Mark Rotteveel

Earlier this week there was a collision between a train and a truck in The Netherlands. Footage shows the truck was *reversing* on the rail crossing. What the fuck was that truck driver thinking? https://www.nu.nl/321158/video/nieuwe-beelden-van-treinongeluk-bij-meteren-tonen-moment-van-botsing.html

Voor de miljoenste keer: het plan staat haaks op het principe van individuele privacy. Het is ONMOGELIJK om een veilige achterpoort in een E2EE-systeem in te bouwen.

Experts zeggen dit al 50 jaar (it's the maths, stupid), maar politici willen gewoon niet luisteren.

For those who don’t seem to quite get it yet.

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Firebird: The true open source database for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more Firebird SQL: The true open-source relational database

I've just released Jaybird 5.0.10 with a fix for a bug that only affects Firebird 2.5. See https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/jaybird-5-0-10-released for more information

Jaybird is the JDBC driver for Firebird.

#firebird #jdbc #java

Forgive me for sounding like an extremist, but if the purpose of society isn't to house, feed, and care for its members, what the fuck is the purpose?

@venite Volgens mij was het ooit bedoeld voor faxen tussen bedrijven en voor andere data-verbindingen. Ik geloof dat het tegenwoordig ook voor andere toepassingen gebruikt mag worden.

@venite Ze bestaan, de 0800/0900 range, en de 0970 t/m 0978 (machine-to-machine netnummers) zijn zelfs 12 cijfers lang (zie ook https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0010198/2011-12-01#Bijlage1). Ik meen ook ergens gelezen te hebben dat er een 06 range is van 11 nummers, maar daar kan ik de bron niet […]

Image of a stacked bar chart (from AWS). The title is "Cost breakdown", it's grouped by source. It shows stacks from April 2025 - September 2025. For April - Juli, the cost is just below $1.00, for Augusts around $1.50, and for September around $9.00. Majority of the cost is for Amazon Simple Storage Service, the remainder is for Tax.

I guess some AI scraper has found my Firebird list archive on AWS...

Two post by Effin' Birds (from different accounts). The first was posted by @effinbirds@mastodon.social and is marked 9 hours ago and its original alt text is "A painting of a bird next to the words "I didn't think I'd ever see shit this spectacularly dumb"". The bird looks down, towards the second post. The second post was by @birdfeed@effinbirds.social and is marked 15 hours ago, no original alt text, but it shows a painting of a bird (maybe a Toucan?) with a large yellow beak, black feathers on its head and back, wings and tail. Its eyes are surrounded by red, and has orange an yellow feathers towards its belly, the belly is red. The bird is looking up (towards the first post). Next to the painting is the text "okay. well fuck that".

Perfect Effin' Birds alignment in my timeline from @effinbirds and @birdfeed

Randall Munroe's "Dependency" XKCD comic with changed text. A brittle construction of toy bricks; on top labelled "All of modern civilisation", one small critical piece at the bottom labeled "A country which we all relied upon until January" Original: CC BY-NC 2.5, https://xkcd.com/2347/

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Alright, I couldn’t resist: Here’s the #KnightRider theme as 8-bit #chiptune for the NES. Hope you like it! 😊

🔊Sound on!

#music #chipmusic #furnace #nes #retro #8bit

An old BMW with a silver grey front, navy driver side door and green roof and back half. It’s parked in front of a light brick building on a sunny day.

It’s less known but Theseus also had a car

If they hadn't touched that specific method in Java 24, it would have just done nothing now System.getSecurityManager() always returns null, and not introduced an incompatible change.

Today I had a sarcastic "thanks Java 24" moment, when I discovered that java.security.Permission.checkGuard(Object) in Java 24 unconditionally throws a SecurityException, instead of being a no-op now there never is a security manager.

Firebird: The true open source database for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more Firebird SQL: The true open-source relational database

I have just release versions 6.0.3 and 5.0.9 of Jaybird, the Firebird JDBC driver. For more information, see https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/jaybird-6-0-3-and-5-0-9-released

#firebird #jdbc #java

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.

August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]

Signed #Canada and the #restoftheworld

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Hey @intellij I'd much rather keep the old price and voluntarily waive my access to your AI shenanigans, thank you for your attention to this matter!

I have just released firebird-testcontainers-java version 1.6.0.

This version defaults to the firebirdsql/firebird image, with tag 5.0.3 (Firebird 5.0.3). Support for the fdcastel/firebird image was removed, as this image is no longer available.

For other changes, see […]

I (and several other people I know) have observed that autism-spectrum people are more averse to LLMs than NT people.

It was pointed out to me that for NT programmers, LLMs turn a necessary intermediate step – structuring your thinking so it's suitable for writing code – into something that has […]

thoughts on using experts (humans) to unblock vibe coders when AI fails? been thinking about this a bit, if everything is trending towards multi-agent systems and we're trying to create agents to resemble humans more and more to work together, why not just also figure out a way to loop in expert humans? Seems like a lot of the problems non-eng vibe coders have could be a quick fix for a senior eng that they could loop in

vibe coders have discovered "coding"

@venite Maar, de test is geslaagd!

Ben je Hulk Hogan, vol zelfvertrouwen naar de hemelpoort, moet je tegen Chiel Montagne die een nog veel betere snor heeft. Jammer joh!

A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.

Here's one particularly interesting such story, not least because it involves a prominent OpenAI investor, who definitely seems to be going off the deep end.

Supporting role for the "SCP Foundation articles", science fiction nonsense that ChatGPT seems to present as some deep underlying truth.

@venite Ik vraag me dan af of een krimptang voor adereindhulzen (bijvoorbeeld https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/quadrios-23t034-assortiment-adereindhulzen-ongeisoleerd-1-set/9300000157615304/ niet hetzelfde werkt; moet je misschien wel de juiste aglets los kopen. Aan de andere, die zijn ook aan de […]