Un piccolo errore nella gestione dei backup e gli hacker rendono pubblico tutto il loro piccolo tesoro di trucchi, strumenti e indirizzi

Money quote: “Vickery had discovered everything. From Hipchat logs and domain registration records, to accounting details, infrastructure planning and production notes, scripts, and business affiliations. In addition, Vickery uncovered 1.34 billion email accounts. These are the accounts that will receive spam, or what RCM calls offers. Some of these records also contained personal information, such as full names, physical addresses, and IP addresses.”

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3176433/security/spammers-expose-their-entire-operation-through-bad-backups.html

La crisi di Cathay Pacific è un indicatore della ben più profonda e sotterranea crisi di Hong Kong. È la conseguenza della crescita strepitosa e incontenibile della Cina

Money quote: ““Cathay and Hong Kong have been dwarfed, completely overwhelmed, by China’s growth,” said Shukor Yusof, founder of aviation consulting firm Endau Analytics in Malaysia. “China doesn’t need Hong Kong as a gateway. Its position has become a lot less important than 10 years ago.””

https://skift.com/2017/03/16/cathay-pacifics-fortune-is-inextricably-tied-to-popularity-of-hong-kong-tourism/

Hackerati gli smartphone dei vip di Hollywood - il mio articolo per Macity

Money quote: “Online tutte le foto rubate delle star di Hollywood. Tra le vittime illustri, l’iPhone 6s dell’attrice britannica Emma Watson, celebre nel mondo per la saga Harry Potter”

http://www.macitynet.it/hackerati-gli-smartphone-dei-vip-hollywood/

🙋🏻‍♂️ 👬 🏘 #InnovazioneSociale #Anziani
Tra poche settimane il quartiere Foce di Genova potrà contare su un portiere di comunità. Si chiamerà “Mani-man” (in dialetto “non sia mai”) e ricorda un po' l’esperienza parigina “Lulu dans ma rue”, di cui abbiamo parlato tempo fa. ”Mani-man” sarà un portiere sociale che aiuterà a risolvere quelle piccole incombenze quotidiane che spesso affliggono le persone più anziane (piccole spese, lavori di manutenzione, pagamenti di bollette, ecc.). Il suo ‘ufficio’ sarà nella piazza del mercato, in una vecchia edicola del quartiere. Il progetto è promosso dalla cooperativa Agorà, dal Comune, dall’associazione degli amministratori condominiali, con il sostegno della Compagnia di S. Paolo.

La scandalosa vita sessuale dei pinguini e i loro moralisti osservatori umani.

Money quote: "his clip’s massive popularity and outsized response—according to Nat Geo News, hundreds of thousands of people watched it the day it was released—rides on the apparent ridiculousness of the pairing: all this blood-soaked drama from penguins? But if you look back at the history of human-penguin relations, this clip isn’t really an anomaly. Over and over, through centuries of shifting scientific standards and evolving social mores, humans have been scandalized by penguins"

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/penguin-sex-mating-habits

Mi hanno colto completamente di sorpresa ma, a pensarci bene, era abbastanza ovvio. Un font che cambia dinamicamente a seconda del contesto in cui viene usato.

Money quote: "Typing with Futuracha Pro, designed by graphic designer Odysseas Galinos Paparounis of Greek branding agency høly, is no static, predictable experience. That’s because the font responds to context, flipping between different letter designs depending on the makeup of a word. It’s chameleonic and mesmerizing to watch in action ― and the result can make anyone’s typing look like the work of a practiced designer."

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58bd7f65e4b0d2821b4f8d1d

Un vero e proprio tesoro che da martedì è in parte diventato pubblico. Centinaia di video della guerra fredda sugli esperimenti nucleari che sono stati declassificati, digitalizzati e messi in rete dal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Money quote: “The films, uploaded to the lab’s YouTube account, are part of a trove of some 10,000 that have been in storage since they were originally shot between 1945 and 1962, and had been held in secure vaults since then.”

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nuclear-physicist-bomb-videos

Le cose in Scozia si fanno interessanti, dicono. Dopo che il premier britannico ha detto che si opporrà a un nuovo referendum separatista, gli scozzesi hanno annunciato che faranno un nuovo Vallo di Adriano.

Tutto questo nei libri di storia ovviamente non ci finirà mai se non in modo incidentale. Questo è il privilegio di vivere oggi: essere sommersi da queste notizie.

Money quote: "“We never get the best of them coming across the border. No, it’s just the Tories and the other canvassing politicians – there are some good ones, too, I assume,” she told reporters.

“That’s why I’m going to build a wall, a great wall. It’s going to be so great.

“And best of all, England is going to pay for it. Yes, they are. They might say they’re not, but they will be. Yes they will.”"

http://newsthump.com/2017/03/16/nicola-sturgeon-announces-plans-to-rebuild-hadrians-wall-and-england-is-going-to-pay-for-it/

Poi una volta tutta questa bellezza della scrittura e della tecnologia assieme, dovremmo prenderla di petto e rimetterla al centro, per capirla meglio. Prima che i pionieri siano morti tutti. Perché concetti come il “narrative movement” e il positional sound” sono troppo belli per non lasciare una traccia permanente nella nostra cosmogonia. Per adesso buona lettura nel fine settimana

Money quote: "A number of institutions have constructed CAVEs, which are primarily used for scientific research and visualization. Brown University’s Center for Computation and Development installed a CAVE in 1998, and in 2002 the Cave Writing workshop was initiated by Robert Coover, novelist, hypertext fiction writer and co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization. These workshops mark a significant and innovative use of an immersive virtual reality environment for interdisciplinary textual research and artistic experimentation. The Cave Writing workshop at Brown facilitates the collaboration of undergraduate and graduate students, writers and programmers, artists and scientists from a number of different fields. The initial objectives of the workshop included introducing text, positional sound, and narrative movement into what was predominantly a visual, silent, and spatial environment. The focus was to explore the word in an immersive, virtual context."

http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/research-project/research-clearinghouse-individual/research-reports/cavewriting-and-the-cave-simulator-3

http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/research-project/research-clearinghouse-individual/objects-for-study-individual/new-reading-interfaces-objects/noah-wardrip-fruin-et-al-screen

Mai più senza memoria, con la chiavetta per iPhone che si collega alla Usb-C del Mac - la mi recensione per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2017/03/17/tecnologia/prove/mai-pi-senza-memoria-con-la-chiavetta-per-iphone-che-si-collega-alla-usbc-del-mac-kiUnuciK4auXZY73vkkLJP/pagina.html

Trello ci ha provato ma non ce l’ha fatta: la storia di come poteva diventare un unicorno, un’azienda da un miliardo e più di dollari, ma invece non c’è riuscita (e hanno venduto tutto ad Atlassian per 425 milioni). Lettura del fine settimana neanche troppo tecnica che dietro però spiega molto, molto bene il nodo delle startup. A questa è andata comunque bene, ma se stringete il punto di vista, vi ritrovate in un attimo nell’ordine di grandezza dei mille euro.

Money quote: “Trello was so focused on building its free customer base first and monetizing later; by the time it looked to its paid subscribers, it was too late—they’d already moved on. While that makes Trello a perfect complement to Atlassian’s suite of enterprise productivity tools, it hampered the company from growing further on its own.”

https://producthabits.com/why-trello-failed-to-build-a-1-billion-business/

Ok, e adesso se volete deprimervi veramente veramente tanto, eccolo qui, il missile terra-terra. Astraete un attimo: pensate non al programmatore (se non siete programmatori) ma all’autore, al giornalista, al creativo, al designer, all’architetto, all’innovatore. E adesso ascoltate con mente aperta la sua rapida e triste storia

Money quote: “Well I've been trying to run before I could walk. I've been so utterly distracted by 'shiny things'; i.e new technologies, new frameworks, new languages, new approaches... I've effectively learnt how to start a new project in a thousand different ways. But I've never actually learnt how to finish what I've started.”

http://ewanvalentine.io/how-to-never-complete-anything/

A Bodega Bay, nord di San Francisco, c’è uno spazio emozionante, una torre campanaria, che è nato per l’uccisione di un bambino americano in Italia

Money quote: “The Children’s Bell Tower, just off Highway 1, is dedicated to all children, but was erected as a memorial for one young boy, named Nicholas Green. During a visit to Italy in 1994, seven-year-old Nicholas was killed in a botched armed robbery, their family car mistaken for a jeweler’s. Nicholas’s parents donated his organs and corneas, and seven Italian patients (four of whom were only teenagers themselves) received the precious gift from Nicholas.”

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/childrens-bell-tower

Magari vi capita di prendere l’aereo. C’è Wallet di Apple per iPhone che è il contenitore naturale per i biglietti elettronici. Magari non è intuitivo arrivarci perché molte compagnie aree passano prima dalla propria app, ma si può fare praticamente con tutti o quasi. Eccolo qui, spiegato bene.

Lo metto nel mio canale perché, anche se non siete dei viaggiatori abituali sicuramente vi capiterà - magari nelle prossime settimane o questa estate - di viaggiare un po’ in aereo. E i cambiamenti sono notevoli, perché ormai si può fare tutto con il telefonino, dalla prenotazione al check-in fino al biglietto. Solo bisogna organizzarsi un po’ prima. Qui c’è praticamente tutto.

Money quote: “I’m sure many of you are nodding your heads in agreement, or wondering why I’m telling you all this. I’m no frequent flyer, so I’m sure that these improvements have been obvious to road warriors for a while. But I wanted to document how to do all this because I saw a lot of people still relying on paper boarding passes on that last trip. The experience of relying on an iPhone is so good, and so much better than dealing with paper, that if you’ve avoided it so far, I urge you to give it a try next time. But feel free to print a paper boarding pass as a backup until you’re comfortable with using your iPhone instead!”

http://tidbits.com/e/17103#comments

Viviamo nell'Antropocene, iniziato sessant'anni fa e forse destinato a concludersi drammaticamente in pochi decenni

Money quote: "The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee. Hutton posited that geological features were shaped by cycles of sedimentation and erosion, a process of lifting up then grinding down rocks that required timescales much grander than those of prevailing Biblical narratives. This dizzying Copernican shift threw both God and man into question. ‘The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time,’ was how John Playfair, a scientist who accompanied Hutton on several crucial expeditions, described the effect of looking over the stratified promontory of Siccar Point in Scotland."

https://aeon.co/ideas/deep-time-s-uncanny-future-is-full-of-ghostly-human-traces

Se dovete rispondere a delle eamil in inglese e vi serve un template (magari per quelle mail in cui siete oltretutto in ritardo) questo è un ottimo punto di partenza

Money quote: “Sorry for the delayed response. I opened your e-mail on my phone while my date was in the bathroom, but then I saw that it required more than a “yes” or “no” reply, decided that was too much work, marked it as unread, and then forgot about it entirely until just now!”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/sorry-for-the-delayed-response

Un’intervista di un po’ di tempo fa del Believer con Robert Coover. Se ricordate il link di ieri l’altro su CAVE, era lui.

Old Money Quote “A number of institutions have constructed CAVEs, which are primarily used for scientific research and visualization. Brown University’s Center for Computation and Development installed a CAVE in 1998, and in 2002 the Cave Writing workshop was initiated by Robert Coover, novelist, hypertext fiction writer and co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization.”

New Money Quote: “The post–World War II era was a transformative time for American literature. It brought, among many other things, postmodernism, metafiction, and maximalism. Most often grouped with other muscular male writers like Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, William H. Gass, and John Barth, Robert Coover was one of the prominent practitioners of this period, publishing the wildly controversial The Public Burning (a Cold War phantasmagoria that includes Richard Nixon masturbating to Ethel Rosenberg) as well as countless other ecstatically weird, daring books.”

http://www.believermag.com/issues/201508/?read=interview_coover

Un racconto breve, “Life-Hacking Isabel”, così, per alleggerire la lettura sempre di saggistica, saggistica, saggistica, almeno la domenica

Money quote: “Looking at her calendar, she saw there were two more consultations this week. Her phone began vibrating and dancing on her desk. There it is. What’s the story? Oh, his team will be working late. They’re ordering in. Who does he think he’s fooling? He thinks I am stupid. I know everything. She said all of this aloud as if she was having a conversation with her phone and the computer screen.”

https://medium.com/the-junction/life-hacking-isabel-4760f363c1dc#.qlz9v0oku

Long form domenicale: dietro casa mia hanno costruito un bolide di cemento armato che oggi è occupato da Microsoft e dalla sua idea di “Smart working” della quale non sono convinto. Qui ne parlo diffusamente e direi criticamente.

Money quote: “La costruzione del palazzo, opera dello studio internazionale di architettura Herzog & de Meuron, è stata abbastanza combattuta nella zona: ci sono voluti anni, riunioni su riunioni con i cittadini, per arrivare ad avere un blocco di sei piani che prendesse il posto di un enorme vivaio che abitava lo spazio di risulta del giro delle vecchie mura spagnole. Alla fine l’obiettivo, ammesso che fosse questo, è stato raggiunto: creare una struttura mastodontica, abbastanza sgraziata, che sembra il rendering di se stessa. Tutti i giornali che hanno parlato della nuova casa di Microsoft all’indomani dell’inaugurazione, sottolineano (come da comunicato stampa) che il palazzo ha 832 vetrate, ma in realtà ha un numero impressionante di campate di cemento a vista sulla facciata. E si notano.”

http://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2017/03/19/la-microsoft-house/