Cosa cambia dopo Meltdown e Spectre: la velocità è tutto, buona pace alla sicurezza - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/cosa-cambia-meltdown-spectre/
https://www.macitynet.it/cosa-cambia-meltdown-spectre/
Macitynet.it
Cosa cambia dopo Meltdown e Spectre: la velocità è tutto, buona pace alla sicurezza - Macitynet.it
Perché i due exploit sono possibili e cosa succederà adesso, dopo che sono stati scoperti. La falla dei processori di computer, smartphone e tablet mostra i limiti della ricerca totale della velocità, anche a scapito della sicurezza
Molto interessante. Se volete conoscere il funzionamento di un sistema operativo partendo da dieci concetto chiavetta, l’ottica dello sviluppatore di questo articolo è perfetta e non è troppo tecnico: il livello di astrazione è alto. Penultima segnalazione della giornata perché richiede tempo per essere digerita.
Money quote: “What is an Operating System?
But first, let’s define what an operating system is. An Operating System (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware and provides services for programs. Specifically, it hides hardware complexity, manages computational resources, and provides isolation and protection. Most importantly, it directly has privilege access to the underlying hardware.
Major components of an OS are the file system, scheduler, and device driver. You probably have used both Desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux) and Embedded (Android, iOS) operating systems before.
There are three key elements of an operating system, which are: (1) Abstractions (process, thread, file, socket, memory), (2) Mechanisms (create, schedule, open, write, allocate), and (3) Policies (LRU, EDF).”
https://codeburst.io/how-operating-systems-work-10-concepts-you-should-know-as-a-developer-8d63bb38331f
Money quote: “What is an Operating System?
But first, let’s define what an operating system is. An Operating System (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware and provides services for programs. Specifically, it hides hardware complexity, manages computational resources, and provides isolation and protection. Most importantly, it directly has privilege access to the underlying hardware.
Major components of an OS are the file system, scheduler, and device driver. You probably have used both Desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux) and Embedded (Android, iOS) operating systems before.
There are three key elements of an operating system, which are: (1) Abstractions (process, thread, file, socket, memory), (2) Mechanisms (create, schedule, open, write, allocate), and (3) Policies (LRU, EDF).”
https://codeburst.io/how-operating-systems-work-10-concepts-you-should-know-as-a-developer-8d63bb38331f
Medium
How Operating Systems Work: 10 Concepts you Should Know as a Developer
Do you speak binary? Can you comprehend machine code? If I gave you a sheet full of 1s and 0s, could you tell me what it means/does? If you…
Da tre anni utilizzo un sistema di backup remoto per il mio computer portatile. Ho passato un sacco di tempo a cercarne uno che mi convincesse sia dal punto di vista delle funzionalità che del costo e alla fine ho scelto BackBlaze.
Costa 95 dollari ogni due anni, cioè 3,95 dollari al mese, e permette di fare backup illimitato per un computer: questo vuol dire che fa il backup anche di tutti i dischi esterni connessi fisicamente alla macchina, basta che li "veda" online almeno una volta al mese (altrimenti li considera cancellati e li toglie dal backup centrale). Con una buona connessione il processo di upload del primo backup è rapido (tre giorni per i miei 500 GB di roba) e non impatta significativamente sulla performance, dopodiché i backup successivi sono progressivi e praticamente invisibile. Si può decidere cosa mettere o no nel backup e il recupero dei file avviene tramite interfaccia web oppure, pagando, ci si può far spedire un drive a domicilio.
Non è il mio backup principale (per quello uso la Time Capsule di casa) ma è il piano B, quello "continuo", quello che funziona anche in viaggio e che, dato che salva offsite, mi fa da assicurazione sul futuro dei miei dati in caso di problemi a casa (dal virus al ladro che si frega la Time Capsule al disco che si rompe proprio quando ti rubano il portatile).
Diciamo che pago poco per un servizio ottimo che spero di non dover mai usare.
Vi consiglio di provarlo.
Ancora per due giorni BackBlaze fa una promozione: se usate il mio referral, potete fare tre mesi di prova gratuita senza impegno (e io altrettanti, scalati dal prezzo del mio piano di 24 mesi). Se non lo considerassi uno strumento estreamemente utile, non ve lo consiglierei. A prescindere dal mio referral, dateci un occhio e magari provate.
https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01ti3i
Costa 95 dollari ogni due anni, cioè 3,95 dollari al mese, e permette di fare backup illimitato per un computer: questo vuol dire che fa il backup anche di tutti i dischi esterni connessi fisicamente alla macchina, basta che li "veda" online almeno una volta al mese (altrimenti li considera cancellati e li toglie dal backup centrale). Con una buona connessione il processo di upload del primo backup è rapido (tre giorni per i miei 500 GB di roba) e non impatta significativamente sulla performance, dopodiché i backup successivi sono progressivi e praticamente invisibile. Si può decidere cosa mettere o no nel backup e il recupero dei file avviene tramite interfaccia web oppure, pagando, ci si può far spedire un drive a domicilio.
Non è il mio backup principale (per quello uso la Time Capsule di casa) ma è il piano B, quello "continuo", quello che funziona anche in viaggio e che, dato che salva offsite, mi fa da assicurazione sul futuro dei miei dati in caso di problemi a casa (dal virus al ladro che si frega la Time Capsule al disco che si rompe proprio quando ti rubano il portatile).
Diciamo che pago poco per un servizio ottimo che spero di non dover mai usare.
Vi consiglio di provarlo.
Ancora per due giorni BackBlaze fa una promozione: se usate il mio referral, potete fare tre mesi di prova gratuita senza impegno (e io altrettanti, scalati dal prezzo del mio piano di 24 mesi). Se non lo considerassi uno strumento estreamemente utile, non ve lo consiglierei. A prescindere dal mio referral, dateci un occhio e magari provate.
https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01ti3i
Nell'edizione 2017 dei migliori canali Telegram stilata da Appelmo (che non ho idea di chi sia) e per la quale alcuni di voi hanno votato nei giorni scorsi, compare anche Mostly, I Write. La lista è valida a prescindere, intendiamoci. Lusinga che ci sia anche questo canale. A me colpisce soprattutto il commento che parla di me e di questo canale (ho il premio della critica ex aequo con Rachele Zinzocchi)
Money quote: "Mostly, I Write è il canale del giornalista Antonio Dini, autore su numerose testate (tra cui il Post e il Sole 24 Ore) di articoli ed approfondimenti sulla tecnologia; nonostante (o forse proprio grazie a) questo background professionale, il canale di Dini si dimostra atipico persino nel panorama dei canali Telegram incentrati su un unico personaggio, e da questi gestito. Proprio evitando di identificarsi nella figura del divulgatore tecnologico – d’altronde né il nome né l’immagine di riferimento del canale possono a lui ricondurlo – Dini riesce ad evitare di suscitare una noia profonda nel lettore (come spesso accade) realizzando l’equivalente digitale dello “stream of consciousness” di joyciana memoria, una sequenza interminabile di contenuti a tema tecnologico provenienti dalle fonti più oscure ad un normale fruitore. A volte misteriosi sino a rasentare l’esoterismo proprio al lettore medio, ma tutti terribilmente interessanti e frutto evidentemente di un impressionante bagaglio culturale sull’argomento, la cura e la pazienza dimostrata nella gestione del canale (spinto dalla passione, e magari anche dall’ego) ci portano persino a perdonare la principale passione di Dini: Apple."
http://www.appelmo.com/2018/01/09/i-migliori-canali-telegram-edizione-2017/
Money quote: "Mostly, I Write è il canale del giornalista Antonio Dini, autore su numerose testate (tra cui il Post e il Sole 24 Ore) di articoli ed approfondimenti sulla tecnologia; nonostante (o forse proprio grazie a) questo background professionale, il canale di Dini si dimostra atipico persino nel panorama dei canali Telegram incentrati su un unico personaggio, e da questi gestito. Proprio evitando di identificarsi nella figura del divulgatore tecnologico – d’altronde né il nome né l’immagine di riferimento del canale possono a lui ricondurlo – Dini riesce ad evitare di suscitare una noia profonda nel lettore (come spesso accade) realizzando l’equivalente digitale dello “stream of consciousness” di joyciana memoria, una sequenza interminabile di contenuti a tema tecnologico provenienti dalle fonti più oscure ad un normale fruitore. A volte misteriosi sino a rasentare l’esoterismo proprio al lettore medio, ma tutti terribilmente interessanti e frutto evidentemente di un impressionante bagaglio culturale sull’argomento, la cura e la pazienza dimostrata nella gestione del canale (spinto dalla passione, e magari anche dall’ego) ci portano persino a perdonare la principale passione di Dini: Apple."
http://www.appelmo.com/2018/01/09/i-migliori-canali-telegram-edizione-2017/
AppElmo - Le App di Guglielmo
I Migliori Canali Telegram – Edizione 2017
Quali sono i migliori canali Telegram in Italia del 2017? Quali canali hanno saputo dimostrare costanza, impegno, qualità nelle pubblicazioni e un'originalità fuori dal comune? Ve lo spieghiamo noi con i risultati del concorso per i Migliori Canali Telegram…
Ricordate l’asteroide Oumuamua, quello apparso mesi da all’improvviso nel sistema solare che aveva fatto pensare a una ipotetica visita aliena? Lo abbiamo ascoltato con attenzione e non trasmette niente.
Money quote: “The decision to check ‘Oumuamua for artificial technology came from Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire and tech investor who established and is funding Breakthrough Listen. Astronomers released their first results from the observations in mid-December, based on an analysis of just one chunk of the radio data. “Indeed, nothing has popped up, but we’re busy churning through the data we’ve collected so far,” Andrew Siemion, the director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center who leads its Breakthrough Listen Initiative, said at the time. The latest paper includes the analysis of the full dataset. Still nothing.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/article/550070/
Money quote: “The decision to check ‘Oumuamua for artificial technology came from Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire and tech investor who established and is funding Breakthrough Listen. Astronomers released their first results from the observations in mid-December, based on an analysis of just one chunk of the radio data. “Indeed, nothing has popped up, but we’re busy churning through the data we’ve collected so far,” Andrew Siemion, the director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center who leads its Breakthrough Listen Initiative, said at the time. The latest paper includes the analysis of the full dataset. Still nothing.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/article/550070/
The Atlantic
Aliens Didn't Send That Mysterious Object to Our Solar System After All
Astronomers have found no evidence of radio signals coming from the interstellar asteroid known as ‘Oumuamua.
Quest'uomo è pazzo. Adesso è questa la conversazione su Donald Trump, con una simpatica variazione: era talmente convinto di non vincere che la sua più grande sconfitta (e shock) è stato finirci davvero, alla Casa Bianca.
Money quote: "Not only did Trump disregard the potential conflicts of his own business deals and real-estate holdings, he audaciously refused to release his tax returns. Why should he? Once he lost, Trump would be both insanely famous and a martyr to Crooked Hillary. His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would be international celebrities. Steve Bannon would become the de facto head of the tea-party movement. Kellyanne Conway would be a cable-news star. Melania Trump, who had been assured by her husband that he wouldn’t become president, could return to inconspicuously lunching. Losing would work out for everybody. Losing was winning."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html
Money quote: "Not only did Trump disregard the potential conflicts of his own business deals and real-estate holdings, he audaciously refused to release his tax returns. Why should he? Once he lost, Trump would be both insanely famous and a martyr to Crooked Hillary. His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would be international celebrities. Steve Bannon would become the de facto head of the tea-party movement. Kellyanne Conway would be a cable-news star. Melania Trump, who had been assured by her husband that he wouldn’t become president, could return to inconspicuously lunching. Losing would work out for everybody. Losing was winning."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html
New York
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President
One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
🐎 Per trovare la strada ti serve un mappa https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/10249-7-reasons-why-you-need-a-written-personal-vision-statement
L’etica non si può basare sulla natura umana perché... la natura umana non esiste, come spiega la biologia dell’evoluzione. E allora? Questo articolo è una mazzata per i più filosoficamente inclinati tra di voi.
Money quote: “One time-honoured approach appeals to the idea that our desires are worthy, providing that they stem from our authentic human nature. Daoists, Epicureans and Aristotelians, among other purveyors of ancient wisdom, have all urged us to follow nature. But what could that mean? “
https://aeon.co/essays/how-evolutionary-biology-makes-everyone-an-existentialist
Money quote: “One time-honoured approach appeals to the idea that our desires are worthy, providing that they stem from our authentic human nature. Daoists, Epicureans and Aristotelians, among other purveyors of ancient wisdom, have all urged us to follow nature. But what could that mean? “
https://aeon.co/essays/how-evolutionary-biology-makes-everyone-an-existentialist
Aeon
Natural-born existentialists
Ethics cannot be based on human nature because, as evolutionary biology tells us, there is no such thing
Qualche giorno fa si ragionava di questo: ipotetici effetti di tagli dei cavi sottomarini di Internet causati da sommergibili russi
Money quote: "You don’t notice when a cable faults, especially if you live somewhere like the United States, because your Instagram message or Google Voice call is instantly re-routed. If you’re Skyping with a friend in Romania for instance, and a fishing boat or anchor ruptures a cable—as causes two-thirds of faults—your conversation simply goes over another line. Many regions, like Europe, the United States, and East Asia have numerous cables running over the same path."
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-undersea-internet-cables/
Money quote: "You don’t notice when a cable faults, especially if you live somewhere like the United States, because your Instagram message or Google Voice call is instantly re-routed. If you’re Skyping with a friend in Romania for instance, and a fishing boat or anchor ruptures a cable—as causes two-thirds of faults—your conversation simply goes over another line. Many regions, like Europe, the United States, and East Asia have numerous cables running over the same path."
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-undersea-internet-cables/
WIRED
What Would Really Happen If Russia Attacked Undersea Internet Cables
The world’s internet infrastructure is vulnerable, but snipping a couple of lines is the least of your concerns.
Polaroid di gente ubriaca ad Amsterdam. Un vecchio progetto non banale.
Money quote: “Turns out, taking drunk snapshots of your friends at the bar can actually count as art.”
https://timeline.com/polaroids-of-amsterdam-nightlife-in-the-1970s-follow-a-long-tradition-of-picturing-drunks-475408c10cbb
Money quote: “Turns out, taking drunk snapshots of your friends at the bar can actually count as art.”
https://timeline.com/polaroids-of-amsterdam-nightlife-in-the-1970s-follow-a-long-tradition-of-picturing-drunks-475408c10cbb
Medium
Polaroids of Amsterdam nightlife in the 1970s follow a long tradition of picturing drunks
Tronies over here, tronies over there
Il marchio-feticcio per l'abbigliamento della generazione hipster potrebbe essere questo: Outlier, da San Francisco. Costa caro come il fuoco, ma viene prodotto da due invasati con una passione impossibile da frenare anche dopo anni e anni di magliette e giacchette...
Money quote: "First, they attached a white cotton facing to the merino, marrying aesthetics to function: the merino against your skin, naturally wicking away sweat; the cocaine-white cotton gleaming unto the world. “But then what we realized is, you can't bleach merino,” Burmeister says, visibly aggrieved. “So we were selling this white cotton tee that's great until it gets dirty, and then you're like, Uh-oh.” Recently they asked the fabric mill to apply a stain-resistant treatment to the cotton, obviating the need for bleach. The mill is having a difficult time with the request. It’s probably wondering the same thing as you: Does the world need a better white T-shirt? Or an equally good white T-shirt that is simply more white? But these questions are irrelevant to Clemens and Burmeister. “The compromise part of the market is very well serviced,” Burmeister says. “So we go for the uncompromised.”"
https://www.gq.com/story/outlier-pants-for-the-end-of-the-world
Wired ne parla ancora più diffusamente
Money quote: "Pragmatic, textile-driven design, social media acumen, and supply-chain savvy made Outlier a darling of nerdy, direct-to-consumer technical menswear and an I-see-you signifier among Silicon Valley types. Today Outlier has 22 employees—Burmeister and Clemens are still the sole owners. Fashion business publications have reported its revenue as between $5 million and $15 million, “and we didn’t dispute that,” Burmeister says. Now, 10 years on, Outlier's increasingly experimental experiments are evidence that Burmeister and Clemens aren’t even close to running out of ideas."
https://www.wired.com/story/outlier-tech-clothes/
Money quote: "First, they attached a white cotton facing to the merino, marrying aesthetics to function: the merino against your skin, naturally wicking away sweat; the cocaine-white cotton gleaming unto the world. “But then what we realized is, you can't bleach merino,” Burmeister says, visibly aggrieved. “So we were selling this white cotton tee that's great until it gets dirty, and then you're like, Uh-oh.” Recently they asked the fabric mill to apply a stain-resistant treatment to the cotton, obviating the need for bleach. The mill is having a difficult time with the request. It’s probably wondering the same thing as you: Does the world need a better white T-shirt? Or an equally good white T-shirt that is simply more white? But these questions are irrelevant to Clemens and Burmeister. “The compromise part of the market is very well serviced,” Burmeister says. “So we go for the uncompromised.”"
https://www.gq.com/story/outlier-pants-for-the-end-of-the-world
Wired ne parla ancora più diffusamente
Money quote: "Pragmatic, textile-driven design, social media acumen, and supply-chain savvy made Outlier a darling of nerdy, direct-to-consumer technical menswear and an I-see-you signifier among Silicon Valley types. Today Outlier has 22 employees—Burmeister and Clemens are still the sole owners. Fashion business publications have reported its revenue as between $5 million and $15 million, “and we didn’t dispute that,” Burmeister says. Now, 10 years on, Outlier's increasingly experimental experiments are evidence that Burmeister and Clemens aren’t even close to running out of ideas."
https://www.wired.com/story/outlier-tech-clothes/
GQ
The Radical Vision Behind One Company's Unstoppable Pants
Outlier makes clothes for the future—whatever that future looks like.
La parte più divertente? Il lancio di un modellino di razzo attorno alla mezzanotte. Yuhu! L'articolo pieno di fiele e rivelazioni sconvolgenti relative ai party "sex, drugs and technomusik" pubblicato da Vanity Fair (lo avevo condiviso qualche giorno fa) sembrerebbe essere molto poco accurato. Anzi, inventato si potrebbe dire. Ci sono varie voci che lo sostengono ma quella di Elon Musk è la più forte (anche se c'è un conflitto di interessi, all'apparenza). Da notare che la storia di Wired fa vero e proprio fact checking su quella pubblicata da Vanity, ma entrambe sono testate dello stesso editore Condé Nast.
Money quote: "Elon Musk, whose companies Jurvetson has invested in, confirmed to WIRED that he attended the party but disputed the Vanity Fair article’s “sex party” characterization. He wrote, “Emily Chang’s article was salacious nonsense. She conflated what happens in SF sex clubs in the Tenderloin, which have been around long before Silicon Valley was anything, with boring VC parties on the Peninsula. That is misleading to the public and she should be ashamed. If there are ‘sex parties’ in Silicon Valley, I haven’t seen or heard of one. If you want wild parties, you’re in the wrong place. Obviously. That DFJ party was boring and corporate, with zero sex or nudity anywhere. Nerds on a couch are not a ‘cuddle puddle.’ I was hounded all night by DFJ-funded entrepreneurs, so went to sleep around 1am. Nothing remotely worth writing about happened. The most fun thing was Steve lighting a model rocket around midnight.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/sex-party-or-nerds-on-a-couch-a-night-in-silicon-valley/
Money quote: "Elon Musk, whose companies Jurvetson has invested in, confirmed to WIRED that he attended the party but disputed the Vanity Fair article’s “sex party” characterization. He wrote, “Emily Chang’s article was salacious nonsense. She conflated what happens in SF sex clubs in the Tenderloin, which have been around long before Silicon Valley was anything, with boring VC parties on the Peninsula. That is misleading to the public and she should be ashamed. If there are ‘sex parties’ in Silicon Valley, I haven’t seen or heard of one. If you want wild parties, you’re in the wrong place. Obviously. That DFJ party was boring and corporate, with zero sex or nudity anywhere. Nerds on a couch are not a ‘cuddle puddle.’ I was hounded all night by DFJ-funded entrepreneurs, so went to sleep around 1am. Nothing remotely worth writing about happened. The most fun thing was Steve lighting a model rocket around midnight.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/sex-party-or-nerds-on-a-couch-a-night-in-silicon-valley/
WIRED
'Sex Party' or 'Nerds on a Couch?' A Night in Silicon Valley
Party described in Vanity Fair article and forthcoming book was at a home of Steve Jurvetson, a founding partner of venture-capital firm DFJ who left the firm in November.
Teorie e storie sul perché il pane in centro-Italia (Firenze, Perugia) sia sciapo. È colpa dei pisani, del Papa, o del prosciutto salato? Fa impressione rileggere la propria storia sociale sotto la lente e con lo sguardo di uno straniero, e lo dico da fiorentino, quindi direttamente coinvolto in questa particolare vicenda.
Money quote: "My 90-year-old grandmother, who spent much of her childhood in Poppi, a small town 20 miles from Arezzo in eastern Tuscany, had a much more practical take on the tradition: “Tuscans make saltless bread as everything else is very salty. Cured ham is so salty that we usually eat it with saltless bread and figs that counterbalance the taste. Plus, saltless bread lasts longer.”"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mystery-italy-saltless-bread-trade-wars-salty-hams
Money quote: "My 90-year-old grandmother, who spent much of her childhood in Poppi, a small town 20 miles from Arezzo in eastern Tuscany, had a much more practical take on the tradition: “Tuscans make saltless bread as everything else is very salty. Cured ham is so salty that we usually eat it with saltless bread and figs that counterbalance the taste. Plus, saltless bread lasts longer.”"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mystery-italy-saltless-bread-trade-wars-salty-hams
Atlas Obscura
The Mystery of Italy’s Saltless Bread
Trade wars, papal rebellion, or salty hams. Why does central Italian bread have no salt?
Donald Trump ha fatto il suo nuovo numero da razzista bigotto e uno dei problemi è
Come tradurre correttamente "shithole countries" in altre lingue. Ad esempio “il posto dove gli uccelli fanno le uova”.
Money quote: “Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting on immigration Thursday (Jan. 11) with Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Oval Office. According to several people at the briefing, Trump said, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Instead, he suggested, the US should welcome more people from nations like Norway instead.
Media around the world soon picked up on the remark, but not always in English. In Asia, outlets struggled to translate “shithole countries.” Here are some of their attempts“
https://qz.com/1178232/where-birds-dont-lay-eggs-how-media-in-asia-translated-shithole-countries/
Come tradurre correttamente "shithole countries" in altre lingue. Ad esempio “il posto dove gli uccelli fanno le uova”.
Money quote: “Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting on immigration Thursday (Jan. 11) with Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Oval Office. According to several people at the briefing, Trump said, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Instead, he suggested, the US should welcome more people from nations like Norway instead.
Media around the world soon picked up on the remark, but not always in English. In Asia, outlets struggled to translate “shithole countries.” Here are some of their attempts“
https://qz.com/1178232/where-birds-dont-lay-eggs-how-media-in-asia-translated-shithole-countries/
Quartz
“Where birds don’t lay eggs”: How “shithole countries” was translated
During a meeting, Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations in a way that made headlines around the world. Here's how media in Asia conveyed the remark.
In America sono rimaste pochissime grandi fabbriche di matite. Le fotografie che documentano l’attività della più grande sono ipnotiche.
Money quote: “Payne conveys the incidental beauty of functional machines: strange architectures of chains, conveyor belts, glue pots, metal discs and gears thick with generations of grease. He captures the strangeness of seeing a tool as simple as a pencil disassembled into its even simpler component parts. He shows us the aesthetic magic of scale. Heaps of pencil cores wait piled against a concrete wall, like an arsenal of gray spaghetti. Hundreds of pencils sit stacked in honeycomb towers. Wood shavings fly as fresh pencils are dragged across the sharpening machine, a wheel of fast-spinning sandpaper.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
Money quote: “Payne conveys the incidental beauty of functional machines: strange architectures of chains, conveyor belts, glue pots, metal discs and gears thick with generations of grease. He captures the strangeness of seeing a tool as simple as a pencil disassembled into its even simpler component parts. He shows us the aesthetic magic of scale. Heaps of pencil cores wait piled against a concrete wall, like an arsenal of gray spaghetti. Hundreds of pencils sit stacked in honeycomb towers. Wood shavings fly as fresh pencils are dragged across the sharpening machine, a wheel of fast-spinning sandpaper.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
Nytimes
Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories
A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.
Il CES non ama più Apple - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-ces-non-ama-piu-apple/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-ces-non-ama-piu-apple/
Macitynet.it
Il CES non ama più Apple
Mentre è in corso a Las Vegas la kermesse della tecnologia la presenza indiretta di Apple quest’anno è più debole che mai. Vinceva senza partecipare, adesso non più
Alle Hawaii tornano le sirene degli attacchi atomici, rimasuglio della guerra fredda. Siamo finiti in un fumetto di serie B.
Proprio per questo secondo me non è il momento di giocare al panico scandalistico. Se si fa informazione, anche per gioco con un canale Telegram, serve un’etica della responsabilità.
Money quote: “In the event of an actual nuclear missile launch at Hawaii from North Korea, the attack sirens would give island residents and tourists just 12 or 13 minutes of warning before impact, according to the state’s fact sheet.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-hawaii/hawaii-to-resume-cold-war-era-nuclear-siren-tests-amid-north-korea-threat-idUSKBN1DS099
Proprio per questo secondo me non è il momento di giocare al panico scandalistico. Se si fa informazione, anche per gioco con un canale Telegram, serve un’etica della responsabilità.
Money quote: “In the event of an actual nuclear missile launch at Hawaii from North Korea, the attack sirens would give island residents and tourists just 12 or 13 minutes of warning before impact, according to the state’s fact sheet.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-hawaii/hawaii-to-resume-cold-war-era-nuclear-siren-tests-amid-north-korea-threat-idUSKBN1DS099
Ebbene sì: siamo schiavi delle nostre abitudini. Il trucco è scegliere quelle buone ed evitare quelle cattive. Lo diceva mia nonna con italica sintesi. Ci vuole mezza internet per articolare lo stesso ragionamento.
Money quote: “A few months ago, I started to track my food to know how much calories I was consuming. Not too long later, I started exercising. I then started to reduce my intake of carbohydrates. That meant that I ordered takeout less and had to prepare my own meals.
Looking back, it seems a little absurd how the small act of keying my food into the MyFitnessPal app could start off such a reaction. But the thought process was simple.”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/keystone-habits-how-one-small-change-can-improve-your-entire-life-a32375763da2
Money quote: “A few months ago, I started to track my food to know how much calories I was consuming. Not too long later, I started exercising. I then started to reduce my intake of carbohydrates. That meant that I ordered takeout less and had to prepare my own meals.
Looking back, it seems a little absurd how the small act of keying my food into the MyFitnessPal app could start off such a reaction. But the thought process was simple.”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/keystone-habits-how-one-small-change-can-improve-your-entire-life-a32375763da2
Medium
Keystone Habits: How One Small Change Can Improve Your Entire Life
Not all habits are created equal. There are some habits — keystone habits — which create positive effects that spill over into other areas.
Sono orologi meccanici abbastanza particolari: sono immersi dentro una bolla di liquido (olio? benzina? alcool?). Non hanno lancette ma cerchi che ruotano, cosa che più o meno in modo elegante rivoluziona il quadrante in continuazione. Adesso ce la novità del modello che si connette al telefono per avere l’ora esatta e sincronizzarli perfettamente, anche se è stato a lungo fermo. Ci ha lavorato il papà dell’iPod, Tony Fadell, che è ache un discreto Watch nerd.
Money quote: “Its latest concept watch, the Type 2 e-Crown, was in part designed by ex-Apply designer Tony Fadell and connects wirelessly to a phone. This means it can be set to two different time-zones and be set to the correct time instantly after it has stopped.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-fadell-has-designed-a-new-kind-of-mechanical-watch-2018-1
Money quote: “Its latest concept watch, the Type 2 e-Crown, was in part designed by ex-Apply designer Tony Fadell and connects wirelessly to a phone. This means it can be set to two different time-zones and be set to the correct time instantly after it has stopped.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-fadell-has-designed-a-new-kind-of-mechanical-watch-2018-1
Business Insider
The 'father of the iPod' has designed a new kind of mechanical watch
It will set itself even if it hasn't been worn in months, just by tapping the glass.
È domenica. Tempo di relax. Un racconto pubblicato da Vice Italia (Motherboard) di Giuseppe Lippi, curatore di Urania, con illustrazione di Franco Brambilla
Money quote: "Felip si godeva la pioggia acida e camminava tra le file ordinate di passanti su Madison Avenue, poco più a nord dell’Abisso di New York. Il cratere lo affascinava ma, al confronto, i pedoni e gli autisti delle disciplinate autoguida erano uno spettacolo molto più vario e interessante. Il cervello positronico è meraviglioso, pensò. Può fare di tutto e di più perché le Tre Leggi lo rendono eccezionalmente adatto alla N.C. (Nuova Convivenza). "
https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/paqbng/altra-faccia-della-spirale-giuseppe-lippi-racconto-terraform-audi-innovative
Money quote: "Felip si godeva la pioggia acida e camminava tra le file ordinate di passanti su Madison Avenue, poco più a nord dell’Abisso di New York. Il cratere lo affascinava ma, al confronto, i pedoni e gli autisti delle disciplinate autoguida erano uno spettacolo molto più vario e interessante. Il cervello positronico è meraviglioso, pensò. Può fare di tutto e di più perché le Tre Leggi lo rendono eccezionalmente adatto alla N.C. (Nuova Convivenza). "
https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/paqbng/altra-faccia-della-spirale-giuseppe-lippi-racconto-terraform-audi-innovative
Motherboard
L'altra faccia della spirale
Giuseppe Lippi, il curatore di Urania, ha scritto un racconto per la nostra rubrica di racconti di fantascienza in cui immagina delle nuove leggi per la robotica.