Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Apple’s news subscription service doesn’t have a lot of news theverge.com #
Belief in aliens could be America’s next religion - I don't think that the idea propsed here is all that far fetched but for different reasons - the chances of actual aliens arriving are very very slim, the nearest star systems are just too far away and light speed travel is likely not possible, but as is clear from the recent EU copyright laws coming into place, certain groups want to ensure that they remain in control of things, and by creating copyright laws you move the power from the corporations into much longer lasting structures, the next logical and even more stable structure is to bake something similar into religion type structures, these tend to last for hundreds and up to thousands of years, so a technology based religion makes a lot of sense, whether it's a good idea for humanity as a whole is something else, is there more freedom in tech (and future tech) than religion? The other thing that's actually quite likely is illusions created for psychological manipulation, certainly much more likely than aliens, but I could of course be wrong, might be kind of neat if there was an alien space ship orbiting earth - Another thought on this, thinking optimistically about humanities intensions, it might be worth spending some time encoding the shapes of the useful design patterns we have discovered in these recent years into stories that last like folklore and mythology, I wouldn't be all that suprised if we found a lot of these already in some of the stories, if the aliens were here in ancient times, that's probably what they would have done :) theoutline.com #
How to build your own CDN with Kubernetes - A neat idea, but the article sort of illustrates the issues I have with kubernetes, essentially it's a rolling ball of complexity that just seems to get bigger and bigger blog.insightdatascience.com #
The culture war at the heart of open source - The article predicts a looming fracture of the ecosystem, I think there is much movement towards change, not sure a fracture as described would be beneficial but I could very well be wrong about this, the tea leaves in this swirl of the spoon are very far from settled at this point words.steveklabnik.com #
I can't figure out how to link to a specific comment in a Hacker News post, maybe I'm missing something here, but it would be nice to be able to link to a comment directly in the thread, because there are some really excellent comments that need to be read in context news.ycombinator.com #
I have resolved most of the prolems I was having with WebStorm broken features from yesterday, though the periodic slow downs are still occuring, when this happens the only thing you can do is wait often for 20-30 mins - We need better tools to see were resources are being used during slow downs, using htop and activity monitor doesn't show anything even when the whole system is in "slow motion mode" jetbrains.com #
BBC pulls its podcasts from Google Podcasts and Assistant - It's all about robots.txt files this week theverge.com #
Oxford college to investigate its own role in colonialism - I'm interested in this project because I'd like to get a better understanding of colonialism but in the context of the time period, I keep seing commentary about it but often it seems to compare and judge things that occurred in reference to how things are today, and given the amount of accelerating progess that has happened in recent times, that often isn't a fair way of looking at the past theguardian.com #
Restricting process CPU usage using nice, cpulimit, and cgroups scoutapp.com #
Facebook to Fight Belgian Ban on Tracking Users (and Even Non-Users) bloomberg.com #
PM Modi announces India's successfully shoots down satellite in space - Cool thing to be able to do but given the catastrpohic possibility that a space debris chain reaction accident could happen during such an exercise I'm suprised this is being heralded as the next thing coutries are going to be trying to achieve in their space exploration journey, from what I've read such an accident could permanently ground the entire human race since we have no way to clean up a floating mess of tiny objects stuck in orbit timesofindia.indiatimes.com #
EU cannot betray 'increasing majority' who want UK to remain, says Tusk - It's always a bit difficult to get a clear picture of how things are going down in the EU Parliament, there is always such an under current of vielled hostility and general nastiness which is probably made worse by all the simultaneous translations happening, so everything is happening at an awkward rhythm, but having said that it is nice to hear some of the EU representatives say somrhing that makes me think they are seing the British as actual people rather than some numbers on a ballance sheet theguardian.com #