🚧 Dans la dernière newsletter on s'intéresse aux conséquences d'un numérique toujours plus fluide et disponible. Et des pistes pour accepter la défaillance et intégrer la panne dans le design même des choses.

Sans oublier :

→ Un serveur Minecraft à énergie solaire contraint les manières de jouer.
→ Des cigarettes électroniques jetables avec écran (grand chelem 2024 🙃).
→ La Chine qui bloque des exportations de minerais stratégiques.

Et plein d'autres choses.

https://limitesnumeriques.substack.com/p/limites-numeriques-16

Tom's Hardware: Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the BASICs

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminals

#Commodore64 #BASIC #retrocomputing

Social media “gurus” spout off a whole lot of bullshit about engagement, reach, and metrics. But if your mentality is “bar go up”, there’s really only one thing that matters:

How to talk to the algorithm and figure out what it wants.

That’s really it. If you have this one skill, you don’t have to learn much else. Do this, and you’re gold.

And this is why assholes – people you love to hate – are seen on social media constantly. Because they’re not making content for you. They’re making content for the algorithm. And when the algorithm likes what it likes, it gets pushed onto your home feed – regardless of whether or not most people like it.

But there’s a flipside to this. When these “algo whisperers” wind up on the Fediverse, they end up hating the experience. Why? Because now they have to make content for people. They don’t like it that there’s no optimizations – no tricks – to push their stuff to home feeds. They have to survive entirely on human-to-human connections and this is scary.

This is why typical influencers largely stay away from the Fediverse.

A lot of overblown, and frankly ignorant, hype over the last week on podcasts about Google’s Willow quantum computing result including from the future “AI Czar” of the US on the All-Hype podcast.

Thankfully, Security Cryptography Whatever has some more knowledgeable folks providing good insights into that developement.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/security-cryptography-whatever/id1578405214?i=1000680890347