According to an article published by the Wall Street Journal today, Apple is working on methods to detecting mental illness manifesting itself iPhone users. To me this represents a no go zone for phones. The data will probably be used for a lot more than just telling you, the user of the phone that you’re not well.
Lately I’ve been looking for VR headsets. It turns out that a headset which is capable of showing an image without suffering from seeing artifacts needs a resolution of around 6000 by 6000 pixels per eye. Current PC hardware is not yet at the level which can drive such displays.
I guess I’ll be postponing my search for a couple of years, but I might pick up a headset with a couple of imaging problems for the time being.
The European Parliament is being belittled by European leaders. This is a giant setback for the formation of a true European state. In order to continue the process they will need to show their teeth to the European Counil and send away Ursula von der Leyen.
If this won’t happen, the unification of Europe in its current form is dead. It will forever be deadlocked in squibbles between nations and will lose too much credibility with the voter base. It will be done for, for once and for all.
Companies which rely on advertising to function their are immoral. The reason why is that they hide the true cost of work from the customers of that company. They misrepresent the work done in order to render the service or create the product they offer. This in turn devalues work and the appreciation of the value created. It also obfuscates the decision process required to make an effective decision in regard to the value to the user. Both of which I think are immoral.
Today I tried to install KVM on the server I have running at a datacentre somwhere in France. No biggie you’d think, except that in ubuntu 18.04LTS, netplan.io is the default network configuration management tool. It plainly sucks to the point where I’m getting angry at my computer because of it. So here’s a litte rant for the people over at Canonical regarding their decision to include netplan at this stage of development
I just love the ability to just pull up documents and notices without having to start up a computer. The more I think of it, the more I think that the whole ‘paperless’ movement is a sham funded by the IT sector. It is much less robust, unless you spend hundreds or thousans of Euros on proper backups and maintenance of these facilities.