In estrema sintesi..

non riesco a fare a meno di Thunderbird, con le estensioni che ha. Ho una user experience molto personalizzzata.

ma il calendar, complice la quantità delle entries, per me era praticamente inusabile.

ho disabilitato (da tempo) l’estensione lightning  (il calendar incluso in thunderbird) ed uso emClient per il calendario.

se non avessi tante personalizzazioni del client di mail, lo userei anche per la mail.

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Loro sperano che, pubblicando questa tecnologia, le persone a breve sapranno che è possibile clonare voci di persone e vogliono sollevare l’attenzione sul fatto che le registrazioni audio, in un imminente futuro, non potranno più essere considerati elementi probatori.

ormai  ci siamo.

In all the recurring debate abouot breaking up facebook or making all data a commons or whatever, my point is quite easily summarized with a simple slogan

make my data mine

that I would really love to seeing emerge.

it implies that data must not be Da Donna Rieker 93655 Casual Caldo Foderato Stivali Alti and rosso Wing scarpe 8021 8E Copper Rough and Tough Supersole.

Remember Hal Varian recently argued data is non rival and only partially excludable. This implies that a way to protect user data is that a silos collects and holds it and provides authenticated access to it. Thus implying that Google’s and the likes is somewhat a ‘natural’ consequence.

thanks to lockins and network effects, this leads to monopolistic/monopsonistic effects.

monopolistic power in the intermediation may artificially alter the equilibrium in the value chain, making markets fail.

the vast possibility of targeting a specific single user with the “best” personalized content/offer thanks to the detailed knowledge of a each specific person, has deep impacts on the economy and the socio-political spheres (think of filter bubbles and the related fake news phenomenon).

but cryptography can make data rival and excludable.

Rivality and Excludability are the basis of private property, and, as I explained in my last two books, making my data mine implies bringing private property to data. And cryptography can make private date stay private (it can be very friendly, privacy-wise).

today we have a feudalistic system, with info-plutocrats ammassing and exploiting vast amount of our data, as I argued in “LIU-JO Decolletè donna pelle camoscio n° 40 rosso cardinale”

breaking up a company by antitrust is a last resort but will not prevent the possibility that monopolies quickly form again. (and there may be many other negative externalities I will write (hopefully) soon).

the concept of making data private, with the underlying implicit idea of still having the possibility of using online service, implies the need for interoperability, interconnection and portability of data.

we already have data portability provisions in the european data pivacy regulations (GDPR).

we need to give regulators the possibility to impose interoperability and interconnection obligations to companies with Significant Market Power (and the power to inspect the interfaces and, in the case of misbehavior, sanction them with the strongest possible means) and let the market generate alternatives and innovate.

we now have the technology(ies) to make data private.

it’s a political decision. EU legislators, please make my data mine!.

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Bisogna fare i complimenti, sono risultati eccellenti:

• The Guardian’s audience has grown substantially with record number of regular readers and digital traffic. The Guardian had over 1.35bn page views in March 2019, compared to 790m in April 2016.
• GNM has grown revenues across each of the last three years with revenue growth of 3% to £223 million in 2018/19. Revenues are now at their highest level for a decade.
• GNM’s target of reducing costs by over 20% by 2018/19 has been achieved
• GNM has achieved its break even goal delivering an operating profit at EBITDA level of £0.8 million.
• The Guardian now has over 655,000 monthly paying supporters, across subscribers, recurring contributors and members, and an additional 300,000 one-off contributors in the last year.
• 55% of GNM revenues are now digital, with good growth in digital advertising, digital subscriptions and reader contributions.
• International revenues have doubled since 2015/16 and continue to grow at double-digit levels per year. Both Guardian US and Guardian Australia are now financially sustainable.

I grassetti sono miei.

Sono numeri che dovrebbero far riflettere chiunque altro nell’industria, che non possa essere un brand globale. (e non tanto per la riduzione di costi del 20%, che vuol dire che i costi “di tipo vecchio” sono tagliati molto di più, per compensare i necessari costi “di tipo nuovo” (software, dati, ecc.))

I numeri sono impressionanti… 1,35 miliardi di pagine viste/mese, 680mila paganti/mese, un raddoppio dei ricavi globali (non UK) ed anche 110mila abbonati cartacei ed il 45% dei ricavi non da digitale.

Con tutto questo ben di Dio di prestazioni, è sostanzialmente a breakeven a livello di EBITDA.

Poi, 1,35 miliardi di pagine viste… se non erro, a gennaio in Italia tutti gli editori raggruppati dall’Audiweb, tutti insieme ne hanno fatto meno di un quarto.

A meno che io non sbagli, non è esattamente un messaggio di serenità per chi queste condizioni non riesce/può averle. Sono in pochi a poter realizzare una strategia simile…

Jetblue  is a low  cost airline from New York

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HTML5 added a “feature” to the web called hyperlink auditing. You can read the specification from the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). Hyperlink auditing is added to a web page via
the ping attribute on an HTML anchor element (<a>), i.e., a link.

Notice that when you hover over the “Ping Me” link, you only see the href URL, you don’t see the ping URL, so you don’t even know that the attribute exists unless you look at the HTML page source. When you click the link, it loads the page http://lapcatsoftware.com/ as expected. But it also sends an HTTP POST request to http://underpassapp.com/ without any visible indication to the user.
You can only see it if you do a packet trace. It should come as no surprise that the primary usage of hyperlink auditing is for tracking of link clicks.

Firefox disables hyperlink auditing by default, as explained in a knowledge base article. You can see this if you open about:config and look at browser:send_pings.

Prior to Safari 12.1, you could disable hyperlink auditing with a hidden preference:

defaults write com.apple.Safari
com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2HyperlinkAuditingEnabled
-bool false

Unfortunately, this no longer works in Safari 12.1. […]

I’ve been informed that even though it still exists in the current non-beta version. The flag was removed from the source code a little over a month ago.

In sintesi: quando clicchi su un link in pratica è come se cliccassi anche su un altro, senza poterlo sapere, a meno di non guardare il codice sorgente della pagina. In questo modo stai dicendo – a tua insaputa – ad un altro cosa stai facendo.

Firefox disabilita questa funzione per default; in Safari si poteva disabilitare ma adesso non più; in Chrome (e derivati, come Brave), per adesso si può disabilitare ma pare non si potrà più.

Bottom line: meno male che Mozilla c’è.

This is a point I raised today at the HLEG on AI of the EC (High-level Expert Group on AI of the European Commission)

Like we have the principle of “privacy by design” for systems managing personal data, we should have a principle of “redress by design” for systems based on AI which take decisions that can affect people’s lives.

The basic consideration is that a perfectly functioning AI system will make wrong decisions. For example, a person could be denied a service because of a decision by an AI system.

Such a system is not deterministic like, for example, a speeding  camera can be: if you exceed the speed limit with your car, the speeding camera detects it and you get a ticket. You can appeal the ticket, but you’re guilty until proven innocent because a perfectly working (properly configured, certified and audited) deterministic system “decides” that you are guilty.

But with a perfectly working AI system,  as it is a statistical engine that necessarily produces probabilistic results, this decision might be right 98% of the times and wrong 2% of the times (it would be inappropriate to classify these wrong decisions as mistakes), meaning that in these 2%, the person is detemined to be guilty even when she is not (or cannot obtain a service, even if she has full right of obtaining it).

For the person, the wrong decision can generate spillovers, exceeding the scope of the decision itself, for example by generating social reproach, negative feedbacks online and other consequences that may spread online and become impossible to remove.

In these wrong cases (they can be false positives or false negatives), the appeal procedure may not exist or, if it exist, it may be ineffective, its cost may be excessive, it will not be accessible to all, it may require an excessive time or it will not rectify the above mentioned spillovers.

Redress by design relates to the idea of establishing, from the design phase, mechanisms to ensure redundancy, alternative systems, alternative procedures, etc. in order to  be able to effectively detect, audit, rectify the wrong decisions taken by a perfectly functioning system and, if possible, improve the system.

As an example of redress-by-design implementation, consider the recent EU Directive on copyright: an AI system will decide if a content is purportedly legitimate or is in violation of someone’s copyright.