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

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...

Did they finally solved the loophole of the "legitimate interest" to make the sneaky online tracking illegal? tuta.com/blog/cookie-...

#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'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

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.

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.

We've published the latest edition of our tech radar, where we share what we've learned in the latest rounds of technological change www.thoughtworks.com/radar

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.

EU alternatives are promising, however when you dive into the details you often find that their host is US-based. One step at a time, I guess. european-alternatives.eu

I don't think that we are at the point of ditching AWS because the costs of a migration would be enormous, but... www.wired.com/story/trump-...

What I find very concerning is that even if *I* don't use Alexa or similar gadgets, I can't do anything about other people keeping them active in the room when they talk about my private stuff. www.techspot.com/news/107175-...

Fixing an old PHP5 software: so many deprecated functions and breaking change! But why? is stuff like `foreach($foo as $k => $v)` so much better than `while(list($k,$v)=each($foo))` that the language cannot maintain backward compatibility? 🤐

Receiving "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" on a YouTube video is an indication that the browser has a robust privacy-focused setup. If Google cannot monetize your view, likely neither can anyone else.

I love the concept of #vibeCoding and this trend of non-tech folks playing with AI. It's great that anyone can now handle more tech stuff independently. Then, I guess, being a seasoned software engineer capable of fixing broken code created by AI will be very profitable! 🤑

Does this mean that my credentials are being transmitted unencrypted through Cloudflare, which analyses the data to assemble its own marketing material? blog.cloudflare.com/password-reu...

Not intending to stir up politics, but it seems that the MAGA policies have initiated a downward trend for the amount of American services I use everyday. ...which is great news when your job is to develop IT services in the EU. #buyeuropean

My new habit is to create a distinct email alias for each website. For instance: [email protected]. The next time I receive spam at that-amazing-shop address, it will be clear that either that website was breached or they sold my data.

The service for certified email (the email with legal value) offered by Poste Italiane (the Italian postal service) is blocked from abroad and one needs a VPN to access it. Let that sink in.

I thought my Chromecast was dead, but it turned out to be a fixable expired certificate issue within it. Oh well, I was planning to eliminate it anyway. www.theverge.com/news/628194/...

There’s a discussion brewing in Brussels – a discussion about whether European public authorities should be forced to buy part of their digital needs from European companies. #EU #EuropeanUnion #digitalsovereignty #eurostack

Another day, another fight against "cool code": adding a cache in Quarkus means adding @CacheResult on methods, and then spending 2 days trying to figure out how to fix the tests that suddenly do not even start because the automagic annotation clashes with @QuarkusTest, PanacheMock and Mockito.

5 years ago, the NL mandated WFH for COVID, and I have never returned to an office since then. I used the extra 2 hours a day to read, grow, get a new master's degree, attempt a small side business, and have a healthier lifestyle. Remind me once again why working in an office is better 🤔

It leaves me speechless that NIC.it still requires the publication of full names, addresses and phone numbers for companies. Guys, it's 2025, it's at least 20 years that these info are stolen from your public registry for scams!

Making EU more competitive in tech? Yes please! euro-stack.eu

My new rule for 2025 is "if it sucks and it's easily replaceable, don't discuss and just move away": life is too short to waste it with sub-optimal services. The first victim was my hosting provider, unable to fix a trivial invoicing error. Bonus: the alternative is also cheaper.

I'm not freaking out about Firefox's new policy, but it took me 1 minute to copy my bookmarks to LibreWolf, which is the exact same thing but without the telemetry. Just saying.

As an alternative to ad-blockers, I installed Pi-Hole locally via Docker and it works really well so now I have the same setup in all browsers. Just the setup is not very straightforward. 🧵

Hey Google, do you realise that asking us to go in MyAdCenter and share more info to improve our ads is basically like asking for our favourite *unwanted* content?

It turns out that running Pi-Hole locally in Docker is a simpler way to do ad-blocking

Just wasted two hours because this fancy reactive framework won’t throw an SQL exception for a bad query. We should go back to tools that prioritise logic and productivity over "elegance".

Are you telling me that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, owner of a tech empire, with top-level U.S. government access, for a delicate job in one of the most sensitive db in the world hired guys who cannot tell the difference between a DOB in 1875 and a default value? I mean, seriously?

Sometimes you spend 30 minutes fighting Xcode over signing issues: tweaking settings, logging in and out, fixing certificates... but nothing works. Then you reset everything to how it was, and it's all ok again. It was never wrong. Xcode only wanted to remind you who is the boss.

Just a friendly reminder that gmail accounts now expire after about 2 years of inactivity. You should have a look if you have some that you used as alternative emails for less important things.

So this is what’s left of "Think Different", huh? www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/a...

Spent hours trying to work around MSSQL’s Docker image being incompatible with ARM, an issue that’s been open for over 2 years with zero attention from MS. No surprise companies are moving away from this.

Yep... working while your neighbour renovates his house is annoying. But then I remember that I hear the noise only because I’m lucky enough to work from anywhere, and it's ok.