Tags: web-review, ai, performance, culture, tools, criticism, machine-learning, psychology, fediverse, tech, supply-chain, satire, date, programming, foss, community, politics, energy, gpt, complexity, wayland, regex, funny, neural-networks, portability, time, maintenance, dependencies, cpu, safety, business, javascript, science, security
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-05.
Tags: tech, fediverse, community
Indeed, the Fediverse needs to be better known. Any small actions towards this goal helps.
https://blog.elenarossini.com/supporting-the-fediverse-one-small-act-at-a-time/
Tags: tech, foss, fediverse
This is good to see funds being raised for those projects. Lets hope they get madly successful.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, criticism
Maybe at some point the big providers will get the message and their scrapers will finally respect robots.txt? Let’s hope so.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, business, politics
I guess this was just a matter of time, the obsession of “just make it bigger” was making most player myopic. Now this obviously collides with geopolitics since this time it’s about a Chinese company being ahead.
https://www.404media.co/deepseek-mania-shakes-ai-industry-to-its-core/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, business, politics
Looks like the monopolists are vexed and are looking for arguments to discredit the competition… of all the arguments, this one is likely the most ridiculous seeing their own behavior.
https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, business, satire, funny
Excellent satire, it summaries the situation quite well.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, neural-networks, gpt, science, energy
I mostly agree with this piece. There’s lots of room for optimization still so we might see a temporary drop in the energy consumption of those systems. That said, longer term energy consumption is indeed the main leverage to improve performance of those systems. It can only get us so far, so new techniques will be needed. Hence why my position is that we’ll come back to symbolic approaches at some point, there’s a clear challenge at interfacing both worlds.
https://algonaute.fr/en/thinking-after-chatgpt.html
Tags: tech, tools, portability, wayland
Looks like a neat tool to have available to remap keys.
https://github.com/houmain/keymapper
Tags: tech, cpu, performance, programming
Nice primer on the impact of too many branches in your code on the CPU. This is sometimes a good way to boost performance when you’re mindful about that.
https://cedardb.com/blog/reducing_branches/
Tags: tech, safety, regex
Always be careful with regular expressions indeed. It can badly backfire.
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/01/25/regular-expressions-can-blow-up/
Tags: tech, javascript, date, time
Finally some sane API to deal with date and time in JavaScript? Maybe, we’ll see…
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming/
Tags: tech, science, culture
Of course I agree with this piece. You need enough culture in your field to know about a breadth of topics. It will definitely help pick up the next one you don’t know about yet or help you build parallels for the tougher problems you encounter.
https://blog.waleedkhan.name/will-i-ever-use-this/
Tags: tech, dependencies, supply-chain, security, complexity, maintenance
This is a worthy questioning… We try to reuse, but maybe we do it too much? For sure some ecosystems quickly lead to hundreds of dependencies even for small features.
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/build-it-yourself/
Tags: psychology
It’s widespread, especially in our field. You’re not alone. Find your coping strategy.
https://www.cultivatedmanagement.com/dealing-with-impostor-syndrome/
Bye for now!