Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

June 13, 2023

Killing Community @ marginalia.nu

Interesting and provoking thought... Indeed it's hard to build communities while also aiming for rapid and constant growth. There's no chance of having communities properly stabilize which leads to the tribalism and bad behavior we see on social media.

An America-less Internet | NthBrock

Interesting experiment... with surprising results in places. What stays available or not is not necessarily what one would think. It's not that easy to be flexible and available across regions.

Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
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Interesting ideas for using large language models. There is a world beyond the chatbot interface and it might bring more value to users and avoid some of the pitfalls of anthropomorphisation.

Every Signature is Broken: On the Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s OOXML Signatures | USENIX

Signature of digital documents is definitely not as safe as we would like. All the serious formats have known flaws at this point.

60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
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Funny list of anti-patterns. Not all of it is C++ specific in there, but some are good reminders of the hidden traps in the language.