Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

November 3, 2023

Confusing git terminology

You still find git confusing? This article might help. Although I have doubts that it's doing a good job regarding heads, HEAD and branches, the rest is full of good explanations.

Facebook owner Meta faces EU ban on targeted advertising | Reuters
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Good news if this really gets enforced.

Where DRY Applies — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

The right nuanced way to see the DRY principle. As usual don't overdo it that's where problems will arise.

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

Nice to see the latest edition also available online. This is an excellent resource to get into PBR.

AI Godfather Warns Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis Want to Control AI
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I fully agree with this. All those doomsayers about AI are there to sell something willingly or not. Let's look at the current threats we're seeing now, not the imaginary ones being the results of people taking SciFi a bit too literally.

Android Developers Blog: Increasing trust for embedded media
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After the backlash about WEI on Chrome, now they're going for something similar but scoped only for medias. At least now things are clear that it was mainly about pushing for DRMs to serve media producers.

TDD Prerequisites

What are the outcomes of TDD? Do you want them? If yes, is the context compatible?