May 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Il kernel Linux adotta il Code Of Conduct
by Francesco Mecca Sept. 9, 2020

Sept. 9, 2020

Il mondo del FOSS e piu` in generale quello dell'informatica non e` un universo a se` stante ma coesiste con il mondo della politica e ci interagisce. Il 16 settembre Linus con questa email http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1809.2/00117.html ha annunciato di prendersi una pausa dallo sviluppo del kernel. Inoltre si scusa per il suo comportamento aggressivo: "The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely. I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately." Questo cambiamento, che non ha precedenti in 30 anni di benevola dittatura, rientra nel panorama molto piu` ampio dell'attuale conflitto ideologico fra le vecchie idee di selezione per merito e le piu` nuove idee di selezione per diversita`, fra il "technical coding" e il "social coding", alt-destre e la sinistra culturale. Francesco Mecca

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Regolamentare Internet...
by Carlo Blengino Aug. 12, 2019

Aug. 12, 2019

espungere il male, prevenire ogni devianza, da Internet e dal mondo. Bel pezzo di Fabio Chiusi. Ricordo solo che tutte le battaglie per i diritti civili, tutte, sono iniziate infrangendo regole, scardinando concetti consolidati e ritenuti dai più giusti e sacrosanti, spesso sono stati commessi reati per permettere all'umanità di fare un passo avanti. Rosa Park fu arrestata legittimamente per aver violato il posto riservato dalla legge ai bianchi (nell'IOT di domani probabilmente un software non l'avrebbe neppure lasciata salire sul bus) e meno di 30 anni fa decine di giovani italiani rischiarono la galera rifiutandosi di fare il servizio militare...per dire. Grazie Fabio https://www.valigiablu.it/internet-politica-regole/

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Model Metropolis (da SimCity alla SmartCity?)
by Giacomo Tesio June 3, 2019

June 3, 2019

Un brillante articolo da Kevin T. Baker, storico: https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/ Ai miei occhi, pone questioni interessantissime. Di straordinaria attualità nel momento in cui vecchi giocatori di SimCity (come me) ragionano, discutono, votano o decidono sulle "Smart City". E di straordinario interesse non solo storico politico, ma informatico. Mostra come l'informatica e la programmazione siano mezzi di espressione capaci di diffondere un sistema di credenze e valori complesso (150 equazioni e 200 variabili) SENZA comunicazione verbale. Diffondendo veri e propri pregiudizi senza una singola rete neurale a nascondere / giustificare i bias. Giacomo ____ Almost as soon as SimCity came out, journalists, academics, and other critics began to speculate on the effects that the game might have on real-world planning and politics. Within a few years of its release, instructors at universities across the country began to integrate SimCity into their urban planning and political science curriculums. Commentators like the sociologist Paul Starr worried that the game’s underlying code was an “unreachable black box” which could “seduce” players into accepting its assumptions, like the fact that low taxes promoted growth in this virtual world. “I became a total Republican playing this game,” one SimCity fan told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. “All I wanted was for my city to grow, grow, grow.” Despite all this attention, few writers looked closely at the work which sparked Wright’s interest in urban simulation in the first place. Largely forgotten now, Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics put forth the controversial claim that the overwhelming majority of American urban policy was not only misguided but that these policies aggravated the very problems that they were intended to solve. In place of Great Society-style welfare programs, Forrester argued that cities should take a less interventionist approach to the problems of urban poverty and blight, and instead encourage revitalization indirectly through incentives for businesses and for the professional class. Forrester’s message proved popular among conservative and libertarian writers, Nixon Administration officials, and other critics of the Great Society for its hands-off approach to urban policy. This outlook, supposedly backed up by computer models, remains highly influential among establishment pundits and policymakers today. [...] When we consider the social effects of computers in political and social life, we usually think in terms of expanded power and new possibilities. This perspective on computation permeates even our critical visions of technology. But we should also be attentive to the power that computers and the accompanying language of “systems” and “complexity” have to narrow our conception of the politically possible. [...] Forrester argued that for most of human history, people have only needed to understand basic cause-and-effect relationships, but that our social systems are governed by complex processes that unfold over long periods of time. [...] In essence, anything we do to try to improve society will backfire and make things even worse. [...] Expert knowledge, of course, has an important place in democratic deliberation, but it can also cut people out of the policy process, dampen the urgency of moral claims, and program a sense of powerlessness into our public discourse. Appeals to a social system’s “complexity” and the potential for “perverse outcomes” can be enough to sink transformative social programs that are still on the drawing board.

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Apple promises privacy, but iPhone apps share your data with trackers, ad companies and research firms - The Washington Post
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/28/its-middle-night-do-yo… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Pompeo tells Germany: Use Huawei and lose access to our data | Article [AMP] | Reuters
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-idUSKCN1T10HH (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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David Kaye su content moderation
by fabio chiusi May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019

Cari tutti, vi segnalo, sperando sia di interesse per la lista, questa mia lunga intervista allo special rapporteur ONU per la libertà di espressione, David Kaye, sul tema di se e come regolamentare la moderazione dei contenuti online: https://www.journalismfestival.com/news/disinformation-hate-speech-terroris… Naturalmente ogni feedback è benvenuto. Buon fine settimana, f.

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"Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019

*Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure* / //Romain Dillet// // //@romaindillet / 1 day ago// / The City of Paris is doing something I didn’t expect — they’re launching their own data center to host their digital services. The data center is going to be operated by city employees, so Paris plans to control their digital destiny from end to end. I visited the data center yesterday. Located in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, the data center is hidden in the basement of an office building — nothing tells you that there’s a data center in there. continua qui: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/paris-opens-a-data-center-to-control-its-…

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Forty-two countries adopt new OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence - Modern Diplomacy
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/05/26/forty-two-countries-adopt-new-oecd-pr… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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An interactive cyber law toolkit launched in Tallinn
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019

https://estonianworld.com/security/nato-launches-an-interactive-cyber-law-t… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Manifesto di Vienna per l'Umanesimo Digitale
by Enrico Nardelli May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019

Cari tutti sono stato recentemente coinvolto con diversi colleghi europei ed internazionali nella stesura del Manifesto di Vienna per l'Umanesimo Digitale https://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/dighum/manifesto/ Il messaggio chiave è la necessità di farsi carico dell'impatto della tecnologia digitale su ogni aspetto della società: «la tecnologia deve essere per le persone e non al contrario. Dobbiamo rimettere l'uomo al centro della società digitale.» Il manifesto è aperto al supporto degli individui ed organizzazioni. I primi nomi delle persone (oltre quelli che lo hanno preparato) sono già sul sito, mentre quelli delle organizzazioni verranno inseriti non appena ce ne saranno almeno 10. Informatics Europe e TU Wien lo hanno già approvato. Grazie, Enrico -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --

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