Tags: web-review, ai, asynchronous, gpt, web, type-systems, attention-economy, moderation, linkedin, ecology, energy, career, criticism, project-management, leadership, tools, social-media, foss, knowledge, bluesky, hardware, advertisement, neural-networks, machine-learning, complexity, management, pattern, filesystem, tv, tech, learning, geospatial, analogic, law, community, design, fediverse, sqlite, databases, rust, politics, communication, java, estimates, internet, system, architecture, fake
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-51.
Tags: tech, foss, community
Definitely a good list of advices for first time contributors.
https://www.yegor256.com/2024/12/15/open-source-beginner-advice.html
Tags: tech, internet, geospatial
IRIS² is the friendly reminder that tens of thousand of low orbit satellites is not the only design… and likely not the smartest one.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/16/24322358/iris2-starlink-rival-europe-date-cost
Tags: tech, tv, attention-economy, advertisement
The TV market is really turning into an anti-consumer one.
Tags: tech, social-media, bluesky, fediverse, architecture
Yet another long piece in this interesting and in depth conversation about Bluesky. The fact that it stays civil is called out explicitly and this is appreciated.
https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
Tags: tech, social-media, moderation, bluesky, politics
Bluesky is already hitting growth pains regarding moderation and its guidelines. By being centralized it is also more at risk within the current US political climate.
Tags: tech, social-media, linkedin, ai, machine-learning, gpt, fake
Kind of unsurprising right? I mean LinkedIn is clearly a deformed version of reality where people write like corporate drones most of the time. It was only a matter of time until robot generated content would be prevalent there, it’s just harder to spot since even humans aren’t behaving genuinely there.
https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-ai-generated-influencers/
Tags: tech, internet, web, ai, machine-learning, gpt, fake, knowledge
Indeed, we’ll have to relearn “internet hygiene”, it is changing quickly now that we prematurely unleashed LLM content on the open web.
https://www.late-review.com/p/ai-and-internet-hygiene
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, criticism
A good balanced post on the topic. Maybe we’ll finally see a resurgence of real research innovation and not just stupid scaling at all costs. Reliability will stay the important factor of course and this one is still hard to crack.
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-progress-slowing-down
Tags: tech, analogic, ai, machine-learning, neural-networks, hardware
It looks like analog chips for neural network workloads are on the verge of finally becoming reality. This would reduce consumption by an order of magnitude and hopefully more later on. Very early days for this new attempt, let’s see if it holds its promises.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/analog-ai-2669898661
Tags: tech, hardware, foss
A good question, it is somewhat of a grey area at times. We need to come up with better answers.
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70895.html
Tags: tech, databases, sqlite, asynchronous, rust, system, filesystem
Interesting explanation of a research paper exploring the possibility of a faster SQLite by focusing on async I/O.
https://avi.im/blag/2024/faster-sqlite/
Tags: tech, java, tools
I wouldn’t use it as much as advocated in this article, still this is a good reminder that Java became way more approachable for smaller programs in recent years.
https://horstmann.com/unblog/2024-12-11/index.html
Tags: tech, career, complexity, learning
It tries hard at not being a “get off my lawn” post. It clearly points some kind of disconnects though. They’re real. I guess it’s to be expected with the breadth of our industry. There are so many abstractions piled onto each other that it’s difficult to explore them all.
https://rakhim.exotext.com/web-developers-a-growing-disconnect
Tags: tech, design, pattern, java, type-systems
One of my favorite of the traditional design patterns in object oriented languages. Now obviously when you get pattern matching in your language… you don’t need the visitor pattern anymore.
https://nipafx.dev/java-visitor-pattern-pointless/
Tags: tech, project-management, estimates
I don’t exactly use this approach to factor in the uncertainty… but I guess there’s something to be made out of this proposal. I’ll keep it in mind for my next project.
https://ntietz.com/blog/estimating-projects-short-sale/
Tags: leadership, management, communication
Interesting ideas about leadership lacking in impact. Indeed it should be seen as a communal function, it’s not about individuals leading each in their own directions. Think about it in a systemic way.
https://suzansfieldnotes.substack.com/p/the-one-way-i-know-a-team-is-in-trouble
Tags: ecology, politics, law, energy
This is not all bad news, there are a few things to rejoice about.
Bye for now!