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> The Wero app can be installed on any mobile device or tablet running iOS 17.4 or later, or Android 9 or later. We recommend updating your device to the latest version of its oper…

> The entire software development lifecycle was, it turns out, designed around the idea that it takes a day to produce a few hundred lines of code. And now it doesn’t. No, it was n…

I wonder if these fanboys will publicly walk back their statements if Mythos turns out to BS. Remember, in French, mythos is short for mythomanes that means "pathological liars"

A gentle reminder that all the big techs companies would not exist without open source projects

Money is not a good success metric https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html Bezos is making a lot of money. But it doesn't mean it makes the world better. Prime or …

Agentic coding are bringing new people to coding. But instead of reading some books about coding or looking at the history, they face the same problems as before, they have the sam…

I am waiting people to commits their prompt/agents setup instead of the code to call this a changing paradigm. So far it is "just" machine generating code and generating code doesn…

> facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever Show me these "facts"

* you add an HTTP header saying "I am a kid" * porn web servers read and handle this headers * if they don't (easy to test), they get fined It is easy to implement, easy to monitor…

The security argument is the best one to shove all this monopoly practices, but I doubt there are real proof of that somewhere. These days, I think I have most trust in a small app…

Same goes for age verification. There was the DNT header, that was a bit to simplistic, but was never implemented https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/... Th…

I left the industry 4y ago, but at the time, it was impossible to track impressions on FB ads. So when FB tells you "We did display 1000 time your ads", you just have to believe th…

I did work in the ad tech industry for almost 15y and big corp like Google/FB scam their user: - they don't allow double tracking, so you have to trust their numbers - if you look …

The cyclic pattern of IT. New language, same problems, same mistakes, same solutions found (but losing years again)

I claim that by the end of the year, all VC jobs will be replaced by AI. But I don't know why, my claim is not taken seriously or not very popular !

It will probably never work. Companies have spend probably the last decade(s?) closing everything on Internet: * no more RSS feed * paywall * the need to have an "app" to access a …

I do, a Oneplus 6, PMOS "edge" with OpenRC + Phosh. Everything is fine, except I still need to reboot the phone after each call to be sure to have the audio working

In the RFC, the browser is named "user-agent". And in OAuth2 flow, the browser is acting as client only on the implicit flow. Also the intent of the authors for the implicit flow i…

Yes they are! I think I know the reason: OAuth2 naming. In the OAuth rfc https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749 they named one of the role "client", but than meant to represent a s…

I worked 12y the ad-tech industry, and 3y in a company using this kind of data to measure performance of "drive to store" campaigns: doing online campaign, then seeing if people vi…

Or could be a browser preference that then send an HTTP header ? Wait https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DNT

Plot twist: in the article drawings, replica one and two are split by network, and it could fail. The author seems to not understand what the meaning of the P in CAP

I have been doing this kind of stuff both in ad tech and trust & safety industry, mainly to handle scalability. Something that looks like "Event-carried state transfer" here https:…

> why game devs don't unit test Sources ?