Well yes... and hopefully the fashion industry won't be enough to hide it.
Not what I signed up for years ago, but it's the political and social landscape we inherited... Surveillance is being on steroids now, so definitely need to fight it at every turn.
Declarative systems like Nix and Guix bring their own set of complexities and challenges. That said, they also bring very interesting properties in terms of full system reproducibility. It can be a real help for integration work.
A not of a long introduction with generalities about APIs and ABIs. It really gets interesting when it covers the CPython specifics and the challenge they had keeping compatibility at the ABI level. This gives a good idea of the complexities needed to build wheels for Python packages.
The web scraper situation isn't getting better... How long can the open web still hold?
Still need some work I'd say but this is interesting research. Transpiling C++ to Rust is getting more accessible. It need some improvements on the optimisation side to be more generally usable.
There are ways to have a lighter web. It leads to interesting techniques too.
Cool resource to have the right values for various PBR materials.
This keeps being a very interesting TTS model. Looks like it's getting simpler to deploy too.
Funny experiment. If you're a Linux user pondering going back to Windows it'll likely cure you. Goodness the install experience is abysmal and that's just the beginning of the troubles. Of course it has a good side as well but it feels fairly limited.
Really this kind of AI push is a bad move for employers, especially when interacting with FOSS communities so much. This forces people to pass the ethical issues onto volunteers...
The data set is rather small but the trend is really bad. So much reviewer time wasted due to AI slop... this time on the Flathub side.
I like this kind of questions as well. It's more interesting to aim for something simple to start with than a puzzle. Even topics considered simple have several layers of complexity.
Can you rely on something? Indeed, if it fails "only" 2% of the time it can mean a lot of failures... you better handle the edge cases and degrade gracefully.
A good reminder that you can go a long way to specify transitions with just CSS nowadays.
A long piece, but digs in details on why "mind uploading" really can't be a thing.
How is going this social experiment at scale? Not well I'd say... And some in those cohorts will end up in positions of power, that's when it'll become really "interesting" I guess.
This is a shady move once more... They really want to extend this security apparatus. Let's hope there'll be enough MEPs to vote against this (which doesn't sound very likely).
Whatever the hiring process, show some respect to the candidate. It's the least you can do for them.
Exciting! This looks like a neat 3D physics engine.