Visto nel Web – 322

Un altra rassegna troppo lunga ma è colpa del mondo, capitano troppe cose. O, forse, sono io che non so selezionare. Beh, ecco qua cosa ho wisto nel Web.

Elixir per idioti /1
ottimo modo per iniziare l’anno
#:programmazione funzionale
::: Grab the Blaster

What surprises me most about #meltdown and #spectre is how surprised everyone is. Here is what I wrote in February 2017
#:bug #:hardware
::: Sweet5hark

Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs
#:bug #:hardware
::: Slashdot

Fun and creative explanation of Meltdown issue (vs Spectre too)
#:bug #:hardware
::: WebReflection

Un lungo elenco, praticamente tutti i modelli Intel
#:bug #:hardware
::: Multiplayerit

How do memes spread disinformation
#:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: EthanZ

x86 virtualization can be fat as all get out, and have exactly all the bugs Theo describes
#:bug #:hardware
::: dakami

The Emacs Guru Guide to Key Bindings
#:tools, componenti software
::: _wilfredh

One perhaps under-considered mitigation for these CPU arch vulnerabilities is moving more secrets to secure enclave-like things
#:bug #:hardware
::: andygocke

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
#:manuali, how to
::: onepaperperday

HNews: Show HN: Python library for functional programming
#:linguaggi di programmazione #:programmazione funzionale
::: tek_news

Ouch… The effects of #Meltdown/#Spectre patches to Epic Games’ cloud based servers
#:bug #:hardware
::: ben_a_adams

Can’t be impacted by CPU bug if your main compute is the GPU
#:bug #:hardware
::: Smerity

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how
#:bug #:hardware
::: zacchiro

Google Loses Up to 250 Bikes a Week
#:ditte
::: Slashdot

#Windows10 : I migliori programmi gratuiti 2018
#:free open source software
::: Genjuro75

Un thread assai intrigante: analisi testuale dei tweet di Trump con l’occhio di un critico teatrale. Ipotesi curiose quanto preoccupanti
interessante ben oltre l’ovvio trumpismo
#:social media
::: tedeschini

Ubuntu 17.10 Will Be Re-Released on January 11
#:sistemi operativi
::: lucaciavatta

Now you tell me, how is this possible?
#:bug #:hardware
::: evilsocket

An important development that makes me hopeful about the future of fact-checking on Facebook
purché non sia censura
#:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: Mantzarlis

The story of my (programmer’s) life
Panicz è über, e panicoso, rockz! 💥
#:programming, codice, snippet #:programmazione funzionale
::: PaniczGodek

Sunday Marketing #1, first weekly blog post focused on LibreOffice marketing-related topics
#:free open source software
::: italovignoli

C Programming Language ‘Has Completed a Comeback’
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: Slashdot

Can Mesh Networks Save a Dying Web?
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

Using sed to make indexes for books (1997)
#:tip, suggerimenti
::: Donearm

Awesome. I wish this was the standard, not the exception
#:free open source software
::: nicolaiarocci

Apple shareholders push for study of phone addiction in children
#:dispositivi mobili
::: marcelsalathe

What cryptographic key generation needs is a good source of entrophy
#:free open source software
::: lucaciavatta

5 arcade-style games for Linux
#:games
::: lucaciavatta

2017 was an exceptional year for @swheritage
#:storia
::: SWHeritage

Good old Berty
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus #:economia
::: joeerl

7 ways to save EU #copyright reform
#:copyright e brevetti
::: communia_eu

OpenBSD’s De Raadt Pans ‘Incredibly Bad’ Disclsoure of Intel CPU Bug
#:bug #:hardware
::: Slashdot

Concurrent Programming for Scalable Web Architectures by @b_erb is a really good resource
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: keleshev

Linux Release Roundup: Wine, Soundnode, Etcher + More
#:tools, componenti software
::: dcavedon

trace — Follow Program Flow
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: doughellmann

#Diffamazione, quello che i leoni da tastiera non sanno (e che farebbero bene sapere)
#:social media
::: SergioGridelli

Microsoft’s Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs
#:bug
::: Slashdot

5 Front-End Technologies I’m Keeping My Eye on in 2018
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: Donearm

Apple Updates macOS and iOS To Address Spectre Vulnerability
#:bug #:hardware
::: Slashdot

James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men
#:ditte #:protagonisti
::: Slashdot

Nebraska becomes first red state to introduce pro-net neutrality legislation
#:Web, Internet
::: thehill

It Took Only Three Days For Germany’s New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage
#:censura
::: MarieAndreeW ::: dw_freedom

Senate Will Force Vote On Overturning Net Neutrality Repeal
senza speranze
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

Western Digital ‘My Cloud’ Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Google Rebrands All Its Payment Solutions As ‘Google Pay’
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

Congrats to @JohnDCook on 10 years of blogging!
#:Web, Internet
::: tdhopper

Trump Pushes To Expand High-Speed Internet In Rural America
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

The internet is still a magical place!
#:Web, Internet
::: amasad

Debbie Sinno

Our social networks amplify negative more than the positive
#:social media
::: timberners_lee

Let’s Make an NTP Client in Go
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: Donearm

How to set up a Raspberry Pi for retro gaming
#:games #:hardware
::: lucaciavatta

How Mycroft used WordPress and GitHub to improve its documentation
#:free open source software
::: lucaciavatta

Le dépôt de logiciels bientôt disponible dans HAL #OA
#:storia
::: ccsd_fr

Speculative execution considered harmful in 1995
#:bug #:hardware
::: qrs

Happy to announce that our guide to studying false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online is out
#:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: bb_liliana

Unix architecture evolution from an unnamed 1970 PDP-7 system to the modern FreeBSD is now online
bello; e alla fine nomina anche quell’altro discendente di Unix
#:storia
::: CoolSWEng

Facebook to take in $1 of every $10 spent on all advertising – digital and nondigital combined. Snapchat to surpass Twitter in revenue
#:social media
::: steverubel

FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption ‘Urgent Public Safety Issue’
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

ffdup – Ultra Fast (and Light) Portable Duplicate File Finder
#:tools, componenti software
::: Amori in corso

Microsoft Details Performance Impact of Spectre and Meltdown Mitigations on Windows Systems
#:bug #:hardware
::: Slashdot

Automated Code Repair in the C Programming Language
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: b3h3m0th

Automated Detection, Exploitation, and Elimination of Double-Fetch Bugs using Modern CPU Features
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: b3h3m0th

Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: b3h3m0th

‘The Web is Not Google, and Should Not be Just Google’: Developers Express Concerns About AMP
per tanti il Web è Facebook
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

No tracking, no revenue: Apple’s privacy feature costs ad companies millions
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: marcelsalathe

Google to build adblocker into Chrome browser to tackle intrusive ads
#:Web, Internet
::: marcelsalathe

Is Facebook preparing to open up on fake news?
#:ditte #:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: fabiochiusi ::: fabiochiusi

Strong encryption IS a vital public safety issue and a security measure that protects people—and it should not be compromised with weaker encryption
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: EFF

pysaml2 library uses an `assert` statement to check & reject users who use the wrong password; however when running with the optimiser enabled, all assert statements are stripped…
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: AlecMuffett

Neuschwanstein – Erika Sand

Political actors increasingly delegate regulatory and police functions to platform companies, displacing power (exercised w/great discretion) and raising questions regarding protection of individual rights
#:Web, Internet #:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus #:politica
::: rasmus_kleis

How to build custom IoT hardware with Arduino
#:hardware
::: lucaciavatta

Twitter misses deadline to answer Senate Intel’s Russia questions
#:social media #:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: fabiochiusi

Congress will grill Alphabet, Facebook and Twitter again — this time for terrorist content on their sites
#:social media #:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Recode

‘I Tried the First Phone With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor’
#:dispositivi mobili
::: Slashdot

Having passed QA in our -proposed pocket, fixes for CVE-2017-5754 (aka #Meltdown, Variant 3) were released GA in @Ubuntu Security Updates on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, the original coordinated release date. Please update and reboot all #Ubuntu systems ASAP!
#:bug #:hardware
::: dustinkirkland

Facebook will become more powerful than the NSA in less than 10 years — unless we stop it
#:social media
::: 221BoyXV

Microsoft Announces First Mobile Carriers To Support Always Connected PCs
#:dispositivi mobili
::: Slashdot

FCC Plan To Lower Broadband Standards Is Met With ‘Mobile Only Challenge’
#:dispositivi mobili
::: Slashdot

As gnome turns 20, jimfhall shares four reasons it’s still his favorite GUI
#:tools, componenti software #:storia
::: lucaciavatta ::: lucaciavatta

Get yourself early access to @digitalocean Container Service
per dockeristi
#:Web, Internet
::: blockloop

Apple To Transfer Chinese iCloud Operations To Chinese Firm
#:dati, raccolta
::: Slashdot

Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip
#:dispositivi mobili
::: Slashdot

A quanto pare gli account Fake Bot erano collegati con degli account Facebook
#:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: DavidPuente ::: DavidPuente

Dr. Simon Peyton Jones shares his passion for #functionalprogramming research and reveals how a desire to help other researchers write and present better turned him into an unlikely YouTube star
#:programmazione funzionale
::: MSFTResearch

Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, Federal Court Rules
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: Slashdot

The use of social media to launder (dis)information is explored in ASD’s latest policy report
#:social media #:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: SecureDemocracy

My journey with Rust in 2017 — The good, the bad, the weird
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: Donearm

a few thoughts on translation validation
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: johnregehr

n October, Twitter Promised An Ad Transparency Center In ‘Coming Weeks.’ Where Is It?
#:social media
::: fabiochiusi

First France, now Brazil unveils plan to empower the government to censor the internet in the name of stopping “Fake News”
#:censura
::: fabiochiusi

I’m interested in the forgotten ideas of computer science
#:storia #:programming, codice, snippet
::: joeerl ::: joeerl

Per non dimenticare #AaronSwartz
#:protagonisti
::: dagoneye

Le foto dei figli su Facebook e le multe ai genitori. Facciamo chiarezza
#:social media
::: valigiablu

How inner sourcing saved our IT department
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: lucaciavatta

How to install software applications on Linux
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: lucaciavatta

Voi al Poli, sui problemi semplici, usate Matlab
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: fulcorno

Polarization of the Vaccination Debate on Facebook
#:social media
::: arXiv

Elixir v1.6.0-rc.1 is out!
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: elixirlang

he Stress of Remote Working
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: nicolaiarocci

We have designed @Inria ‘s new typeface family, #inriaSans & #InriaSerif. The good news? We decided that, given its origin, it should be used for free! 😍🍾
#:tools, componenti software
::: blackfoundry

Haskell programmers often believe “You should use types to constrain your programs to be correct”
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: TaurineAndCode

@code is quickly becoming my (second) favorite editor
prima o poi devo provarlo
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: mandarvaze

City of Barcelona Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Linux and Open Source
#:free open source software
::: libreitalia

Neuschwanstein castle

FBI Calls Apple ‘Jerks’ and ‘Evil Geniuses’ For Making iPhone Cracks Difficult
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Se va avanti di questo passo, nel 2019 il dibattito sarà “costringiamo le piattaforme a leggere nella mente di ogni singolo utente così da rimuovere contenuti pericolosi *prima* che vengano pubblicati”
#:Web, Internet #:politica
::: fabiochiusi

spectre and the end of langsec
bellissimissimo, imho 😊
#:bug #:hardware
::: andywingo

Don Knuth, the Father of Computer Science, is celebrating his 80th birthday today
#:protagonisti
::: dseabraoliveira

Nextcloud Talk is an Open Source Alternative to Google Hangouts
#:social media
::: lucaciavatta

Undercover video appears to show Twitter security engineer saying that Twitter keeps all deleted direct messages and Tweets in case they need to hand them over to the government at a later date
Twitter smentisci o è grave
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: wikileaks

Il secondo report del PD sulla Disinformazione? Troppo approssimativo. Vi riporto il mio
#:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: DavidPuente

Remmina The Digger Edition
#:programming, codice, snippet
::: ks7000

Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

Why Rust is the future of robotics
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: pollenrobotics

Les terminaux sont ils le maillon faible de l’ouverture d’internet ?
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: valantin89

Over 40 years ago this month MITS produced the first commercially successful PC, the Altair 8800
#:storia
::: MIT_CSAIL

European Commission claims that general monitoring is not general monitoring
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: edri

Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home
#:economia
::: Slashdot

Libre in Las Vegas
#:free open source software
::: lucaciavatta

Microsoft Partners with Signal to Bring End-To-End Encryption to Skype
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot ::: matthew_d_green

Dropbox Files Confidentially For IPO
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

FCC Undoing Rules That Make It Easier For Small ISPs To Compete With Big Telecom
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

Hackers Could Blow Up Factories Using Smartphone Apps
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Facebook will now show you more posts from friends and family than news
#:social media
::: Donearm ::: dontyna ::: fabiochiusi ::: marcelsalathe

Un caso di potenziale “censura de passato”. Nel digitale è tecnicamente possibile
#:censura
::: tedeschini

The House just approved the disastrous NSA surveillance extension bill that will allow for continued, unconstitutional surveillance that hurts the American people and violates our Fourth Amendment rights
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: EFF

Isiamed, chi era costui: tutti i nodi della vicenda
#:frodi
::: AlfonsoFuggetta

Ecuador Grants Citizenship To WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
#:Web, Internet
::: slashdot

WPA3 in arrivo, il Wi-Fi non è mai stato così sicuro
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: lucaferrari15

The 1982 Alice #Computer manual. Art by Mœbius
#:storia
::: PulpLibrarian

This is an important fact about Telegram that not a lot of people seem to understand
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: tqbf

Visto así, parece que el lenguaje de script para gnome debería haber sido lua, no javascript
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: spectrumgomas

AMD Is Releasing Spectre Firmware Updates To Fix CPU Vulnerabilities
#:bug #:hardware
::: Slashdot

Scratch is a neat teaching tool, but also quite frustrating in some ways
#:linguaggi di programmazione #:lisp(s)
::: yminsky

How to make Steam installation working on Linux
#:games
::: lucaciavatta

FB e’ chiaramente in stato confusionale
#:social media
::: micheleboldrin

Intel’s Chip Bug Fixes Have Bugs of Their Own
#:bug #:hardware
::: Slashdot

PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life
#:economia
::: Slashdot

Emacs lisp isn’t really a lisp-2
#:lisp(s)
::: _wilfredh

Sleepsort accelerator! (see post for more useful applications)
sarebbe da esaminare ma ci vorrebbe tempo
#:algoritmi, codice
::: danluu

Facebook’s newsfeed changes: a disaster or an opportunity for news publishers?
#:social media
::: tedeschini

Researcher Finds Another Security Flaw In Intel Management Firmware
#:bug #:hardware
::: Slashdot

Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
#:bug #:hardware
::: b3h3m0th

Apple’s China iCloud Data Migration Sweeps Up International User Accounts
#:sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Discovered Google gives anyone with Gmail account a FREE #Cloud #Shell with Debian 7 VM/5Gb
ancora da perlustrare
#:Web, Internet
::: securestep9

Due parlamentari interrogano un Ministero sulla mia attività
#:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: DavidPuente

When Peter Thiel buys and deletes the Gawker archives will they still be accessible through the Wayback Machine?
#:censura
::: jackshafer

Raspberry Pi appears to be the only computer spared from this
#:bug #:hardware
::: WebReflection

Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaws found
#:bug #:hardware
::: newsycombinator

Messaggi sui social con gli studenti, gli insegnanti rischiano sanzioni
ma dal 5 marzo si cambia –forse, anzi no improbabile 😡
#:social media
::: la Stampa

Google knocks Facebook off the referral traffic top spot
#:Web, Internet
::: Donearm

Windows slowly becoming a full UNIX is an underrated tech story
l’utente tipico è molto diverso, resteranno sistemi molto diversi
#:sistemi operativi
::: asmallteapot

È stato rilasciato Ubuntu 17.10.1, una point release di Ubuntu 17.10 che corregge alcune problematiche riscontrate in molti modelli di laptop
#:sistemi operativi
::: ubuntuit

Everything is ready! Follow the signal light! #ubucon #europe 2018
#:sistemi operativi
::: costalesdev

@OSCE_RFoM & @article19law involved in this joint declaration on #FakeNews #propaganda #disinformation last year
#:caos informativo, fake news, bufale
::: davidakaye

Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About bash
#:linguaggi di programmazione
::: zwischenzugs

Take a map of the world and color it
#:lisp(s)
::: d_run

Many US States Propose Their Own Laws Protecting Net Neutrality
#:Web, Internet
::: Slashdot