Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-23. “But it happened.” Tags: tech, google, attention-economy, business Good point, the booing on Eric Schimidt’s commencement speech is likely not just about him talking about AI at some point. You see, the man has very heavy baggage… He’s one of the architects of the current dystopia but won’t acknowledge it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlQ7EoJDTQY AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume Tags: tech, copyright, commons, web, ai, machine-learning, gpt, enclosure Indeed the trend wasn’t new. It’s “just” the icing on the cake from the enclosure point of view. https://hamishcampbell.com/ai-didnt-break-the-web-the-dotcons-did-ai-just-turned-up-the-volume/ Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ethics, law When Amnesty International feels like it has to publish a 44 pages briefing pointing out what’s wrong with your approach and business… it’d be nice to pay attention. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ About rsync slopocalypse Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, quality Indeed, if the rsync maintainer can’t handle a coding assistant properly… who can? https://teh.entar.net/@spacehobo/116659545246426837 When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere Tags: tech, game, graphics, 2d, 3d There was an era of hybrid techniques in video games before it mostly went full real-time 3D. It gave interesting results, here is an example. https://gardinerbryant.com/when-other-games-chased-polygons/ Avoid using "<![CDATA[ ... ]]>" in RSS Tags: tech, blog, rss Good point indeed, need to review my own feed next time I get the chance. https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-05-11/avoid-using-cdata-in-rss You Don’t Love systemd Timers Enough Tags: tech, linux, systemd, time Good primer on systemd timers. Indeed it’s really one of the nice systemd features. https://blog.tjll.net/you-dont-love-systemd-timers-enough/ 5 PostgreSQL locking behaviors that trip people up Tags: tech, postgresql, databases, distributed Mind those traps when dealing with such a database. There are locks you don’t necessarily expect. https://dev.to/shinyakato_/5-postgresql-locking-behaviors-that-trip-people-up-4k7n You probably don’t need Yocto, and that’s fine Tags: tech, linux, embedded, yocto, debian Indeed, teams reach out to Yocto by default a bit too much. It’s good to have an idea on when you really needed and when you can go for simpler options. https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/05/you-probably-dont-need-yocto-and-thats-fine/ Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance Tags: tech, rust, type-systems, object-oriented Some of the examples lean on macro trickery. Still this gives a good example of the flexibility you get with the trait system. https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/nine-ways-to-do-inheritance-in-rust-a-language-without-inheritance-14825bf1e215 The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years, and the Receipts Are Public Tags: tech, c++, standard, culture Cold and harsh look at how the C++ standard library evolves. There’s indeed a problem in the fact that nothing gets removed ever. https://hftuniversity.com/post/the-c-standard-library-has-been-walking-itself-back-for-fifteen-years-and-the-receipts-are-public You Must Fix Your Asserts Tags: tech, reliability, failure, debugging Good point, disabling asserts in production is not the best default position to have. https://kristoff.it/blog/fix-your-asserts/ What (almost) Everyone Gets Wrong About TDD & BDD Tags: tech, tdd, atdd, history Good summary of how the terms evolved. They are more tied to each other than most people think. https://antonymarcano.substack.com/p/what-almost-everyone-gets-wrong-about-c05 normalize patience Tags: tech, culture, patience, time, productivity, attention-economy Things which matter take time. The calls to productivity and technology pushing us toward faster response on everything is killing what makes our humanity. https://rnotte.art/normalize-patience/ Bye for now!...