Tags: web-review, web, gdpr, machine-learning, money, tcp, python, repair, unreal, ai, copilot, craftsmanship, safety, productivity, fundraising, programming, art, editor, fake, microsoft, http, university, foss, rust, tools, internet, tech, github, networking, surveillance, 3d
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-34.
Tags: tech, repair
Good news for the right to repair movement. I wish they would stop DRM’ing equipments like this…
Tags: tech, machine-learning, github, copilot, university
Indeed, this is going to be “interesting” in educational situations… I guess that’ll at least push into richer assignments.
https://www.sigarch.org/coping-with-copilot/
Tags: tech, editor, microsoft, surveillance, gdpr
The obvious problem with VS Code, you just cannot have any trust into it.
https://www.roboleary.net/tools/2022/04/20/vscode-telemetry.html
Tags: tech, machine-learning, ai, art
OK, now this is out and potentially a big deal to have this in open source.
https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release
Tags: tech, ai, internet, machine-learning, fake
The come back of the Dead Internet Theory? Getting more and more probable by the minute indeed thanks to the newer wave of generative AI text and art.
https://grandy.substack.com/p/the-new-normal-the-coming-tsunami
Tags: tech, foss
A good reminder for some of the loudly annoying Free Software users out there.
https://boyter.org/posts/the-three-f-s-of-open-source/
Tags: tech, foss, fundraising
Indeed, there’s more funding available. It’s becoming a maze though and PR shouldn’t be underestimated.
https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/preparing-for-the-wave-of-open-source-funding
Tags: tech, rust, python, safety, productivity
Interesting points in there, indeed we rarely see things presented along an advantage in productivity for Rust when it’s compared to Python.
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/inside-the-pinecone/#rust-a-hard-decision-pays-off
Tags: tech, programming, craftsmanship, tools
I definitely recommend adopting this mindset. Been doing most of that for a long time and this definitely helps.
https://aymericbeaumet.com/developers-please-nurture-your-coding-experience
Tags: tech, programming, money
Very good summary on how to process currencies properly in software. Goes all the way to explaining how such a library must behave (should you make one or decide which one to pick).
https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2022-08-22-how-to-deal-with-money-in-software
Tags: tech, http, web, networking, tcp
A good reason to try to make pages as small as possible. Interesting to see where this threshold is coming from.
https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size/
Tags: tech, 3d, unreal
Very interesting account of the techniques evaluated to reach real time global illumination in the Unreal Engine.
https://knarkowicz.wordpress.com/2022/08/18/journey-to-lumen/
Bye for now!