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Category: Internet & Culture

Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new  businesses, fueling innovation  and creativity.

All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.

  • The Rolling Stones Perform “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”

    Nach Lady Gaga, Elton John, den Killers, Annie Lennox und ettlichen anderen haben sich auch die Rolling Stones zuhause eingeschlossen und ein Konzert über Internet gegeben. Im Rahmen von One World: Together at Home haben die 4 “You can’t always get what you want.” zum Besten gegeben. Die Ärzte haben zwar neulich mit Ihrem “Lied für jetzt” etwas ähnliches gemacht, waren bei One World: Together at Home, glaube ich, aber aussen vor.

    Die Rolling Stones bei Ihrem One World: Together at Home Konzert
    Die Rolling Stones bei Ihrem One World: Together at Home Konzert

    As part of the One World: Together at Home fundraiser organized by the WHO, Global Citizen, and Lady Gaga that raised $127.9 million for Covid-19 relief efforts, the members of the Rolling Stones, each in their own home, got together via video to perform You Can’t Always Get What You Want. It’s a lovely messy & spare performance and the choice of song is timely — plenty of people around the world are definitely not getting what they want right now, but hopefully we will eventually end up getting what we need.

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    via kottke.org

  • The magic word. It’s not ‘please’.

    The magic word to get what you want. Both Admins and Parents can relate.

  • Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts Demoscene application

    Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

    “Demoskene is an international community focused on demos, programming, graphics and sound creatively real-time audiovisual performances. [..] Subculture is an empowering and important part of identity for its members.”

    Source: Demoscene – The Art of Coding

  • Revision – Memories 256b

    Desire released a 256b (yes, that’s byte) intro at this years online Revision, that is among the better of this really limiting category.

    Among the others, in the more traditional categories as PC4k, PC64k, PCDemo and Amiga, it got the most Thumbs on Pouet.

    Razor1911 – La vie opportuniste (4k)

    Deck II by LJ & Virgill (Revision Online 2020 PC 4K Intro Compo)

    Logicoma and Loonies – Way Too Rude (Amiga 64kb Demo)

  • CloudFront and Lambda at the Edge

    AWS OfficeHours with Woodrow Arrington and David Brown, both Senior Product Managers on the AWS CloudFront Team. They discuss the benefits of CDN technology and use-cases of Lambda@Edge. The video touches security related considerations.

  • Apple blocks culture

  • Ethics in Computer Vision

    Joeseph Redmon, who invented the YOLO Algorithm, quit his research over ethical concerns. These are some dark shadows this is throwing ahead.

  • New GCP Region in Seoul

    Our new GCP region in Seoul is officially open for business.

    Source: New GCP Region in Seoul | Google Cloud Blog

  • Off Facebook Activity

    Off Facebook Activity is a tool, that let’s Facebook users see which sites they used outside of Facebook. The tool is as creepy as you would think it would be. Facebook, through it’s like buttons and other embeds, has sheer unlimited insight into personal browsing behaviour.

    Facebook Company Logo
    Facebook Company Logo / Wordmark

    In an attempt by the company to create more transparency, it discloses how much curiosity in a negative sense is driving the social network in trying to understand their audience. And actually sell this gained knowledge to their customers.

    The release of Off Facebook Activity a reminder we are living in an increasingly connected world that is watching us. There is entirely no point for any company to collect this type of data outsire of making us a product.

    The Washington Post writes about how creepy and scary this feature is, and even more important, how to work with privacy settings. While the article deals with Facebook internal settings alone, the amout of data transferred to Facebook won’t stop. At this point, you may want to consider personal privacy tools like uMatrix (for Firefox or Chrome). Or, to leverage protection for the entire network, e.g. for your family, Pi-Hole is worth taking a look, too.

    via: Washington Post

  • The Y2038 Problem

    The Y2038 problem is similar to the Y2K problem. We’re exactly in between both about now. Both are 18 years away, in either direction. While Y2K is over and was obvious to everyone, Y2038 is not.

    The issue here relates to a representation of date and time in Unix systems, and is therefore sometimes referred to as Unix Y2K. The root is the convention to store date and time information as 32bit unsigned integer in such systems. This means, possible values are limited. Time-differences in seconds, starting from 01.Jan 1970 cannot span beyond 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.

    The Y2038 Problem
    Calendar

    The Y2038 problem will make all calculations beyond this date impossible, until migrated to another representation. At the time being, this seems far away. However, the problem casts its shadows already. Industries, in particular financial markets, often rely on long term forecasts.

    Governance issued treasury bonds come with with the longest maturity. Often twenty years, sometimes thirty years. Calculations for complex, long running financing models easily try to estimate returns 20 years and beyond into the future. This is already beyond the problematic date that Y2038 brings. The code to run these calculations is typically complex and stable. Sometimes, it is as old as from 1970. Back then, this date-representation Unix engineers introduced this approach. 32bit covered a long period. John Femellia has a thread, over at Twitter, telling a story about the upcoming issues today.