Tags: web-review, security, software, hr, memory, virtualization, resilience, law, databases, business, culture, blog, postgresql, rss, management, streaming, search, transparency, capitalism, crash, history, vendor-lockin, zsh, criticism, foss, web, 3d, safety, mathematics, erlang, browser, rust, linux, interviews, tech, video, microsoft, economics, webcomponents, opml, google, sql, shell, automotive
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-06.
Tags: tech, web, blog, culture
Excellent piece about the resurgence of old trends on the web.
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/weve-been-waiting-20-years-for-this/
Tags: tech, foss, law
Looks like good progress has been made. A few more adjustments would be welcome before it gets ratified.
https://blog.opensource.org/the-european-regulators-listened-to-the-open-source-communities/
Tags: tech, google, transparency, management
Things don’t look great in this giant… it’s astonishing how much eroding vision and transparency can hurt an organization.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/google-workers-company-culture-pichai-18653877.php
Tags: tech, streaming, video, business
Unsurprising trend… this was a market where there was no chance to have a single dominant platform due to the existing studio behemoths. So now we’re in the streaming wars, people can’t afford to pay for every silos… and they turn to piracy again. Could have been all avoided if we went the “global license” route instead of dumping money on platforms.
https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-piracy-is-difficult-to-compete-against-and-growing-rapidly-240204/
Tags: tech, search, web
A new search engine trying to grow. The approach seems interesting, we’ll see where it goes.
Tags: tech, web, browser
A bit opinionated and sarcastic maybe… still it feels right, the web browsers landscape is in a sad state.
https://tylersticka.com/journal/browsers-are-weird-right-now/
Tags: tech, microsoft, browser, vendor-lockin
Not unexpected of course, but at least it makes it clear that Microsoft is actively trying to prevent users from using the browser they want.
Tags: tech, microsoft, rust
If they really commit to it, this means Microsoft will really invest big in Rust. Let’s wait and see…
Tags: tech, automotive, security
The infotainment systems on car are not as locked down as one might think. Another proof of it.
https://goncalomb.com/blog/2024/01/30/f57cf19b-how-i-also-hacked-my-car
Tags: tech, security, memory, rust
Indeed, not all security issues are due to memory related problems. It’s 20% of the security issues. This is of course massive, but there’s still 80% of the security issues coming from wrong authentication, appliances and so on.
https://www.horizon3.ai/analysis-of-2023s-known-exploited-vulnerabilities/
Tags: tech, blog, rss, opml
Definitely true. This is a good way to share your feeds with friends or to setup a blogroll.
https://kmaasrud.com/blog/opml-is-underrated.html
Tags: tech, zsh, shell
Indeed, use zsh more. It’s good… or at least better.
https://www.arp242.net/why-zsh.html
Tags: tech, linux, virtualization
This is an interesting VirtualBox fork for Linux. Using KVM as backend should bring interesting benefits.
https://cyberus-technology.de/articles/vbox-kvm-public-release
Tags: tech, erlang, safety, crash, resilience
It’s here to sell something. That said it does a good job explaining the Erlang model and its “let it crash” approach to failures. Also highlights the obvious limitations.
https://flawless.dev/essays/when-letting-it-crash-is-not-enough/
Tags: tech, sql, databases
Indeed, a very underappreciated keyword in SQL. It can do much more than what it’s often used for.
https://blog.edwardloveall.com/cool-things-you-can-do-with-select
Tags: tech, databases, postgresql
Nice index pointing to resources to do many things with Postgres.
https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f06dbb
Tags: tech, web, 3d, webcomponents
Looks like a really convenient web component to display 3D models on web pages.
Tags: tech, mathematics, history
Interesting explanation of the method of differences to easily compute polynomials.
https://ztoz.blog/posts/method-differences/
Tags: hr, interviews
Good ideas and questions to interview candidates. I don’t think I would use everything though. Also I think some of what’s proposed here would work for candidates at any level of experience.
https://worktopia.substack.com/p/how-to-hire-low-experience-high-potential
Bye for now!