Web Review, Week 2023-22
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2023-22.
Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, data, copyright, japan
This is looking like a bad move. Clearly the fault of western countries though which let things unfold ambiguously regarding copyright… Now Japan is weakening copyright for everyone.
https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/
Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views
Tags: tech, ai, gpt, ethics, influence
This is early research of course but still the results are interesting. Once again, we’re much easier to influence than we’d like.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145⁄3544548.3581196
Turds
Tags: tech, ai, gpt, art
So close… and still. This is clearly still in the uncanny valley department at times.
https://novalis.org/blog/2023-05-30-turds.html
Reflections on Ten Years Past The Snowden Revelations
Tags: tech, internet, ietf, protocols, privacy, surveillance, attention-economy, security, history, politics
This is an excellent and needed work of contextualization. Ten years after, looking back at how the Snowden Revelations impacted the internet and the work done by the IETF. It also shows there is plenty more to do…
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-farrell-tenyearsafter-00.html
How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul | Sim O.N.E. (Observations, Nonsense, Exaggerations)
Tags: tech, smartphone, attention-economy
This is a good point, this is a quality before quantity type of problem.
https://simone.org/tracking-screen-time/
Linear feeds are a dark pattern
Tags: tech, social-media, fediverse, ux, design
Clearly the UI design matters quite a bit in term of how addictive all those social network systems are. The alternative proposed here is interesting, I wish it’d be more widely implemented.
https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/blog/feeds.html
halting problem : Configuring portals
Tags: tech, desktop, foss, linux, flatpak
This looks like a move in the right direction regarding desktop portals on Linux.
https://www.bassi.io/articles/2023/05/29/configuring-portals/
Cornell Virtual Workshop: Vectorization
Tags: tech, performance, vector
Nice and thorough workshop on vectorization, where it comes from, what it can do and how you can write code which is easier to vectorize for the compiler.
https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/vector/
How to discover all the data sources, low-fuss way
Tags: tech, architecture, data, storage
Interesting way to list all the data stores of your system and map them. Has the advantage of being very lean and simple to apply.
https://minimalmodeling.substack.com/p/how-to-discover-all-the-data-sources
On Software Dependency Engineering - HackMD
Tags: tech, supply-chain, foss
Interesting idea, for sure on a complex enough system just managing the dependencies can quickly become a full time job.
https://hackmd.io/@cflewis/Sk0gb9ILh
Feedback: I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer”
Tags: tech, system, engineering, software, expertise, learning
This rings true to me. What a messy path to get better at our craft!
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/05/30/eng/
Fold ‘N Fly » Paper Airplane Folding Instructions
Tags: paper, origami, funny
Who would have thought there are so many ways to make paper airplanes?
https://www.foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2
Bye for now!