Internet

The cloud might not be a sustainable model for handling computation in massive IoT scenarios. Instead lots of the data processing might need to be done close to the devices. Resources, efficiency and latency are reasons where such a system “on the edge” might be beneficial or even a hard requirement. A very interesting topic! A great introduction is this episode of the Software Engineering Daily podcast with Peter Levine: The End of Cloud Computing with Peter Levine. Peter also has a talk about the very topic. ...

When Spotify started, they only allowed to create accounts via your Facebook account. Well this sucked of course, and they moved away from that. However, having signed up at that time, I was stuck with having to use Facebook to get access to my Spotify account. Of course one could easily create a new account without Facebook these days and there are even ways to migrate your playlist and other data to that new account. The Spotify support knowledge base suggests, that you have to create a new account and to me it does not read like you could keep you playlists and other data. ...

I just watched a documentary on Arte about the World Wide Web from it’s origins to it’s modern importance and related aspects like freedom of speech, copyrights, digital surveillance, politics and the like. I recommend checking it out, especially if you have an interest in the Internet’s role for current and future societies or - on the other hand - don’t know much about that. You can watch it right here, available in French and German: ...