Web Review, Week 2024-02
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-02.
Where have all the websites gone?
Tags: tech, web, blog, culture
This is in part why I started my web review… maybe I should start a kind of blogroll, or maybe have links to websites I like straight on my front page.
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/
This holographic camera turns any window into an invisible camera | Digital Camera World
Tags: tech, surveillance
What could possibly go wrong? Panopticon 2.0 here we come.
Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service | Proton
Tags: tech, microsoft, windows, email, surveillance
Looks like Microsoft is really catching up fast for its surveillance apparatus to be on par with Google and Meta.
https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service
Meta ignores the users’ right to easily withdraw consent
Tags: tech, law, facebook, surveillance, attention-economy
Very welcome complaont, Meta is trying to workaround the GDPR to increase paid accounts. Can only hope they get fined and that this shady practice disappear (they’re not the only ones doing this).
https://noyb.eu/en/meta-ignores-users-right-easily-withdraw-consent
How I pwned half of America’s fast food chains, simultaneously
Tags: tech, security
A not so gentle reminder that you shouldn’t get sloppy in the security practices of your services.
Automate your outgoing webmentions
Tags: tech, self-hosting, blog, webmention
Looks like a nice way to ease the use of webmentions. Also comes with a command line option not relying on third party hosted service apparently.
SSH based comment system
Tags: tech, ssh, blog
Very funny hack for a blog comment system.
https://blog.haschek.at/2023/ssh-based-comment-system.html
SSH-Snake: Automatic traversal of networks using SSH private keys
Tags: tech, ssh, security, tools
Fascinating script which jumps over SSH servers in several hops and replicates itself without a file upload.
https://joshua.hu/ssh-snake-ssh-network-traversal-discover-ssh-private-keys-network-graph
The browsers biggest TLS mistake
Tags: tech, browser, tls, security
Some of that certificate chain validation is troublesome… in Chrome based browsers it’s even truly insane.
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/browsers-biggest-tls-mistake
Messengers performance - Grafana
Tags: tech, messaging, battery, android
If you’re wondering where your battery power goes… this is a nice list of measures for various clients on Android. It looks like XMPP is still hard to beat.
https://decentim.grafana.net/public-dashboards/92602d3a4aa842ce97812d310077691d?orgId=1
Visualizing ext4
Tags: tech, filesystem
Fascinating exploration of the patterns visible inside ext4 filesystems.
https://buredoranna.github.io/linux/ext4/2020/01/09/ext4-viz.html
A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
Tags: tech, docker, tools
Looks like an interesting tool if you’re dealing with docker image. This kind of analysis is definitely missing from docker itself.
https://github.com/wagoodman/dive
Vcc - the Vulkan Clang Compiler
Tags: tech, shader, vulkan, c++
Interesting proof of concept to compile C++ into shaders. This reminds CUDA a bit without being tied to a given GPU brand.
https://shady-gang.github.io/vcc/
Statically enforcing frozen data classes in Python | Redowan’s Reflections
Tags: tech, python, type-systems
Interesting trick even though I always cringe at such difference of behavior between runtime and “compile” time.
https://rednafi.com/python/statically_enforcing_frozen_dataclasses/
Python 3.13 gets a JIT
Tags: tech, python, jit, optimization
Want to better understand the JIT approach introduced in Python 3.13, this is a good little article. This JIT is a first step towards more optimizations.
https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/python-gets-a-jit.html
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?
Tags: tech, git, version-control, teaching
So, which team are you on when you think about commits in Git?
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/05/do-we-think-of-git-commits-as-diffs–snapshots–or-histories/
Tidy First? | Henrik Warne’s blog
Tags: tech, refactoring, craftsmanship, book
Review of the newest book from Kent Beck, I’ll probably check it out and read it.
https://henrikwarne.com/2024/01/10/tidy-first/?
Are any of your features the steak on the menu? | nicole@web
Tags: tech, product-management
Interesting metaphor regarding that feature you have because it is expected but otherwise doesn’t quote work.
https://ntietz.com/blog/the-steak-on-the-menu/
How to make your team read your mind - by Anton Zaides
Tags: tech, management
Interesting approach for a manager to give transparency and to clarify expectations.
https://zaidesanton.substack.com/p/how-to-make-your-team-read-your-mind
My Diverse Hiring Playbook - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Tags: tech, hr, hiring
Good list of tips and ideas. This is not necessarily as easy as it sounds. The lack of good metrics doesn’t help (totally understandable though, privacy first).
https://jacobian.org/2024/jan/4/diverse-hiring-playbook/
Bye for now!