Tags: web-review, emoji, culture, funny, biology, spreadsheets, death, gpt, law, compiler, copilot, blender, machine-learning, tech, memory, standard, web, fake-news, innovation, history, networking, indie, foss, xmpp, commons, ai, science, search, licensing, politics, rust, 3d, community, unicode, physics, animation, programming, google
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-46.
Tags: tech, foss, commons, community
Nice paper about how commons are built. Peer-production is really a powerful way to organise.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/from-linux-to-wikipedia-how-volunteers-build-the-internet/
Tags: tech, web, indie, culture
Neat place to discover plenty of other fascinating or quirky websites.
Tags: tech, 3d, blender, foss
This is again a very strong release from Blender. Lots of neat features. Kudos to them!
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-3/
Tags: tech, foss, politics, history
A reminder of where Free Software comes from. It’s never been apolitical mind you, claiming the contrary is misreading history.
https://foss.life/notes/2026/the-myth-of-neutral-code/
Tags: tech, foss, licensing, politics
More new licenses are surfacing. It looks like the Free Software licenses ran their course but are not enough anymore.
https://dustri.org/b/weird-licenses-and-the-new-open-source.html
Tags: tech, politics, history
Or the importance of community and studying other fields. The political landscape around tech has led to a turbocharged dystopia but there are other ways. Any bubble of humanism in the margins is precious and has to be kept. It’ll be needed someday.
https://theinternet.review/2026/02/17/are-we-the-baddies/
Tags: tech, innovation, politics, law
Interesting essay. It’s very much attuned to the US context but it’s a timely exploration of the current handling of innovation in our societies. Interestingly we’ve forgot that innovation and progress don’t necessarily go hand in hand. This isn’t without bad consequences.
https://www.andreamm.com/_files/ugd/26d278_b60b4140feb34bf2bfb6ab7405a27e99.pdf
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, google, search, fake-news
It’s a good illustration of how information channels became very fragile. LLMs based systems reaching for openly available information on the web are very susceptible to being manipulated.
https://lyra.horse/blog/2026/11/disinformation-machine/
Tags: tech, programming, ai, machine-learning, copilot
Another good balanced post on the reasons to resist using LLMs for development.
https://www.polso.info/why-i-will-not-be-using-llms-coding
Tags: tech, compiler, memory, rust
A good introduction on how and why compilers track pointers and memory locations. Also shows what can be used with Rust to handle provenance.
https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/pointer-provenance-in-rust-vs-cpp/
Tags: tech, networking
This is wild! The amount of stuff which happens to listen on port 0 is surprising.
https://acid.vegas/blog/the-port-that-does-not-exist/
Tags: tech, xmpp, standard, unicode, emoji
A deep dive in this funny question. This is a nice tour of a few RFCs around XMPP.
https://op-co.de/blog/posts/emoji_xmpp_address/
Tags: tech, physics, funny
Cool little simulation. Wondering how an iceberg might float? Draw your own.
https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html
Tags: tech, spreadsheets, animation, funny
OK, this is definitely quirky and funny. It shows that any medium can be used if you’re motivated enough to create art. :-)
Tags: science, biology, death
If you ever wonder about what will happen in your body in the end. This gives a good idea of the process and it’s longer than what we usually have in mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEjvSbI_PT4
Bye for now!