Apple, perché non ti decidi tra Lightning e USB-C? - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-perche-non-ti-decidi-tra-lightning-e-usb-c/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-perche-non-ti-decidi-tra-lightning-e-usb-c/
macitynet.it
Apple, perché non ti decidi tra Lightning e USB-C?
Apple, Hardware Apple, Lightining, Opinioni, USB, USB-C
C'è una nuvola all'orizzonte: è una crisi che ha a che fare con i cervelli bolliti dalla costante mancanza del numero corretto di ore di sonno. Perché c'è un numero corretto, e c'è il solito gruppo di scienziati americani che ha creato la perfetta cornice del problema, per poi farci la ricerca accademica orientata, la ricerca medicale, la medicina, la terapia, la startup e tutto il resto. Intanto, la gente dorme sempre meno perché ha sempre più da fare e da consumare, come scimmiette nelle gabbie sempre illuminate dei laboratori o maiali/pollame negli allevamenti intensivi
Money quote: "History is full of productive and powerful people, from Mozart to Thomas Edison, who claimed to sleep just four hours per night. But anyone trying to sleep-hack their way to greatness should be warned: The rare ability to succeed on so little sleep is a genetic trait, not a feat of will or skill. Sleep scientists at UC San Francisco are working to decode the relevant genes and find answers. By improving sleep, they hope to not only help you sleep better but also resolve a hidden public health crisis."
https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/why-cant-i-sleep
Money quote: "History is full of productive and powerful people, from Mozart to Thomas Edison, who claimed to sleep just four hours per night. But anyone trying to sleep-hack their way to greatness should be warned: The rare ability to succeed on so little sleep is a genetic trait, not a feat of will or skill. Sleep scientists at UC San Francisco are working to decode the relevant genes and find answers. By improving sleep, they hope to not only help you sleep better but also resolve a hidden public health crisis."
https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/why-cant-i-sleep
Why Can’t I Sleep? | UCSF Magazine
Why Can’t I Sleep?
Insomnia is miserable, and lost sleep can harm our health. Now, researchers are seeing the promise of solutions in our genes.
La strategia tutta cloud di Satya Nadella - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/la-strategia-tutta-cloud-di-satya-nadella/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-strategia-tutta-cloud-di-satya-nadella/
macitynet.it
La strategia tutta cloud di Satya Nadella
Cloud, Internet, Microsoft, Opinioni, PC Windows, Protagonisti, Satya Nadella, Windows
"La proprietà è un mezzo furto" è un vecchio articolo che avevo scritto una dozzina di anni da per una rivista che oggi non c'è più. Una storia che vale la pena rileggere
https://antoniodini.com/proprieta-mezzo-furto/
https://antoniodini.com/proprieta-mezzo-furto/
Mostly Here
La proprietà è un mezzo furto
Doveva studiare il passaggio all’economia di mercato dei socialismi reali. Dopo dieci anni di analisi un autorevole giurista americano è arrivato alla conclusione che non ti aspetti: troppa proprietà privata fa male e i beni pubblici vanno difesi
Non ho la più pallida idea di quali parte di questo articolo riprendere qui. È di un ingegnere di AWS, parla della cultura dei documenti di Amazon, del fatto che debba tutto essere scritto. Sembra un articolo di un topino felice di poter dire di vivere nelle fogne di New York e mangiare, beh, quello che viene giù nelle fogne di New York. Se fate leggere questa cosa a qualcuno che ha una vita da qualche parte e magari un lavoro che non sia quello di fare l'ingranaggio, prova orrore. Se non lo provate, siete quell'ingranaggio.
Money quote: "I’ve said multiple times that Amazon has the foundation for a great remote-first company. The document-based process provides employees in multiple timezones the same context as someone in Seattle. The discussions in meetings enable faster feedback loops, but the downside is they can limit the potential for asynchronous engagements if notes and questions aren’t captured in the document.
I’ve never had the benefit of attending an Amazon meeting in person. From what I’ve heard document-centered meetings have been extremely successful in transitioning to remote requirements. But the content isn’t the only thing that matters."
https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-03-15-the-document-culture-of-amazon
Money quote: "I’ve said multiple times that Amazon has the foundation for a great remote-first company. The document-based process provides employees in multiple timezones the same context as someone in Seattle. The discussions in meetings enable faster feedback loops, but the downside is they can limit the potential for asynchronous engagements if notes and questions aren’t captured in the document.
I’ve never had the benefit of attending an Amazon meeting in person. From what I’ve heard document-centered meetings have been extremely successful in transitioning to remote requirements. But the content isn’t the only thing that matters."
https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-03-15-the-document-culture-of-amazon
Justin Garrison
The Document Culture of Amazon
A look at Amazon's culture of writing and reading
La sicurezza che si raggiunge attraverso la trasformazione degli individui in qualcosa di peggio. Il sistema in generale è inerentemente malato, la dimostrazione è nel tipo di soluzioni che troviamo
Money quote: "When I worked in a Big American Bank, they were very worried about employees being phished by baddies on the internet. In order to build up sufficient apprehension around incoming emails the bank decided to repeatedly phish its own employees: deliberately sending false emails that would trick you into taking action. Clicking on a link or opening the attachment automatically enrolled you in a particularly miserable piece of mandatory training on information security, as a punishment. The bank's phishing emails were pretty convincing and I had to repeat the training course a few times before gaining a deep distrust of email hyperlinks.
I think they were on the right lines. The best defence against frauds and scams seems to be a kind of "intellectual vaccination" via repeated exposure to benign, non-functional specimens."
https://calpaterson.com/fraud.html
Money quote: "When I worked in a Big American Bank, they were very worried about employees being phished by baddies on the internet. In order to build up sufficient apprehension around incoming emails the bank decided to repeatedly phish its own employees: deliberately sending false emails that would trick you into taking action. Clicking on a link or opening the attachment automatically enrolled you in a particularly miserable piece of mandatory training on information security, as a punishment. The bank's phishing emails were pretty convincing and I had to repeat the training course a few times before gaining a deep distrust of email hyperlinks.
I think they were on the right lines. The best defence against frauds and scams seems to be a kind of "intellectual vaccination" via repeated exposure to benign, non-functional specimens."
https://calpaterson.com/fraud.html
calpaterson.com
No general method to detect fraud
The parts of a convincing deception
La mia newsletter Mostly Weekly di domenica scorsa è online (scusate il ritardo). Intanto, finisco di preparare quella di domani. Si va avanti anche per l'estate
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/weekly/archivio/123.html
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/weekly/archivio/123.html
Buona domenica. Anche questa settimana la mia newsletter Mostly Weekly è partita per le inbox di qualche migliaio di fortunati lettori (la maggior parte dei quali secondo me non la vedranno mai perché finita dritta nello spam).
Per i curiosi che vogliono capire cosa si perdono, oltre al numero della scorsa settimana segnalo anche ai meno esplorativi e intraprendenti che c’è una pagina di archivio “quasi” completa. Quasi.
https://antoniodini.com/archivio/
Per i curiosi che vogliono capire cosa si perdono, oltre al numero della scorsa settimana segnalo anche ai meno esplorativi e intraprendenti che c’è una pagina di archivio “quasi” completa. Quasi.
https://antoniodini.com/archivio/
Mostly Here
Archivio
Questo è l'archivio della mia newsletter settimanale, Mostly Weekly
Ma ci avete mai pensato a cosa succede in realtà con tutto quello che stiamo facendo con il digitale? Voglio dire: a suo tempo l'invenzione della stampa a caratteri mobili ha portato alla diffusione dei libri, alla capacità di leggere in strati sempre più ampi della popolazione, al protestantesimo, ai giornali quotidiani, a milioni di cose che hanno costruito letteralmente una società diversa. Cosa sta facendo il digitale, adesso, sotto i nostro occhi, con una velocità molto più alta e una continua accelerazione?
Money quote: "Every time you use Google to look up the answer to a question that your grandmother would have simply resigned herself to never knowing, you “data-age” at an exponential pace. We used to have to wait for answers to arrive in due course. Now we simply accelerate time and pull them from the future forward into the present.
Every time you use an auto-complete writing tool like TextSpark.ai you are drawing on a vast pool of reading and writing experience equivalent to hundreds if not thousands of years of human life experience. Such tools could allow you to write like no human has ever written before.
Every time you use a digital notetaking or knowledge management tool (which I call a Second Brain), you are pushing and pulling bits of information through Artificial Time. Instead of drawing from only the immediately available lessons of the recent past, you are harnessing the intellectual output of years. You are not only smarter, but experientially wiser."
https://fortelabs.co/blog/artificial-time
Money quote: "Every time you use Google to look up the answer to a question that your grandmother would have simply resigned herself to never knowing, you “data-age” at an exponential pace. We used to have to wait for answers to arrive in due course. Now we simply accelerate time and pull them from the future forward into the present.
Every time you use an auto-complete writing tool like TextSpark.ai you are drawing on a vast pool of reading and writing experience equivalent to hundreds if not thousands of years of human life experience. Such tools could allow you to write like no human has ever written before.
Every time you use a digital notetaking or knowledge management tool (which I call a Second Brain), you are pushing and pulling bits of information through Artificial Time. Instead of drawing from only the immediately available lessons of the recent past, you are harnessing the intellectual output of years. You are not only smarter, but experientially wiser."
https://fortelabs.co/blog/artificial-time
Forte Labs
Artificial Time
We've been led to believe that we are at the precipice of an Artificial Intelligence explosion.Yet the progress in our digital assistants and self-driving
I migliori libri per creare un corso o insegnare online - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-creare-un-corso-o-insegnare-online/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-creare-un-corso-o-insegnare-online/
macitynet.it
I migliori libri per creare un corso o insegnare online
ebook, Libri
Vaccinarsi o comprare un pass falsificato che oltretutto costa 200 dollari? Per qualche singolare motivo, c'è un mercato dei falsi certificati di vaccinazione.
Money quote: "It only took me several seconds to discover three channels—essentially, streams of information and updates that anyone can search for, and subscribe to—advertising fake vaccine records in English. One of them, “Covid19 vaccine cards certificate” has more than 400,000 followers. I reached out to the channel owner pretending to be a buyer and figured out that the CDC vaccine card, filled in with my information, would cost $200. (That’s nearly 200 times more expensive than cards were going for on Amazon in June, as NPR found; those cards have since been removed.)"
https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/vaccine-cards-covid-scam-fake.html
Money quote: "It only took me several seconds to discover three channels—essentially, streams of information and updates that anyone can search for, and subscribe to—advertising fake vaccine records in English. One of them, “Covid19 vaccine cards certificate” has more than 400,000 followers. I reached out to the channel owner pretending to be a buyer and figured out that the CDC vaccine card, filled in with my information, would cost $200. (That’s nearly 200 times more expensive than cards were going for on Amazon in June, as NPR found; those cards have since been removed.)"
https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/vaccine-cards-covid-scam-fake.html
Slate Magazine
Inside the Weird, Thriving World of Fake Vaccine Cards
For $200, a scammer will even promise to get your info into an official database.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
In questi giorni, 30 anni fa, usciva il primo numero di "Bone" di Jeff Smith, fumetto fantasy dall’afflato epico, comico e avventuroso, nonché una delle autoproduzioni più di successo di sempre.
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/07/bone-jeff-smith-fumetto/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/07/bone-jeff-smith-fumetto/
Fumettologica
L’impresa di Bone
A 30 anni dalla sua nascita, Bone continua a essere un classico del fumetto americano, ma la strada per il successo fu lunga e difficile.
La promessa di Google e Facebook è che i dati raccolti per il tracciamento e la monetizzazione siano anonimizzati. C'è un intero settore di aziende il cui lavoro (e fonte di profitto) è de-anonimizzare i dati e rivenderli. Stanno facendo un sacco di soldi
Money quote: ""We have one of the largest repositories of current, fresh MAIDS<>PII in the USA," Brad Mack, CEO of data broker BIGDBM told us when we asked about the capabilities of the product while posing as a customer. "All BIGDBM USA data assets are connected to each other," Mack added, explaining that MAIDs are linked to full name, physical address, and their phone, email address, and IP address if available. The dataset also includes other information, "too numerous to list here," Mack wrote."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnmvz/industry-unmasks-at-scale-maid-to-pii
Money quote: ""We have one of the largest repositories of current, fresh MAIDS<>PII in the USA," Brad Mack, CEO of data broker BIGDBM told us when we asked about the capabilities of the product while posing as a customer. "All BIGDBM USA data assets are connected to each other," Mack added, explaining that MAIDs are linked to full name, physical address, and their phone, email address, and IP address if available. The dataset also includes other information, "too numerous to list here," Mack wrote."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnmvz/industry-unmasks-at-scale-maid-to-pii
VICE
Inside the Industry That Unmasks People at Scale
Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.
Arriva BBEdit 14, e l'editor di testi diventa un IDE - Il mio articolo per Macity su un software molto speciale (peccato che non ci sia anche per iPad)
https://www.macitynet.it/arriva-bbedit-14-e-leditor-di-testi-diventa-una-ide/
https://www.macitynet.it/arriva-bbedit-14-e-leditor-di-testi-diventa-una-ide/
macitynet.it
Arriva BBEdit 14, e l’editor di testi diventa un IDE
App Mac
NSO, azienda israeliana di sorveglianza, cracca da remoto i telefoni senza dire niente e installa software di sorveglianza. Nel 2016 lo ha fatto per migliaia di apparecchi, da attivisti a giornalisti passando per politici e rappresentanti delle istituzioni di tutto il mondo. Come si fa a scoprire se il proprio telefono è stato hackerato?
Money quote: "The numbers on the list are unattributed, but reporters were able to identify more than 1,000 people spanning more than 50 countries through research and interviews on four continents: several Arab royal family members, at least 65 business executives, 85 human rights activists, 189 journalists, and more than 600 politicians and government officials — including cabinet ministers, diplomats, and military and security officers. The numbers of several heads of state and prime ministers also appeared on the list.
Among the journalists whose numbers appear on the list, which dates to 2016, are reporters working overseas for several leading news organizations, including a small number from CNN, the Associated Press, Voice of America, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Le Monde in France, the Financial Times in London and Al Jazeera in Qatar."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones/
Money quote: "The numbers on the list are unattributed, but reporters were able to identify more than 1,000 people spanning more than 50 countries through research and interviews on four continents: several Arab royal family members, at least 65 business executives, 85 human rights activists, 189 journalists, and more than 600 politicians and government officials — including cabinet ministers, diplomats, and military and security officers. The numbers of several heads of state and prime ministers also appeared on the list.
Among the journalists whose numbers appear on the list, which dates to 2016, are reporters working overseas for several leading news organizations, including a small number from CNN, the Associated Press, Voice of America, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Le Monde in France, the Financial Times in London and Al Jazeera in Qatar."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones/
Washington Post
Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide
Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and two women close…
La Nuova Milano nel "Ramiro" di Frekt e Luca Albanese - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/07/ramiro-frekt-luca-albanese-poliniani/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/07/ramiro-frekt-luca-albanese-poliniani/
Fumettologica
La Nuova Milano nel "Ramiro" di Frekt e Luca Albanese
Recensione di Ramiro. Una vita da lucertola, il primo di due album scritti da Frekt e disegnati da Luca Albanese, editi da Poliniani.
La nuova carica di scorta presentata da Apple - Il mio articolo per Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2021/07/21/magsafe-battery-pack/
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2021/07/21/magsafe-battery-pack/
Il Post
La nuova carica di scorta presentata da Apple
Un piccolo oggetto non bellissimo (è la "gobba" dell'iPhone) che si sta rivelando molto utile
I community network sono reti wireless mesh fatte per dare internet a chi non ce l'ha o a chi non può permettersi le tariffe da strozzinaggio dei carrier americani (molto più cari dei nostri). A New York City la pratica è molto interessante. Se guardate la donazione suggerita, è più alta delle nostre tariffe medie: immaginatevi i prezzi commerciali.
Money quote: "n New York, like most big cities, the wealthier a neighborhood is, the more options for internet service its residents probably have — and the more incentive for providers in those areas to compete on service and price. On some blocks on the Upper West Side, residents can choose among four carriers. In Brownsville, Mr. Cambridge could choose between Altice or Optimum — which is owned by Altice. Verizon’s fiber-optic service, Fios, is supposed to be available on every city block, which in theory would spur more competition, but that has yet to happen.
While a fiber connection remains the gold standard, “fixed wireless” options like the rooftop routers used by NYC Mesh can deliver a signal that is plenty strong for most residential uses and usually much faster and cheaper to deploy. NYC Mesh has a subsidized option for installations, and members pay a suggested monthly donation of $20 to $60."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/nyregion/nyc-mesh-community-internet.html
Money quote: "n New York, like most big cities, the wealthier a neighborhood is, the more options for internet service its residents probably have — and the more incentive for providers in those areas to compete on service and price. On some blocks on the Upper West Side, residents can choose among four carriers. In Brownsville, Mr. Cambridge could choose between Altice or Optimum — which is owned by Altice. Verizon’s fiber-optic service, Fios, is supposed to be available on every city block, which in theory would spur more competition, but that has yet to happen.
While a fiber connection remains the gold standard, “fixed wireless” options like the rooftop routers used by NYC Mesh can deliver a signal that is plenty strong for most residential uses and usually much faster and cheaper to deploy. NYC Mesh has a subsidized option for installations, and members pay a suggested monthly donation of $20 to $60."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/nyregion/nyc-mesh-community-internet.html
NY Times
‘Welcome to the Mesh, Brother’: Guerrilla Wi-Fi Comes to New York
NYC Mesh, a band of a few dozen tech volunteers, takes on Verizon and the big “incumbent providers,” with the promise of inexpensive community internet.