Esplode la voglia di bike-sharing hi-tech - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/esplode-la-voglia-bike-sharing-hi-tech/

Bye bye Firebug, il tool di analisi del codice live e in tempo reale dentro Firefox arriva a fine vita. Si poteva monitorare codice e CSS, Html e Javascript, ma anche editare e debuggare. All'epoca, si aprì un mondo. Il mese prossimo, finisce un'epoca.

Money quote: "The story of Firefox and Firebug is synonymous with the rise of the web. We fought the good fight and changed how developers inspect HTML and debug JS in the browser. Firebug ushered in the Web 2.0 era. Today, the work pioneered by the Firebug community over the last 12 years lives on in Firefox Developer Tools."

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/saying-goodbye-to-firebug/

Reiventare la ruota potrebbe avere senso. Se uno fosse davvero in grado di farlo, però. C'è chi ci sta provando, ma secondo me più che riuscire nel suo intento, come risultato collaterale ci aiuta a capire che in realtà ci sono problemi che dovremmo affrontare e risolvere. Ad esempio, l'idea di documento e l'idea di foglio di calcolo, che hanno quarant'anni e non sono più in sincronia con le tecnologie attuali.

Money quote: "Mehrotra began to fixate on a question: what would documents and spreadsheets look if they were invented today?

Coda, a company Mehrotra co-founded with his fellow former Googler Alex DeNeui, represents his answer to that question. The company, which is announcing a private beta today after three years of secret development, makes a collaborative document editor that combines a word processor and a spreadsheet. It’s a versatile tool that Mehrotra hopes will find a home in companies where diverse teams need regular access to shared sets of data, but want to view and manipulate that data on their own terms."

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16497444/coda-spreadsheet-krypton-shishir-mehrotra

Evviva Massimo Cirri

Money quote: "Ho preso una multa a Mantova e l’ho presa male"

http://www.ilpost.it/massimocirri/2017/10/27/comunque-ho-pagato/

Un recensione della fotocamera (ottima, devo dire) dell’iPhone 8 Plus e qualche trucco. Belle foto scattate in India

Money quote: “I really enjoyed playing with Portrait Lighting. There are a couple of quick tips/tricks I picked up to make the most of it, so I recorded a screen capture for you (also new in iOS 11) to explain”

http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-8-camera-review-india

Il futuro non sono gli uffici open space: andremo tutti al bar a lavorare. La considero una grande vittoria personale. È il momento di aprire un bar con piscina riscaldata?

Money quote: “La futurologa Nicola Millard, esperta di dati, analisi e tecnologie emergenti ha previsto che i dipendenti diventeranno "operai con lo zaino in spalla", ovvero si porteranno il lavoro sempre dietro e, armati di portatile o tablet, collaboreranno in piccoli team in caffè o "coffices", una via di mezzo tra un bar e un ufficio. I grandi spazi condivisi su cui hanno puntato molte aziende per incentivare la collaborazione a conti fatti si sono rivelati deleteri”

http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2017/10/02/news/in_ufficio_l_open_space_non_funziona_meglio_lavorare_al_bar-177163291

Come impedire al MacBook di spegnersi quando va in pausa - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/impedire-al-macbook-spegnersi-va-pausa/

Librem 5, l’unico ibrido telefono-computer sicuro al mondo - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/signore-signori-librem-5-lunico-ibrido-telefono-computer-sicuro-al-mondo/

L’alba della rivoluzione dei documenti - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/lalba-della-rivoluzione-dei-documenti/

In prova l’adattatore Usb-C SD e mini SD card Aukey - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/prova-ladattatore-usb-c-sd-mini-sd-card-aukey/

Il populismo si basa su grandi semplificazioni e grandi affermazioni, tutte con il punto esclamativo. Ma, se facciamo un passo ulteriore e andiamo a vedere la complessità sottostante, cosa troviamo? Da una fonte piuttosto particolare, cioè Morgan Stanley, l’analista per l’ambiente fa il suo compito con lucidità e in modo completo.

Money quote: “Now that President Trump has announced his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement, what does it mean for the stated goals of the accord, and what might be the impact on markets and investors?

To put it simply, very little changes. Current country commitments are already insufficient to hold global warming to under 2° Celsius from preindustrial levels, the stated goal of the accords. We acknowledge the possible risk that other countries could follow suit in withdrawing from the agreement, but none has voiced this yet, while Europe and China are doubling down. In fact, President Trump's decision diverges from what many companies and investors have been signaling lately. Further, we reiterate our view that most sectors are currently driven by economics and technology rather than policy”

http://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/us-path-after-paris-agreement

Simo il paese del fumetto, spiega Matteo Stefanelli

Money quote: “Dalla Valle d’Aosta alla Sicilia, ogni settimana in Italia si svolge almeno una rassegna dedicata al fumetto. Al punto che proprio nell’ultimo anno sono stati calcolati gli impatti economici delle principali fra queste, dopo oltre un quindicennio di costante crescita annuale: per Napoli Comicon si tratta di una cifra superiore ai 13 milioni di euro, mentre per Lucca Comics & Games si parla di 27,5 milioni di euro.”

http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/people/2017/10/30/news/l_italiano_nelle_nuvole-179760490

Una fabbrica grande quanto l’Europa - Il mio articolo su Airbus per Nova24 del Sole 24 Ore

http://nova.ilsole24ore.com/esperienze/una-fabbrica-grande-quanto-leuropa/

Un vecchio classico per gli amanti della sicurezza, una di quelle cose che ha sempre un certo impatto sugli utenti finali. Ecco cosa succede a pubblicare sui social le foto dei propri biglietti aerei...

Money quote: “I've known Petr Mára for few years now, he's a nice guy. He's a speaker, trainer, video blogger, and deploys iOS & macOS wherever possible. And also loves to travel. He and his wife went to Hong Kong to celebrate her birthday in May 2016 but Petr didn't say for how long they'd enjoy the city. And of course I had to know. It was this moment when I'd noticed that there's a booking reference YJVFKG and some other barcode on boarding passes posted by Petr on Instagram before their departure. You better not publish your booking reference or any other codes or barcodes from your boarding passes or any tickets in general.”

https://www.michalspacek.com/post-a-boarding-pass-on-facebook-get-your-account-stolen

Non mi ero accorto che, tra quando ho letto questo articolo un po’ di giorni fa e la sua pubblicazione qui adesso, l’autore ha deciso di rimuoverlo per ragioni legali. Per fortuna che c’è internet archive... grazie a Manfredi per la segnalazione

https://web.archive.org/web/20170927045104/https://www.michalspacek.com/post-a-boarding-pass-on-facebook-get-your-account-stolen

Il lavoro di lobby del governo americano su quello neonato spagnolo nel 2008 per contrastare la pirateria digitale. Asimmetrico e indebito è dire poco.

Money quote: “Whatever you think of the resulting legislation, the process was grotesque: the Spanish film industry got one of its officials into power, then promoted a tough new law backed by the threats (and even active lobbying) of the US government—though the US didn't take the same measures itself.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/how-the-us-convinced-spain-to-adopt-internet-censorship/

Il disastro ambientale non ha limiti. E la parte microscopica è quella realmente drammatica.

Money quote: "Researchers believe the majority of the contamination comes from microfibres and single-use plastics such as water bottles, items that comprise the majority of plastic waste. Up to 12.7m tonnes of plastic enters the world’s oceans every year, equivalent to dumping one garbage truck of plastic per minute into the world’s oceans, according to the United Nations."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/08/sea-salt-around-world-contaminated-by-plastic-studies

Una biblioteca di libri sulla magia e l'occultismo: tutti i trucchi del mondo

Money quote: "It sounds fantastical enough to have been created by Terry Pratchett or J.K. Rowling, but the Conjuring Arts Research Center is very much real, and one of the world’s greatest collections of books dedicated to the deceptive arts."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/conjuring-arts-research-center

Il problema delle AI è molto mondano, triviale: che dati sono stati usati per l'addestramento?

Money quote: ““It’s important that we be transparent about the training data that we are using, and are looking for hidden biases in it, otherwise we are building biased systems,” Giannandrea added. “If someone is trying to sell you a black box system for medical decision support, and you don’t know how it works or what data was used to train it, then I wouldn’t trust it.””

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608986/forget-killer-robotsbias-is-the-real-ai-danger/

Nella mia infanzia c'è uno zio meraviglioso che da bambino mi affascinò con i giochi da tavolo, soprattutto i wargame. Questa campagna del Nord Africa è un oggetto mitologico di cui avevo saputo la storia per poi dimenticarla. È straordinaria: il gioco più lungo da completare: 1500 ore. Dentro c'è un mondo

Money quote: "The thick, black-and-white rulebook packaged with every copy of the 1979 war-game The Campaign For North Africa is full of obtuse decrees, but the tabletop community always had a special appreciation for entry 52.6 - affectionately known as the “macaroni rule.” The Italian troops in World War II were outfitted with noodle rations, and in the name of historical dogma, the player responsible for the Italians is required to distribute an extra water ration to their forces, so that their pasta may be boiled. Soldiers that do not receive their “pasta point” may immediately become “disorganized,” rendering them useless in the field. It’s a fact of life really: if the Italians can’t boil their pasta, the Italians may desert.

It was a joke, by the way. Richard Berg, the legendary game designer and author of The Campaign For North Africa, says so himself. He’ll happily admit that this was an unreasonable game for unreasonable people, but still, a pasta point? There’s attention to detail, and then there’s taking the piss. As Berg explains, the rule wasn’t even entirely factually accurate. “The reality is that the Italians cooked their pasta with the tomato sauce that came with the cans,” he says. “But I didn’t want to do a rule on that.” Yes, at the pinnacle of North Africa’s ridiculous excess, even Berg couldn’t help but poke a little fun at the obsessives in his wake."

https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-hours-to-compl-1818510912