A blog made of different component. We can see them on hover.

Des idées de recyclages, d'éco-conception mises en pratique. Cela fait plaisir à lire.

How it works. A great article

INTRODUCTION
WALTER PLECKER WAS AN ASSHOLE.

In the 1920s, he was registrar of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Sta-
tistics, the state government office that controlled birth, death,
marriage, and divorce records (http://bkaprt.com/eia/o0-01/). As
a frothing-at-the-mouth white supremacist, Plecker was terri-
fied of interracial marriage. Its very existence, he insisted, was
the result of poor categorization: white people were marrying
non-white people only because the government hadn’t labeled
them “correctly.”

Plecker decided that he could use bureaucracy to change this,
and he was right: all he had to do was relabel Virginia’s racial
categories, and racist laws took care of the rest. He reduced the
number of racial identity categories to just two, then altered and
enforced documentation to reflect his definitions.

This meant that a very small and specific group of people
were labeled white, and everyone who fell outside of Plecker’s
narrow view were not—and their lives changed accordingly.
The government saw them differently, identified them dif-
ferently, treated them differently. They no longer had access
to the same public spaces, the same schools, the same ser-
vices and safety nets afforded to white people. Marriages were
invalidated. Children were separated from parents. Virginians
lost agency over who they were—all because Walter Plecker
changed a label.

Changing a label is a design decision—one calculated, in this
case, to disenfranchise specific human beings.

Now, most of us don’t have Walter Plecker’s job. We are,
instead, designers, developers, copywriters, strategists. We
work on the web, and we may not think our work carries that
same weight.

I'm here to argue that it does. Whatever our role, we are
designers of information. Our choices alter the presentation
and flow of human knowledge. We control how people find,
understand, and use information in every facet of their lives.

‘We must be very, very careful.

How designing information can change the lives and the world

One Ladtop per child (OLPC) is definitely not a solution:

Some had photoblogs, others played around with the Scratch tool & learnt some technical skills.
What was common for most of them?

‘Enthusiastic Teachers & care-givers who gave support & encouragement to the children to use their laptops for creation & not just for consumption.’

This brings me to my ‘Iceberg theory of EdTech.’
All the focus is on the 1/10th part which is visible: The TECH of EdTech
The part that is constantly ignored is the 9/10th part of the iceberg.
The part which is hidden from view: The ED of EdTech

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and how to generate "truly" random numbers

À surveiller car cela pourrais bien être utile !

Les promesses des cryptomonnaies étaient séduisantes, mais elles posent divers problèmes, notamment écologiques: Elles consomment d'énormes quantité de courant électrique. À tel point que le gouvernement Chinois est obligé d'intervenir.
PS: Les joueurs de jeux vidéos enragent aussi, d'ailleurs: Les mineurs de cryptomonnaies achètent massivement des cartes graphiques, car le rapport puissance/prix est très intéressant. Les cartes graphiques sont donc en rupture de stock partout.

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They recorded themselves screaming, tapping and creating other noises that might be a sign of people in trouble. Then, they analyzed each sound frequency to find common “signatures” and used those to train artificial intelligence software.

Wow this is a great project. It uses 100% solar-powered servers all around the worlds to get 100% uptime.

It's nice to have such experiences 😄

On se pause et on réflechis avant d'ouvrir une potentielle boîte de Pandore ?

De sebsauvage

C'est pas tellement que ça "suffit", c'est aussi qu'un processeur récent ne fonctionnerait pas.
Ce que ne dit pas cet article c'est que les processeurs, dans ces environnement, subissent des radiations importantes susceptibles de perturber leur fonctionnement.
Or la course à la puissance implique des gravages de plus en plus fins, dont de plus en plus sensibles aux radiations et perturbations électromagnétiques.
Voilà pourquoi la NASA utilise toujours des processeurs plus anciens: Ils sont certes moins performants, mais leur gravage est plus gros, donc moins sujet aux perturbations.

Cela montre aussi que la puissance des processeurs que l'on actuellement offre de grandes possibilités.

Because there are so much annoying problems in the every day life. Here is a record for one day.

Pourtant, on sait bien que, parfois, ce ne sont pas les réponses proposées (et divergentes) qui sont vraiment importantes, mais les questions. Ainsi, avoir des controverses sur « l'immigration » plutôt que, par exemple, sur « le chômage » n'est pas neutre.

Encore moins de succès pour des sujets pourtant cruciaux comme la domination de certains acteurs privés du logiciel sur des services publics essentiels. C'est ainsi que les différents accords étatiques avec Microsoft, pour l'éducation, la santé ou pour les armées n'ont suscité que l'intérêt d'une poignée de militants libristes alors que ces accords structurent le fonctionnement de l'État. Mais ces controverses sont moins spectaculaires et permettent moins de postures « humanistes ».

Parce que la charge a induction est utilisée par des gens ?!

Voilà un argument qui permet de dissuader les persuadés.