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Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Adfichter💥 💥 💥 Our case covered in the "Guardian" ‼️ ‼️ ‼️
Guardian is asking: "Why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine?"
“Palantir repeatedly contacted different government agencies through different means … and tried to repeatedly get a foot into the door,” says Lorenz Naegeli
Many journalists have investigated Palantir, reporting for example on its contracts with the US federal government, or with the US’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, ICE. But Republik and WAV’s work may have struck a nerve.
“It’s the first time [anyone] has published a story about Palantir that has a failure narrative,” says Adrienne Fichter, a tech journalist with Republik. “They didn’t get through and they were not good enough for Switzerland … That’s why they’re going for us, that’s why they’re suing us, they want to fight this narrative.”
Marguerite Meyer says: “I think Palantir doesn’t really mind moral criticism. That has been done heaps. But what our reporting shows is a bit of a failure to sell their products – I believe they really don’t like that.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/20/us-tech-giant-palantir-swiss-magazine-wav
De Programmatica Ipsum"I barely knew what a “kernel” was, even less why it would need to be recompiled, and I obviously thought that free meant “without cost.” When you are a cash strapped university student, free is always good; it does not really matter if it is a free lunch, a free beer, or a free kernel. Free is good™®©, or so they say."
Open Always Wins
Few debates in the computer industry are as passionate as those around Free and Open Source Software (otherwise referred to as "FOSS") and how it "benefits society" or promotes "ethics" or some other optimist outcome for the future of mankind. The problem is that this ongoing debate for the past 20 years has only served the purpose of making people look in the wrong direction.
"I wonder if there would ever be an updated edition of this book, called “My Job Was Killed By Copilot”. But I do not think this will happen. Maybe Copilot will fade away, and developers will just have to correct the code generated by it? Maybe Copilot will face the same fate as offshoring in Switzerland? Maybe."
Chad Fowler
There was a time when I advertised my services as "Ruby on Rails" programmer. It was by that time that I got to learn the names and work of many people in that field; many of whom had come from the J2EE world, were tired of configuring everything in XML files, and preferred to use… YAML files instead. OK, I am being sarcastic here. Ruby on Rails was truly revolutionary when it appeared.
Jeff WatkinsRE: https://hachyderm.io/@mralancooper/116255898783243439
What ISN'T Mark Andreessen wrong about?
n0toose
"The “AI is stealing our jobs” meme comes from a lack of understanding that software engineers are workers, not employers, and that the economic principles of employment and work apply to them the same as to other workers."
by @leeg
jbz⚠️ Critical FreeBSD Flaws Let Attackers Trigger Complete System Crashes
https://cyberpress.org/critical-freebsd-flaws-let-attackers-trigger-complete-system-crashes/
Critical FreeBSD Flaws Let Attackers Trigger Complete System Crashes
The FreeBSD Project recently disclosed a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-15576, that lets attackers escape jail environments and access the full host filesystem. This flaw hits FreeBSD versions 14.3 and 13.5, exposing unpatched systems to full compromise. Understanding FreeBSD Jails FreeBSD jails provide operating system-level virtualization. Admins use them to isolate processes in a restricted, chroot-like space. […]
"After reading these pieces, however, you will have the eerie feeling that pretty much anything related to computers should be considered harmful. And you might be right. Le sigh."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/joanna-rutkowska/
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/joanna-rutkowska/
Joanna Rutkowska
In a key scene of the 2012 blockbuster James Bond film "Skyfall", MI6 quartermaster Q, played by Ben Whishaw, realizes too late that plugging a cable into the laptop of a notoriously skilled terrorist like Raoul Silva (one of Javier Bardem's most remarkable roles) was a terrible idea. After a few seconds of connection, the laptop infects the systems of MI6, releasing all physical doors and disabling all security guards, prompting Silva to escape and wreak havoc through the London Underground. A message appears on the laptop screen, taunting Q, reading "Not such a clever boy".
Xerz (☕ mode)wow that's a massive throwback
that's from when I started learning web dev, like ohmygosh I had this PhoneGa-I mean, Apache Cordova + jQuery Mobile book and *wow the memories*
(I think the book was "Mobile JavaScript Application Development" by Adrian Kosmaczewski? maybe?)