[22:17] From the "will it run games?" department: e-cigarette running Flappy Bird
[19:37] Noise kills hard drives. The video linked in the article is pretty intriguing, too.
Talking about noise, these guys have cameras that make noise sources visible. Looks like this.
[20:46] Fronkonstin is making art with code.
[20:44] Take a look at this video. Then take a look at the file size. o__ô
[16:19] The European parliament voted to draft a law to treat robots as "electronic person", grant rights, impose rules. This does not go without dissentient, tough.
Meanwhile, there's an AI running for mayor in Tama City, Japan. According to twitter these election posters are mounted on a self driving car. Robots going all in, huh?
[21:02] While the GDPR aims to regulate the use of personal data, Richard Stallman proposes a law to stop collection of unnecessarry data altogether. He's right about that.
In this context I'd like to point you to paragraph 3a of the german federal data protection act:
"Die Erhebung, Verarbeitung und Nutzung personenbezogener Daten und die Auswahl und Gestaltung von Datenverarbeitungssystemen sind an dem Ziel auszurichten, so wenig personenbezogene Daten wie möglich zu erheben, zu verarbeiten oder zu nutzen."
("Personal data are to be collected, processed and used, and processing systems are to be designed in accordance with the aim of collecting, processing and using as little personal data as possible.", full translation here)
This concept is named "Datensparsamkeit", which roughly translates to "data avoidance", "data minimization" or "data reduction". So, german law actually requires what RMS proposes. (YMMV, though ...)
Personally, I refuse to add trackers like Piwik or Google Analytics here and on my actual personal website. Also I wont add external scripts, fonts et cetera, which I also consider trackers. Datensparsamkeit seems like a good idea.
[20:04] According to Google, my blog is optimized for mobile devices. Actually I did not optimize anything. All I did was add the viewport tag to the header.
One line is all it takes, apart from that it is all but plain HTML. Now, any volunteers ready to tell the "tons and tons of CSS plus JS to make everything responsive" jerks? :)