Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-37.🇪🇺YES: Germany is not supporting ChatControlTags: tech, surveillance, politicsSe might have dodged a bullet here… Until next time. Thanks to the coalition of countries which opposed this bill.https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaksTags: tech, wikipedia, knowledge, processes, culture, community, biasVery nice article on the Wikipedia success. Or why being boring and the ultimate process pettiness became the crucial part of the formula. This community really developed a fascinating culture which so far resists to mounting political pressure… But will the editors morale hold?https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-walesThe SIFT Method - Evaluating Resources and MisinformationTags: tech, fake-news, informationNice and to the point little guide on how to evaluate source of information.https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=1241077&p=9082322A Secret WebTags: tech, web, search, blogThis is nice to see the energy still bubbling in the traditional web. It’s still there, next to the big mall pushed by search engines. You just need to know where to look and it’s not that hard.https://blog.clew.se/posts/secret-web/E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New HeightsTags: tech, e-inkClearly that’s interesting progress around this kind of display. This should make it easier to create devices using them going forward.https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-paper-display-modosAI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI DecisionsTags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, funnyOK, this is an interesting way for the Darwin Award to branch. Some of the 2025 nominees are indeed funny. Now I wonder which ones will win the award!https://aidarwinawards.org/We all dodged a bulletTags: tech, dependencies, supply-chain, securityIt’s indeed surprising that this compromised npm account didn’t lead to more damage. It’s a good reminder that you better regularly audit what happens in your ecosystem.https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/ServerlessHorrorsTags: tech, infrastructure, cloudWant to scare yourself with what might happen when you completely let go of your infrastructure? Here is an aggregator for that.https://serverlesshorrors.com/term.everything: Run any GUI app in the terminal❗Tags: tech, command-line, gui, wayland, funnyVery fun an impressive experiment of making a Wayland compositor rendering in the terminal with surprising refinements. Now it feels totally useless too of course.https://github.com/mmulet/term.everythingAll You Need Is SSHTags: tech, tools, ssh, infrastructure, complexityAnd a bunch of tool to use with it… But you can indeed do a lot with just SSH. This post gives a few good ideas.https://wrongthink.link/posts/all-you-need-is-ssh/C++26: erroneous behaviourTags: tech, c++, safetyC++26 really looks like a step in the right direction in term of safety. Undefined behaviours are too often neglected in that conversation.https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/02/05/cpp26-erroneous-behaviourBatched Critical SectionsTags: tech, multithreading, performanceA few ideas to dig deeper into for better multi threaded throughput.https://kprotty.me/2025/09/08/batched-critical-sections.htmlUse singular nouns for database table namesTags: tech, databasesMaybe time to change habits on table naming? I’m still on the fence myself but there are interesting arguments there.https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/use-singular-nouns-for-database-table-names.htmlMany Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint ProblemsTags: tech, algorithm, constraint-solvingOr how a problem is represented matters a lot. Going for a constraint solver might be what you want sometimes.https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVGTags: tech, graphics, web, css, svg, physics, uxI think this effect is a usability nightmare. That said it’s interesting to see which CSS and SVG tricks can be used to simulate it. This opens the door to other effects.https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/Is It the People or the System?Tags: management, systemIt is indeed often the system. Now what the article is not talking about is that sometimes people do everything they can so that the system doesn’t change.https://managementblog.org/2025/08/27/is-it-the-people-or-the-system/Bye for now!