14 Thesen zur ‘Corona-Krise’: Warum Demokratie und Denken in der Pandemie keine Pause haben.
8. Die Phase der Normalisierung wird nach der Coronakrise viel schneller verlaufen
Aus dem Vergleich mit der Krise von 2007ff. ergibt sich eine fundamental wichtige Prognose: So wie die Phase der Denormalisierung 2020ff. zeitlich gestauchter verläuft als 2007ff., so wird auch die Phase der Normalisierung kürzer und massiver verlaufen.
There is something going on about the future of React…
Introducing Crank.
All of the struggles which React developers faced, like the double-rendering or tree-walking hacks used to hydrate components with async dependencies on the server, or the whole period of collective insanity when React developers thought “render props” were good APIs, could be explained by React’s original sin of requiring rendering to be modeled exclusively as pure functions. The principle leaked into the ecosystem, radiating into developer’s lives by complicating their codebases and architectures when using React.
Relevant: Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks.
Is BGP safe yet? (Via lobste.rs).
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the postal service of the Internet. It’s responsible for looking at all of the available paths that data could travel and picking the best route. Unfortunately, it isn’t secure, and there have been some major Internet disruptions as a result. But fortunately there is a way to make it secure. ISPs and other major Internet players (Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, and others) would need to implement a certification system, called RPKI.
Relevant update: Is Cloudflare safe yet? Neither.
Labocine is an Imagine Science Films initiative to extend our film programming to a broader and more diverse audience. We have over 2,000 film titles from 200 countries for all ages brought to you by artists, scientists, filmmakers and educators.
This is a story about frontotemporal dementia.
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder.
The loss of embarrassment is common among some FTD patients, leading them to act in ways that might have horrified their former selves. Urinating in public, shoplifting, running red lights, making inappropriate sexual advances, digging through trash cans for food—all can be symptoms.
Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites (via lobste.rs).
An investigation into how Stripe tracks your users and what you can do to prevent it.
The choices we as a society make.
Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies.
Female trees produce no pollen, but they trap and remove large amounts of pollen from the air, and turn it into seed. Female trees (and female shrubs also) are not just passive, but are active allergy-fighting trees. The more female plants in a landscape, the less pollen there will be in the air in the immediate vicinity. By relying less on males and paying more attention to the allergy-potential of all the plants in our urban landscape, all of us may one day breathe easier.
Faces of Auschwitz is a collaboration between the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, a Brazilian photo colorization specialist Marina Amaral, and a dedicated team of academics, journalists and volunteers.
The goal of the project is to honor the memory and lives of Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners by colorizing registration photographs culled from the museum’s archive and sharing individual stories of those whose faces were photographed.(…) It acts as both a memorial to their passing and a warning to the world at a time when the memory of the Holocaust becomes increasingly abstract and remote.
Relevant: Night will fall – Hitchcocks Lehrfilm für die Deutschen. (Nur noch heute unter dieser URL verfügbar.)
Red flag!
The Future of Remote Work and the Flipped Workplace.
The most successful companies limit chit-chat emails and text messages. No, "hey, what's ups" in their communication structure.
While this article contains some sections I really like and appreciate (e.g. about the Gitlab handbook, or uninstalling Zoom) the quote above is the red flag for what utter bullcrap will follow. I cannot wrap my head around how someone is able to follow this train of thought during a pandemic crisis with all the lock-down and physical distancing yadda yadda.
every job is an IT job and every company is an IT company
…is the saying the author is so fond of he does not hesitate to let us know. So I guess I will be delighted how that turns out for the doctors and nurses, the relief units and not at last the grocery salespersons. Or I rather will not.
Because this is exactly the same kind of neoliberal reorganisational tech newspeak of the last 50 years that already gave us understaffed hospitals financially starved to death we have to cope with now.
Maybe it is just the fear of not being structurally relevant enough for a society to avoid to mention the elephant in the room in such an audacious and deliberate manner. However, it makes the whole article flawed in great profusion. Bummer.
Macintosh Y2020 (via lobste.rs).
During the peak of the Y2k brouhaha, Apple ran an advertising campaign bragging that the Macintosh was immune from such problems. They ran a television ad during the Super Bowl in January 1999. In it, HAL, the fictional computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, explained that the millennium bug was caused by bad judgement on the part of programmers. By implication, Apple’s ad claimed that their programmers were better, and did not make mistakes like that. It was... not exactly accurate. Maybe nobody told the ad company that Apple had planted a similar time bomb into their operating system. It was just set to go off 20 years later.
