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.
It was obvious Deepfakes came to stay, when they first surfaced in the shape of Pornography on Reddit in 2017.
Meanwhile, it appears, the issue has become that much of an issue it needs legislation. California now cracks down on political and pornographic deepfakes and passed two new bills, that a) will make deepfakes illegal and b) will allow anyone affected to sue the creator.
Source: California cracks down on political and pornographic deepfakes
Kubernetes, the container orchestration and hardware abstraction framework, reached Version 1.16. Custom Resources, Overhauled Metrics, and Volume Extensions are the mentionable new features in the new release.
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha.Major Themes Custom resources CRDs are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and have been available in beta since the 1.7 release. The 1.16 release marks the graduation of CRDs to general availability (GA).
Source: Kubernetes 1.16: Custom Resources, Overhauled Metrics, and Volume Extensions – Kubernetes
Who hasn’t been waiting to use Perl from Python? With this python module you can. As easy as import perl:
>>> import perl
>>> value = "Hello there"
>>> if value =~ /^hello (.+?)$/i:
... print("Found greeting:", $1)
...
Found greeting: there
>>> value =~ s/there/world/
>>> print(value)
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Open Policy Agent to manage policy for Kubernetes with GateKeeper.
Quick Context: Big O Notation describes an execution limitation of a function, given an argument tends towards a particular value. In other words, smaller values describe better execution, typically in execution time.
Jason Haley wrote a brief tutorial to get the Pythonista started with Kubernetes. Worth reading if you are new to the topic.
So, you know you want to run your application in Kubernetes but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re getting started but still don’t know what you don’t know. In this blog you’ll walk through how to containerize an application and get it running in Kubernetes.This walk-through assumes you are a developer or at least comfortable with the command line (preferably bash shell).
Source: Get started with Kubernetes (using Python) – Kubernetes
The Internet was built with de-centralized infrastructures in mind. To scale globally, network providers like CloudFlare have emerged, to run decentralized infrastructures and offer them as a service. In general, keeping service independent of each others and maintaining heterogeneous networks have a proven track record of resilience, that is not necessarily inherent to the architecture of these providers. Just like Akamai had a bad day in 2004, CloudFlare today suffered from a global outage, that left many obvious collateral problems visible all over the Internet. Bloomberg, among others, reports:
CloudFlare Inc., an internet service meant to protect websites from going down, faced its own network issues on Tuesday, leading to several prominent sites — like blogging platform Medium and video game chat provider Discord — being unavailable for some time.
Source: Net Defender CloudFlare Goes Down, Taking Many Websites With It – Bloomberg
We all knew it for a while. Scientists from Western Sydney University, Harvard University, Kings College, Oxford University and University of Manchester conducted research to prove it.
Source: Research reveals how the Internet may be changing the brain
Researchers from U Minnesota, UC Irvine and CMU took a look into “behavioural based advertisement”, a segment that requires heavy tracking of users across websites through cookies. A report of their findings is here: Online Tracking and Publishers’ Revenues: An Empirical Analysis. Money quote:
They found that despite the 40% “ad-tech” premium charged by behavioral ad companies, the ads only added about 4% the media companies that published them, meaning that behavioral advertising is a losing proposition.
Source: Boing Boing