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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Aug 21

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?

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Jun 3

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...

Joint Letter on the European Internal Security Strategy (ProtectEU) – Global Encryption Coalition

On 26 May 2025, 89 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published a joint letter to the European Commission, calling on the...

www.globalencryption.org

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · May 31

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...

tuta.com

Alros @alros.bsky.social · May 29

#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.

www.bbc.com

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · May 20

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.

Informatizzazione Dati Elezioni Comunali 2025

www.elezioni.regione.sicilia.it

Alros @alros.bsky.social · May 19

#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.

Alros @alros.bsky.social · May 4

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.”

www.theverge.com

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · May 2

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

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 30

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.

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 30

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.

www.theverge.com

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 29

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?

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 24

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.

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 16

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.

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 16

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.

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 15

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.

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 14

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'

www.theregister.com

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 11

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.

Alros @alros.bsky.social · Apr 10

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.

Reposted by Alros

Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · Apr 2

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

Technology Radar | Guide to technology landscape

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

www.thoughtworks.com

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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