Kategorie: Allgemein

Big Shleppa.

  • 2018-02-17

Backup. A perfect, perfectly seductive name for scan and sim. She was amazed she hadn't heard it. As soon as she did, Limpopo just knew there must be thousands — millions — of people using the term. Once you conceived of the thing that made you you as data, aeons of data-handling anxiety kicked in. If you had data, it had to be backed up. Anything important that wasn't backed up was good as lost. Data is haunted by Murphy. Do something irreplaceable and magnificent while out of network and backup range and you were begging for critical failure that nuked it all.

Cory Doctorow: Walkaway

Transmission Consent Protocol.

  • 2018-02-16

Each of their hands was saying, "Is this okay?" and waiting for the other's to move, "Yes, it's okay," before moving again. They were sending pulsed SYN/ACK/SYNACKs over a balky network.

Cory Doctorow: Walkaway

Brace for AMPact.

  • 2018-02-15

But unchanging-ness... that’s really important. In fact, it’s the key thing about email. It is the biggest thing that email has over social networking or any of the hosted chat systems.

An email which is just a wrapper for content pulled from a website is no longer an unchangeable copy of anything.

Bron Gondwana (fastmail.com): Email is your electronic memory

Miaunsch.

  • 2018-02-14

Een mens geworden! Wat een gruwelijke straf. Voor geen duizend kanaries zou ik een mens willen wezen.

Tante Moortje in Minoes van Annie M.G. Schmidt

The Pizza Scale.

  • 2018-02-13

  • Let someone else call a pizza delivery service for you.
  • Call a pizza delivery service
  • Go to a pizzeria.
  • Let someone else get frozen pizza at a supermarket.
  • Get frozen pizza from a supermarket.
  • Buy pizza dough at a supermarket.
  • Buy flour, tomato sauce and cheese at the supermarket.
  • Grow your own tomatoes.
  • Cycle to a farm to buy flour.
  • Grow your own flour.
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