Online Recherche Newsletter
Ein Newsletter über journalistische Online-Recherche. Erweitere deinen persönlichen Werkzeugkasten um praktische Tools, Add-ons und Datenbanken. Lerne von Kolleg*innen, die im Newsletter-Interview ihre Recherchewege zeigen.
Eine Sammlung von Werkzeugen und Techniken für das Extrahieren von Informationen aus verschiedenen Plattformen und was sich mit diesen Daten anfangen lässt. Leider auf Substack …
z.B. Ausgabe 32 mit Tools zur Extraktion von Texten aus PDFs und zum Vergleich von zwei PDFs miteinander, z.B. von zwei Arbeitsständen eines Vertrags- oder Gesetzesentwurfs.
z.B Ausgabe 25 mit verschiedenen Tools, Instagram konnten ohne Instagram-Zugang zu betrachten und herunterzuladen, inklusive einer Vorstellung von Likeometer, einer Influencer-Datenbank. Dazu ein Interview mit einer Journalistin, die sich auf Instagram in eine Gruppe von Proponenten der Magersucht eingeklinkt hat.
z.B. Ausgabe 45 in der andere Recherche-Tool-Sammlungen vorgestellt werden.
Bubble Blog, a Web 2.0 Memoir
Der Gründer von ReadWriteWeb hat eine umfangreiche Chronik über das Web 2.0 geschrieben. Ich habe das bisher nur stückchenweise gelesen und bin geneigt, mir eher das Buch zu kaufen, wenn ich mal Zeit habe™
I cleared my throat and told him that my blog’s name was inspired by the first browser, which he had developed in the early nineties and called (rather confusingly) WorldWideWeb. It was a read/write browser, meaning you could not only browse and read content, but also create and edit it. The web browser that popularized the web a few years later—Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic—was read-only; it had only half the functionality of Tim’s original browser. Anyway, I told Tim—and I was stuttering myself by this point—that his read/write philosophy had been a huge inspiration to me.
Living and Working Offgrid, Hundred Rabbits
Hundred Rabbits is an artist collective that documents low-tech solutions with the hope of building a more resilient future. We live and work aboard a 10m sailboat named Pino in remote parts of the world to learn more about how technology degrades beyond the shores of the western world.
Zwei Menschen auf einem Segelboot beschreiben, wie sie ihre digitale Arbeit mit dem machen, was es eben auf dem Meer gibt. Zum Beispiel keine permanente Internet-Anbindung, das gibt es nur in Landnähe oder einem Hafen; keine Steckdose mit einem verlässlichen Stromnetz, Strom kommt von der Sonne und muss über Photovoltaik eingefangen werden. Wasser nimmt man im Hafen an Bord; Regenwasser ist kein Trinkwasser, aber gut genug für Abwasch etc.
Software has a big impact on productivity, they need to be reliable and fast. Those that require heavy updates, that have a high CPU usage and that need frequent connectivity to function are problematic for us. Much of the software on the market is designed by people living on the grid with unlimited access to internet. Tools locking up at sea, asking for a connection to continue working don’t float on a boat. Adobe products are a good example, as they require an internet connection periodically for subscription validation. If away from big cities, you may open your computer in an atoll to find that you no longer have access to the tool you need to get things done. Choosing a tool that doesn’t require a subscription is essential for working nomads that don’t have a reliable connection.
If you want to belong, find a third place
First defined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his 1989 book The Great Good Place, third places are settings a person frequents beyond their home (the first place) and work (the second place). Third places can include more traditional settings like places of worship, community and recreation centers, parks, and social clubs, but also encompass bars, gyms, malls, makeshift clubhouses in neighborhoods, and even virtual settings like Nextdoor.
Die Geschichte von RISC-V
Eine Reihe von Newsletter-Ausgaben über die Entstehungsgeschichte der RISC-V Prozessor-Architektur. Für alle, die sich für das Design dieser recht neuen ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) und ihre Wurzel interessieren.
The Berkeley team asked the question ‘Are we crazy not to use a standard ISA?’ before noting that existing standard ISAs (x86, ARM and GPUs) would probably be too complex for a university project anyway.
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The new ISA was designed to support 32 and 64-bit variants (designated RV32 and RV64), multi-core implementations and floating point operations. Crucially, it was also designed to allow processor designers to add their own extensions to the architecture.
And the ISA was was very simple indeed. The minimum implementation of RV32 described in the first manual had just 47 instructions.
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In 2014, the team returned to the original motivation behind the development of RISC-V. The paper ‘Instruction Sets Should Be Free: The Case For RISC-V’ by Asanović and Patterson sets out the case for an open and free ISA. The paper states that: “While instruction set architectures (ISAs) may be proprietary for historical or business reasons, there is no good technical reason for the lack of free, open ISAs”.