Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

October 27, 2023

Internet Artifacts
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Very cool idea. Lots of history in there! There were things I even forgot about.

Salt Labs | Oh-Auth - Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts
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OAuth is nice and taking over the world... but don't weaken the security, follow all the steps and verify the tokens you get handed.

The Cloud Computer / Oxide
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OK, I admit this looks like a very cool product. This could turn interesting for private infrastructures. Trying to get the benefits of cloud approaches while keeping it under control.

There is No Now - ACM Queue

Time and synchronization are complicated in distributed systems. Luckily there are solutions to try to ease the pain. It's not completely avoidable though.

How To Tell Stuff To A Computer - The Enigmatic Art of Knowledge Representation

Looks like an old website, still it does a neat job of explaining how the field of knowledge representation evolved. This is nice to see a reference for beginners since I dabbled quite a bit into this years ago and it wasn't very accessible.

The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
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It's nice that we get more content usable on mobiles... but this shouldn't come at the expense of bad usability when on desktops.

A Journey Into Shaders
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Wanna get started playing with shaders? This is a neat into leading to a blob made of metaballs.

From Twitter to X, Elon Musk’s transformation from free speech defender to champion of disinformation | RSF
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I never liked the "it's neutral, it's just a tool". A very naive view in my opinion. New illustration of this with Twitter. Tools are inserted in a socio-technical system, and the sociology side will influence the design enough to make the tool not so neutral. Here clearly all hell broke loose and it became a massive danger to democracy due to the level of misinformation and the type of messages which are advantaged by the changes.