Mostly, I Write

Come funziona la versione beta di iPadOS - il mio articolo per Wired https://www.wired.it/mobile/tablet/2019/06/26/come-funziona-ipados/

Il libro più famoso di George Orwell, 1984, è anche uno di quelli più grandemente fraintesi. Deve essere collocato nel suo contesto storico e critico per capire come mai lo leggiamo ancora. Ci prova il New Yorker. Money quote: "The fundamental premise of the novel was its most quickly outmoded feature—outmoded almost from the start. This is the idea that the world would divide into three totalitarian superstates that were rigidly hierarchical, in complete control of information and expression, and engaged in perpetual and unwinnable wars for world domination. This was a future that many people had contemplated in the nineteen-thirties, the time of the Great Depression and the rise of Stalinism and Fascism. Capitalism and liberal democracy seemed moribund; centralized economies and authoritarian regimes looked like the only way modern mass societies could be governed. This was the argument of a book that is now almost forgotten, but which Orwell was fascinated and repelled by, James Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution” (1941)." https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/1984-at-seventy-why-we-still-read-orwells-book-of-prophecy

Qualcomm alle strette: nuova multa in arrivo dall’Europa - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/qualcomm-alle-strette-nuova-multa-in-arrivo-dalleuropa/

Bill Gates: “Il mio più grande errore? Aver lasciato spazio a Google” - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/bill-gates-il-mio-piu-grande-errore-aver-lasciato-spazio-a-google/

Ci sono così tante cose che si possono leggere dentro questo articolo che racconta, in prima persona, l'esperienza di una donna americana di un aborto (di più di uno, in realtà), che posso solo consigliare di leggerlo. Perché c'è un aspetto fisiologico ma ce n'è uno enorme che è solo ed esclusivamente sociale. Money quote "I have a precise memory of asking my mother what an abortion was. I was around 10. “It’s when you were going to be pregnant,” she said, “but they make it so you’re not.” I believed everything about this. On the day when I found out that I was pregnant for the second time in 2011, I wanted so much to snap my fingers and magically make the whole thing go away. I wanted abortion to be what my mother said it was, and even though I knew abortion was what she said it was, the actual experience had really never reflected that truth." https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/the-best-abortion-ever.html

Quando è troppo? https://www.internazionale.it/opinione/annamaria-testa/2019/06/17/il-troppo-e-tossico 📣

Il Bitcoin oltre gli 11mila dollari, ma scatta l’allarme riciclaggio - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/allarme-riciclaggio-criptovalute-sotto-la-lente-dei-governi/

Huawei passa alle vie legali: scatta la causa per il sequestro delle apparecchiature Tlc - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/usa-cina-contrattacco-huawei-parte-la-causa-al-dipartimento-del-commercio-usa/

Alla fine del 1800 Edison, conosciuto per invenzioni "elettriche" ma in realtà creatore industrioso e industriale di molte altre cose, ebbe l'idea di fondare un'azienda che realizzasse dei prefabbricati in cemento da un'unica colata: si costruiva la gabbia in legno a forma di casa, si colava il cemento dentro e voilà, ecco la vostra brown stone monofamiliare di cemento. "Stranamente" questa non gli è andata molto bene. Comunque in New Jersey un po' di casette di cemento stampato ci sono... Money quote: "In theory, this would result in a whole new kind of home with various benefits: fireproof, insect-proof, easy to clean, and at a very affordable $1,200 per house. Edison saw this as a potential solution for cities with housing shortages, allowing people to move from slums to cheap new residential areas of poured concrete houses. To help with this, he chose to donate the patented information, completely free of charge, to qualified builders." https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/thomas-edisons-concrete-houses

Letture della domenica. Daniel Fireside ha un hobby del quale è uno dei massimi esponenti planetari: fare le foto ai coperchi dei tombini. Dio mio, averci pensato prima! Money quote: "Fireside is one of the Boston area’s most prolific and celebrated manhole cover photographers. While most people step around manhole covers—or on top of them, taking advantage of their textured, anti-slip surfaces—Fireside is pulled toward them, zigzagging from one to the next as though he is magnetic." https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/massachusetts-manhole-photography-drainspotting

Padre e figlio lasciano New York e vanno a vivere per un periodo in Alaska. Illustratore e autore, lui crea un libro fantastico, dimenticato per decenni. Signore e signori, riscopriamo Wilderness". Money quote: "One hundred years after Rockwell Kent, father and son, went to Fox Island, their own lonely, snowy paradise, discovering Kent’s book feels like uncovering a secret. Now little-known, Wilderness makes going off to the wilds of Alaska—as long as they’re not so remote, not as Into the Wild as the places Christopher McCandless sought—seem like an excellent idea. The book counts as forgotten classic of nature writing, with striking illustrations by Kent, that paints a picture of people settled in lonely landscapes, a dream that seems impossible a century later." https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alaska-wilderness-rockwell

Test: un iMac in famiglia come hub dello stile di vita digitale e multiutente - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/test-un-imac-in-famiglia-come-hub-dello-stile-di-vita-digitale-e-multiutente/

Privacy, YouTube corre ai ripari: tutti i contenuti per bambini migrano nella sezione Kids - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/youtube-corre-ai-ripari-tutti-i-contenuti-per-bambini-andranno-nella-sezione-kids/

Libra Facebook, la Banca d'Inghilterra: "La finanza non è un Far West" - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/libra-la-banca-dinghilterra-a-facebook-la-finanza-non-e-un-far-west-come-i-social/

Fotografi che vogliono essere "leggeri" Money quote: "After much deliberation and experimentation, I settled on Adobe Lightroom CC with their cloud service as my main image storage and editing platform. The scaled down desktop app provides everything I need for my editing. Over the course of a week or so, I uploaded all of my images into the Adobe cloud. Prior to beaming everything up, I did a good bit of Spring cleaning, ruthlessly deleting a lot of old work. As of this writing, I have 32,000 images in the Adobe cloud. My subscription is for both Lightroom Classic CC and the CC cloud only app. When it comes time for renewal, I expect to move to CC cloud exclusively. That will cost me a mere $10 a month for the cloud storage I need." https://medium.com/@mdconnell/ecosystems-c93864b870fc

Google Calendar offline, ecco cosa è successo - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-calendar-offline-ecco-cosa-e-successo/

Videogames in volata: mercato a quota 152 miliardi di dollari - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/videogames-in-volata-mercato-a-quota-152-miliardi-di-dollari/

Streaming, Amazon punta su Imdb: parte la sfida a Hulu e Roku - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/streaming-amazon-punta-su-imdb-parte-la-sfida-a-hulu-e-roku/

Cybersecurity, il 2019 è l'anno dell'e-crime pilotato dagli Stati - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/cybersecurity-il-2019-e-lanno-delle-crime-pilotato-dagli-stati/

Non li uso, ma sono curioso. Vita, morte e anche qualche miracolo degli RSS Money quote: "About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology. The story of how this happened is really two stories. The first is a story about a broad vision for the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss