17 February, 2019

New Protocols, Standards, File Types

Are you into virtual reality (a gamer)? What is the difference between WebGL, ‎OpenGL, WebVR? Are you into cryptocurrencies? What is the difference between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple?

In my youth internet was becoming more and more popular, for web designers it was all about HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Web developers did programming with PHP, MYSQL, and the help of web designers.

Tomislav Uzelac is the Croatian programmer who created AMP, considered the first successful (real-time) MP3 player. When MP3 got popular it was all about MP3/MP3-VB, AAC, Ogg for people into music processing.

Now I would like to introduce you to Vladimir Vukićević and WebVR from the Mozilla community:
Vladimir Vukićević is a Serbian-born American Software Engineer, known mostly for his work on open-source graphics libraries, including those used in the Mozilla projects. Mozilla came out recently with "Firefox Reality - A new browser for virtual reality".

I hope for reconciliation between the Serbs and the Croatians at all levels.

Good luck to all of you hard-working people!

11 February, 2019

Please Stop Concreting and Other Traditional Construction Methods

Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review
Stopping traditional construction - although such an event has benefits for nature - it ruins current economic indicators. I understand we could be facing a recession threshold. If so, in the end, we should know the answer to how to gain a sustainable economy that will not conflict with climate, nature. There must be more in the economy than issuing construction permits, especially in a sustainable economy - it's the entire service sector and people should focus more on service rather than physical build (concreting and other traditional construction methods)

Please listen to what the richest man in the 2018 list of the billionaires has to say:

Jeff Bezos thinks we need to build industrial zones in space in order to save Earth

Elon Musk wants us to build human colonies on Mars. Jeff Bezos has a slightly more measured take. Onstage at the Code Conference on Tuesday, the Amazon founder and 𝖢𝖤𝖮 said that we have to start bringing parts of the industrial economy to space in order "to save Earth."

27 January, 2019

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Resolution 60/7 establishing 27 January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day urges every member nation of the U.N. to honor the memory of Holocaust victims, and encourages the development of educational programs about Holocaust history to help prevent future acts of genocide.
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genocidal state, medical experiments ⇒ Holocaust victims were people who were targeted by the government of Nazi Germany for various discriminatory practices due to their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, or sexual orientation.

I'm gay and I can imagine the hard times gays had in Nazi Germany, especially the ones that talked openly about their sexual orientation. There is still pressure towards minorities here in Croatia.

I wish to express my deepest condolence to all the Holocaust victims.

26 January, 2019

Impressive Quotes for Today and More

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Freedom of speech is for a person with a name and surname, I mean, how else to quote? -But there is a "Pen name" notion that complicates a "straightforward" situation. That's how I started writing in 2011, with a pseudonym adopted by an author (me - Luka Jagor).

Other thoughts on freedom of speech:

If we want to limit speech because it causes harm, we will have to ban a lot of political speech.
George Kateb
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

24 January, 2019

World Economic Overview in 2019 From My Perspective

The globalization process is very important, but it should not lead us to direct democracy or swarm intelligence. Such swarm intelligence is devastating to human rights and in fact, is anti-intelligence.

Information is traveling at the speed of the light (at least we know how our ancestors talked to Apollo spacecraft - much faster than a speed of sound, which seems important now to demystify).

Mexico wall dispute is slowing down the economy in the 𝖴𝖲𝖠. I hope China's growth will be more sustainable, especially considering ecology factors. Great Britain is avoiding real structural reforms of accumulated bureaucracy. I believe the next big investors' interest will obtain African countries𝖤𝖴Russia, and India are rising steadily.

23 January, 2019

"Crypto Secunday Market Fizzled Out" -Which Cryptocurrency Will Prevail?

18 months of absolutely insane, everybody was trying to do an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), 99% of all of them was some sort of scam ... ... it's a good thing that now crypto secunday market have, in some way, fizzled out

Edith Yeung, 500 Startups Partner
The price of bitcoin could nosedive to zero ... ... if bitcoin is pegged against the gold standard, which is about 7 triliun it would be responsible for 20% CO2 production

Jeff Schumacher, founder of BCG Digital Ventures

Watch video and more on the CNBS website https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/bitcoin-price-going-to-zero-davos-future-of-blockchain-tech-.html

Image by WikimediaImages from Pixabay
Whatever technology prevails it should be eco-friendly! Bitcoin is first and foremost, I would like to believe in technology, hoping bitcoin can be tweaked to be more efficient.





P2P-network.svg
A peer-to-peer (P to P) network in which interconnected nodes ("peers") share resources amongst each other without the use of a centralized administrative system
By User:Mauro Bieg - Own work, Public Domain, Link

By Ripple - https://ripple.com/, Public Domain, Link
Huge market capitalization has XRP | Ripple. The ripple payment protocol is very fast, it delivers transactions in real-time.

06 January, 2019

Timeless questions? ( 4ᵗʰ part )

1) When will authorities and those such as hi-tech industries enable everyone regular meals and a home?
 - Personally, I feel so grateful for consuming human rights

2) What will happen when individuals using the Internet equals with world population?
 - The fees will go a little up and the content will improve even more - that is my strong belief 😃