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-...

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...

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#Telegram just became even more controversial with its partnership with #musk and #grok www.bbc.com/news/article...

Telegram announces partnership with Musk's xAI

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

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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/...

Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive

“We would be really struggling to stay alive.”

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#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/...

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.

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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...

AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

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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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Technology Radar | Guide to technology landscape

The Technology Radar is an opinionated guide to today's technology landscape. Read the latest here.

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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.

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

Homepage | European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

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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-...

Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants

Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.

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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...

Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised

Nearly half of observed login attempts across websites protected by Cloudflare involved leaked credentials. The pervasive issue of password reuse is enabling automated bot attacks and account takeover...

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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