This is an awesome talk that compares software to music and explores why 400+-year-old music can still be played … in different keys … on a variety of instruments … etc.
Month: April 2015
Thank Goodness it’s Not in the App
Phew … WhatsApp denied that the app records calls made through it … they had me worried for a second. 😌
Mass Storage
There’re three types of mass storage: NAS, SAN and NSA 😂
— Random Internet Troll
TMMD: There are three types of mass storage: NAS, SAN and NSA ?
— Riyad Preukschas (@riyadpr) April 29, 2015
Dilbert On Meetings
This Dilbert on meetings is so true it hurts. 😂
Übergewicht senkt Demenzrisiko
Ein weiter Beweis dafür, dass der Verein zur Pflege des Wohlstandsbauches einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Volksgesundheit leistet. Wissenschaftler haben die Gesundheitsdaten von fast 2 Mio. Briten über 20 Jahre ausgewertet und kommen zum Ergebnis, dass Übergewicht das Demenzrisiko senkt.
Normcore
Normcore is the word! 😀
Facebook Tracking People Who Have Opted Out of Tracking
Facebook specifically and individually tracks all people, even those who aren’t FB users. Using the opt-out mechanism you’re even worse off, since setting the opt-out cookie makes you uniquely identifiable (again).
During the opt-out process, Facebook sets a long-term identifying cookie and then uses this to track visits to pages that have a Facebook social widget. In other words: “for those individuals who are not being tracked by Facebook (e.g. non-users who have never visited a page on the facebook.com domain, or Facebook users who clear their cookies after logging out from Facebook), using the ‘opt out’ mechanism proposed for the EU actually enables tracking by Facebook” (emphasis in original).
When you opt-out …
[…] Facebook promises to stop collecting browsing information, or use it only specifically for the purpose of showing advertisements.”
So, of what use is it then?!?