The Sandbagger è una vecchia serie televisiva britannica degli anni Settanta. Prima di quella “famosa” tratta dai romanzi di LeCarré, The Sandbagger è un piccolo monumento all’ingegno della televisione “povera” in Europa. Si ricorda di più fuori dai confini della perfida Albione perché la lingua è conosciuta /e automaticamente, si ritrova anche in rete). Quacosa di buono da guardare, dice un insolito retro-recensore.
Money quote: “It’s smart, dense, layered, and varied. Norwegian intelligence needs help recovering a downed spy plane. A Middle Eastern prince asks for support in a coup against his father’s government. A psychoanalyst is using his practice as a front for double agents. A sandbagger is trapped behind enemy lines in Russia. Another sandbagger wants to quit so he can settle down and get married. In every situation, director of operations Neil Burnside has to make a decision.”
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2017/08/27/tinker-tailor-soldier-sandbagger-sometimes-tv-70s-holds/
Money quote: “It’s smart, dense, layered, and varied. Norwegian intelligence needs help recovering a downed spy plane. A Middle Eastern prince asks for support in a coup against his father’s government. A psychoanalyst is using his practice as a front for double agents. A sandbagger is trapped behind enemy lines in Russia. Another sandbagger wants to quit so he can settle down and get married. In every situation, director of operations Neil Burnside has to make a decision.”
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2017/08/27/tinker-tailor-soldier-sandbagger-sometimes-tv-70s-holds/
Quarter to Three
Tinker, tailor, soldier, Sandbagger: sometimes TV from the 70s holds up - Quarter to Three
From watching The Sandbaggers, I have come to appreciate two things. The first is Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade’s ode to bad British genre TV from the 70s is hilarious even if you don’t know bad British genre TV from the 70s.…
Si è procurato un computer mostruoso a 24-core e non riesce neanche a muovere il mouse. Windows 10, una certezza...
Money quote: "Amdahl’s law says that if you throw enough cores at your problem then the parts that cannot be parallelized will eventually dominate execution. When my work machine has been heavily used for a few days this serialization issue gets bad enough that process-shutdown becomes a significant part of my distributed build times – and more cores can’t help with that. In order to get maximum build speeds (and if I want to move my mouse while doing builds) I need to reboot my machine every few days. Even then my build speeds are not as fast as they should be, and Windows 7 starts to look tempting.
In fact, adding more cores to my workstation makes the UI less responsive. That is because Chrome’s build system is smart enough to spawn more processes if you have more cores, which means that there are more terminating processes fighting over the global lock. So it’s not just “24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse” it’s “24-core CPU and therefore I can’t move my mouse.”"
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/
Money quote: "Amdahl’s law says that if you throw enough cores at your problem then the parts that cannot be parallelized will eventually dominate execution. When my work machine has been heavily used for a few days this serialization issue gets bad enough that process-shutdown becomes a significant part of my distributed build times – and more cores can’t help with that. In order to get maximum build speeds (and if I want to move my mouse while doing builds) I need to reboot my machine every few days. Even then my build speeds are not as fast as they should be, and Windows 7 starts to look tempting.
In fact, adding more cores to my workstation makes the UI less responsive. That is because Chrome’s build system is smart enough to spawn more processes if you have more cores, which means that there are more terminating processes fighting over the global lock. So it’s not just “24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse” it’s “24-core CPU and therefore I can’t move my mouse.”"
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/
Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson
24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
This story begins, as they so often do, when I noticed that my machine was behaving poorly. My Windows 10 work machine has 24 cores (48 hyper-threads) and they were 50% idle. It has 64 GB of RAM an…
Giorgio Cavazzano compie 50 anni di storie Disney e Fumettologica ne racconta magnificamente la carriera.
Money quote: "Sempre con Marconi Cavazzano produce, fra le altre, anche Topolino in: “Ho sposato una strega” (uno dei casi più eclatanti di censura retroattiva in ambito Disney), parodia del quasi omonimo film di René Clair, e Topolino Presenta “La Strada”, trasposizione un po’ sciapa e svuotata di ogni ambiguità del film di Federico Fellini, realizzata su richiesta dello stesso regista e che il disegnatore trasforma in un appassionato omaggio grafico al Topolino classico di Gottfredson."
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/08/giorgio-cavazzano-50-anni-disney/
In più c'è il link per vedere anche venti delle sue storie migliori:
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/08/giorgio-cavazzano-migliori-storie-disney/
Money quote: "Sempre con Marconi Cavazzano produce, fra le altre, anche Topolino in: “Ho sposato una strega” (uno dei casi più eclatanti di censura retroattiva in ambito Disney), parodia del quasi omonimo film di René Clair, e Topolino Presenta “La Strada”, trasposizione un po’ sciapa e svuotata di ogni ambiguità del film di Federico Fellini, realizzata su richiesta dello stesso regista e che il disegnatore trasforma in un appassionato omaggio grafico al Topolino classico di Gottfredson."
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/08/giorgio-cavazzano-50-anni-disney/
In più c'è il link per vedere anche venti delle sue storie migliori:
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/08/giorgio-cavazzano-migliori-storie-disney/
Fumettologica
Giorgio Cavazzano, 50 anni di storie Disney
50 anni fa su Topolino usciva il fumetto che diede il via alla carriera di Giorgio Cavazzano, uno dei più grandi autori italiani Disney (e non).
Fughe di notizie Apple, dall'Ape Operaia allo spione di URL: così la storia (forse non) si ripete - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-alla-fine-dellepoca-della-segretezza/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-alla-fine-dellepoca-della-segretezza/
Macitynet.it
Fughe di notizie Apple, dall'Ape Operaia allo spione di URL: così la storia (forse non) si ripete - Macitynet.it
La golden master di iOS 11 “rubata” su internet rovina in un colpo solo (quasi) tutte le sorprese del keynote di domani. In futuro cambia il modo con cui Cupertino gestirà i suoi prodotti in sviluppo?
La natura fa sempre bene alla salute, anche quando è digitale - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/09/10/tecnologia/idee/la-natura-fa-sempre-bene-alla-salute-anche-quando-digitale-VpcGrcWnhg9n2tqpeGX9FO/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/09/10/tecnologia/idee/la-natura-fa-sempre-bene-alla-salute-anche-quando-digitale-VpcGrcWnhg9n2tqpeGX9FO/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
La natura fa sempre bene alla salute, anche quando è digitale
Da Zelda ai documentari della BBC fino alla realtà virtuale, la ricerca di ambientazioni e scenari ispirati al mondo intorno a noi porta sempre effetti positivi sulla psiche e sul corpo. Ma non sostituisce la realtà
Gli infliencers, che poi sono quelli che fanno i soldi sulle piattaforme social e muovono le cose per le piattaforme stesse, stanno migrando da Snapchat a Instagram. Un fenomeno epocale.
Money quote: “Snapchat’s lack of public user data has made it less hospitable for buzz-building types. Its parent company doesn’t seem to mind”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/instagram-embraces-the-influencers-snapchat-spurns
Money quote: “Snapchat’s lack of public user data has made it less hospitable for buzz-building types. Its parent company doesn’t seem to mind”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/instagram-embraces-the-influencers-snapchat-spurns
Bloomberg.com
Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money
The disappearing-message service kept it tough for users to measure their audience. Facebook’s service swooped in.
Newspaper permette di leggere in modo intelligente le pagine web dentro il terminale. Non male.
https://github.com/desmondhume/newspaper
https://github.com/desmondhume/newspaper
GitHub
desmondhume/newspaper
Read webpages in readability mode, inside your terminal. - desmondhume/newspaper
Reportage fotografico di una professione del futuro: minatore di BitCoin in Cina
Money quote: "In 2016, Chinese photographer Liu Xingzhe spent time in China’s bitcoin mines and with the miners themselves, who monitor the vast hallways of machines producing cryptocurrency for various clients. According to Liu, miners typically live in company dormitories for days at a time—not unlike the mining towns of yore—only occasionally traveling dozens of miles to the nearest town."
https://qz.com/1026605/photos-chinas-bitcoin-mines-and-miners/
Money quote: "In 2016, Chinese photographer Liu Xingzhe spent time in China’s bitcoin mines and with the miners themselves, who monitor the vast hallways of machines producing cryptocurrency for various clients. According to Liu, miners typically live in company dormitories for days at a time—not unlike the mining towns of yore—only occasionally traveling dozens of miles to the nearest town."
https://qz.com/1026605/photos-chinas-bitcoin-mines-and-miners/
Quartz
Photos: Life inside of China’s massive and remote bitcoin mines
Taking advantage of the cheap and plentiful hydroelectric power that an army of computers require, bitcoin mining is spreading in remote parts of China’s Sichuan province. In dark and isolated warehouses, bitcoin mining machines hum along solving equations…
Decifrata la lettera dettata dal demonio grazie a software dei servizi segreti americani trafugati sul web. Cosa dice? Minchiate, sostanzialmente.
Money quote: "IN 1676, SISTER MARIA CROCIFISSA della Concezione had an infernal conversation with the Devil. When she came to her senses, the nun, who lived at a convent in Palma di Montechiaro in Sicily, found she had written letters in an indecipherable language. She and her sisters believed the letters were the work of Satan, who had tried to turn her away from God."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-hidden-message-letter-dictated-devil-nun-17th-century
Money quote: "IN 1676, SISTER MARIA CROCIFISSA della Concezione had an infernal conversation with the Devil. When she came to her senses, the nun, who lived at a convent in Palma di Montechiaro in Sicily, found she had written letters in an indecipherable language. She and her sisters believed the letters were the work of Satan, who had tried to turn her away from God."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-hidden-message-letter-dictated-devil-nun-17th-century
Atlas Obscura
Found: The Hidden Message in a 1676 Letter Allegedly Dictated by the Devil
Code-breaking software deciphers a strange missive penned by a 17th-century nun.
I Wanna Be Your Lover: l’inizio del Fantasy Animation è uno spettacolare articolo di storia invisibile, più che di storia pop minore. Racconta la scalcagnata epopea di Guido Manuli, della fantasy animation e di cose che riguardano i Rondà Veneziano, la discomusic italiana e l'Aida degli Alberi. Epocale.
Money quote: "Nell’autunno del 1980, nelle hit parade italiane, come in Rai sulla Disco Ring presentata da Jocelyn, veniva più volte presentato I Wanna Be Your Lover, l’ultimo video del 45 giri dei La Bionda, un duo musicale molto in voga negli anni ’70, fra gli ideatori della discomusic italiana. Il cortometraggio in animazione è interamente firmato da Guido Manuli, per l’agenzia di Walter & Giovanni con le scenografie di Antonio Dall’Osso e distribuito dalla Baby Records.
Un videoclip strano, ancora acerbo rispetto ai successivi, nel quale Manuli aveva già intuito le possibilità di un nuovo linguaggio: quello del cinema d’animazione giapponese."
https://www.rapportoconfidenziale.org/?p=35789
Money quote: "Nell’autunno del 1980, nelle hit parade italiane, come in Rai sulla Disco Ring presentata da Jocelyn, veniva più volte presentato I Wanna Be Your Lover, l’ultimo video del 45 giri dei La Bionda, un duo musicale molto in voga negli anni ’70, fra gli ideatori della discomusic italiana. Il cortometraggio in animazione è interamente firmato da Guido Manuli, per l’agenzia di Walter & Giovanni con le scenografie di Antonio Dall’Osso e distribuito dalla Baby Records.
Un videoclip strano, ancora acerbo rispetto ai successivi, nel quale Manuli aveva già intuito le possibilità di un nuovo linguaggio: quello del cinema d’animazione giapponese."
https://www.rapportoconfidenziale.org/?p=35789
Nel mondo degli affari negli Usa c'è un ritorno alla spiritualità e al senso della comunità che fa un po' impressione. Sembra che siano tornati tutti bambini e aspettino che la torta si raffreddi sul davanzale della fattoria di nonna papera.
Money quote: "For example, a few days ago I spent the entire morning praying, thinking deeply, listening to inspirational music, and writing in my journal. A few hours into this process, an idea came to me that is absolute gold"
https://www.inc.com/benjamin-p-hardy/if-youre-too-busy-for-these-5-things-your-life-is-.html
Money quote: "For example, a few days ago I spent the entire morning praying, thinking deeply, listening to inspirational music, and writing in my journal. A few hours into this process, an idea came to me that is absolute gold"
https://www.inc.com/benjamin-p-hardy/if-youre-too-busy-for-these-5-things-your-life-is-.html
Inc.com
If You're Too Busy for These 5 Things, Your Life Is More Off Course Than You Think
Despite turbulence and other conditions keeping airplanes off course 90 percent of flight time, most flights arrive in the correct destination at the intended time.
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
🌳🌲#Ambiente #Beniculturali
Dopo Piemonte, Liguria, Friuli, anche la Regione Toscana ha approvato l’elenco degli alberi monumentali. Si tratta di un elenco di 55 alberi che per caratteristiche, dimensioni, età o interesse storico rappresentano un vero e proprio ‘monumento’ della natura da salvaguardare e tutelare. L’elenco toscano, così come quello di altre regioni, sarà inserito nel registro nazionale, secondo quanto previsto dalla legge 10 del 2013. Se poi volete scoprire dove si trovano i principali alberi monumentali italiani e cogliere l’occasione per organizzare escursioni davvero speciali, potete consultare questa mappa.
Dopo Piemonte, Liguria, Friuli, anche la Regione Toscana ha approvato l’elenco degli alberi monumentali. Si tratta di un elenco di 55 alberi che per caratteristiche, dimensioni, età o interesse storico rappresentano un vero e proprio ‘monumento’ della natura da salvaguardare e tutelare. L’elenco toscano, così come quello di altre regioni, sarà inserito nel registro nazionale, secondo quanto previsto dalla legge 10 del 2013. Se poi volete scoprire dove si trovano i principali alberi monumentali italiani e cogliere l’occasione per organizzare escursioni davvero speciali, potete consultare questa mappa.
Il Cittadino Online
Alberi monumentali: istituito l’elenco regionale, sì alla delibera
Approvati a maggioranza la proposta di delibera e l’ordine del giorno collegato per la salvaguardia della Quercia delle Checche, presentato da Scaramelli e Bezzini
La tecnologia abilita il lavoro a distanza? Forse no.
Money quote: "At the same time, work has also become more team-based. Only 38 percent of companies are "functionally" organized today with workers grouped together by job type, a 2016 Deloitte survey found. Most comprise collaborative groups that shift depending on the work. Deloitte found that one California organization was made up of over 30,000 constantly shifting teams. "I think that’s why we’re seeing remote work come back in," said Erica Volini, a U.S. Human Capital Leader at Deloitte. "In order to work in teams, you need a higher level of collaboration." "
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/the-rise-and-fall-of-working-from-home
Money quote: "At the same time, work has also become more team-based. Only 38 percent of companies are "functionally" organized today with workers grouped together by job type, a 2016 Deloitte survey found. Most comprise collaborative groups that shift depending on the work. Deloitte found that one California organization was made up of over 30,000 constantly shifting teams. "I think that’s why we’re seeing remote work come back in," said Erica Volini, a U.S. Human Capital Leader at Deloitte. "In order to work in teams, you need a higher level of collaboration." "
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/the-rise-and-fall-of-working-from-home
Bloomberg.com
The Rise and Fall of Working From Home
The permanent telecommuter is going extinct.
La prossima, eccezionale rivoluzione? Interfaccia neuronale e dintorni. Usare (quasi) la mente per controllare gli apparecchi. Altro che Siri.
Money quote: “You could be blasting a hundred words a minute on your smart phone with your hands in your pockets. In fact, just before Reardon did his mind-fuck demo, I watched his cofounder, Patrick Kaifosh, play a game of Asteroids on his iPhone. He had one of those weird armbands sitting between his wrist and his elbows. On the screen you could see Asteroids as played by a decent gamer, with the tiny spaceship deftly avoiding big rocks and spinning around to blast them into little pixels. But the motions Kaifosh was making to control the game were barely perceptible: little palpitations of his fingers as his palm lay flat against the tabletop. It seemed like he was playing the game only with mind control. And he kind of was.”
https://www.wired.com/story/brain-machine-interface-isnt-sci-fi-anymore/
Money quote: “You could be blasting a hundred words a minute on your smart phone with your hands in your pockets. In fact, just before Reardon did his mind-fuck demo, I watched his cofounder, Patrick Kaifosh, play a game of Asteroids on his iPhone. He had one of those weird armbands sitting between his wrist and his elbows. On the screen you could see Asteroids as played by a decent gamer, with the tiny spaceship deftly avoiding big rocks and spinning around to blast them into little pixels. But the motions Kaifosh was making to control the game were barely perceptible: little palpitations of his fingers as his palm lay flat against the tabletop. It seemed like he was playing the game only with mind control. And he kind of was.”
https://www.wired.com/story/brain-machine-interface-isnt-sci-fi-anymore/
WIRED
The Brain-Machine Interface Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore | Backchannel
This startup lets you control machines with your mind—no implants required.
Non lo sapevo, ma esiste una versione solo testuale del sito della Cnn. Dovrebbero farla tutti i siti di informazione, magari aggiungendo anche qualche immagine piccola piccola, che non pesi tanto. E azzerare quei baracconi pieni di pubblicità, pannelli, tracker, video che partono da soli e tutto il resto
Money quote: “Breaking News, Latest News and Videos”
http://lite.cnn.io/en
Money quote: “Breaking News, Latest News and Videos”
http://lite.cnn.io/en
La sorpresa del Keynote Apple? Non è stata rovinata dal solito guastafeste - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/la-sorpresa-non-stata-rovinata-dal-solito-guastafeste/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-sorpresa-non-stata-rovinata-dal-solito-guastafeste/
Macitynet.it
La sorpresa del Keynote Apple? Non è stata rovinata dal solito guastafeste - Macitynet.it
La fuga di notizie dell’Ape Operaia non basta a mandare a pallino la festa dei dieci anni di iPhone e l’inaugurazione dello Steve Jobs Theatre
iTunes addio vecchie amiche app - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/itunes-addio-alle-app-si-scaricano-solo-ios/
https://www.macitynet.it/itunes-addio-alle-app-si-scaricano-solo-ios/
Macitynet.it
iTunes addio vecchie amiche app - Macitynet.it
Apple elimina la sezione App Store da iTunes: ora per il software jukebox tuttofare per Mac e PC inizia una nuova esistenza
Volete mollare per sempre Facebook, cancellando il vostro account “once and forever”? Qui c’è spiegato tutto e il link per andare nella pagina giusta, più un po’ di info su cosa in realtà succeda dietro le quinte e cosa veramente venga cancellato.
Money quote:
Your account will be ‘deactivated’ for two weeks. After this period it will be permanently deleted.
Do not login to your account during this time. It will cancel the deletion request.
Do not be fooled into switching to a deactivation request. Deactivation is NOT deletion.
Consider an account deletion epitaph to notify friends of your departure.
http://www.deletefacebook.com/
Money quote:
Your account will be ‘deactivated’ for two weeks. After this period it will be permanently deleted.
Do not login to your account during this time. It will cancel the deletion request.
Do not be fooled into switching to a deactivation request. Deactivation is NOT deletion.
Consider an account deletion epitaph to notify friends of your departure.
http://www.deletefacebook.com/
Delete Facebook
Delete Facebook. Permanent Account Deletion.
How to permanently delete a Facebook account. Clear instruction and official deletion page link. Deactivation is NOT deletion. #deletefacebook
Avete presente Winnie The Pooh? La foresta che ha ispirato la sua storia si trova poco fuori Londra ed è visitabile
Money quote: "Five Hundred Acre Wood is the place that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood, the magical place in which a fictionalized version of A. A. Milne’s son, Christopher Robin, had adventures with Winnie the Pooh and friends."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/five-hundred-acre-wood
Money quote: "Five Hundred Acre Wood is the place that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood, the magical place in which a fictionalized version of A. A. Milne’s son, Christopher Robin, had adventures with Winnie the Pooh and friends."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/five-hundred-acre-wood
Atlas Obscura
The Forest That Inspired 'Winnie-the-Pooh's' Hundred Acre Wood
Forty miles south of London, the forest is just as enchanting as it was in the days of Christopher Robin.
Harrison Ford intervistato da GQ: photoshooting con i suoi stessi vestiti anziché con abiti di scena, e già questo fa storia a sé. Ma sappiamo che Ford anche a 75 anni è una leggenda, no? E l'intervista è davvero notevole.
Money quote: "“It's always better,” he says, over a breakfast frittata in Boston, “not to talk about it, I think. Just fucking do it. Don't ’splain it. Especially if you're getting away with it.”
As I am his breakfast companion today, and as he's here to be interviewed, this doesn't seem like a promising trajectory. I feel obliged to remind him that I am in the ’splain business.
“Yeah,” he says, with that gravelly drawl. “I know.”"
https://www.gq.com/story/harrison-ford-gq-cover-story-2017
Money quote: "“It's always better,” he says, over a breakfast frittata in Boston, “not to talk about it, I think. Just fucking do it. Don't ’splain it. Especially if you're getting away with it.”
As I am his breakfast companion today, and as he's here to be interviewed, this doesn't seem like a promising trajectory. I feel obliged to remind him that I am in the ’splain business.
“Yeah,” he says, with that gravelly drawl. “I know.”"
https://www.gq.com/story/harrison-ford-gq-cover-story-2017
GQ
Harrison Ford on ‘Star Wars’, ‘Blade Runner’, and Punching Ryan Gosling in the Face
Since the dawn of Hollywood, no movie star has seemed to need stardom—or movies—less than Harrison Ford.