149 posts tagged with technology by Artw.
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“Oh, have we decided it’s 1993 again? I guess I didn’t get the memo.”
If unchecked markets worked as well as Andreessen insists, we wouldn't be in this mess. The most powerful people in the world are technological optimists. They asked for our trust in the 90s, the 00s, and the 10s. They insisted that all we needed to do was clap louder. We clapped. They failed. We grew less trustful. - On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"
Fall of X
Finally a killer AI
“There are hundreds of poisonous fungi in North America and several that are deadly, They can look similar to popular edible species. A poor description in a book can mislead someone to eat a poisonous mushroom.” - AI generated mushroom foraging books are spreading on Amazon, placing the public at risk.
@media screen and (min-width: 1024px)
The Ideal Viewport Does Not Exist - the results of a little investigation into how fragmented browser sizes are across users, with some fun visualization.
Nobody drives in San Francisco, there’s too much traffic
One day after California green-lighted a massive expansion of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco, the implications became clear.
At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. All traffic came to a standstill on Vallejo Street and around two corners on Grant. Human-driven cars sat stuck behind and in between the robotaxis, which might as well have been boulders: no one knew how to move them. [more inside]
At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. All traffic came to a standstill on Vallejo Street and around two corners on Grant. Human-driven cars sat stuck behind and in between the robotaxis, which might as well have been boulders: no one knew how to move them. [more inside]
Late Stage Carpoolism
Autoenshittification - Cory Doctorow on the auto industries efforts maximize the exploitativeness of your car by turning it into an ink-jet printer with wheels.
How the ‘innocent internet’ died and the 21st century was born
Forget the calendar. Just as the 19th century didn’t really end until Armistice Day in 1918 and the 1960s counterculture lasted well into the 1970s, the 21st century didn’t begin at the end of 2000. It began in 2014. - The Whelk outlines the background to our recent political upheavals. Too heavy? How about a relaxing episode of The Great Post-Brexit British Bake-Off, or destresssing with charming historical fiction. (This is your semi-regular Whelk Projects round-up)
Grimes Doesn't Pay
For generations, people have imagined life on the Martian surface in extraordinary detail, from how drinking water will be purified to how fresh food will be grown, but there is another question that remains unanswered: How will Mars be policed?
Hit the road @jack send toot
If Social Media is a part of your life but you're also sickened by nazis you've probably considered Mastodon as an alternative. But rather than a straight-up Twitter clone based on the open standards Mastodon has some real and significant differences that may be confusing at first. Fortunately this video should help get you up to speed: Intro to Mastodon 101
"A car that has a JSON parser implemented in Bash 3"
A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure, is posting in a subforum of a subforum, a little-known place for funy computer forgotten by time. His NDA has expired. A single link Twitter thread with screenshots of text.
Pulling the ladders up all the way
Terrible Solutions to Terrifying Problems
Elon Musk’s iPod Submarine, a one page game from Tin Star Games. For less terrible solutions: What Elon Musk Should Learn From the Thailand Cave Rescue (SPOILERS: He chose not to learn those things and, um, went somewhere else)
The Train of Tommorow
Battling RSI with a Dragon
Two Legs Good, Tank Treads Better
“A Sloppy Machine, Like Me”
The History of Video Synthesizers - from 60s video art to station identification to the invention of the Chyron.
Patlabor on the production line
Smets handed me a power tool, flipped a physical switch on the arm of the vest, and told me to raise my arms over my head as though I was on an assembly line. At some point during my movement, the exosuit kicked into action, its spring mechanism lifting my arms the rest of the way. I could leave my arms in place above my head, too, fully supported. My fingers started to tingle after awhile in that position. Are exoskeletons the future of physical labor?
Sad news for MilSF fans
A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked
The incredibly detailed miniatures of Blade Runner 2049. Blade Runner 2049 concept art by George Hull. Designing the technology of ‘Blade Runner 2049’.
Twitter: What does it take for us to all quit?
@Jack has been a busy boy recently: Twitter banned a popular account because dumb nazis fell for a prank (or pretended to). In fairness, so did fox. Twitter announced new rules to prevent abuse and harassment - the main outcome of which appears to be banning bisexuals. Nazis, an extremely favored user group on Twitters, are likely to be okay. A Twitter engineer identified Russian bots in 2015 and was told to "stay in lane". The thing Jack does want from employees, instead of raising obvious problems? Relentless optimism.
I want my MTV
Technology for the Youth
Username: Admin, password: Test
Rash of in-the-wild attacks permanently destroys poorly secured IoT devices - which may actually be for the best if your dishwasher's webserver has unpatched vulnerabilities or your garage door opener is run by a troll.
Maybe grow some leeks too
Feature design versus trolling
“Harassers are very clever. They take advantage of tools that are very innocuous and use them as vectors for abuse,” Ehmke told me. “If you’re creating products and not thinking about how it could be used for abuse, you are not doing your job.” - How Github is dealing with its troll problem.
Painting the Race to Space
Norman Rockwell, Walt Disney, Wernher von Braun, space habitats and moon landings - the improbable, bold history of space concept art.
Autism, employment and tech
"Autism is seen like some sort of mental superpower where we can see math in the air. In my experience, this isn’t really the case." - Dispelling some myths about the autistic wunderkind programmer. Also: Why you might not want to get TOO excited about autism employment initiatives. Autism FAQ
Track Changes
Matthew Kirschenbaum talks to The Atlantic about his book on the history of word processing, what early word processing looked like, early adopter Len Deighton, and how writers of all kinds adapted to the new technology.
2001: A Picasso Odyssey
2001: A Picasso Odyssey - '2001' rendered in the style of Picasso using Deep Neural Networks based style transfer. More details.
Manus x Machina
It spent all its money on whiskey and beer
Remember the prototype lunar rover that was believed to be scrapped but was recovered by a junkyard owner? It just failed to sell at auction, and could be yours if you have an amount of money more than $30000 burning a hole in your pocket.
End of the line for Chromebooks?
Google will be folding its Chrome operating system into Android, according to The Wall Street Journal and independently confirmed by The Verge. Google is denying this, according to The Guardian, saying it is "committed to Chrome OS and it is likely Android and Chrome OS will co-exist with tighter integration between the two for the foreseeable future". Chromebook-like small laptops running Android such as the Pixel C are not uncommon, though they tend to dual-purpose as tablets and be more expensive than machines running the browser based operating system.
Common Peeple
"We Own You"
"I’m Sarah Nyberg, and I Was A Teenage Edgelord."
"I got out, and it’s not too late for you." - Sarah Nyberg on being the subject of an online hate mob. Meanwhile Zoe Quinn talks about sympathy for her abusers, and actions turned out to have consequences for internet troll Joshua Goldberg.
The Internet of Poops
How Ted Benson hacked Amazon Dash (the $5 WiFi enabled single product order button) to track baby data.
Going Rogue
Fenlason dubbed his clone Hack for two reasons: "One definition was 'a quick [computer] hack because I don't have access to Rogue'. The other was 'hack-n-slash', a reference to one of the styles of playing Dungeons and Dragons."
- A chapter long excerpt from David Craddock's Dungeon Hacks, a new book on the history of the Roguelike RPG.
Whatever happened to the men of Tomorrow?
Vrrrrrrm
Welcome... To the world of tomorrow!
Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow - cryogenically frozen head not included.
Carpe Atmospherum
The IPs are coming from inside the house
The hilariously absurd technobabble of CSI Cyber, incoherent techno-paranoid diaper and last best hope of the CSI franchise.
A Day In the •Life
A bulbous, friendly little thing - The Verge’s Nilay Patel spends a day with the Apple Watch. [more inside]
An Innocuous Everyday Phrase Imbued With Sinister Meaning Due To Context
Intel Includes
Intel Wants Diversity in the Workplace, Puts $300 Million Where Their Mouth Is - Also they have a cool stabby spider dress.
Nice startup you have there...
"Defensive patent aggregator" RPX have a new line of business: selling patent troll insurance to startups.
Slight Future
"I'd buy that for a dollar!" RIP
Requiem for a Twitter Bot - Bixby Snyder bot is no more.
Red Planet Blues
Fixing Windows 8
Wow! Microsoft is thinking about bringing back the Start Menu and Modern apps on the Desktop. This is perfect timing! Here you’ll why it’s a good idea and how they should do it.