Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

September 28, 2024

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
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Unsurprisingly the productivity gains announced for coding assistants have been greatly exaggerated. There might be cases of strong gains but it's still unclear in which niches this is going to happen.

Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
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More details about the KIA security issue. Clearly securing the embedded systems is not worth much if it is then all exposed via unsafe web services.

New AI trick: 'synthetic human memories'

Maybe extrapolating a bit more than it should. Still this leads to worrying uses of AI generated images.

I am tired of AI
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I definitely agree with this. I'm sick of the grand claims around what is essentially a parlor trick. Could we tone down the marketing enough so that we can properly think about making useful products again?

Learning to Call BS

Good idea on how product managers should behave to facilitate requirements handling. I wish more of them would do this.

OpenFreeMap

An excellent service to provide. Let's hope it stays sustainable, the risk is commercial leeches not giving back a dime. Be responsible, sponsor it if you use it commercially.

Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch
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They're trying a come back... of course they added layers of security to pretend it's all solved and shiny. They totally ignore the social implications or if something like this even needs to be done. At least one can remove it... for now...

The world will need less energy after the energy transition

Interesting analysis... I wonder if and how Jevons paradox will get in the way though.

Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I
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This one is definitely a bad one. Looks like CUPS is a weak part of the ecosystem, especially when coupled with zeroconf. I wouldn't be surprised to see macOS being affected too.

Collaborative Text Editing with Eg-walker: Better, Faster, Smaller

This could be a game changer to collaborative editing. Clearly a good competitor to CRDTs, should make it easier to build such features without a central server.