Tags: web-review, copyright, copilot, satire, ethics, desktop, queuing, gpt, ai, graphics, game, politics, supply-chain, quality, programming, distributed, machine-learning, surveillance, neural-networks, engineering, learning, debugging, performance, foss, licensing, linux, trust, tests, tech, attention-economy, security, culture, defense, governance, microsoft, architecture, parenting, management, github
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-24.
Tags: tech, foss, licensing, copyright
More an experiment than something I’d recommend for real. Still it shows there’s a gap we need to close in the licenses available. Let’s hope the OSI and the FSF will do strong moves toward closing this gap.
Tags: tech, foss, governance, satire
In part useful, in part satire I think. Still it gives a good idea of various governance models in FOSS communities.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/09/forms-of-open-source-government.html
Tags: tech, culture, learning, parenting
There’s a path to get people (children included) to get into technology with enough of the veneer of convenience to make sure it is a learning experience… While keeping it pleasurable.
https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html
Tags: tech, game, surveillance, attention-economy, defense
How do you like our particular brand of dystopia? That’s what you get for using proprietary data farming game I guess.
https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/
Tags: tech, microsoft, github, security, supply-chain, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot
There’s really something nasty at play. Those coding agents are clearly not insulated from the system enough and too easy to manipulate in order to exfiltrate sensitive information.
https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/miasma-reaches-azure
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, management, trust
This piece asks a very profound question in fact. If you’re in a workplace where senior management allows and pushes everyone to get deluded about the real capabilities of those tools, how do you later move forward and rebuild trust?
https://blog.avas.space/llm-circus/
Tags: tech, learning, culture, ethics, politics, quality
Very nice piece, timely and needed. Indeed, let’s hope people stick to those principles.
http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/00FD/index.xml
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, architecture, neural-networks
A good primer on the main architecture traits of transformer models.
https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/
Tags: tech, performance, architecture
It’s definitely easier not having to scale at all. Which is what you get when you design for local first / client side.
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/local-first-software-is-easier-to-scale
Tags: tech, graphics, linux, desktop, performance, debugging
Interesting read, this is really tricky to measure such latency. It looks like we might have room for improvements on latency still. Curious to see if the proposed fixes will make it in kwin.
https://farnoy.dev/posts/linux-latency
Tags: tech, tests, debugging
Interesting family of testing and debugging tools indeed. I should definitely reach out to those more.
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/test_case_reducers_are_underappreciated_debugging_tools.html
Tags: tech, queuing, architecture, distributed
Queues are not magic. If they’re unbounded you’re in for a world of pain as load increases.
https://pmbanugo.me/blog/why-queues-dont-fix-overload-and-what-to-do-instead
Tags: tech, programming, quality
Indeed, when people say “users don’t care about quality” (tests or otherwise), this is mostly folklore. As soon as something goes wrong they’ll care.
https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260607.html
Tags: tech, engineering, management
Sometimes, you got to deliver the bad news… It’s healthy if you feel uneasy about it though.
https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-un-hateable-engineering-managers
Bye for now!