Först när Mats var död förstod föräldrarna värdet av hans gaming

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 9, 2019 | Lästips

Robert och Trude sörjde sonens ensamma liv i rullstol. Men när Mats dog tände vänner över hela Europa ljus för honom.

Den här artikeln publicerades första gången den 27 januari på nrk.no – läs norska originalet här

– Vi var ju väldigt traditionella. Ville inte att han skulle vända på dygnet och sådana saker, säger Robert Steen.

Det är 23 augusti 2018. Robert sitter på ett kafé ett stenkast från sitt kontor i Oslo rådhus och berättar om sin son. Han säger att det gör ont, men också känns bra att berätta.

– I efterhand tänker jag att vi borde ha intresserat oss mer för spelvärlden han var så mycket i. Att vi inte gjorde det tog ifrån oss en möjlighet vi inte förstod att vi hade, säger Robert.

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Lästipset: The Machine Stops

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 8, 2019 | Lästips

My favorite aunt, Auntie Len, when she was in her eighties, told me that she had not had too much difficulty adjusting to all the things that were new in her lifetime—jet planes, space travel, plastics, and so on—but that she could not accustom herself to the disappearance of the old. “Where have all the horses gone?” she would sometimes say. Born in 1892, she had grown up in a London full of carriages and horses.

I have similar feelings myself. A few years ago, I was walking with my niece Liz down Mill Lane, a road near the house in London where I grew up. I stopped at a railway bridge where I had loved leaning over the railings as a child. I watched various electric and diesel trains go by, and after a few minutes Liz, growing impatient, asked, “What are you waiting for?” I said that I was waiting for a steam train. Liz looked at me as if I were crazy.

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Lästipset: Därför är svenska föräldrar mer avslappnade än amerikanska

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2019 | Lästips

En intressant iakttagelse, bok och fakta som pekar mot att i ett mer jämställt samhälle så kan föräldrar slappnar av på ett annat sätt när det handlar om barnuppfostran.

Why Swedes Are Chiller Parents Than Americans

Fabrizio Zilibotti was born in Italy and met his wife (who’s Spanish) in London. Their daughter was born in Sweden, where she spent some of her childhood before the family moved to the U.K. and then Switzerland.

As he spent time in each of these countries, Zilibotti—who now lives in the U.S., teaching economics at Yale—became intrigued by the variety of parenting philosophies he encountered, from Sweden’s laissez-faire style of child-rearing to the U.K’s more rule-oriented approach. Parents in every country, he reasoned, loved their children more or less equally, so it seemed a little puzzling that they had such divergent ideas about what was best for their kids.

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Granskere: Visma utsatt for datainnbrudd av kinesisk etterretning

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 6, 2019 | Lästips

For to dager siden sa den kinesiske ambassaden at Kina respekterer Norges «suverenitet og nasjonale sikkerhet». Nå avslører granskere omfattende cyberangrep på norske Visma.Det norske programvareselskapet Visma skal ha vært et av minst tre selskaper som har blitt angrepet i et omfattende cyberangrep fra kinesisk etterretning.Det melder Visma i en pressemelding. Reuters omtalte saken først.

Statsfinansiert hackergruppe

Det amerikanske cybersikkerhetsselskapet Recorded Future mener det har avdekket en datainnbruddskampanje mot amerikanske og europeiske selskaper utført av den statsfinansiert kinesiske hackergruppen APT10.Gruppen skal ha peilet seg inn på minst tre selskaper i USA og Europa i perioden november 2017 til september 2018.Visma bekrefter at selskapet var et av dem som ble angrepet.

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Lästipset: 60 procent av Trumps arbetstid är exekutiv tid

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 5, 2019 | Lästips

Axios har kommit över Trumps arbetsscheman för de tre senaste månaderna och de visar hur den amerikanske presidenten jobbar. Inga möten före 11 och massor av det som kallas exekutiv tid.

Scoop: Leaked private schedules show Trump spent 60% of last 3 months in ”Executive Time”

A White House source has leaked nearly every day of President Trump’s private schedule for the past three months.

Why it matters: This unusually voluminous leak gives us unprecedented visibility into how this president spends his days. The schedules, whoch cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured ”Executive Time.”

 

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By Defying Apple’s Rules, Facebook Shows It Never Learns

av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 31, 2019 | Lästips

IF AN APP on Facebook behaved the way Facebook has been behaving, Facebook would probably have shut it down by now.

Tuesday’s scathing TechCrunch investigation all but guarantees it. The report found that Facebook has been paying people as young as 13 years old to download an app that grants Facebook access to users’ entire phone and web history, including encrypted activity and private messages and emails. The app, called Research, allows Facebook to see how people’s friends, who have not consented to having their data collected, interact with those users, too.

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