Category: Technology, Web & Cloud
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to be optimistic about robots
The older of readers may recall the (similar) name of Financial Times‘ reporter, asking the right questions about robots. Sarah O’Conner may not share the exact same name with one of Terminator’s main characters, but still triggered a few thoughts with her headline.
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Linux on Apple Silicon
The announcement is vague, the link gives 404. However, still somebody made a first move to port Linux to the recently announced M1 Chip, that will power future generations of Apple notebook devices. The community criticizes the approach: the port comes in a single patch with no documentation. Given the size of the patch this…
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Post Mortem
Remember when the Cloud was off earlier this month? Google published a post mortem article and root cause analysis on their Cloud Status Blog.
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Palantir founding member of Gaia-X
Palantir is an US based company specialising in Big Data, with a very particular focus on decision making for governental and corporate situations. The companies products have inspiring names like Gotham or Metropolis and have sparked ethical controversies, when it comes to their usage. In particular these two products provides capabilities to military and police,…
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The cloud is off.
Google is down. That feels like the Internet is off. That is what was missing to make the year 2020 feel complete.
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Pyston is back
Pyston, the Python Runtime with Just-In-Time (JiT) compiler, appears to be back. After the project lost support from Dropbox, development seemed to have ceased. A new team just released version 2, that is compatible with Python 3.8. It promises 20% performance gain over cPython, the default implementation. Here is the announcement: The Pyston Blog
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Python 3.9
Python 3.9 is available. What’s new: New syntax features: PEP 584, union operators added to dict; PEP 585, type hinting generics in standard collections; PEP 614, relaxed grammar restrictions on decorators. New built-in features: PEP 616, string methods to remove prefixes and suffixes. New features in the standard library: PEP 593, flexible function and variable…
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How to destroy surveillance capitalism
Cory Doctorow’s new book, published in a whole on OneZero. What if the trauma of living through real conspiracies all around us — conspiracies among wealthy people, their lobbyists, and lawmakers to bury inconvenient facts and evidence of wrongdoing (these conspiracies are commonly known as “corruption”) — is making people vulnerable to conspiracy theories? From…
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Fotos von verlassenen Berliner Technoclubs
Selber habe ich nur kurz in Berlin gelebt und das ist auch schon in einem anderen Jahrtausend gewesen. Trotzdem hat die Stadt mich mit der Clubkultur schwer beeindruckt. Und der Ruf eilt der Stadt ja nach wie vor voraus. Seit Corona alle Lokale verbietet, die sich zum Superspreader-Event entwickeln können, sieht das alles ein bisschen…
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Is 2020 over?
The list – obviously – only covers the year up to May so far. And it includes increasing inequality, the protests against it, brexit, fascism, riots, climate change, locust plagues and of course COVID-19. Not to mention recent Ebola Outbreak in Kongo or earthquake activity in the Yellowstone National Park cluster. The list is over…