Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-34.


A new jailbreak for John Deere tractors rides the right-to-repair wave

Tags: tech, repair

Good news for the right to repair movement. I wish they would stop DRM’ing equipments like this…

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/a-new-jailbreak-for-john-deere-tractors-rides-the-right-to-repair-wave/


Coping with Copilot | SIGARCH

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/


VS Code - What’s the deal with the telemetry?

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


Stable Diffusion Public Release — Stability.Ai

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


The New Normal: The Coming Tsunami of Fakery

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


The Three F’s of Open Source Development | Ben E. C. Boyter

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/


Preparing for the wave of open source funding

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


Rust: A hard decision pays off | Pinecone

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


Developers, please nurture your coding experience

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


How to deal with money in software

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


Why your website should be under 14kB in size | endtimes.dev

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/


Journey to Lumen

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!