Alros
@alros.bsky.social
I pay the bills as a freelance Lead Dev / Engineering Manager in #Java, but have fun in #Flutter, #Python, #Kotlin, and #AI. I'm a #digitalnomad by accident working remotely from 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇳🇱 🇬🇧
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?
August 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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
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
June 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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
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...
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
June 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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...
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-...
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
May 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Did they finally solved the loophole of the "legitimate interest" to make the sneaky online tracking illegal?
tuta.com/blog/cookie-...
tuta.com/blog/cookie-...
#Telegram just became even more controversial with its partnership with #musk and #grok
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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
May 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
#Telegram just became even more controversial with its partnership with #musk and #grok
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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.
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
May 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.
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.
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.
May 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
#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.
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/...
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
May 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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/...
www.theverge.com/news/660548/...
#vibecoding is not real programming is the new HTML is not a programming language
May 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
#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/...
www.theverge.com/news/657594/...
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.
www.theverge.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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/...
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?
It shouldn't be difficult _not_ removing a local copy, is it?
April 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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?
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.
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.
April 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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.
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.
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.
I wonder who likes that.
April 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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.
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.
April 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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.
April 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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...
www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/a...
AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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...
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.
April 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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.
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.
April 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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.
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
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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.
March 31, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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.
March 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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
european-alternatives.eu
Homepage | European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
March 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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
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-...
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.
www.wired.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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-...
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-...
www.techspot.com/news/107175-...
www.techspot.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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-...
www.techspot.com/news/107175-...