Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

December 19, 2023

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?
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That's a very good question. What will be left once all the hype is gone? Not all bubbles leaving something behind... we can hope this one will.

Terrapin Attack

Interesting new attack on the SSH protocol. This is hard to achieve outside of the LAN though.

How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites?

When SEO and generated content meet... this isn't pretty. The amount of good content on the web reduced in the past decade, it looks like we're happily crossing another threshold in mediocrity.

How many CPU cores can you actually use in parallel?
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This is unsurprisingly highly depend on the actual code, not only on the hardware.

Performance engineering, profilers, and seeing the invisible - Made of Bugs

Or why using a profiler is not as easy as it sounds. This requires quite some experience and the ability to tap in other information not present in the profile.

The World Before Git - by Sarup Banskota

Back to the history of VCS, anyone still remember and used SCCS? Well, I did use it...