Mastodawn

This is why you can’t trust Europeans with their regulations, they are just as corrupt as the Americans. And I love regulation, but the politicians that end up calling the shots are as stupid, tainted and corrupt as our trumpian overlords.

We truly are ruled by crooks.

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/eu-us-sanctions-gaza-russia

Europe Is Sanctioning Critics of Israel and Militarism

Sanctions were once sold as a gentler foreign policy tool for exerting pressure on dictatorships and terrorist organizations. Yet measures like banning individuals from having bank accounts or traveling are increasingly used to chill free speech in Europe.

Progtools Mar 27

Foojay.io Mar 27

A few weeks ago, Igor De Souza shared Bringing Java Closer to Education: A Community-Driven Initiative here on Foojay. It's something we started together to gather Java educational resources in one place, making it easier for mentors, educators, and learners to discover what's out there. But let's be honest: a GitHub README, while perfectly functional,…...

https://foojay.io/today/the-java-in-education-catalog-now-has-a-beautiful-home/

The Java in Education Catalog Now Has a Beautiful Home

foojay is the place for all OpenJDK Update Release Information. Learn More.

foojay

Progtools Mar 27

Harry Sintonen Mar 25

#Microsoft sent an email to everyone saying they're listening to people now and they will definitely not pushing AI to everything anymore.

Also Microsoft enabled #github to collect all your "inputs, outputs and associated context to train and improve AI models". This new tickbox is enabled by default, even if you explicitly disabled Copilot before.

Actions speak louder than words.

You can disable the option at https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

#enshittification

Progtools Feb 27

loicmathieu Jan 30

After migrating Kestra from Java 21 to Java 25, we see a significant improvement in memory usage.
It uses 35% less heap and 12% less metaspace!
Upgrading always brings benefits ;)
#java #kestra
https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/pull/14221

Chore/java 25 by loicmathieu · Pull Request #14221 · kestra-io/kestra

GitHub

Progtools Feb 22

Washi Feb 21

Over the past couple years, I have come to know the #dotnet platform pretty well, from a developer's and a #reversing standpoint.

I can’t always say the same the #infosec community.

Today, I decided to rant a little (or maybe a lot 🙃)

👉 https://blog.washi.dev/posts/misconceptions-about-dotnet/

Progtools Feb 16

RE: https://foojay.social/@cayhorstmann/116082158567643559

Cool site about modern #java

Progtools Feb 16

Aras Pranckevičius Feb 16

“Meta-RFC: Long-term vision for improving build times” on LLVM dev list is good https://discourse.llvm.org/t/meta-rfc-long-term-vision-for-improving-build-times/89828

Meta-RFC: Long-term vision for improving build times

Introduction This RFC outlines a long-term vision and aggregated ideas for improving the build times. Generally this is more about mechanical and structural changes that can considerably improve build times in the long term. The short-term (<1 year) objective is to run a full build graph within the same, long-lived LLVM daemon process, moving beyond the traditional model of spawning a new OS process for each build action. This is motivated by the significant process creation and I/O overhead on...

LLVM Discussion Forums

Progtools Feb 15

Ars Technica Feb 13

WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical"
CDC awarded $1.6 million for study birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/who-slams-us-funded-newborn-vaccine-trial-as-unethical/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Progtools Feb 15

Anna Zaks Feb 13

We’re hiring compiler and tools engineers to push the boundaries of static analysis and language design. If you’re passionate about security, memory safety and working on tools that eliminate entire classes of bugs, come build breakthroughs in software security with us!

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200642941-0836/compiler-security-engineer-c-c?team=SFTWR

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200641781-3337/security-developer-tools-engineer-static-analysis?team=SFTWR

Compiler Security Engineer - C/C++ - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Compiler Security Engineer - C/C++ job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

Progtools Feb 15

Cay Horstmann Feb 14

Cool article by Grzegorz Piwowarek about writing a gatherer, and then optimizing it:

https://4comprehension.com/java-last-gatherer/

Implementing Efficient Last Stream Elements Gatherer in Java - { 4Comprehension }

Gatherers is the missing piece of the Stream API. So far, if we were missing a terminal method, we could always implement one ourselves by…

{ 4Comprehension }