Facebook is tuning to Fakebook and Farcebook! The wordplay isn’t far off—the platform has spent years wrestling with structural issues that drive users to those exact nicknames. The “Fakebook” Side (Information Quality) Algorithmic Engagement: Content optimized for rage, outrage, and high click-through rates systematically outperforms nuanced, accurate information. Policy Shifts: Decisions like scaling back independent →
Here is an overview of Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that got a lot of publicity in January 2018. Meltdown and Spectre the two original transient execution CPU vulnerabilities. The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were considered “catastrophic” by security analysts. The vulnerabilities are so severe that security researchers initially believed the reports to be false. In →
Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Basically format and transmission of Usenet articles is similar to that of Internet e-mail messages. Usenet started to operate at 1980 and I started using it in 1989. Users read and post messages →
Uusiteknologia.fi is a Finnish language electronics and technology professionals magazine published on-line. In the newest issue have written articles on many high tech topics (text in Finnish with short introduction in English). Newest issue Uusiteknologia 2/2020 has just been published. I have written two articles to the newest issue. The front page article is about →
Decades before Twitter threads, Reddit forums, or Facebook groups, there was Usenet: an early-internet, pre-Web discussion system where one could start and join conversations much like today’s message boards. It was launched in 1980. On Usenet, people talked about everything. And there were many interesting discussions and technical details posted. Old 80s Usenet content published →
ZDnet reports at https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references/ that a number of people and companies plan to drop terms like “master” and “slave” for alternatives like “main/default/primary” and “secondary;” but also terms like “blacklist” and “whitelist” for “allow list” and “deny/exclude list.” ZDNet found that projects like the OpenSSL encryption software library, automation software Ansible, Microsoft’s PowerShell scripting language, →
Uusiteknologia.fi is a Finnish language electronics and technology professionals magazine published on-line. In the newest issue have written articles on many high tech topics (text in Finnish with short introduction in English). Earlier issues have been published as an electronic magazine that looks like a regular printed magazine, but this newest issue is published in →
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-are-sharing-the-worst-stock-photos-of-their-jobs-and-theyre-hilarious/ →
Uusiteknologia.fi is a Finnish language electronics and technology professionals magazine. In the newest issue have written articles on many high tech topics (text in Finnish with short introduction in English). The new number has been published as an electronic magazine that looks like a regular printed magazine. I have written to two articles to this →
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/a-guide-to-science-writing →