Tags: web-review, go, ai, leadership, law, microservices, copilot, organization, criticism, memory, facebook, team, documentation, tesla, security, ux, data-visualization, scam, gdpr, culture, surveillance, productivity, optimization, attention-economy, battery, language, tech, speech, quic, safety, amazon, standard, science, machine-learning, politics, cognition, privacy, programming, management, ecology, c, gpt, gui, community, exceptions, c++, writing, http, neuroscience, architecture
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-12.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, criticism
Those bots are really becoming the scourge of the Internet… Is it really necessary to DDoS every forge out there to build LLMs? And that’s not even counting all the other externalities, the end of the article make it clear: “If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?”
https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, criticism
More details about the impacts of the LLM companies acting like vandals… This is clearly widespread and generating work for everyone for nothing.
https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
Tags: tech, facebook, politics, law, gdpr, surveillance, attention-economy
I guess more reviews of that book will come out. It looks like Meta and some EU politicians are even more rotten to the core than we ever suspected…
https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/
Tags: tech, amazon, privacy, surveillance
Now is the time to wake up and get those surveillance devices out of people’s homes…
Tags: tech, tesla, safety
In case it wasn’t clear yet that not relying on Lidar was a stupid move for self-driving cars.
https://futurism.com/tesla-wall-autopilot
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, law
Still so reliable… could we confine this to NLP uses please? Should never had been used for anything looking remotely like search.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt
Words are important, I’m dismayed at how the marketing speak around generative AI is what people use… that completely muddies the thinking around them.
https://tante.cc/2025/03/16/its-all-hallucinations/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, programming
Despite the marketing speak… it’s definitely not there yet. So far all the attempts at using LLM for coding larger pieces end up in this kind of messy results. It helps kickstarting a project indeed but quickly degenerates after that.
https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-03-19-vibe-coding-vs-reality.html
Tags: tech, security, scam
Fascinating exploration of the techniques scammers are using to hook their victims
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/security/seducing-a-romance-scammer.html
Tags: tech, speech, ai, machine-learning
Impressive new models for text to speech.
https://canopylabs.ai/model-releases
Tags: tech, http, quic, community
The picture is a bit to bleak I think, but there’s indeed currently a divide in terms of HTTP/3 adoption. This is fairly aligned with the big players vs long tail creators divide. Hopefully this will get solved at some point.
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-nowhere/
Tags: tech, programming, go
With the little Go I wrote, I admit that the multiple return values feature is… odd. Worse though, it has bad ramifications.
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/03/multiple-return-values-in-go/
Tags: tech, programming, language, exceptions
Indeed, it’s something where we lack consensus across languages and sometimes within the same ecosystem.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorHandlingNotSolvedProblem
Tags: tech, c, standard, memory, safety
This could be a big improvement for C. We’ll see how far this goes.
https://thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its-time-go-go-go
Tags: tech, c++, programming, optimization
Definitely ugly in the end. Still it does the the trick.
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/03/15/speeding-up-c-code-with-template-lambdas/
Tags: tech, gui, ux
Beautifully crafted post. So much of it is true as well, having several modalities available is better for interactions. We’ve been loosing this overtime, it’s time to reintroduce it… there’s so much to do in the HMI space.
https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses
Tags: tech, data-visualization
Need new ideas for data visualization? This seems like a good resource.
Tags: tech, documentation, writing
Good explanation of why the passive voice should be avoided. Also it gives a few cases where you want to favor the passive voice.
https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/passive-voice-considered-harmful/
Tags: tech, architecture, microservices, criticism
Interesting piece… why talking about microservices generally leads nowhere. This is a too loosely defined term and we’re often confusing means and ends.
https://blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-architects-about-microservices
Tags: tech, leadership, management, team
Interesting way to frame the question for leadership roles.
https://ntietz.com/blog/who-are-your-teammates/
Tags: tech, organization, team, culture, productivity
We should definitely put the 10x engineer myth to rest. Let’s focus on setting up the right organisation and culture instead.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer
Tags: tech, battery, ecology
If it can be done at scale this would be very good news.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/battery-recycle-lithium-ion-environment-b2713723.html
Tags: science, cognition, neuroscience
Nice video which gives a glimpse on how our brain constantly tries to build a coherent picture of the reality around us. This is quite a feat since our senses are ill equipped to produce such a picture. Of course we don’t even notice all those processes when we go about our days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_e0EvEZn8
Bye for now!