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.
Coming from a website where I cannot select any text, unfortunately.
A simple fix would allow the user to check a preference to disallow embedding. When a post is embedded, Instagram could serve up a blurred image that could only be seen within the app. The photographer gets a link back to their Instagram presence without giving up their intellectual property without compensation.
If clickbait it must be, at least it be good.
50 Weirdest Stock Photos You Won’t Be Able To Unsee.
From all the project management and collaboration tools I’ve seen so far, Miro is the most interesting one because it comes closest to a tailored solution some organisational bodies actually need so desperate.
I once was involved in developing such a custom-made solution for managing joint building ventures called coplaner – with a lot of great ideas and workflows supporting exactly the individual needs of a special interest group of organizers and clients.
While a lot of the workflows in coplaner are built-in and (semi-)automatic, one has to somehow implement and trigger these manually in Miro. I would say that might be the tiny disadvantage you get for a huge amount of flexibility.
Especially worth mentioning are the many tools not targeting either your average SAP-dominated management of business school 101, or the already tool-spoiled flock of software engineers for once in a while.
Because not everyone needs the hundredth iteration of organisational diagrams or another typical workflow to launch an IT platform. Some people are neither middle-management, nor developers. Some people need a Lego bricks approach to find their own creative solution to organise their groupware.
Semiphemeral: Automatically delete your old tweets, except for the ones you want to keep. (Via lobste.rs.)
Advertising is the business model of “social” media.
Bill Hicks on advertising.
Setting up an email server in 2020 with OpenSMTPD and Dovecot (via lobste.rs).
Relevant: 3 Awesome Complete Open Source Mail Servers Solutions For Linux and UNIX servers.
“I Took a COBOL Course and It Wasn't The Worst.” (Via lobste.rs.)
COBOL is in the news again. Millions of people are filing unemployment claims nearly all at once, and the systems to process them are failing. Why? They need to scale to unprecedented levels, they’re written in COBOL, and… we don’t have enough COBOL programmers.
Uncanny conversations with Replika.
In Soft Awareness, Anastasia Sif Karkazis, a Danish film student and co-director of the film, engages in a series of conversations with Replika, drifting between a series of loosely connected subjects – including art, dreams and identity. Throughout, the exchanges seem to teeter between meaningful and unintelligible, offering a window on Karkazis’s inner world, how Replika ‘understands’ her, and the many hazy areas in between. Beneath the surface of these uncanny exchanges, larger questions about privacy and the contours of intimacy between humans and AI slowly emerge.