Tech roundup 139: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Information superhighway!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.

AI, bots and robots

• This AI Does Not Exist
  This AI Does Not Exist generates realistic descriptions and code snippets of machine learning models given a made-up name.
• AI can’t tell you it’s lying if it thinks it’s telling the truth
• The Balloon Learning Environment
• The Machine Learning Job Market
  I was on the job market recently, open to suggestions on what I should do next. I’m deeply thankful to all those who reached out and pitched their companies, and also to people who shared their wisdom of how they wanted to navigate their own careers.
• New Lidar System Promises 3D Vision for Cameras, Cars, and Bots
• Python Differentiable Logic Programs
• Incremental Learning
• Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted Gundam robot worker

Blockchain and decentralization

• Cryptocurrency as a cybersecurity alarm
• Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender
• Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem
  Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust. – GitHub – spacedriveapp/spacedrive: Spacedrive is an open source cross-platf…
• Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense
  I’ve been concerned about the excesses of the blockchain industry and their spread into all parts of society for some time now. Here I’ve summarized my thoughts regarding the subject.
• Decentralized cluster membership in Rust
  Even after 10 years of programming, I still have a relentless curiosity about new software algorithms, reading papers and blog posts, and learning from other engineers. The best part, however, really comes when you have the opportunity to implement one algorithm and even customize it for your specific use case. In this post, I will walk you through my journey from understanding cluster membership fundamentals to the implementation of Chitchat, our Rust implementation of the Scuttlebutt algorithm with a phi accrual failure detector.
• PranaDB – A distributed streaming database, designed to be horizontally scalable
• Letter from a Young Distributist: Georgism and Distributism
• You Don’t Need a F % ing Blockchain
• Global Income Coin – Crypto UBI Project Backed by Gitlab CEO

Cloud and architecture

• Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications
  The terminal can be more powerful and beautiful than you ever thought
• Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system
• Stalin’s Architect by Deyan Sudjic review – a monumental life
• Strategies and patterns of gray hat social media automation
• a serverless Xlib (X11) compatibility layer for Haiku
• Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon
• ‘Bloodworms’ harvest copper for metal jaws
• Running Containers on AWS Lambda
  Most of the code I’ve had running on AWS’s cloud has been in docker containers, running in Kubernetes clusters. And from my perspective, AWS was in…
• Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them
• A cross-account database vulnerability in Azure PostgreSQL
• MVC 2.0: the email-View-Controller architecture

Development and languages

• Practising Programming
• Google, Western Digital, Seagate quietly devolping an open source root of trust
• The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft
  During the Apollo missions to the Moon, a critical task for NASA was determining the spacecraft’s position. To accomplish this, they devel…
• Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
  Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS dominate the smartphone operating system (OS) space. Today 7 out of 10 phones run on the Android OS, while two of the remaining three are most likely to be iOS powered. Occasionally, one out of those three will be using one of the other less known OS’. However, Android’s dominance …
• Announcing the Hare programming language
• GitHub Packages and Pages Down
• Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire
• Datalog in JavaScript
• PSA: Git.io links will stop working in 3 days (29 of April 2022)
• Building a JavaScript Bundler
• Reloadium – Advanced hot reloading for Python
• Programmatically modifying ancient fonts
• Prototyping a Logo programming environment inside natto.dev
• Myia: A new differentiable programming language
• Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
  A blog about (mostly) computery things
• Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
• Fourth-Generation Programming Language
• Adversarial Pair Programming
• Hatch 1.0.0 – Modern, extensible Python project management
• Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub
• You Should Compile Your Python and Here’s Why
• Git.io: GitHub will maintain active links in a read-only state
  Git.io deprecation
• Digital Berlin wall: How the German prototype for online censorship went global
  The Digital Berlin Wall: How Germany (Accidentally) Created a Prototype for Global Online Censorship – Part two The German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) continues to inspire authoritarian and illiberal internet censorship around the world. In under a year, the number of countries copy-pasting the NetzDG matrix to provide cover and legitimacy for digital censorship andRead More
• Web scraping via JavaScript runtime heap snapshots
  Web Scraping via Javascript Runtime Heap Snapshots
• We fixed f-string bugs in 69 of the most popular Python repos in only 1 day
  tl;dr We found that 10% of the 666 most popular Python open source GitHub repositories had the following f-string typo bugs: f prefix was missing:”hello {name}”instead of f”hello …
• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation

Quote of the week

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

        — Leslie Lamport

Enterprises

• Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change
• Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies
• Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal
• Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network
• Twitter set to accept Musk’s $43B offer – sources
  Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc for $44 billion cash on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world’s richest person.
• More Users Flock to Mastodon After Musk’s Twitter Acquisition Bid
• Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit
• Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
  Mastodon is an open source decentralized social network – by the people for the people. Join the federation and take back control of your social media!
• Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product updates after Elon Musk deal
• Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results
• Google Scanned Objects: A High-Quality Dataset of 3D Scanned Household Items
• Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight
  The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives. We believe that your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company.
• Code licensed under the AGPL must not be used at Google
• Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments
  Online health information is terrible. How can we fix it?
• Alternative Google Analytics Dashboard
• Twitter admits it overstated users for years ahead of Elon Musk takeover
• Amazon Q1/2022
• DFI GHF51 – Worlds Smallest AMD Ryzen SBC
• You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search
  Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after…

Other news

• LA company to pay $22.5m after allegedly faking hundreds of Covid test results
  The Venice-based COVID-19 testing company doing business as «Sameday Health» allegedly falsified and forged test results, according to a complaint.
• Set goals. Form contracts. Pay the penalty if you fail
• Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
• Writing a Linux Kernel Remote in 2022
• European Wind-Energy Sector Hit in Wave of Hacks
  Cyberattacks on three European wind-energy companies since the start of the war in Ukraine have raised alarm that hackers sympathetic to Russia are trying to cause mayhem in a sector set to benefit from efforts to lessen reliance on Russian oil and gas.
• Learn Go with Tests
• It took me 10 years to understand entropy
  From the Big bang to the Heat death of the universe
• How I learned electronics
• Payment startup Bolt sued by its most prominent customer
• An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in California
  Update (April 27): Boaz Barak—Harvard CS professor, longtime friend-of-the-blog, and coauthor of my previous guest post on this topic—has just written an awesome FAQ, providing his pers…
• Stress hormone reduces altruistic behavior in empathetic people
  The stress hormone cortisol reduces altruistic behaviors and alters brain activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in people with higher levels of empathy.
• SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
  I’ve been an SELinux complexity apologist for years. Lately, I’ve concluded that every implementation with difficult-to-configure policies is just unmanageable.
• Deutsche Bank whistleblower found dead in LA’s Lincoln Park
  A self-described «comically terrible spy» who is believed to have worked with federal authorities investigating the activities of Deutsche…
• Tutorial Series to learn Common Lisp quickly
  CLOG – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI. Contribute to rabbibotton/clog development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Disney tells investors state can’t dissolve special district without paying debt
• The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident
  Thank you to Ondřej Čertík, Oscar Benjamin, Travis Oliphant, and Pamela Chestek for reviewing this blog post. Any errors in the post are my own.
  On April 19, 2022, for approximately 11.5 hours, the do
• What Computer Science Programs Should Teach (IMHO)
• Georgia to mandate personal finance education
  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law SB 220, a bill mandating personal finance classes for high school students.

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