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Links from 2020-07-10

Zoom is Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have transitioned to working—and socializing—from home. If these trends become the new normal, certain companies may be in for a big payoff.

Popular video conferencing company, Zoom Communications, is a prime example of an organization benefiting from this transition.

As of May 15, 2020, Zoom’s market capitalization has skyrocketed to $48.8 billion, despite posting revenues of only $623 million over the past year.

Tagged as: collection, delicious, links, shaarli | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Samstag, 20200711, 05:00 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Covid-19 Chunks 2020-07-06

Coronavirus: Donald Trump droht, kritische US-Staaten im Stich zu lassen

Ein Wutausbruch, der verstört: US-Präsident Trump droht, manchen US-Staaten nicht in der Coronakrise zu helfen, weil sie seine Arbeit nicht genug wertschätzen.

Tagged as: collection, covid19, delicious, links, shaarli | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Dienstag, 20200707, 05:00 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Links from 2020-07-06

UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster

My advice is always use UASP with USB 3.0 devices on the Pi 4, otherwise you’re missing out on a pretty substantial performance gain. Also, remember to plug USB 3.0 devices into the blue USB 3.0 ports, not into the black USB 2.0 ports, otherwise you won’t see any of the performance difference.

Tagged as: collection, delicious, disk, links, raspberrypi, shaarli, usb | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Dienstag, 20200707, 05:00 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

There's No Technological Innovation In MMXX

From the „pre-covid19” yearly mailing list thread „State of the World 2020: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky”

Also, there’s no technological innovation in MMXX. Innovation and invention are out of style. The closest we’ve got to innovation is „capital moating,” where you start some allegedly technical company to screw around with, say, hotels or taxis, and throw so many billions at the project that businessmen are awed. That’s financially innovative – sort of – it’s like the space-aviation biz staying aloft by angling subsidies. That’s not Moore’s Law, there’s nothing amazingly great that is busting out of the garage to set Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon-Microsoft on their ear. There is no wonderment, because there is no reason to wonder.

The fix is in. The Industry has consolidated. Best of the year lists from tech journalists have been replaced by lists of the worst things happening in tech. For the first time in my life, it’s getting hard to find any genuine technical novelty.

Tagged as: bruce sterling, future, technology | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Sonntag, 20200705, 17:36 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

USA vs. Russia - Bruce Sterling

From the „pre-covid19” yearly mailing list thread „State of the World 2020: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky”:

It’s just not the Republican apparatchiks who have abandoned all previous moral convictions for a mess of pottage – all the US population is like that. The Americans used to be self-assured, mobile, visionary, inventive; now they’re hunkered-down, dogmatic, disinterested in any consensus; they’re 100% American-Dream-Free.

The American life expectancy is in decline: they can’t keep death at bay. The American health care system is so astonishingly bad that black Americans escaped being murdered with opioids, because the racist American sickness-industry refused to prescribe them any of the pills. This is the domestic narcotic biz version of voter suppression. That is an unhealthy polity.

The Russians, by contrast, have learned to drink less vodka. Their birthrate has even popped up a little. Physically, they’re improving, and I’m glad at that news Yes, the Russians are diligently waging all kinds of asymmetrical warfare, they have built their own domestic Splinternet to subvert, repel and destroy the Internet, and they will pitch any dreadful thing over their firewall from nerve-gas to barrel-bombs, but I feel happier about them. They scared me, because I thought they would die en masse of sheer disillusionment, hapless spite, weltschmerz and morbid despair.

Probably the Russians will manage. They’re a great nation which is not suicidal. Their fearless leader will dump the wife of the children for a sexy gymnast, but they aren’t kamikazes, and they don’t need belt-bombs. The Russians in MMXX are Putin-Czarist hick fundies whose ultra-illusory worldview make literally no sense, and deliberately so, but at least they’re not dead on their feet. Even a dopey GRU assassin from the backwoods of Siberia is less scary than a hollow-eyed zombie.

Source:
https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/507/State-of-the-World-2020-Bruce-St-page01.html#post8
https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/507/State-of-the-World-2020-Bruce-St-page01.html#post9

Tagged as: bruce sterling, future, politics, russia, usa | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Sonntag, 20200705, 17:32 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Everybody Is Doing The Same Thing

From the „pre-covid19” yearly mailing list thread „State of the World 2020: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky”:

So in MMXX, we’re in a world situation that claims to be post-global and post-Internet and post world-trade, where everybody wants to take back control, be great again, assure sovereign cyberspace, set tariffs, jail immigrant tots, beat up ethnic minorities, nurture billionaires, ignore science, and reduce education to assure that there are fewer brainy chicks – but in practice, there’s no big difference among the players. They ALL do that. There’s next to no genuine cultural variety. They all use the same hardware, slogans and techniques.

Tagged as: bruce sterling, future, politics | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Sonntag, 20200705, 17:30 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Note to Self: Be More like Bruce Sterling

From the „State of the World 2020: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky” emails, the wonderful Bruce Sterling on Ars Electronica:

Every year I do this jury work, and really, the panoply of ingenuity there always impressed me and raises my morale. So many strange, creative, inventive things from a some basement, some attic, some home-made lab in the corner of whateverness. It gives me a baseline faith in the resilience of humanity. Not that things are always good —that’s too much to ask — but that they’re always interesting.

Tagged as: bruce sterling, humanity | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Sonntag, 20200705, 16:53 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Links from 2020-07-03

Work/life balance is a complete myth

Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today’s senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they’ll pursue and which they’ll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders can and do engage meaningfully with work, family, and community. They’ve discovered through hard experience that prospering in the senior ranks is a matter of carefully combining work and home so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success.

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[Samstag, 20200704, 05:00 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Links from 2020-07-02

Yanis Varoufakis: Interview with Léa El Azzi on Capitalism After the Pandemic, Europe, Greece, Lebanon & the IMF | naked capitalism

Here’s (via https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/30/deafhood/#diagnosis-cure) an admirably compact diagnosis of the malady afflicting capitalism and a suggestion for a cure from Yanis Varoufakis:

In 2008, we had an "endogenous" crash, caused by the finance sector itself. Governments gave them trillions, but "this liquidity did not turn into actual investment in the real economy."

"Banks recovered, the oligarchy found themselves with appreciating assets, the majority our there had to face harsh austerity. This boosted the disconnect between the world of money (that was doing well) and the world of the real economy (which was not)."

Now we face an "exogenous" crash, caused by the pandemic, but, "when Covid-19 arrived on the scene, it acted like a pin that bursts a gigantic bubble. Reflating this bubble, in the absence of public investment, will not be possible however much money Central Banks pump in."

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[Freitag, 20200703, 05:00 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Links from 2020-07-01

The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse - The Verge

But even today, TrackPoint fans across the internet still swear by their favorite input method and will broker no argument that it isn’t the superior form of computer navigation (the ThinkPad subreddit, for example, is full of appreciative posts). It’s like non-QWERTY keyboard layouts in that respect: well thought out, potentially better-to-use alternatives that exist only at the fringes of computing because other input methods are so much more popular, and it would take too much effort to switch.

Tagged as: collection, delicious, io, links, mouse, shaarli, thinkpad, trackpoint | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Donnerstag, 20200702, 05:00 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

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