I wish they were so sophisticated. I get lots of offers for hybrid in the wrong country (let alone the wrong tech stack or role)! Mostly it’s just spam.

The sheer amount of (terrible) CVs created with AI makes me wonder which company is falling for these obvious scams. And what would the endgame be? Do they inject ransomware on the first day? Do they stay under the radar, hoping to steal the wage?

Mandatory id verification for adult websites is very complex

Why don't we force adult websites to add a simple parameter to the content type of their files? Like `image/png;target=adult`. Parental control could hide that content easily and anonymously

Unless the real goal is surveillance, ofc

What's your take on virtual threads now that also pinning is solved?

Mandatory backdoors for the police to intercept encrypted comms sound good, but criminals don't follow the law and will keep using strong safe encryption.

Only regular citizens would be exposed to this security hole.

It does not sound a smart move.

www.globalencryption.org/2025/05/join...

Are cookie banners illegal? | Tuta Google's and Amazon's tracking-based advertising are under fire in the EU. In a landmark decision, the Brussels Court of Appeal invalidates cookie consent banners built on the Transparency & Consent F...

Did they finally solved the loophole of the "legitimate interest" to make the sneaky online tracking illegal?

tuta.com/blog/cookie-...

Telegram announces partnership with Musk's xAI The $300m deal, which will last one year, will see xAI's assistant Grok integrated into Telegram.

#Telegram just became even more controversial with its partnership with #musk and #grok

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I found www.elezioni.regione.sicilia.it, a website still in use for the elections in Sicily.

Besides having no HTTPS and an ancient design, the server's banner is "Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat)", a version released in 2010.

In 3 years it would be old enough to vote.

#AI will not be able to write software as complex as what we write today. Not soon at least.

AI writes simpler software that, combined together, will solve the same problem that we now solve with one (more) complex service. That will be the real game over for traditional developers.

Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive “We would be really struggling to stay alive.”

Firefox's potential bankruptcy highlights the need for a stable solution for opensource software. Many projects utilized by millions of users depend on unpaid volunteers seeking donations through "buy me a coffee" buttons. This approach is not sustainable.

www.theverge.com/news/660548/...

#vibecoding is not real programming is the new HTML is not a programming language

Build a GUI to buy flight tickets with a few widgets to select the country, the region, and the airport. When you set one widget, the options in the other two are restricted accordingly.

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.

The negative reactions to #Duolingo 's announcement about AI are not surprising. However, in the coming years, AI may become so normalised that refusing to use it would seem as unusual as it does today to refuse using a smartphone.

www.theverge.com/news/657594/...

Drive by @proton.me is great, but (at least on mac) it seem to lack a function to keep folders always available offline, and that makes it unusable in some cases 😶

It shouldn't be difficult _not_ removing a local copy, is it?

If your input contains a list of objects, do not output an event for each of those objects.

You can break this rule only if you are sure that the number of input objects will remain consistent and limited forever, or if you are ready to handle unexpected large inputs and see your #Kafka burn.

With #java 24 out, it's finally time to replace all that reactive code!

Possibly an unpopular opinion: it is very annoying when IDEs and tools automatically inject a closed parenthesis when you type an open one.

I wonder who likes that.

Unless you worked for Netflix, put the volume you handled in your CV. Number of users, transactions per second, anything. It gives the idea of project's size and complexity better than the name of a company nobody heard before.

When you study your first programming language, focus on learning how to write the logic and structure your code. Those are transferrable skills valid in any programming language. Make them yours. In the long run, that's more valuable than learning the last cool framework.

Unfortunately, you can have a micromanager also in fully remote companies, and it’s even worse than in-person.

AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain : Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

What a time to be alive! Now we have typosquatter malware code packages waiting to be injected in your IDE by some AI with hallucinations!

www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/a...

If you work in Tech Support, please skip the clean-the-cookies level of replies. Seriously. We have Clippy since 1997, and let's not talk about ChatGPT.

When you consume a Kafka topic, try to send unparseable messages to see what happens.

You may discover that your service retries multiple times to deserialise the same payload as if it was a non-deterministic process, and that, after too many attempts, it just dies.

You'd love it on weekends.

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Proton Drive is great, but @proton.me really needs to implement file tagging, favourites, photo albums, and photo metadata to make it more usable.

To decrease the volume of my email archive, I started bulk deleting newsletters and notifications filtering by address. In an hour, I removed 175,000 messages, but I didn't even go past 2022 yet! It's astonishing how much rubbish we get by mail.

Reflection is the only way to make it generic, but I'd rather implement a builder for each type, if possible.

Something like this: MyTypeBuilder.fromInitial(immutable).withFieldA("foo").withFieldB("bar").build()

I'd do a step back and think about why I need to update an immutable. Either it should not be an immutable, or I'm in a junction between layers and I can split the model with two types (one with and one without the property).

For an enterprise services with many containers, DBs, pipelines, security, and the circus, you need to mirror everything, replace the differences, and keep in sync for some time, and slowly redirect the traffic. It's expensive. That's why nobody will leave AWS any time soon even if they may want to.

It's easy on paper, but there are enormous practical problems. For example, almost all applications have a DB, and migrating a DB is a painful process that requires a ton of planning and may cause unacceptable downtime.