Tags: web-review, sustainability, networking, machine-learning, foss, tools, hiring, remote-working, developer-experience, physics, tech, safety, data, graphics, astronomy, benchmarking, windows, research, c++, transportation, crdt, security, gpt, hardware, time, psychology, commons, programming, javascript, storage, bios, type-systems, politics, rust, ai, tests, criticism, licensing
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-30.
Tags: tech, foss, licensing, sustainability, commons, politics
It’s a piece which really resonates with me. I’ve been thinking and saying for a while that focusing mostly on the technical (licensing and dev) aspects of Open Source was a mistake. This completely overlooked the political side of the Free Software equation. This is why the industry is as it is now. We need stronger commons and indeed the AGPL is best for that.
https://ploum.net/2024-07-01-opensource_sustainability.html
Tags: tech, programming
A few surprises in there but otherwise it feels a bit like a repeat from last year. I keep being dismayed at how low the ethical concern of the energy impact of generative AI scores in this survey.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/
Tags: tech, windows, safety
The cleanup of that mess is still on-going. A bit more automation would help.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, criticism
Content creators are clearly annoyed at the lack of consent. The more technical ones are trying to take the matter in their own hands.
https://www.404media.co/the-backlash-against-ai-scraping-is-real-and-measurable/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, graphics, astronomy, physics
Still not perfect, but that’s an interesting development.
Tags: tech, data, ai, machine-learning, gpt, research
More discussion about models collapse. The provenance of data will become a crucial factor to our ability to train further models.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
Tags: tech, security, hiring, remote-working
Interesting story. This is getting harder to hire for remote positions I guess.
https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us
Tags: tech, bios, security, hardware
A reminder that Secure Boot is worth nothing if the device makers don’t manage cryptographic keys properly…
Tags: tech, transportation, security
Make sure to read also part 2. You’d expect critical infrastructure like this to not be exposed over the Internet, and to be properly protected…
https://www.redthreatsec.com/blog/greenlightspart1
Tags: tech, crdt, rust, javascript
Need to make a realtime collaboration application? This might come in handy.
Tags: tech, networking, storage, benchmarking
Interesting comparisons, some of it was a bit unexpected to me. I didn’t expect SSHFS to be that OK.
https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/08/27/nas-performance-sshfs-nfs-smb.html
Tags: tech, time, tests, tools
This can definitely come in handy. I can see myself using it for testing behaviors in the past or the future on a real application. This should also help writing automated tests in some cases.
https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime
Tags: tech, c++
This is indeed a shame. It’d be nice to not add all the concepts you plan on supporting in the class declaration…
https://lemire.me/blog/2024/07/22/does-c-allow-template-specialization-by-concepts/
Tags: tech, c++, type-systems
There’s a good reason to have it in the standard. As mentioned in this post it can help with std::variant.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240708-00/?p=109959
Tags: tech, psychology, developer-experience
Interesting preprint review. Not sure I got it all in depth, will definitely need to revisit it at some point.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43x
Bye for now!