Tags: web-review, tech, hype, history, physics, ai, foss, criticism, mathematics, linux, windows, ci, security, web, bias, frontend, server, gpt, google, version-control, webassembly, search, writing, communication, git, firefox, debugging, ux, microsoft, social-media, bookmarks, data, cad, quality, privacy, gui, machine-learning, email, art
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-21.
Tags: tech, foss, bias
A bit too GitHub centric for my taste. Still it shows some unwarranted bias, especially when outsiders to a project are identified as women. We should do better.
Tags: tech, foss, version-control, linux, git, history
The often forgotten history behind the creation of Git. This article does a good job summarizing it.
https://graphite.dev/blog/bitkeeper-linux-story-of-git-creation
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, data
The training dataset crisis is looming in the case of large language models. They’ll sooner or later run out of genuine content to use… and the generated toxic waste will end up in training data, probably leading to dismal results.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inhuman-centipede/#enshittibottification
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, google, data, quality
No, your model won’t get smarter just by throwing more training data at it… on the contrary.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, art, social-media, criticism
This is indeed sad to see another platform turn against its users. This was once a place to nurture young artists… it’s now another ad driven platform full of AI made scams.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, criticism
Open is unsurprisingly only in the name… this company is really just a cult.
Tags: tech, microsoft, windows, security, privacy
This is completely nuts… they really want to unleash a security and privacy nightmare. The irony is that it does respect DRM content on the other hand, we can see where the priorities are.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, hype
Definitely this, it’s not the first time we see such a hype cycle around “AI”. When it bursts the technology which created it is just not called “AI” anymore. I wonder how long this one will last though.
https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, hype, criticism
Definitely too much hype around large models right now. This over shadows the more useful specialized models.
https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/05/16/sober-ai.html
Tags: tech, google, microsoft, web, search
We’re still fairly dependent on just two major web indices… time for an index built as a common for everyone to use?
Tags: tech, web, search
Looks like an interesting new search engine.
https://github.com/StractOrg/stract?tab=readme-ov-file
Tags: tech, email, debugging
Fascinating bug… the fine details of mundane protocols like SMTP can sometimes be surprising.
https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period
Tags: tech, firefox, bookmarks
Interesting Firefox feature I didn’t notice. Looks fairly nice, I’ll use it more.
https://blog.meain.io/2024/firefox-bookmark-keywords
Tags: tech, web, frontend, cad, physics, mathematics
This gives a good idea of the important parts in a CAD program. It also list a few of the usable libraries to build one such program in the browser.
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/cadmium
Tags: tech, webassembly, server
Where WebAssembly is, and where WebAssembly on the server is going… let’s hope it doesn’t become another CORBA.
https://kerkour.com/webassembly-wasi-preview2
Tags: tech, git, ci
Neat trick, especially useful for CI uses.
https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/clone-arbitrary-single-git-commit/
Tags: tech, version-control, writing, communication
Very extensive guide on writing better commit messages. This is important, it’s a very central communication mechanism with other developers.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/commit-messages/
Tags: tech, gui, ux
Interesting discussion about UI density. What are we talking about? Is there value to is? Which aspects of a UI are impacting it? The conclusion makes it all very clear.
https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/
Bye for now!