Angelesen #45

Howdy y’all! Böse Zungen behaupten, dass ich zwischen August und November ziemlich schwer zu erreichen bin. Tja die #CrazyTime gibt es jedes Jahr. Nach meinem Aufenthalt in Wien ist die USA an der Reihe! Ich bin derzeit gerade in San Francisco, wo die Temperaturen mit 28°C sehr im Rahmen des erträglichen sind! Nachdem ich heute 15km rumgelaufen bin treffe ich noch einige Freunde bevor am Mittwoch das BadCamp beginnt.

The Depression Thing (zachholman.com)

Longread von Zach Homan zum Thema Depressionen.

Die ersten Anzeigen seit der Einführung des Verhüllungsverbots in Österreich (watson.ch)

fassungsloses Kopfschütteln auf das wir in der Schweiz solchen Unfug bachab schicken!

What I Learned From Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter (medium.com)

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.
Jemand hat sich die Mühe gemacht, sämtliche Shareholder Letters durchzulesen, darunter hat es einige Trouvailen und clevere Schlussfolgerungen

Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said 24/7 (androidpolice.com)

What could have possibly gone wrong… uhm wait!

OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics (chrisdcmoore.co.uk)

from a development point of view, wanting to know about abnormal reboots seems legitimate – but the screen on/off and unlock activities feel excessive.

Ein Privacy WTF der Extraklasse!

What will programming look like in the future? (highscalability.com)

Right now, limited as we are by human programmers using methods that haven’t changed much in 30 years, software is just nibbling at the world. And that won’t scale. We need more software. A lot more software. And humans are the bottleneck.

Spannender Gedanke zur Zukunft von Software

Changing Lanes: Watch Median Movers & Cone Collectors Rapidly Modify Roads – 99% Invisible (99percentinvisible.org)

Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances (peteris.rocks)

Direkt aus der Abteilung für “Amazon AWS Spot Instance”-Hacks

No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During Catalonian Referendum (eff.org)

With an extremely narrow range of exceptions, government censorship of the Internet is prohibited by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, both of which guarantee everyone’s right to receive and impart information and ideas regardless of frontiers. The Spanish government’s censorship of online speech during the Catalonian referendum period is so wildly disproportionate and overbroad, that its violation of these instruments seems almost beyond dispute.

Keine Regierung sollte ihren Bürgern jemals vorschreiben was sie im Internet anzusurfen haben. Geschweige denn Seiten in diesem Masse sperren – Basta!

HAProxy vs nginx: Why you should NEVER use nginx for load balancing! (thehftguy.com)

Conclusion: Avoid nginx at all costs

Talking about NGINX as Loadbalancer

GitLab raises $20M Series C round led by GV (techcrunch.com)

Way to go GitLab!

Bluetooth won’t replace the headphone jack (theverge.com)

To improve Bluetooth, platform vendors like Apple and Google are riffing on top of it, and that means they’re building custom solutions. And building custom solutions means they’re taking the opportunity to prioritize their own products, because that is a fair and rational thing for platform vendors to do.

Preach!

The playbook is simple: last year, Apple dropped the headphone jack and replaced it with its W1 system, which is basically a custom controller chip and software management layer for Bluetooth. The exemplary set of W1 headphones is, of course, AirPods, but Apple also owns Beats, and there are a few sets of W1 Beats headphones available as well. You can still use regular Bluetooth headphones with an iPhone, and you can use AirPods as regular Bluetooth headphones, but the combination iPhone / W1 experience is obviously superior to anything else on the market. No one else can make W1 headphones, and obviously no one else can modify iOS to support their own custom wireless Bluetooth riff. So your choices are the four W1 headphones, and then a large market of second-class citizens.

Nicht das Google das unglaublich viel offener Machen würde. Aber der Trend ist eine DRMifizierung von sämtlichen Datenwegen. Gefällt der Musikindustrie und den Premium-Hardware-Herstellern bestimmt 😉

Julian Assange Told Young Catalans What Chat Apps To Use To Avoid Spanish Authorities (buzzfeed.com)

Tracking police activity was one of the largest priorities for the Catalan activists on the day of the vote. A user-generated map quickly started getting shared around. “There was a map, a Google map, with points where the police had been and you could see different colors. I don’t know who made it,” Rosique said.

Crowd-gesourctes Riot Management, Mobilisierung über End-to-End verschlüsselte Dienste wie Whatsapp/Signal/Telegram. Wow!

And now everyone : Use Tor, Use Signal

Deutsche Bank makes its computer code publicly available for the first time – Newsroom (db.com)

Opensource FTW!

Band uses delay from Facebook Live to loop a song and it’s incredible (mashable.com)

Ein Video zur Abwechslung

Personal Power Plant projects (sunboxlabs.com)