Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-22.

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

Tags: business, politics, culture, ethics

Wondering how those very rich people think and perceive the world? Here is an explanation. I felt unease reading through this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/?gift=fXb4ymsFcV2ntAzqIpmYvZ5SHmVudSgCCvY8EbJPC2Q

Secure Boot and Microsoft CA Rollover - a heads-up for distributions

Tags: tech, microsoft, linux, security

Microsoft has been deploying new CA certificates late… Now distros have to wake up and prepare new signatures for their shims quickly.

https://blog.einval.com/2026/05/22#secure_boot_ca_rollover

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

Tags: tech, wikipedia, community, business, work, ethics

This is very concerning. We don’t need Wikipedia to fall prey to this kind of tactics… On the contrary!

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Google, I Dump Your Ass!

Tags: tech, google, web

I guess it’s time we realise Google doesn’t send much traffic on the open web / small web / indie web (call it as you please) and so there’s no need to let them harvest.

https://jaredwhite.com/20260522/google-i-dump-your-ass

The AI Gold Rush Is Eating Its Own

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, wikipedia, cognition, business

This is clearly the Ouroboros moment in our industry. People pushing for such restructuring and layoffs are drinking the kool-aid and will ultimately be responsible for killing what put them there in the first place.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-ai-gold-rush-is-eating-its-own

The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community

Tags: tech, knowledge, commons, community, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, ethics, diversity

Very interesting take. This gives very valid ground on why tech communities should reject AI based contributions. Not doing so will indeed hinder the commons communities rely on to exist and improve. This is a path to prevent getting better at inclusivity and diversity (which is really needed).

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2026/05/LLMs.html

Affordances for me, but not for thee

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ethics, politics, accessibility

This is a fact I don’t get… people are going their way to satisfy the need of a LLM but not the ones of fellow humans. I guess it’s the conclusion which is somewhat right, it’s about who has power. This is sad if true… also I doubt it’s the single explanation.

https://werd.io/affordances-for-me-but-not-for-thee/

The price of humans

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, marketing

Interesting point… Didn’t think about it this way. We’ll see I guess. Maybe human made services will actually get a premium rate indeed. Wouldn’t be a bad outcome I guess?

https://blog.umangsurana.com/blog/price_of_humans/

Can we have the day off?

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, work, culture, productivity

I mean, with the announced productivity gains of generative AI… It doesn’t feel like a big ask. 😜

https://mlsu.io/posts/day-off/

BitWarden selling out? Self hosting a password vault?

Tags: tech, self-hosting, security

With Bitwarden sinking, it’s maybe time to look at alternatives? This AliasVault option looks like an interesting contender even though a not young.

https://firesphere.dev/articles/bitwarden-selling-out-self-hosting-a-password-vault

A cheap VPS is a good front

Tags: tech, self-hosting, security, vpn, wireguard

Sounds like a good solution to self host things at home while having some protection.

https://ergaster.org/thoughts/front-server/

The mysterious XF86AudioPlay issue

Tags: tech, audio, hardware

This is an odd and unexpected one! Funny after the facts bit clearly annoying otherwise.

https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2026/05/20/the-mysterious-xf86audioplay-issue/

Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring

Tags: tech, linux, io, asynchronous

Good post to have an idea of the modern IO APIs available.

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/18/serving-files-three-ways.html

Rust Patterns & Engineering How-Tos

Tags: tech, rust

The writing isn’t perfect, but it covers quite a few important topics in Rust. Seems to be a nice resource even though it’s still work in progress.

https://microsoft.github.io/RustTraining/rust-patterns-book/

How Virtual Tables Work in the Itanium C++ ABI | File Descriptor Two

Tags: tech, c++, type-systems, memory

Wondering about the memory layout emitted by the compiler when a virtual table exists for a type? This is a good summary.

https://peter0x44.github.io/posts/vtables-itanium-abi/

The worst job interview I ever had

Tags: hr, interviews

Urgh… indeed this sounds like a very bad experience. Don’t do this to applicants!

https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had

What is a harmonic? An interactive comic about additive synthesis

Tags: physics

Need a refresher on harmonics? This is a quick and fun way to do so.

https://melatonin.dev/additive-synth-comic/what-is-a-harmonic/

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

Tags: japan, business, culture

Interesting exploration of the Japanese business culture and why it’s so different to most companies found in Western countries.

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many

Bye for now!