l'auto è una bomba.
https://antoniodini.com/tesla-idea-platonica/
https://antoniodini.com/tesla-idea-platonica/
Mostly Here
L'idea platonica dell'auto elettrica
Dodici giorni di test sulla Tesla Model per scoprire cosa succede a guidare una full electric portandosi dietro tutta la famiglia
Come usare due sim fisiche su iPhone 12 - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/come-usare-due-sim-fisiche-su-iphone-12/
https://www.macitynet.it/come-usare-due-sim-fisiche-su-iphone-12/
macitynet.it
Come usare due sim fisiche su iPhone 12
Apple, iPhone, Tutorial iPhone e iPad
Cortana, che fa simpatia perché è l'AI amichetta di Master Chief in Halo, sta cambiando pelle. E chi ci si era abituato, avrà una brutta sorpresa, soprattutto se ha comprato un'automobile con la signorina come assistente vocale.
Money quote: "Microsoft has been transitioning Cortana from a personal digital assistant similar to Alexa and Google Nest to more of an embedded productivity aide tied into Microsoft 365 for the past few years. And with hands-free/touch-free scenarios becoming more important as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the importance of voice interaction to handle work tasks is only growing."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-end-support-for-cortana-app-on-mobile-harman-kardon-speakers-in-early-2021/
Money quote: "Microsoft has been transitioning Cortana from a personal digital assistant similar to Alexa and Google Nest to more of an embedded productivity aide tied into Microsoft 365 for the past few years. And with hands-free/touch-free scenarios becoming more important as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the importance of voice interaction to handle work tasks is only growing."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-end-support-for-cortana-app-on-mobile-harman-kardon-speakers-in-early-2021/
ZDNet
Microsoft to end support for Cortana app on mobile; Harman Kardon speakers in early 2021
Microsoft is continuing to focus its Cortana digital assistant on productivity scenarios by phasing out Cortana Skills starting in September and dropping Cortana mobile app support and more in 2021.
A lungo tutto è stato gratuito. Se le nostre ambizioni digitali erano modeste, si poteva fare praticamente di tutto su Internet senza spendere una lira a parte la connessione. Alle volte neanche quella. Poi è venuta fuori la storia del tracciamento e della violazione continua della privacy delle persone. Adesso la festa sta finendo. Un articolo da incorniciare.
Money quote: "There is, they say, no such thing as a free lunch. But on the internet, there was no such thing as a paid lunch. It was all free lunches, all the time. Every site was a digital all-you-could-eat buffet, and while software may have been eating the world, the world was eating up software as well. With so much available for free, the idea of charging for news or emails or photo storage was untenable. If you charged for your service, it simply wouldn’t be used. A number of now-defunct paid services discovered this the hard way. “You weary giants of flesh and steel,” John Perry Barlow wrote in 1996 in A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, “You are not welcome among us.” It seemed the laws of economics weren’t welcome either."
https://onezero.medium.com/we-have-reached-the-end-of-free-6a21698446e2
Money quote: "There is, they say, no such thing as a free lunch. But on the internet, there was no such thing as a paid lunch. It was all free lunches, all the time. Every site was a digital all-you-could-eat buffet, and while software may have been eating the world, the world was eating up software as well. With so much available for free, the idea of charging for news or emails or photo storage was untenable. If you charged for your service, it simply wouldn’t be used. A number of now-defunct paid services discovered this the hard way. “You weary giants of flesh and steel,” John Perry Barlow wrote in 1996 in A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, “You are not welcome among us.” It seemed the laws of economics weren’t welcome either."
https://onezero.medium.com/we-have-reached-the-end-of-free-6a21698446e2
Medium
We Have Reached the End of Free
In the beginning, the web was a free bonanza. Now every site tries to sign you up for a monthly subscription.
C'è gente che non riesce a immaginare le cose. Letteralmente
Money quote: "Reading around the topic, I discovered that this quirk had been commented on before. Francis Galton, the first psychologist to measure the vividness of visual imagery, recognised in the 1880s that a small number of those whom he approached lacked imagery entirely: their ‘powers of visualisation … [were] zero’. But oddly this intriguing observation had lain in the long grass since. One reason might have been that it lacked a convenient name. So when my colleagues and I came to describe in the research literature the 21 individuals who’d made contact with us, we decided to coin one. At the suggestion of my classicist friend David Mitchell, we borrowed from Aristotle, who used the term ‘phantasia’ to denote the mind’s eye, adding the prefix ‘a’ to denote absence. In 2015, we published our paper reporting these participants as having ‘congenital aphantasia’."
https://psyche.co/ideas/when-the-mind-is-dark-making-art-is-a-thrilling-way-to-see
Money quote: "Reading around the topic, I discovered that this quirk had been commented on before. Francis Galton, the first psychologist to measure the vividness of visual imagery, recognised in the 1880s that a small number of those whom he approached lacked imagery entirely: their ‘powers of visualisation … [were] zero’. But oddly this intriguing observation had lain in the long grass since. One reason might have been that it lacked a convenient name. So when my colleagues and I came to describe in the research literature the 21 individuals who’d made contact with us, we decided to coin one. At the suggestion of my classicist friend David Mitchell, we borrowed from Aristotle, who used the term ‘phantasia’ to denote the mind’s eye, adding the prefix ‘a’ to denote absence. In 2015, we published our paper reporting these participants as having ‘congenital aphantasia’."
https://psyche.co/ideas/when-the-mind-is-dark-making-art-is-a-thrilling-way-to-see
Psyche
When the mind is dark, making art is a thrilling way to see
For aphantasic artists with no mind’s eye, creating paintings is a way to experience the mental pictures they can’t see
Sono convinto da tempo che non stiamo realmente sfruttando le possibilità offerte dal digitale: ragioniamo invece come se fossimo ancora in un mondo in cui i dati e le informazioni sono fatte di carta anziché di bit.
La pubblica amministrazione ne è un esempio eclatante, anche perché la sua funzione è quella di strutturare e facilitare la società, l’azione di governo, i servizi al cittadino. Una trasformazione diigitale profonda porrebbe nuovi problemi (l’inclusività) ma ne risolverebbe molti altri.
Ho provato a scrivere due o tre cose al riguardo qui:
https://antoniodini.com/codice-fiscale/
La pubblica amministrazione ne è un esempio eclatante, anche perché la sua funzione è quella di strutturare e facilitare la società, l’azione di governo, i servizi al cittadino. Una trasformazione diigitale profonda porrebbe nuovi problemi (l’inclusività) ma ne risolverebbe molti altri.
Ho provato a scrivere due o tre cose al riguardo qui:
https://antoniodini.com/codice-fiscale/
Mostly Here
Identità e codice fiscale
Alcune riflessioni e una proposta a margine dell'Anagrafe nazionale della popolazione residente
Ho appena fatto la seconda dose di vaccino: eterologa con Moderna dopo aver fatto AstraZeneca 81 giorni fa. Ho chiesto alla dottoressa se potevo farmi il selfie (si può, basta non riprenderla) e lei mi ha regalato anche la spilletta "vaccinato!". Se però il Wi-Fi a casa adesso non prende più mi arrabbio...
Scherzi a parte, vacciniamoci dai così la finiamo con questa cosa del Covid! Dai!
Secondo ITV News, Il secondo servizio di informazione britannico dopo la BBC, Amazon distrugge tonnellate di prodotti ogni giorno perché "è il suo modello di business". Pensateci, durante il primenday.
Money quote: "Under cover filming from inside Amazon's Dunfermline warehouse reveals the sheer scale of the waste: Smart TVs, laptops, drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones, computer drives, books galore, thousands of sealed face masks – all sorted into boxes marked “destroy”."
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds
Money quote: "Under cover filming from inside Amazon's Dunfermline warehouse reveals the sheer scale of the waste: Smart TVs, laptops, drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones, computer drives, books galore, thousands of sealed face masks – all sorted into boxes marked “destroy”."
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds
La mancanza di movimento uccide milione di persone ogni anno e un miliardo e mezzo di persone sono al di sotto di tutti gli standard medici per il movimento fisico. È un problema che non ha tanto a che fare con il carattere e l'indole delle persone, è facile dire che uno "è pigro", quanto con come le persone vengono educate, come le alimentiamo, in quale clima e geografia vivono e soprattutto come progettiamo il mondo attorno a loro. (hint: male)
Money quote: "Inactivity is currently the world’s fourth leading cause of death. It's a problem often confused and conflated with laziness and personal choice, but in reality the issue is geographic, systemic, and woven into the structure of modern living.
In short: if we want to fix our increasingly sedentary world, we have to redesign it."
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/03/30/inactivity-kills-millions-but-movement-is-the-miracle-pill-that-could-save-people-and-plan
Money quote: "Inactivity is currently the world’s fourth leading cause of death. It's a problem often confused and conflated with laziness and personal choice, but in reality the issue is geographic, systemic, and woven into the structure of modern living.
In short: if we want to fix our increasingly sedentary world, we have to redesign it."
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/03/30/inactivity-kills-millions-but-movement-is-the-miracle-pill-that-could-save-people-and-plan
euronews
Activity is the ‘miracle pill’ that could save both people and planet
We spoke with Peter Walker about his new book The Miracle Pill & how increasing activity could help the environment too.
Andare controcorrente. Fare giochi solo testuali, ad esempio.
Money quote: "In an industry obsessed with photorealistic graphics, focus-tested gameplay, and ever-evolving open worlds, Twine’s simplicity felt liberating. It imbued games with the DIY spirit of homemade zines, many of them weirder, sharper, and queerer than their mainstream counterparts. According to some of its biggest fans, Twine was nothing short of a revolution."
https://www.theverge.com/22321816/twine-games-history-legacy-art
Money quote: "In an industry obsessed with photorealistic graphics, focus-tested gameplay, and ever-evolving open worlds, Twine’s simplicity felt liberating. It imbued games with the DIY spirit of homemade zines, many of them weirder, sharper, and queerer than their mainstream counterparts. According to some of its biggest fans, Twine was nothing short of a revolution."
https://www.theverge.com/22321816/twine-games-history-legacy-art
The Verge
Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming
The “Twine revolution” may have come and gone, but its legacy lives on.