Recommended Read: Just normal web things.
A must-read for all web developers. Most stuff mentioned there makes me really angry. Especially inability to copy text. heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/07/just-normal-web-things/
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Recommended Read: The World’s Largest Landowners
“The largest landowner in the world currently is King Charles III of England. How much land does the Royal Family own? He and the British Royal Family own more than 6,600,000,000 acres of land around the world. They technically own… Read More »Recommended Read: The World’s Largest Landowners
Recommended Read: When did people stop being drunk all the time?
A look into how much people have dunk historically compared to present www.lefineder.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-drunk Some snippets “[beer] … was subsequently contributing around a 1/3 of government revenue in England and a 1/4 of government revenue in Holland” “For English soldiers, it’s… Read More »Recommended Read: When did people stop being drunk all the time?
Recommended Read: The Politics of Place – Why Proximity Makes Progressives
Is the fact that people living in more populated areas are in general more “progressive” or “left” oriented just a correlation, or is there some causal link? This article looks into this oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2021/06/28/the-politics-of-place-why-proximity-makes-progressives/ Snippets “Whatever her motivating concern, she is… Read More »Recommended Read: The Politics of Place – Why Proximity Makes Progressives
Recommended Read: Teaching McLuhan: Understanding Understanding Media | enculturation
Nice article trying to summarize the book Understanding Media from Marshall McLuhan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126274.Understanding_Media Snippets “wheel extends our feet, the phone extends our voice, television extends our eyes and ears, the computer extends our brain, and electronic media, in general, extend… Read More »Recommended Read: Teaching McLuhan: Understanding Understanding Media | enculturation
Recommended Read: Inside Deutsche Bank’s “dysfunctional” IT division
Short summary of issues at one of the biggest banks. Some Snippets “John Cryan presented his “Strategy 2020″ plan in October 2015, he expressed his intention of eliminating 6,000 Deutsche Bank contractors and cutting the bank’s operating systems from 45… Read More »Recommended Read: Inside Deutsche Bank’s “dysfunctional” IT division
Recommend Read: past is not true | Derek Sivers
Nice short post about how our memories should not be taken for granted “Aim a laser pointer at the moon, then move your hand the tiniest bit, and it’ll move a thousand miles at the other end. The tiniest misunderstanding… Read More »Recommend Read: past is not true | Derek Sivers
Recommended Read: André Staltz – Google shattered human connection
Insightful article into issues with free and easy to use information access and loss of real communities. Some snippets “The discovery process plus the account creation was the barrier. It filtered for people who were willing to pay the “barrier… Read More »Recommended Read: André Staltz – Google shattered human connection
Must Read: ChatGPT is just a compression algorithm
This is an interesting dive into comparing compressing images in a lossy way with what ChatGPT does to the text. Basically, ChatGPT is like internet compressed into one program. And it explains its strengths and weaknesses. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
Must Read: “In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be locked out of access to organisation resources, wiped, and removed from Intune permanently”
This is a great insight story on Mastodon about a huge screwup everybody was aware will happen, but nobody did anything to prevent it. Read the whole thread. Reading it, a lot of situations came in mind I have experienced,… Read More »Must Read: “In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be locked out of access to organisation resources, wiped, and removed from Intune permanently”