Daily Shaarli

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May 25, 2025

Why old games never die (but new ones do)
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It's funny how old games can still have a cult following. It's unlikely to stop too... That's the good thing about limited lock in. Self hostable private servers, ability to play offline, tools to produce mods... They all contribute to such very long term successes.

Pain in the dots

I often tumble on this. The two and three dots notations means different things between git log and git diff. It is a tad annoying.

Large Language Models Reflect the Ideology of their Creators

Interesting research, this gives a few hints at building tools to ensure some more transparency at the ideologies pushed by models. They're not unbiased, that much we know, characterising the biases are thus important.

How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blog
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Looks like it's getting there as a good help for auditing code, especially to find security vulnerabilities.

Concepts vs type traits
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Good comparison between concepts and type traits in C++. Clearly at this point concepts should be favoured as they convey more intent to compilers and humans alike.

CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)

Or why CAPTCHA might become something of the past. I guess they'll live a bit longer as they become more and more privacy invasive.