Tech roundup 140: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Masses!!! 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

• I use targeted ads as my personal shopping assistant
• Deep Learning in Neuroimaging
• Modern Pandas (Part 2): Method Chaining
• Project Alice – an open source virtual assistant that can run offline
• Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings
• Learning to think critically about machine learning
• React Native On-Device Machine Learning with Google ML Kit
• Botnet that hid for 18 months
• The A.I. Of Doom
• Making the Clubhouse hallway more relevant with machine learning
• “Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t” crosses citizen science with environmentalism
  Joey Santore’s YouTube channel, Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t, crosses citizen science with vigilante environmentalism
• Roboto but Make It Flex
  Google’s most popular font gets customizable with the launch of Roboto Flex, a #variablefont with a huge range of weights, widths, optical sizes, grades – and even parametric axes.
• AI software clears high hurdles on IQ tests but still makes dumb mistakes
  AI researchers are creating novel “benchmarks” to help models avoid real-world stumbles

Blockchain and decentralization

• BGP Blockchain
• Principles of Distributed Computing (lecture collection)
• Distributed Systems Shibboleths
• Buying Real Estate with Crypto: New Mortgages Are Backed by Coins
• Warren Buffett: Explanation for why he doesn’t believe in Bitcoin
• Tracing a single operation in distributed systems
• Blockchain in a Nutshell
• Most Salvadorans have already ditched their national Bitcoin wallets
• Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instance

Cloud and architecture

• Zero Trust Hosting and Reverse Proxy via Cloudflare, Swag and Authelia
• ‘Biodegradable’ drinking straws contain PFAS
• Cloud Cost Control: Best Practices
• MyGov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs
• Cloud Pricing Comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform in 2022

Development and languages

• The Programming Paradigm to Find One Solution Among 8,080,104 Candidates
• PyScript: Run Python in your HTML
  Run Python code in your HTML.
• GitBOM: Enabling Universal Artifact Traceability in Software Supply Chains
• Onyx BOOX Leaf: 7-inch eReader with Android 10
• Rust from 0 to 80% for JavaScript Developers
• The Niche Programmer
• New from Anaconda: Python in the Browser
• Integer vs. Linear Programming in Python
• ‘It was the poor man’s studio’: how Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music
• JavaScript quiz that may confuse you
• FreeDV – Digital Voice mode for HF radio
• Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser
• JavaScript Containers
• Android 13’s new sideloading restriction of Accessibility APIs
• MockRTC – a mock peer and MitM proxy library for WebRTC
• Modern Python Performance Considerations
  There is a lot of work going on right now on speeding up Python; Kevin
  Modzelewski gave a presentation at
  PyCon 2022 on some of that
  work. Much of it has implications for Python programmers in terms of how
  to best take advantage of these optimizations in their code. He gave an
  overview of some of the projects, the kinds of optimizations being worked
  on, and provided some benchmarks to give a general idea of how much faster
  various Python implementations are getting—and which operations are most affected.
• GitHub will require 2FA by the end of 2023
• GitHub Résumé: Service that creates a résumé based on your GitHub repos/activity
• Recognize Digits Using ML in Elixir
• It’s time we fix the unethical design of cookie consent windows
• TatSu takes grammars in variation of EBNF, outputs memoizing Python PEG parsers
• TodoMVC App Written in Vanilla JavaScript
  Vanilla JS TodoMVC App in 2022. Contribute to 1Marc/todomvc-vanillajs-2022 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Quote of the week

Beware of “the real world”. A speaker’s apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

        — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Enterprises

• Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandcamp off the Play Store
• What is Lab126, Amazon’s secretive research laboratory?
• Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting Web Clients – Google Research
• Brendan at Intel.com
• Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
• Intelligent speed assistance: everything you need to know
• Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign
  The behind-the-scenes of our decision to sell Postmark and DMARC Digests to ActiveCampaign in 2022
• Intel: Meteor Lake Chiplet SoC Up and Running
• Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code
  This is the source code for the original Microsoft 3D Movie Maker released in 1995. This is not supported software. – GitHub – microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker: This is the source code for the or…
• The Google Incentive Mismatch: Problems with Promotion-Oriented Cultures
  Getting to the next level unlocks a lot – more money, more responsibility, more respect, a feeling of progress – and even if you care deeply about other things (your product, your users, etc), you can’t really avoid caring about promotion as well. This post talks a bit about the (well-known) issues with this type of culture, and suggests some alternatives for startups not looking to replicate it.
• Stripe Financial Connections
  Offrez à vos utilisateurs la possibilité de partager leurs données financières en toute sécurité afin de simplifier les paiements, de réduire la fraude, d’évaluer les risques et de créer de nouveaux produits.
• OpenAlex: The Promising Alternative to Microsoft Academic Graph
• Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard
  Faster, easier and more secure sign-ins will be available to consumers across leading devices and platforms  Mountain View, California, MAY 5, 2022  – In a joint effort to make the web […]
• Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B
  The largest acquisition in Shopify’s history will create an end-to-end logistics platform to unlock fast and easy fulfillment for millions of merchants
• Netflix’s Big Power Clash and Rivalries Behind the Crash
• Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash
• Being Acquired
• AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks
• Stripe responds to the Financial Connections/Plaid kerfuffle
• Microsoft insults dev, then takes credit for their idea
• SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining

Other news

• Review: Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is a mandatory game for comedy fans
  The original game held a wealth of surprises. Its meta-obsessed follow-up has even more.
• Cambridge University study finds Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian
• Libmodbus – A modbus library for Linux, Mac OS, FreeBSD and windows
• Remotewide – Find remote jobs with location independent pay
• COBOL Programming Course
  Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL – GitHub – openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course: Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started…
• GlaxoSmithKline to pay 3B dollars for fraud
• Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux
  I’ve used Linux for many years on servers, but still kept macOS as my main working environment for almost ten years now. A few months ago, I gave up on macOS and started using Fedora as my main operating system on the ThinkPad P1 Gen3 15”.
• Apple hit with EU antitrust charge over its payment technology
• Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
• Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments
• How I learned to program
• A Social Analgesic? Acetaminophen (Tylenol) Reduces Positive Empathy
• What we can deduce from a leaked PDF
• Turbo Tax to Pay 141M in Agreement Reached by All 50 States
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• Development Journal: ScreenFloat 2
• The UX of Paid Journalism
• Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles
• Confirmation Bias Reduces Business Profits
• Lirebird – a simple and powerful voice changer for Linux, written in GTK 3
• Learning Modern Linux: A Handbook for the Cloud Native Practitioner
• WordPress sites getting hacked ‘within seconds’ of TLS certificates being issued
• Final year medical students ‘can’t afford to pay rent’

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