Web Review, Week 2024-24
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-24.
Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
Tags: tech, microsoft, privacy
Unsurprisingly they had to adjust under the pressure. The most blatant issues might be gone, it is still a bad idea at its core.
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-off-default-security-concerns/
AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, criticism, ethics
Chatbots can be useful in some cases… but definitely not when people expect to connect with other humans.
Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
Tags: tech, vscode, security, ide
How trustworthy are the extensions you get in your editor or IDE? I’d expect most marketplaces to not be well harmed against such attacks.
HTTP/3 needs us (and other people) to make firewall changes
Tags: tech, http, quic, firewall
Good reminder that firewalls need to be adjusted for proper HTTP/3 support.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/HTTP3AndOurFirewalls
HTTP/3 in curl mid 2024 | daniel.haxx.se
Tags: tech, http, quic
Interesting status report about HTTP/3 support in curl. Shows quite well the various alternatives and how special HTTP/3 can be.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/10/http-3-in-curl-mid-2024/
What is PID 0? · blog.dave.tf
Tags: tech, unix, linux, kernel, system, processes
Interesting deep dive in where the PIDs seen in user space come from. And also yes, there is something matching PID 0 which can be traced back to early UNIX systems.
https://blog.dave.tf/post/linux-pid0/
Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions: Chrome edition – Daniel Lemire’s blog
Tags: tech, cpu, performance, SIMD
SIMD keeps providing interesting performance boosts for parsing work loads.
https://lemire.me/blog/2024/06/08/scan-html-faster-with-simd-instructions-chrome-edition/
Rolling your own fast matrix multiplication: loop order and vectorization – Daniel Lemire’s blog
Tags: tech, c++, compiler, performance, matrix
The ordering used for matrix multiplications definitely matters.
You’ll regret using natural keys
Tags: tech, databases, design
Good advice on designing your database tables. The comments are good too, they allow to complete the picture.
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2024/06/03/youll-regret-using-natural-keys/
Brain dump – Pagination for database objects
Tags: tech, backend, databases
The right and wrong approaches for paginating results coming from a database.
https://www.n16f.net/blog/pagination-for-database-objects/
Optimal SQLite settings for Django
Tags: tech, django, databases, sqlite
Little and to the point reference on safer SQLite use. I should check if some of this would apply or is used by Akonadi as well.
https://gcollazo.com/optimal-sqlite-settings-for-django/
the Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi algorithm explained as simply as possible
Tags: tech, geometry, mathematics, algorithm
Need to know if two shapes overlap? Good explanation of an elegant algorithm to do it.
https://computerwebsite.net/writing/gjk
Feynman’s Razor - by Defender of the Basic
Tags: tech, documentation, communication, gui
Nice reminder that even though we try to make things simpler to understand to people, there is a point where we can go too far.
https://defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/feynmans-razor
Foreword for Fuzz Testing Book
Tags: tech, fuzzing, tests, history
Ever wondered where fuzz testing is coming from? This is an important bit of history.
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/Foreword1.html
Post-Architecture: An Open Approach to Software Engineering
Tags: tech, software, architecture
Indeed this is not for any environment and projects. So take it with a grain of salt. That said, I think this piece has a core truth to it which is more general. Software architectures shouldn’t be considered as something fixed as soon as they are planned, they need to be validated through use and to be prepared to evolve over time as needed.
https://arendjr.nl/blog/2024/06/post-architecture/
Bye for now!