tag: opinion
2026-06-04
Cassandra Crossing 667/ In morte del sistema operativo
Italian newsletter essay arguing that Android and Windows are becoming active AI-driven control tools rather than passive executors — operating systems executing commands influenced by external factors the user doesn't perceive, enabling pervasive individual tecnocontrol.Chasing the Hallucinations — EY Report on Loyalty Fraud
GPTZero investigation finding that an Ernst & Young cybersecurity report on loyalty systems contains hallucinated citations, fake statistics, misattributions, and internal contradictions — 100% of references checked were hallucinated.The Solution Might Be Cancelling My AI Subscription
A reflection on building dozens of half-finished projects with AI, the attention economy of LLM tooling, and why friction equals focus — arguing that curtailing AI use may be the only way to avoid pseudo-productivity.AI Is a Mirror of Our Engineering Culture
A blog post arguing that AI didn't create the software quality crisis — it held up a mirror. Trained on 518M GitHub repos (mostly mediocre), AI reproduces the most probable patterns: technical debt, copy-paste, vague specs. AI-generated code entering codebases triggers recursive data collapse.2026-05-28
I'm tired of talking to AI
After finding AI-generated answers repeated across GitHub discussions, a forwarded ChatGPT screenshot from a boss, and replying to what turned out to be an AI agent — the author's plea to talk to real people again.2026-05-18
A Good Lemma is Worth a Thousand Theorems — Doron Zeilberger
Doron Zeilberger's 82nd Opinion on the outsized value of lemmas over theorems in mathematics. Highlights Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma (led to 2+ Fields medals, Green-Tao theorem), quotes Paul Taylor: "Lemmas do the work in mathematics: Theorems, like management, just take the credit."2026-05-15
Geography Is Four-Dimensional — Derek Sivers
Essay on how you can't know a place without knowing when — an Indian family's beliefs from 1980 seemed factual but were outdated, LA and China have transformed since visitors last saw them. "Where is bound to when."2026-05-14
AI Arena Model ELO History
Exposes hidden nerfing, censorship, and quantization over time by tracking the true lifecycle of flagship AI models. Data from LM Arena Leaderboard Dataset on Hugging Face, automatically fetched daily2026-05-12
Just Fucking Use Go
Blaine Smith's satirical manifesto on using Go — boring by design, standard library is deep, goroutines for concurrency, no build step, deployment is a copy command, monoliths are fine, generics (1.18+), no try/catch hellscape, CC-BY-SA / GPL2026-05-11
taken. — Since You Arrived Vol. IV
"taken." — the page that knows your location, browser APIs, font fingerprinting, screen size, GPU, language, timezone, OS, browser, color depth. Created by Matt at sinceyouarrived.world. Vol. IV in the series, zooming in from global to city to coordinates to you2026-05-07
The End of Responsive Images (sizes="auto")
Mat Marquis, former RICG chair, explains how sizes="auto" with loading="lazy" eliminates the need for manual sizes attributes — automatic responsive images are finally here, championed by Simon Pieters and Yoav Weiss2026-04-27
The West Forgot How to Make Things
Essay on industrial decline and the loss of manufacturing capability in Western nations.AI as a fascist artifact
Essay analyzing AI systems through the lens of political philosophy and their structural alignment with authoritarian control.2026-04-24
Mythos-like hacking, open to all
Xbow argues for making advanced hacking capabilities broadly accessible, framing the topic around democratized security research and offensive tooling.2026-04-21
GitHub suspended me for a harness pipeline
A long X post describing a 13-stage open-source contribution pipeline that produced 500+ commits across 100+ repositories before GitHub suspended the account for suspicious volume.2026-04-10
CoLaptop
Satirical colocation service that turns an old laptop into an always-online datacenter server for €7/month.2026-04-08
The pinnacle of enshittification: large language models
Blog post by Michał Górny arguing that large language models exemplify enshittification, with commentary on quality, incentives, and user experience.2026-04-07
CSS + SVG filters only
Pure CSS and SVG filters version of Matt Rothenberg's Cloudflare worker demo, showing a no-JavaScript UI effect built with HTML, CSS, and SVG only.Felicitas Pojtinger on Mastodon
Mastodon post by Felicitas Pojtinger arguing that the German EUDI Wallet’s reliance on Apple or Google accounts for mobile device attestation could exclude citizens, increase dependence on US platforms, and leave sanctioned users unable to access essential digital identity functions.HTML-in-Canvas focus rings
Social post by Matt Rothenberg about creating obnoxiously cool focus rings with the new HTML-in-Canvas API.EUDI wallet issue #2
Discussion about Android app attestation requirements for the German EUDI Wallet, including Play Integrity, key attestation, GrapheneOS compatibility, platform independence, and the trade-offs of relying on Google or Apple services for LoA high.2026-04-03
Oracle layoffs trigger backlash amid broader US tech job cuts
Economic Times report on Oracle layoffs amid wider US IT workforce cuts, with strong online backlash and discussion around employer communication and trust.GitHub reached 89.91% uptime
Social post claiming GitHub reached 89.91% uptime, framed as commentary on platform reliability and operational impact.2026-03-31
Qwen3.5-35B A3B Uncensored — HauhauCS (Aggressive)
Hugging Face model page for "Qwen3.5-35B A3B Uncensored" by HauhauCS — an uncensored, aggressively tuned 35B variant of Qwen3.5. Use with caution; may produce unsafe or disallowed outputs.2026-03-30
Copilot edited an ad into my PR
Racconto e riflessione sull'esperienza di un maintainer a cui GitHub Copilot ha modificato una pull request inserendo contenuto pubblicitario; considerazioni su automazione, fiducia negli assistenti di codice e moderazione.2026-03-20
Prusa’s “Open Community License” is neither open nor for the community
An Adafruit post highlighting a legal analysis arguing that Prusa’s new Open Community License does not meet open-source principles despite its branding.2026-03-18
Nanobot - Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw (HN Discussion)
A Hacker News discussion about Nanobot, an ultra-lightweight alternative to OpenClaw, exploring AI agents, custom voice-control setups, and the future of coding assistants.2026-03-17
AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans to Observe the Offline World
An article discussing how AI systems and agents are increasingly relying on human workers to gather data and observe the physical, offline world.2026-03-11
gpg.fail
A curated collection of reasons why GPG/PGP is considered broken and unreliable for secure communication — covering UX failures, cryptographic weaknesses, key distribution problems, and why modern alternatives are preferred."Dum spiro spero"
In memoria di Luca Conti.2026-03-10
I luoghi, quando una persona manca
Un pezzo di Gianni Montieri su cosa accade a Venezia — e a chi ci vive — quando viene a mancare la persona amata. Tra Brodskij, la laguna, e le poesie di Anna Toscano.2026-03-09
Replaced by a Goldfish
A pentester's take on why AI hype around replacing security professionals doesn't hold up — and why the goldfish memory of LLMs is the real bottleneck.2026-03-08