Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 36

Las promesas del Internet de las cosas han estado por décadas ya a la vuelta de la esquina, y cada vez parecen acercarse más. Imaginar un mundo de sub-artefactos inteligentes (me niego a darle el título de computadora completa a un empaque de leche, el típico ejemplo, por el simple hecho de que un microcontrolador en su empaque me permita leer «Contenido: 32%; Frescura: 4 días») nos ha resultado natural desde hace mucho, posiblemente por la prevalencia de estas ideas en las novelas de ciencia ficción por mucho más tiempo ya. Como contraejemplo, la adopción, crecimiento y masificación de Internet,...

I try to have some guests every now and then to my Operating Systems class. The class is not as practical/interactive as I’d like, and having some people show the students how the subjects I teach are reflected in the real world is, I feel, very useful for them to understand the topics’ importance. The past semester (the first one for me) I had three guests: Chema Serralde, talking about process scheduling and in particular on the importance of real time, from his perspective as a musician, Rolando Cedillo, talking about the early stages of the boot process, and César...

This week’s lesson on the «Arte y cultura en circulación: crear y compartir en tiempos digitales» course talks about piracy and the circulation of culture, a topic that over time has been debated over and over. And a topic, yes, that can always lead to interesting discussions. This time, we are requested to choose one among ten ideas among the media groups’ discourse on what piracy is and means for the “cultural industry”. There are tons of material written already on several of those ten lines (i.e. piracy disincentivates creativity, or two that can be seen as two faces of...

Just saw this ad today at my Institute’s door. Rough translation: Interim programmer sought Requisites: High schoolOne year of experienceTheorical and practical exams on the areaFamiliarity handling electronic equipment, such as computers, perforators/punchers, terminals and similar. [Yes, this is a joke post. I don’t know how anybody is using such an obsolete job description. A job description at least three decades out of date] [Well, yes, I understand it, because I knowhow that particular union works. But I cannot accept it is for real] […And no, please don’t apply for the job. You will be miserable in the unlikely event...

The third lesson of the «Arte y cultura en circulación: crear y compartir en tiempos digitales» course was quite easy, at least for me, as it’s one of the topics I’ve been involved with for a long time: Authors’ rights and ways to exercise them. This lesson starts by talking about the paradoxes created in the reality beneath copyright mostly due to the zero-cost-for-perfect-copy reality we live in today, and then goes on to introduce the most widely spread licensing schemes for cultural works nowadays: The Creative Commons licensing schemes. What I felt very interesting is that the lesson tackles...

It seems I’m catching up with the pace of this course I’m following and that is compelling me to go back to posting on my blog, «Arte y cultura en circulación: crear y compartir en tiempos digitales». This week’s lesson is (again, in Spanish) «Las fronteras del remix» (the boundaries of remixes). An interesting text, open to everybody (regardless of whether you are signed up for the course or, I hope, whether time has passed since the course took place). And this week’s homework is to find “our favorite” non-original work (I picked one among my favorite works — And,...

I signed up to take part of an online, massive course — «Arte y cultura en circulación: crear y compartir en tiempos digitales» (The circulation of arts and culture: Creating and sharing in digital times). As the activities of us the attendees are to be published by each on their personal blog/space, I will be publishing them here. I hope they are interesting to some of my other regular readers. I am late in joining, and I should already be posting the second activity. Anyway, this text goes towards the first week’s lesson: Qué es un autor: la (de)construcción histórica...

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Starting a very improvised talk at Debian 20th anniversary party at Rancho Electrónico

Starting my talk at Debian’s 20th anniversary at Rancho Electrónico