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How can you come to that conclusion, given the specific examples I have given, which are tedious to write, but easy to proof-read and test?

For a lot of code, I switched to generating code rather than using 3rd party libraries. Things like PEG parsers, path finding algorithms, string sanitizers, data type conversion, e…

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I understand it can be difficult to label, and there's an inconveniently large grey area here, but there is a difference between plain vibe-coded software and software built with A…

The first ad blocker was released in 1996 [1] and in 1999 we had a lot of shiny, blinking and very colorful ads already [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blocking#History [2…

Just found about this skin market/casino thing, and also that my teenage son purchased a skin for 100€, but is still pretty excited and happy about it because «its real value is ar…

I wouldn't lie even to strangers, and my point was solely about people having little to no sense of security.

Most people have no sense of security. They say yes to strangers if asked to plug in a USB device on their laptop. When I said no in the train to someone asking to plug their devic…

In the early 2000s the video field was flooded with fast paced releases of new codecs and new codecs versions, and there was codecs implementation to downloads right and left, and …

The same thing exists on Windows, developers have to code sign their binaries. It's even worse in my experience because you have to use a token (usb key with cryptographic signing …

The main issue with this article is that it claims to be about anonymization, but reject HMAC because it's not reversible, and promotes IPCrypt because it is. Except that if it's r…

Happened in France too. It was put in place in the late 70s, and ended in 2020. Called the «numerus clausus» (closed number, in latin) and it restricted the number of medicine stud…

Or maybe just read the commits between now and a reasonable date far enough in the past so that if there is some hostile code injected before that point in time, then at least you …

Even is the AI bubble does not pops, your prediction about those servers being available on ebay in 10 years will likely be true, because some datacenters will simply upgrade their…

taglines where witty one-liners posted at the end of messages, after the signature, as a way to add a bit of humor or personality. I think we also used them in fidonet echomail, bu…

But how can it be a problem? Working on a project just for fun is totally valid. Is this not «Hacker News»? For the record, this is the definition of being a hacker by Stallman: «B…

1. I say both somewhat 50/50. I say SSL instinctively, and TLS when I think about it and remember we don't say SSL anymore. It's been like that for around 10 years now, before that…

I have a similar experience with providing users with excel files, but would also like to add that in a lot of business, the number 1 competition for a web application is the good …

You are right on that, not including the UK in a European list (whatever the reasons) is a shame.

To be fair, the non-geographical definitions that excludes Britain, actually only excludes Britain because Britain excluded itself of the European Union in 2020.

Can you give a hint for [1] ?

You are so right about computers, except from Raspberry Pi (UK) not much as been done in Europe. Regarding the eu cloud, it is definitely about sovereignty, specially since the CLO…

Although you are from UK, so not the european union anymore, you could try getting listed on https://european-alternatives.eu/category/transactional-emai... Anyway yes, we need to …

OVH (french) is very well known and I like them a lot. Used them for domains a lot, because they are very cheap and their management is nice. I also like very much ScaleWay (french…

Maybe I was not paying attention, this is of course a possibility, but until at least early 2019 the react website's main page was only mentioning the class-based "stateful compone…