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Simple service menu to test your internet speed using speed test-cli. Install through your package manager. In my case dnf - y install speed...

Dark color scheme for KDE Plasma, created by inverting the Breeze Light scheme

Dark color scheme for KDE Plasma, that tries to keep the look of Breeze Dark but darker

Rounded Global Theme, Follows Color Scheme, Transparent and Blur ___________________ -Icons [COLOR="#5e81ac"] [B]Gently-Color-Dark-Icons[/B]...

Rounded Plasma Theme, Follows Color Scheme, Transparent and Blur. Enabled Blurred Widgets and Adaptive Transparency ___________________ -Icons...

Icons for Dark Plasma Themes, Follows Color Scheme (Upper part of the Folder), Adjusted and For Plasma 6 -Icons for Light Plasma Themes...

Icons for Light Plasma Themes, Follows Color Scheme (Upper part of the Folder), Adjusted and For Plasma 6 -Icons for Dark Plasma Themes...

Dark Round Window Decoration (Aurorae Theme), Follows Color Scheme (Window Background) ----------------------- -Plasma Theme [COLOR="#5e81ac"]...

BLUR Dark Round Window Decoration (Aurorae Theme), Follows Color Scheme (Window Background) -Plasma Theme [COLOR="#5e81ac"]...

Light Round Window Decoration (Aurorae Theme), Follows Color Scheme (Window Background) ----------------------- -Plasma Theme [COLOR="#5e81ac"]...

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-30.

On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons

Tags: tech, foss, licensing, sustainability, commons, politics

It’s a piece which really resonates with me. I’ve been thinking and saying for a while that focusing mostly on the technical (licensing and dev) aspects of Open Source was a mistake. This completely overlooked the political side of the Free Software equation. This is why the industry is as it is now. We need stronger commons and indeed the AGPL is best for that.

https://ploum.net/2024-07-01-opensource_sustainability.html

2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Tags: tech, programming

A few surprises in there but otherwise it feels a bit like a repeat from last year. I keep being dismayed at how low the ethical concern of the energy impact of generative AI scores in this survey.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/

Microsoft says 8.5M systems hit by CrowdStrike BSOD, releases USB recovery tool | Ars Technica

Tags: tech, windows, safety

The cleanup of that mess is still on-going. A bit more automation would help.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/microsoft-says-8-5m-systems-hit-by-crowdstrike-bsod-releases-usb-recovery-tool/

The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, criticism

Content creators are clearly annoyed at the lack of consent. The more technical ones are trying to take the matter in their own hands.

https://www.404media.co/the-backlash-against-ai-scraping-is-real-and-measurable/

Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, graphics, astronomy, physics

Still not perfect, but that’s an interesting development.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/astronomers-discover-technique-to-spot-ai-fakes-using-galaxy-measurement-tools/

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data | Nature

Tags: tech, data, ai, machine-learning, gpt, research

More discussion about models collapse. The provenance of data will become a crucial factor to our ability to train further models.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us

Tags: tech, security, hiring, remote-working

Interesting story. This is getting harder to hire for remote positions I guess.

https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us

Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers | Ars Technica

Tags: tech, bios, security, hardware

A reminder that Secure Boot is worth nothing if the device makers don’t manage cryptographic keys properly…

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems — Red Threat

Tags: tech, transportation, security

Make sure to read also part 2. You’d expect critical infrastructure like this to not be exposed over the Internet, and to be properly protected…

https://www.redthreatsec.com/blog/greenlightspart1

Automerge CRDT

Tags: tech, crdt, rust, javascript

Need to make a realtime collaboration application? This might come in handy.

https://automerge.org/

NAS Performance: NFS vs. SMB vs. SSHFS | Jake’s Blog

Tags: tech, networking, storage, benchmarking

Interesting comparisons, some of it was a bit unexpected to me. I didn’t expect SSHFS to be that OK.

https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/08/27/nas-performance-sshfs-nfs-smb.html

libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application

Tags: tech, time, tests, tools

This can definitely come in handy. I can see myself using it for testing behaviors in the past or the future on a real application. This should also help writing automated tests in some cases.

https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime

Does C++ allow template specialization by concepts? – Daniel Lemire’s blog

Tags: tech, c++

This is indeed a shame. It’d be nice to not add all the concepts you plan on supporting in the class declaration…

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/07/22/does-c-allow-template-specialization-by-concepts/

What’s the point of std::monostate? You can’t do anything with it!

Tags: tech, c++, type-systems

There’s a good reason to have it in the standard. As mentioned in this post it can help with std::variant.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240708-00/?p=109959

PsyArXiv Preprints | Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail

Tags: tech, psychology, developer-experience

Interesting preprint review. Not sure I got it all in depth, will definitely need to revisit it at some point.

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43x

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