"social network" are not social and their content are built to be temporary.
That's why Pixelfeld is used differently from Mastodon.

AI companies are losing money fast and are going to go under. One of the most obvious ways to compensate for this is through advertising.

Except that you won't be able to detect this advertising, since it will be mixed in with the content.

What is the best VPN?
How do you treat a skin problem?
You won't be able to tell if the answer has been biased. You won't be able to tell if the AI is really giving the best “advice” or if it's advertising a brand of skin cream or a molecule from a large laboratory.
Extend this to economics and politics, and—as with online ad auctions—it's the highest bidder that will be able to influence you.

And all these AI companies are desperately in need of money.

All is in the title. There are many misuse of weak encryption showed as examples.

Building an independent web browsers. It's technically feasible and could cost 50-70 millions per year. In comparison, the national space agency costs 7-8 billions and the European union planned 300 millions in digital architecture over the next years.

The Europe rely currently heavily on US technologies, even Firefox is in the US.

Servo is an example of web browser built with 5 engineers, funded by a small company and individual donations.

The core challenge isn’t technical; it’s institutional. It can work though: CERN, European Space Agency, the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Success here would demonstrate that democratic societies can coordinate effectively on complex technical infrastructure and pass the first hurdle. Failure would reveal institutional gaps that need addressing before attempting more ambitious digital sovereignty goals.

Testing sucks because you try to test implementation details. This results in you writing tests to pass your code. That’s not useful, because…

Instead, you should…

1. Write an empty test, with one comment for each external behavior your code should display.
2. Write the code to test each comment below it.
3. Then write the actual code to make it so.

Rust is not just great, it's inevitable. [...] like solar

If you compare this map of solar energy potential from Global Solar Atlas to this table of current solar capacity, you will easily see that we are still at the beginning of the solar revolution.

The same is true for Rust. Improved reliability, reduced time-to-market, far lower costs. Which rational actor wouldn't want that? As the Cloudflare, Proton and Signal case studies have demonstrated, investing in Rust today will yield far better returns than other technological investments you can make

An interview of Jon Gjengset.

Topics covered:
• Rust salaries and job market trends in 2025
• AI’s impact on Rust development and software engineering
• Why Rust adoption is growing
• Rust vs Go and C++ — performance, safety, and real-world trade-offs
• The borrow checker and how it makes you a better programmer
• Why AI can’t (yet) replace software engineers

Gaming on Linux has never been easier and Windows is tiring (OneDrive push, Recall, Cortana and AI, Office 365 subscriptions)

« Si vous n’avez rien à cacher, vous n’avez rien à craindre »

La question est celle de la légitimité d’un pouvoir – étatique ou privé – à s’immiscer dans nos vies sans justification, sans limite et sans contrôle.

Le juriste Daniel Solove a démontré que l’argument « rien à cacher » n’a recours qu’à un seul type de préjudice : la découverte d’une activité illégale. Mais la réalité est infiniment plus complexe. L’agrégation de données « innocentes » – vos achats, vos trajets, vos recherches internet – peut servir à vous discriminer pour une assurance, vous refuser un emploi, vous placer sur une liste de surveillance. Vous n’aviez rien à cacher. Le système a créé quelque chose à vous reprocher.

La reconnaissance faciale provoque des faux-positifs: l’innocent devient soudainement coupable par décret algorithmique. Ces algorithmes sont biaisés, par exemple pour identifier le genre des femmes à peau foncée qui a 43 fois plus d'erreurs.

"rien à cacher" est donc un argument de privilégié. [...]

In the title: emojis, unicode formatting, How to boring stuff that is already known elsewhere, clickbait-y titles.

In the preview: an AI-generated header image.

The article is oddly specific but unspecific:

• there is no personal tone.
• ASCII Art diagrams when excalidraw can do the job
• Deep-dive content that’s only a few paragraphs long 🔗
• We rewrote in X lines
• bullet point paragraphs, em-dashes, emojis, short section headings

The author profile with too much publications (in one week). Does their articles are jusitfied with their position on LinkedIn, is it private on the contrary?

At least there was a cost to writing poor quality content before. Even the laziest plagiariser had to manually find the content to nick and copy-paste it into their own blog that they’d taken the time to set up. Now, all it needs is a muppet with a Medium account and an LLM. God forbid they hook it up to an agent and automate the process. Except, they probably do, given the scale of the shit that’s being pumped out.

« Le design, c'est faire des produits utilisables, limiter frictions, risques et déceptions »

« Idées reçues : pas la peine de demander aux utilisateurs, les designeurs ne savent faire que du cliquodrome, pas besoin d'UX pour le backoffice »

Intéressant, les orateurs disent bien qu'ils ne travaillent qu'avec des gens convaincus des beautés du libre. Sinon, la migration ne se passera pas bien. Il y a assez de travail avec les gens qui sont volontaires, il ne faut pas perdre de temps avec les autres. (C'était dit moins brutalement.)

The small libraries will disappear. The one function util libraries can be generated by AI.

The open source model is kind of broken because og 6 points detailed in the post. The author retails then the example of Quiet UI by Cory Laviska

The guy launched Showelace, Web Awesome and Quiet UI.

A reaction about the CEO of Vercel taking a selfie with the minister of Israel

L'IA a des résultats relatifs ou décevant et elle fait disparaître la solitude, pourtant nécessaire au développement intellectuel.

A critic against Microsoft. The Outages become frequent.