Tags: web-review, web, ai, europe, scifi, copilot, tech, interviews, pbr, productivity, animation, statistics, speech, surveillance, hr, gpt, foss, complexity, html, science, ethics, shader, slop, philosophy, funny, performance, rust, reliability, flatpak, codereview, physics, compiler, css, windows, c++, education, machine-learning
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-28.
Tags: tech, europe, surveillance
This is a shady move once more… They really want to extend this security apparatus. We could hope there were enough MEPs to vote against this… but it’s not been the case.
Tags: tech, windows, funny
Funny experiment. If you’re a Linux user pondering going back to Windows it’ll likely cure you. Goodness the install experience is abysmal and that’s just the beginning of the troubles. Of course it has a good side as well but it feels fairly limited.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, slop, flatpak, codereview
The data set is rather small but the trend is really bad. So much reviewer time wasted due to AI slop… this time on the Flathub side.
https://geopjr.dev/blog/democratizing-abandonware
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, ethics, foss
Really this kind of AI push is a bad move from employers, especially when interacting with FOSS communities so much. This forces people to pass the ethical issues onto volunteers…
https://eng.hroncok.cz/2026/07/07/ai-tool
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, productivity, education
How is going this social experiment at scale? Not well I’d say… And some in those cohorts will end up in positions of power, that’s when it’ll become really “interesting” I guess.
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, speech
This keeps being a very interesting TTS model. Looks like it’s getting simpler to deploy too.
https://ariya.io/2026/03/local-cpu-friendly-high-quality-tts-text-to-speech-with-kokoro/
Tags: tech, c++, rust, compiler
Still need some work I’d say but this is interesting research. Transpiling C++ to Rust is getting more accessible. It need some improvements on the optimisation side to be more generally usable.
https://web.ist.utl.pt/nuno.lopes/pubs/cpp2rust-pldi26.pdf
Tags: tech, shader, pbr, physics
Cool resource to have the right values for various PBR materials.
Tags: tech, html, css, animation
A good reminder that you can go a long way to specify transitions with just CSS nowadays.
https://blog.omgmog.net/post/how-im-using-css-view-transitions-on-this-blog/
Tags: tech, web, performance, complexity
There are ways to have a lighter web. It leads to interesting techniques too.
Tags: tech, reliability, statistics
Can you rely on something? Indeed, if it fails “only” 2% of the time it can mean a lot of failures… you better handle the edge cases and degrade gracefully.
https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/07/03/98-isnt-very-much/
Tags: tech, hr, interviews, complexity
I like this kind of questions as well. It’s more interesting to aim for something simple to start with than a puzzle. Even topics considered simple have several layers of complexity.
https://krisshamloo.com/blog/007
Tags: tech, hr, interviews
Whatever the hiring process, show some respect to the candidate. It’s the least you can do for them.
https://hauleth.dev/post/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-aduacity-of-recruiter/
Tags: tech, scifi, science, philosophy
A long piece, but digs in details on why “mind uploading” really can’t be a thing.
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-myth-of-mind-uploading
Bye for now!