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@alros.bsky.social
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I pay the bills as a freelance Lead Dev / Engineering Manager in #Java, and have fun in #Unity, #Blender, and #AI. I'm a #digitalnomad by accident working remotely from 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇳🇱 🇬🇧

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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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 · 18/06/2025
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
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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...
globalencryption.org
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...
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Did they finally solved the loophole of the "legitimate interest" to make the sneaky online tracking illegal? tuta.com/blog/cookie-...
tuta.com
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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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
#Telegram just became even more controversial with its partnership with #musk and #grok www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
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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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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.
elezioni.regione.sicilia.it
Informatizzazione Dati Elezioni Comunali 2025
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
#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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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/...
theverge.com
Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
“We would be really struggling to stay alive.”
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#vibecoding is not real programming is the new HTML is not a programming language
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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/...
theverge.com
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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 · 24/04/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
With #java 24 out, it's finally time to replace all that reactive code!
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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 · 16/04/2025
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 · 15/04/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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...
theregister.com
AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 02/04/2025
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
thoughtworks.com
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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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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-...
wired.com
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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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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-...
techspot.com
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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? 🤐
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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! 🤑
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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...
blog.cloudflare.com
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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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My new habit is to create a distinct email alias for each website. For instance: that-amazing-shop@mydomain.eu. 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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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/...
theverge.com
Google apologizes for Chromecast outage in email to users
“Important information about your Chromecast.”
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 10/03/2025
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
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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 🤔
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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!
nic.it
| Registro .it
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Making EU more competitive in tech? Yes please! euro-stack.eu
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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. 🧵
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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?
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It turns out that running Pi-Hole locally in Docker is a simpler way to do ad-blocking
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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".
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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?
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So this is what’s left of "Think Different", huh? www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/a...
macrumors.com
Apple Resumes Advertising on X
Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on the social media platform in...
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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.
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Alros @alros.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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.
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