Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-48.

Microsoft says its own Edge browser is more trustworthy than “so 2008” Google Chrome

Tags: tech, microsoft

Microsoft doing Microsoft things… those GAFAMs are all the same.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-its-own-edge-browser-is-more-trustworthy-than-so-2008-google-chrome/

FTC Sues to Block $40 Billion Semiconductor Chip Merger

Tags: tech, nvidia, arm, antitrust

In my opinion, this is a good thing if that merger doesn’t happen.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/12/ftc-sues-block-40-billion-semiconductor-chip-merger

The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire – Krebs on Security

Tags: tech, internet, security, routing

Always amazed when such important routing systems are reached through very insecure means.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/the-internet-is-held-together-with-spit-baling-wire/

It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn – here’s why AI is so power-hungry

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning

A reminder of why machine learning is currently so power hungry. It’s in fact (still) highly inefficient.

https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-lot-of-energy-for-machines-to-learn-heres-why-ai-is-so-power-hungry-151825

‘Small Data’ Are Also Crucial for Machine Learning - Scientific American

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, complexity

Or why we should keep an eye on transfer learning. This is one of the promising way to get a more efficient machine learning process. Might come with its own challenges in methodology complexity though, it’ll likely be easy to do it wrong and to notice that too late.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-data-are-also-crucial-for-machine-learning/

Firefox is the Only Alternative - (think)

Tags: tech, web, mozilla, google

Despite the problems with Mozilla’s politics and funding, this is the main reason why I use Firefox as my main browser (even on my smartphone). We can’t have a monopoly on which organization influence the web standards… unfortunately we get fairly close from that position.

https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-alternative/

PeerTube v4, more power to help you present your videos – Framablog

Tags: tech, peertube, framasoft

Really nice to see PeerTube making so much progress. Hope we’ll see more and more nice content hosted on PeerTube instances.

https://framablog.org/2021/11/30/peertube-v4-more-power-to-help-you-present-your-videos/

Why Etalab’s Free Software unit uses SourceHut - man.sr.ht

Tags: tech, git, sourcehut

Nice to see such an organization use SourceHut.

https://man.sr.ht/~etalab/logiciels-libres/why-sourcehut.md

How JavaScript engines achieve great performance | by Robin Heggelund Hansen | Nov, 2021 | Bekk

Tags: tech, javascript, optimization

This is a good way to get into how Javascript engines try to optimize the code thrown at them. It’s definitely not an easy job with Javascript…

https://blogg.bekk.no/how-javascript-engines-achieve-great-performance-fb0b36601557

Python’s None problem

Tags: tech, programming, python

Good reminder on why mypy is an essential mitigation to use when dealing with Python. This avoids some quite common mistakes.

https://engineeringblog.ridereport.com/pythons-none-problem

What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2022? – The Public Domain Review

Tags: copyright, public-domain

Nice advent calendar listing some of the works to enter public domain next year.

https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2022/

Bye for now!