Tags: web-review, oracle, frontend, surveillance, security, backup, directx, gpt, vulkan, ecology, law, metrics, politics, webgpu, battery, trademark, css, web, scripting, graphics, linux, shell, ai, team, tor, shader, business, io, html, javascript, kernel, 2d, machine-learning, war, economics, complexity, tech, rust, criticism, realtime, databases, privacy, gui, multithreading, management, asynchronous, c++, sqlite
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-38.
Tags: tech, tor, privacy
The quick answer is yes. The longer answer is that more effort is still required to ensure the network has enough diversity of nodes to stay healthy.
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, business, economics, criticism
This is a very harsh and bleak view on the current generative AI craze. Clearly it survives on some sort of weird faith that things will magically improve. Some decision makers clearly run fully on said faith and lost all kind of realistic view of the situation. They are just very disconnected from the user’s needs.
There’s even a funny quote in there: “Generative AI must seem kind of magical when your entire life is either being in a meeting or reading an email”.
When this bubble bursts, it’s hard to predict what the fallout will be on the tech industry… for sure it won’t be pretty. It also begs the question: what is this industry going to do next? There’s clearly no plan after generative AI.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, politics, ecology
Need to illustrate how much the current AI arm race is an ecological and social problem? Here is a very pathological case. This is what you get when you let the tycoons behind this completely unchecked.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5088134/elon-musk-ai-xai-supercomputer-memphis-pollution
Tags: tech, oracle, surveillance
People are gasping in horror with Larry Ellison’s latest claims… but really they should realize he’s not dreaming big. All of that is already here in one form or another. Maybe it was time to protest years ago?
https://www.404media.co/larry-ellisons-ai-powered-surveillance-dystopia-is-already-here/
Tags: tech, security, war, battery
Or why we should all be concerned and condemn the latest pager and walkie-talkie attacks. They clearly opened a Pandora’s box, it’d be surprising not to see more of those from various organizations. The funds and efforts required make it affordable enough.
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/
Tags: tech, javascript, trademark, law, oracle
This is a good initiative. It makes no sense for Oracle to still cling onto JavaScript as a trademark.
Tags: tech, c++
Interesting proposal for a superset of C++ bringing a safe subset. Could it be a way to improve C++ use for the coming decade?
Tags: tech, asynchronous, multithreading, io
Or why going through an event loop might be more work initially but will make some things easier longer term. Nice way to frame how threads are bringing some opaque state.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ThreadsAsyncIOAndCancellation
Tags: tech, linux, kernel, realtime
Definitely good news if you have to maintain a real-time Linux system for industrial use. No more patches to carry over.
Tags: tech, kernel, rust
An interesting endeavor to create you own OS using another language than one of the usual ones.
Tags: tech, databases, sqlite, backup
Wish to use SQLite in production? You better have a good backup strategy. This article explains the main available options.
https://oldmoe.blog/2024/04/30/backup-strategies-for-sqlite-in-production/
Tags: tech, shell, scripting
Shell scripts deserve to be well designed like this indeed.
https://nochlin.com/blog/6-techniques-i-use-to-create-a-great-user-experience-for-shell-scripts
Tags: tech, shader, vulkan, directx
This is good news. DirectX being the other big graphics API if it adopts SPIR-V as interchange format it’ll open the way to more shader reuses.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-adopting-spir-v/
Tags: tech, web, frontend, webgpu, 2d, graphics
Looks like an interesting tool to have in the box for 2D effects on the web.
Tags: tech, gui, html, web, frontend, complexity
A good list to design HTML forms. The bar is indeed high and there’s value in simplicity.
https://daverupert.com/2024/09/good-forms/
Tags: tech, web, frontend, css
This is indeed an interesting new CSS selector. Opens the door to doing more in a declarative way and with less Javascript.
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/has/
Tags: tech, management, metrics
We should definitely be more wary of metrics indeed. They help for a while, but at some point you’ll necessarily get unfortunately burnt by them. The only fallback is “good judgement”… do what you can with this.
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/goodharts-law-in-software-engineering/
Tags: tech, team, management
Nice tricks to help the team jell. I should try this more.
https://brittonbroderick.com/2024/08/18/building-aggressively-helpful-teams/
Bye for now!