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Web Review, Week 2023-22

Jun 2, 2023 | 3 minutes read

Tags: web-review, design, history, internet, architecture, politics, performance, foss, system, influence, social-media, protocols, flatpak, learning, desktop, software, gpt, linux, art, storage, ux, copyright, supply-chain, funny, japan, data, fediverse, tech, surveillance, smartphone, machine-learning, vector, ai, ethics, security, engineering, expertise, paper, attention-economy, privacy, origami, ietf

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2023-22.

Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, data, copyright, japan

This is looking like a bad move. Clearly the fault of western countries though which let things unfold ambiguously regarding copyright… Now Japan is weakening copyright for everyone.

https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/

Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views

Tags: tech, ai, gpt, ethics, influence

This is early research of course but still the results are interesting. Once again, we’re much easier to influence than we’d like.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.¹¹⁴⁵⁄_3544548.3581196

Turds

Tags: tech, ai, gpt, art

So close… and still. This is clearly still in the uncanny valley department at times.

https://novalis.org/blog/2023-05-30-turds.html

Reflections on Ten Years Past The Snowden Revelations

Tags: tech, internet, ietf, protocols, privacy, surveillance, attention-economy, security, history, politics

This is an excellent and needed work of contextualization. Ten years after, looking back at how the Snowden Revelations impacted the internet and the work done by the IETF. It also shows there is plenty more to do…

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-farrell-tenyearsafter-00.html

How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul | Sim O.N.E. (Observations, Nonsense, Exaggerations)

Tags: tech, smartphone, attention-economy

This is a good point, this is a quality before quantity type of problem.

https://simone.org/tracking-screen-time/

Linear feeds are a dark pattern

Tags: tech, social-media, fediverse, ux, design

Clearly the UI design matters quite a bit in term of how addictive all those social network systems are. The alternative proposed here is interesting, I wish it’d be more widely implemented.

https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/blog/feeds.html

halting problem : Configuring portals

Tags: tech, desktop, foss, linux, flatpak

This looks like a move in the right direction regarding desktop portals on Linux.

https://www.bassi.io/articles/2023/05/29/configuring-portals/

Cornell Virtual Workshop: Vectorization

Tags: tech, performance, vector

Nice and thorough workshop on vectorization, where it comes from, what it can do and how you can write code which is easier to vectorize for the compiler.

https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/vector/