Aurélien

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Limites et fragilités du numérique – https://tabard.fr/
Limites numériques - infolettrehttps://limitesnumeriques.substack.com/
Limites Numériqueshttps://limitesnumeriques.fr/
AurélienJan 29
Slowly turning into my advisor... I guess it's time to look for a second therapist.
AurélienJan 23

After Apple, Microsoft is in full gaslighting mode, using the prompt "Sustainable Design, Why, What How" to promote Copilot. 👌

via @anaellebeignon

AurélienJan 21
Some evening read that I didn't expect to be so contemporary
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On (in)visibilty
AurélienJan 20
Really nice to have Susanne Bødker's keynote opening the eNSEMBLE days. She touches on the now long CSCW history, touches on work at PARC including Orr's repair people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne_B%C3%B8dker
http://ensemble-days.sciencesconf.org/program
Susanne Bødker - Wikipedia

Show threadAurélienJan 2

Some links on Plan Informatique pour Tous, the MO5 computers and the logo turtle that was in my elementary school.

- https://www.obsolete-tears.com/logo-et-sa-tortue-dossier-45.html
- https://www.epi.asso.fr/revue/37/b37p023.htm

#edtech #history

Logo et sa Tortue

Voici une machine bien bizarre, une tortue logo, mais version robotique. Cette machine a été utilisée par l’éducation nationale dans le cadre du Plan IPT (Informatique Pour Tous), afin de démontrer les sources de la programmation aux enfants des écoles primaires. Ces tortues physiques étaient donc là afin que les choses soient plus palpables pour des enfants qui n’étaient pas encore tout à fait tombés dans l’air de la micro-informatique.

AurélienJan 2

Let's start the #edtech thread with some positive vibes before the critiques piles on:

Some links on the Polycorp Poly 1 computer developed in NZ:
- https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/poly1.htm
- http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/homepages/andrew/poly/Poly.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060424190744/http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3645342a28,00.html

Discovered via https://www.ourfriendthe.computer/

#edtech #history

The Polycorp Poly 1. New Zealand's school computer

This site contains personal reflections on the Polycorp Poly 1. One item in a vintage computing collection

Show threadAurélienJan 2

VERTICAL ATLAS IS A NEW PUBLICATION ON THE GEOPOLITICS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
https://verticalatlas.net/

> How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How to make sense of digital transformations and their many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world? [...] From an investigation into the lithium mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maps of the fiber-optic submarine cables [...]

#geopolitics #art

Vertical Atlas

A new publication on changing digital geopolitics globally. Edited by Leonardo Dellanoce, Amal Khalaf, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Nanjala Nyabola, Renée Roukens, Arthur Steiner and Mi You.

Show threadAurélienJan 1

Most of @slightlyoff blog roll. Starting with his Performance inequality gap monitoring https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/ super useful when teaching modern Web stacks to students who are all about frameworks and crazy dependencies and pipelines.

#performance #programming

The Performance Inequality Gap - Infrequently Noted

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Infrequently Noted
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http://danluu.com/input-lag/
> I've had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid. As a rule, I don’t trust this kind of feeling because human perception has been shown to be unreliable in empirical studies, so I carried around a high-speed camera and measured the response latency of devices I’ve run into in the past few months. Here are the results:

by @danluu

#performance #programming

Computer latency: 1977-2017

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http://danluu.com/input-lag/
> I've had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid. As a rule, I don’t trust this kind of feeling because human perception has been shown to be unreliable in empirical studies, so I carried around a high-speed camera and measured the response latency of devices I’ve run into in the past few months. Here are the results:

by @danluu

#performance #programming

Show threadAurélienJan 1

Most of @slightlyoff blog roll. Starting with his Performance inequality gap monitoring https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/ super useful when teaching modern Web stacks to students who are all about frameworks and crazy dependencies and pipelines.

#performance #programming

The Performance Inequality Gap - Infrequently Noted

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Infrequently Noted
Show threadAurélienJan 1

About "good enough software" -> Towards Middle-Tech https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691257167/middle-tech

by Paula Bialski https://paulabialski.com/

Podcast episode about the book with @leevinsel https://newbooksnetwork.com/middle-tech

See also https://meetingclimatechange.hcommons.org/

#performance #programming #sociology

Middle Tech

Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company

Show threadAurélienJan 2

Fragile Computing: How to Live With Insecure Technologies by @lkocksch

> Computer security, the author argues, is part of living in the Anthropocene – an age of damaged more-than-human relations. As such, doing computer security means not striving for technical solutions, or individual awareness, but living with fragility

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-9807-4

#programming #security #performance #fragility

Fragile Computing

This book suggests alternative ways to engage with computer security, rooted in extensive ethnographic observations.

SpringerLink
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See also "Putting out the hardware dumpster fire"

> Classical OSes cannot address this, [...] The issue is interactions within the entire ensemble of firmware blobs, co-processors, and CPUs that we term the de facto OS. The current "whac-a-mole" approach will not solve this problem, nor will clean-slate redesign: it is simply not possible to replace some firmware components and the engineering effort is too great.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3593856.3595903

#security #programming #performance

Putting out the hardware dumpster fire | Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

ACM Conferences
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Les réseaux en péril : destructions, subversions et sabotages (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

Par B. Thierry et V. Schafer
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-flux-2019-4-page-7

> les réseaux comportent un grand nombre de vulnérabilités communes en dépit de leur diversité. [...] Comportent-ils des vulnérabilités spécifiques contre lesquelles il faudrait se prémunir et comment sont-elles négociées, évaluées, gérées ?

#fragility #sabotage #networking