22 agosto, 2019

Visto nel Web - 424

Mentre qui è sempre peggio ecco cosa ho wisto nel Web.


Big, battery-powered electric airplanes won't happen in the near future. But a 2+ ton, 20-seat fuel-cell electric airplane will fly in the next couple of years, says @ZeroAviaenergia
::: Electric_Genie

As your PhD was on algorithmic sovereignty you might be interested in our article that sheds light on the meaning of sovereignty in the digital & according to multi actors (states, social movements, indigenous people...)
copyright e brevetti
::: stoopt

Big Data, Big Tech, and Protecting Patient Privacy
dati, raccolta | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: RadioProzac

Google Criticized For Vulnerability That Can Trick Its AI Into Deactivating Accounts
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Can JPEG XL Become the Next Free and Open Image Format?
innovazioni, futuro
::: Slashdot

YouTube's Algorithms Blamed For Brazil's Dangerous Conspiracy Video-Sharing on WhatsApp
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: Slashdot

L'equazione "più tecnologia di sorveglianza = più sicurezza" è *sbagliata* come sa chiunque si occupi di sicurezza (E non abbia cointeressenze)
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: quinta

Police forces are pushing back against Home Office attempts to roll out facial recognition systems, dealing a harsh blow to government plans to introduce the controversial technology
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: fabiochiusi

Governments entrusting Big Platforms with content filtering and data protection has two negative consequences
censura
::: AntonioCasilli

Smart cities and #smarterprojects have been among the most actively discussed realizations made possible by #IoT, #data, #connectivity and by leveraging a mix of varied #technologies
Internet of things | ambiente, ecologia
::: ukrphysics

There are 309 automotive production and assembly plants across Europe, of which 72 are engine plants. Altogether, the sector supports 13.8 million jobs in Europe, or 6.1% of total European Union workforce and 11.4% of all manufacturing jobs
economia, lavoro | energia | ambiente, ecologia
::: adam_tooze

Absolutely no one could have predicted this
The World's First Solar Road Has Officially Crumbled Into a Total Failure
energia
::: fchollet

60 years ago today, Miles Davis released Kind of Blue. And 10 years ago today, I released Kind of Bloop, an 8-bit tribute album that started as a fun use of Kickstarter, and ended up being a huge pain in my ass. And now it's free for everyone. Enjoy!
idea 💡 | Web, Internet
::: waxpancake

An emerging movement of health professional students contributing to Wikipedia
“Can you imagine a world where everyone has access to high quality #health information for free? I sure can, and I’m grateful to be a part of that movement.” - Dr. @AminMDMA on how @UCSFMedicine students are improving @Wikipedia as part of their curricula
Wikipedia
::: WikiEducation


In Defense of The Small Social Network
“It’s time to agitate for a new version of the internet, one where our only choices aren’t boredom or fear, one where the internet isn’t a joyless place run by billionaires. It’s time to think small”
Web, Internet
::: fabiochiusi

Data is not the new gold, data is the new uranium. Sometimes you can make money from it, but it can be radioactive, it's dangerous to store, has military uses, you generally don't want to concentrate it too much, and it's regulated. Why keep uranium you don't need?
dati, raccolta
::: FiloSottile

Wells Fargo's Computer Kept Charging 'Overdrawn' Fees On Supposedly Closed Accounts
economia, lavoro | bug
::: Slashdot

Ormai sono 4 anni che uso DDG. Quando non trovo facilmente qualcosa (di rado succede) provo con Google, ma non mi è mai capitato di vederlo lavorare meglio
parte di un thread articolato
Web, Internet
::: cobrampi

Writing code and using the tools is not the most important part of being a developer
programming, codice, snippet
::: yakkys

Alexa, Siri, and Google Home Can Be Tricked Into Sending Callers To Scam Phone Numbers
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Why Am I Receiving Unordered Boxes From Amazon?
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Writing is easy
cit.
::: Gianlucadfiore

Join Rwitter today
umorismo
::: legaladvice_txt

A Major Cyber Attack Could Be Just As Deadly As Nuclear Weapons
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Massive Ransomware Attack Hits 23 Local Texas Government Offices
frodi
::: Slashdot

In 1984 at the first Hackers Conference, Ted Nelson made some scarily accurate predictions. The internet had not arisen yet
Web, Internet | protagonisti
::: stevewoz

We’re going to have cars that drive themselves before
umorismo
::: willozap

PayPal Builds 'Zoid' JavaScript Library To 'Make IFrames Cool Again'
mah...
Web, Internet
::: Slashdot


Comparitech study on CCTV cameras in 120 cities all over the globe finds that 8 out of the 10 most surveilled ones are in China. Crucially, “We found little correlation between the number of public CCTV cameras and crime or safety”
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: fabiochiusi

50% of U.S. teenagers are getting their news from YouTube. But it is not from news organizations
social media
::: datatheism

draw line separator
tip, suggerimenti
::: commandlinefu

Fearing Data Privacy Issues, Google Cuts Some Android Phone Data For Wireless Carriers
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

In case you missed it, the @digitalocean Community team put together a free Python Machine Learning Projects eBook 🧠 🐍
machine learning
::: lisaironcutter

Degrading Tor Network Performance Only Costs a Few Thousand Dollars Per Month
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Raspbian 2019-04-11 VM Images Available for VirtualBox and VMware
sistemi operativi
::: Noobslab

Developers Accuse Apple of Anti-Competitive Behavior With Its Privacy Changes in iOS 13
Apple
::: Slashdot

We're disclosing coordinated account activity focused on the ongoing protest movement in Hong Kong. Our investigations have found that these accounts are linked to state-backed information operations from mainland China
Twitter | disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: TwitterSafety ::: WillOremus ::: CNBCnow ::: simopieranni ::: CaseyNewton ::: JaneLytv ::: rasmus_kleis

The opportunities for #AI in #education are enormous, ranging from personalised #learning plans and coaching using AI, #robot #teachers, #automation of administrative tasks to equal access for all students. AI will change education forever
artificial intelligence | scuola, educazione, cultura
::: Nereide

An Ode To Microsoft Encarta
storia
::: Slashdot

Hacker Releases First Public Jailbreak for Up-to-Date iPhones in Years
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

I tentativi organizzati di influenzare l’opinione pubblica dentro i grandi social network (sport oggi molto in voga fra i peggiori in tutto il pianeta) potrebbe avere alla lunga un effetto positivo: ridurne l’utilizzo spostando le persone dentro ambienti digitali meno dispersivi
social media
::: mante


Cerebras Systems Unveils a Record 1.2 Trillion Transistor Chip For AI
hardware | artificial intelligence
::: Slashdot

Paging Big Brother: In Amazon's Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: Slashdot

Twitter rifiuterà le inserzioni da parte di media controllati dagli Stati. Chissà se la policy si applica anche a quelli controllati direttamente da singoli Ministri...
Twitter | politica
::: carloalberto

How Malformed Packets Caused CenturyLink's 37-Hour, Nationwide Outage
bug
::: Slashdot

Understand, don't memorize
cit.
::: Nereide

Terrorists Turn To Bitcoin For Funding, and They're Learning Fast
blockchain e crypto* | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Replacing media with social media created an information environment in which the president can claim election fraud, cite an unspecified "report," and it will top the feeds of millions. Yet the report itself is nowhere to be found
social media | politica
::: WillOremus

A research firm working for Facebook is offering to pay tech journalists hundreds of dollars to tell it what they think about social media
Facebook
::: robaeprice

Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail To Dent Tesla's Electric-Car Dominance
energia
::: Slashdot

Nuke Mars!
protagonisti
::: elonmusk ::: quantizzando ::: quantizzando

NeXTCUBE was manufactured 1990-1993
storia
::: unix_byte

Rename all files in lower case
il terzo comando, non richiede installazioni
tip, suggerimenti
::: commandlinefu

Lo sapete che se taggate #Salvini sulle storie su #Instagram, arrivano sull’account in un baleno #bot #russofili a raffica? Nessuno ha verificato?
politica
::: CastigliMirella

#SEO Cheat Sheet for Devs
Web, Internet
::: Gianlucadfiore


How SpaceX Plans To Move Starship From Cocoa Site To Kennedy Space Center
spazio, esplorazione
::: Slashdot

And people say machines aren't creative!
non so come classificarlo
artificial intelligence
::: JamieJBartlett

How the Blockchain is Powering Our Future
blockchain e crypto*
::: Nereide

Humans Will Never Colonize Mars
lo faranno, ma troppo tardi per me
innovazioni, futuro
::: RadioProzac

The Times' view: "This sort of thing is not supposed to happen in the freedom-loving West where civil liberties are highly valued (...) Yet use of facial recognition here in Britain is reaching what Big Brother Watch says is “epidemic” proportions"
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: bbw1984

It's not just Russia: it's Iran, China, Israel, Macedonia, Philippines, Thailand -- among others. Here is a @Reuters list of takedowns announced by Facebook so far this year
social media | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: fabiochiusi

Solar-powered, autonomous plane takes flight
energia
::: DigitalTrends

Excited to share our #datavis notebook curriculum for learning visualization! Visual encoding, data transformation, interaction, maps, & more!
Python | linguaggi di programmazione
::: jeffrey_heer

Misinformation has created a new world disorder. Our willingness to share content without thinking is exploited to spread disinformation
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: firstdraftnews

States To Launch Antitrust Investigation Into Big Tech Companies
economia, lavoro
::: Slashdot ::: _juhan

The Truth About Faster Internet: It's Not Worth It
Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

#Huawei Introduced its Own Harmony Operating System - belated coverage? It says "Friday"; which Friday? Anyway, no evidence yet that it's #freesw
Huawei | sistemi operativi
::: schestowitz

Is Visual Basic a bad programming language? If so, why?
linguaggi di programmazione
::: PaniczGodek


#otd in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee emailed a programmer newsgroup about a new “experimental” app he designed called “WorldWideWeb”
storia
::: MIT_CSAIL

Google's Clickless Era
Web, Internet | economia, lavoro
::: Slashdot

ZippyJSON: A much faster alternative to Swift’s JSONDecoder
programming, codice, snippet
::: lemire

You Can Finally See All Of The Info Facebook Collected About You From Other Websites
Facebook | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot ::: CNN

Be prepared: now thanks to systemd Windows malware will also run on GNU/Linux. Long gone are the days...
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: jaromil

I'm looking for developers & software publishers of DOS software from the 1980s and 1990s. Now is a *great* time to re-release your DOS programs as #opensource software! It builds goodwill and creates positive attention. Contact me and let's talk! jhall@freedos.org
programming, codice, snippet | storia
::: FreeDOS_Project

Most OSS for AI ironically runs on proprietary nVidia drivers, so I've ditched the RX 580 in favor of an RTX 2070 Super ...well, it's around 200 bucks more but holy shit everything runs twice as fast 😱 Not disappointed after all, but I hate giving money to non OSS industry 😢
artificial intelligence | open source
::: WebReflection

tacking wafers and attaching their interconnects at scores of bonding sites is how blazing fast chips for applications such as machine learning might soon be produced
hardware
::: IEEESpectrum ::: jwangARK

IBM is Moving OpenPower Foundation To The Linux Foundation
hardware | open source
::: Slashdot

Google Launches Android Studio 3.5 With Improved Memory Settings, Build Speed, and Apply Changes
programming, codice, snippet
::: Slashdot

One of the classic books on Fourier Series and Orthogonal Polynomials is this 1945 book by Dunham Jackson
matematica | manuali, how to
::: mathematicsprof

A Common Lisp library for solving linear programming problems
lisp(s)
::: Gianlucadfiore

A Beginner’s Introduction to Python Web Frameworks
Python
::: Gianlucadfiore

'World's Oldest Webcam' To Be Switched Off
Web, Internet
::: Slashdot


I have my timeline full of developers complaining about MacOs or Mac's hardware
sistemi operativi | hardware
::: Gianlucadfiore

I've not seen a company that combined machine learning with blockchains that was not a scam
machine learning | blockchain e crypto*
::: el33th4xor

After coming across anti-Hong Kong protestors from Chinese state media on Facebook yesterday, we went looking for Chinese state media ads on Facebook defending Uighur Muslim detention in Xinjiang. We found them
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: RMac18

lol 40 miles per hour on a dual motor, dual suspension 3.6 kW electric scooter sounds.. absolutely terrifying
innovazioni, futuro
::: codinghorror

Fino a qualche anno fa erano solo critiche. Oggi il modello cinese diventa interessante anche per altri paesi. (E questo non riguarda solo la censura ma tutto impianto surveillance)
censura | Web, Internet
::: simopieranni

If you thought the #dotcom bubble was out of this world - look again
economia, lavoro
::: MartinVetterli

Earlier this year, Poland initiated a legal challenge against #Article17 of the #copyrightdirective before the Court of Justice. The CJEU has finally published the application
copyright e brevetti | censura
::: communia_eu

È con profondo dolore che comunichiamo che Giovanni Buttarelli, Garante europeo della protezione dei dati, è venuto a mancare la scorsa notte, circondato dall’affetto dei suoi cari
protagonisti | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: EU_EDPS

A fundamentally flawed approach: “Essay-scoring engines don’t actually analyze the quality of writing. They’re trained on sets of hundreds of example essays to recognize patterns that correlate with higher or lower human-assigned grades”
artificial intelligence | scuola, educazione, cultura
::: FrankPasquale

We salute the news of #knoppix abandoning #systemd to roll out its own init system. If in need, we'll be happy to help on anything we can
sistemi operativi
::: DevuanOrg

Apple, Google, and Mozilla Block Kazakhstan's HTTPS Intercepting Certificate
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Annarita Ruberto
@Nereide
#Europe has a #robotdensity of 106 units per 10,000 workers, the #Americas and #Asia 91 and 75 respectively. #China is one of the countries recording the highest growth levels in industr. automat. but nowhere has a robot density like #SouthKorea
robots, automazione
::: Nereide

#otd in 1985 one of the most influential programming textbooks was published: MIT’s “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
lisp(s) | programming, codice, snippet
::: MIT_CSAIL

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