Tech roundup 176: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Subscriptors!!! 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

• Modern Polars: a comparison of the Polars and Pandas dataframe libraries
• Game prototype using AI assisted graphics
  As a fun little prototype, I wanted to see how much work would it be to use AI to create as much of the art for a 2.5D point and click style game as possible.
• PromptArray: A Prompting Language for Neural Text Generators
• Learning Verilog and FPGA
• “The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”
• Could robots do the work of master marble sculptors? This one is “99%” there
• AMD Alveo V70 AI inference accelerator card
• Therapod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of neurons
• An engineer has built and programmed an all-robot band
• Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm
  Geoffrey Hinton, professor at the University of Toronto and engineering fellow at Google Brain, recently published a paper on the Forward-Forward algorithm (FF), a technique for training neural networks that uses two forward passes of data through the network, instead of backpropagation, to update the model weights.
• This Voice Doesn’t Exist – Generative Voice AI
  We’re deploying our own generative model which lets users design entirely new synthetic voices
• We could stumble into AI catastrophe
• Learning eBPF Exploitation

Blockchain and decentralization

• Banks Are Fleeing Crypto. Bitcoin Investors Should Be Worried
• CoinDesk, Inc. Files Motion to Unseal Names of SBF’s Additional Bail Sureties

Cloud and architecture

• Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language
• Microbenchmarking AMD’s RDNA 3 Graphics Architecture
• Cloud Native Diary #4 – Java, OpenTelemetry, Carvel
• A single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared
• Old man yells at cloud
• Elastic Cloud password complexity has an “OR” condition
• Architecture diagrams should be code
• Faster PostgresSQL to BigQuery Transfers
• Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site
• Chick Fil A’s Edge Enterprise Architecture
• Circl: Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library
• Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against DeviantArt & others
  Stable Diffusion litigation

Development and languages

• Oxygene Pt. 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre, Performed by 19KB of JavaScript Code
• Delphi VCL and FMX Libraries for Python
  Delphi VCL & FMX Libraries for Python .emb-events event-411 h3 not(.event-date), .hide-on-featured What Are The VCL and FMX Libraries? VCL and FireMonkey(FMX) are mature GUI libraries used by thousands of Delphi and C++Builder developers around
• Ideas for a JavaScript Stricter Mode
• Where are my Git UI features from the future?
• Portugal’s digital nomad bubble
• Branchless Workflow for Git
• A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language
• The KCL Programming Language for Data Validation
• I wrote a WebAssembly Interpreter and Toolkit in C
• Mapping Python to LLVM
• Extending the Android SDK
• NetworkX 3.0 – create, manipulate, and study complex networks in Python
• Python framework is faster than Golang Fiber
  Bringing Http/Https and WebSockets High Performance servers for PyPy3 and Python3 – GitHub – cirospaciari/socketify.py: Bringing Http/Https and WebSockets High Performance servers for PyPy3 and Pyt…
• The source code for Duelyst, a digital collectible card game
• State of JavaScript 2022
• Formalizing Python F-Strings
  Python’s formatted strings, or «f-strings», came relatively late to the
  language, but have become a popular feature. F-strings allow a compact
  representation for the common task of interpolating program data into
  strings, often in order to output them in some fashion. Some
  restrictions were placed on f-strings to simplify the implementation of
  them, but those restrictions are not really needed anymore and, in
  fact, are complicating the CPython parser. That has led to a Python
  Enhancement Proposal (PEP) to formalize the syntax of f-strings for the
  benefit of Python users while simplifying the maintenance of the
  interpreter itself.
• Digital Signals
• Another NaN-based tagging strategy for dynamic programming languages
• Windows OS Security
• T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis
  «Pre-Owned» malware in ROM on T95 Android TV Box (AllWinner H616) – GitHub – DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware: «Pre-Owned» malware in ROM on T95 Android TV Box (AllWinner H616)
• An online IDE for visual programming in Prolog
  An online IDE for visual programming in Prolog. Contribute to toblotron/praxis-ide development by creating an account on GitHub.
• GitHub Copilot free plan stopped working – rate limit exceeded
• El Salvador’s Historic Digital Asset Securities Law Passes
• Mapperly – A .NET source generator for object to object mappings
• New GraphQL API for WordPress
• Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
  A black hole for Internet advertisements. Contribute to pi-hole/pi-hole development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Programming Interviews Turn Normal People into A-Holes
  Subtitle: Yet Another Tech Interviewing Post

  There are hundreds and hundreds of blogs about how programming interviews suck, how they ask trivia questions or try to ask questions that only fresh graduates would know well (sort binary trees is the classical example).

  All these theories are correct, but I have

• How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records
  We could solve more crimes by just allowing police to go into anyone’s home—but do we want to live in that world?

Quote of the week

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

        — Alan Kay

Enterprises

• Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
• Microsoft Subdomain Takeover
• Twitter Layoffs Continue into 2023
• Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023
• VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
  Since the release of the first text-to-speech (TTS) model, researchers have been looking for ways to improve the way these systems generate speech. The
• Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
• The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 5 7600 Review: Zen 4 at 65 Watts
• Microsoft in talks to acquire a 49% stake in ChatGPT owner OpenAI
• How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster
• Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge
• Tesla Vehicle Safety Report
• Memories: Artificial Intelligence at Stanford in the 70s
• How many AMD RX 7900 XTX’s are defective?
• Verily (an Alphabet/Google Bet) eliminates 15% of its staff
  Shared by CEO Stephen Gillett with all Verily employees today This is an important day for Verily, as we announce our refined strategy, prioritized…
• Alphabet unit Verily to trim more than 200 jobs
• New Video of Tesla Crash Demonstrates the Problem of Semi-Automated Driving
  I’m not sure how much you keep up with bridge-related holiday car crashes, but there was a huge one this past Thanksgiving on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. This was a genuine pileup, with eight vehicles involved and nine people injured. That’s already big news, but what makes this bigger big news is that the […]
• Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win on Staten Island warehouse
• Intel Launches $699 Core I9-13900KS, the First 6 GHz CPU: Available Now
• System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns
• Tesla’s solar factory in Buffalo fizzles
• Amazon S3 now automatically encrypts all new objects

Other news

• Tilck – A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
  A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel. Contribute to vvaltchev/tilck development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Tax System in the Faroe Islands
• Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll
• Teaching Notes, Slides, & Handouts using org-mode and LaTeX
• Detailed list of USB WiFi adapters that work well with Linux
• Monitoring ECC memory on Linux with rasdaemon
• AMD Ryzen 5 7600 / Ryzen 7 7700 / Ryzen 9 7900 Linux Performance
• Can the double-slit experiment distinguish between quantum interpretations?
• Reduced pollution caused farmers to use more sulfur fertilizer
• Douglas Adams on Hypercard and new educational models
• Learn Lisp the Hard Way
• DEI is supplanting truth as the mission of American universities
• I hacked Gumroad’s API and broke a bunch of tools
  Learn how I hacked Gumroad’s API and broke a bunch of tools.
• Lightweight Arch-based distro that runs, without root, upon any Linux distro
• Sometimes it actually is a kernel bug: bind() in Linux 6.0.16
• Reducing Online Serving Latency from 1.11s to 123.6ms
• World’s only sleeping bank website
• The ‘buy now, pay later’ bubble is about to burst
• Apple’s Tim Cook to take 50% pay hit after shareholder feedback
• A 116kb WASM of Blink that lets you run x86_64 Linux binaries in the browser
• Alpine Linux in the Browser
• Sam Bankman-Fried’s secret ‘backdoor’ discovered, FTX lawyer says
• Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used software to track her time

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