Telemetry is not bad in itself. It can be used for bug/crash reports, or usage statistics, without tracking or personal data collection.

Nah, Hibernate, Spring and most major Java frameworks have largely moved away from XML. It’s still supported, but these days it’s mostly configured in the code directly, with properties loaded from yaml, JSON or the environment (for containers).

The JDK ecosystem is in a pretty good spot nowadays. With Spring boot you can whip up a productions ready back-end very fast, or if you prefer a more hands-on approach there are lighter frameworks/libraries quarkus or micronaut.

The Java language itself has evolved fast and is actually pretty nice now, and if you prefer something more modern akin to TS or swift you can just use Kotlin which is almost 100% interoperable with Java.

Since Java 14 it looks like this:

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NullPointerException:

Cannot invoke “String.toLowerCase()” because the return value of “com.baeldung.java14.npe.HelpfulNullPointerException$PersonalDetails.getEmailAddress()” is null

at com.baeldung.java14.npe.HelpfulNullPointerException.main(HelpfulNullPointerException.java:10)

Well they’re voting for a rapist who cheated on all of his 4 wifes, in case you still thought they actually cared for family values.

systems after being defunded by conservatives

Like in France, where Macron spent millions to fucking McKinsey for their asshole consultants to “optimize” our healthcare system. Said assholes did what they do best: cut costs and staff.

Now our hospitals are in shambles, workers are at the rope’s end and they keep on cutting their budget year after year. But it’s all good, we voted for the left so that they turn things around! Oh wait…

That’s because he planted a backdoor into GIT, and now he reviews your bad commits every night.

If it’s an open WiFi (no WPA password) packets are not encrypted anyway, so anyone on this AP can easily see everything that comes through it. A decade ago, when most websites allowed plain HTTP, there was a Firefox extension which let you hijack the Facebook or Twitter session of anyone connected to an open WiFi with a couple of clicks.

Nowadays everything is hopefully encrypted at the application level, so while attackers can see where the data goes, they can’t actually read it.

But it’s their legitimate interest! ^Whatever ^that ^means

It requires 16GB RAM, which is perfectly acceptable. But it can use more if available, for high res textures I assume. Which are streamed from Microsoft’s servers, explaining in part the difference between install size and max memory requirements.

Yeah but it does it much faster and more efficiently (according to him).

His daughter was unfazed by her account, this kind of unhinged shit was a common occurrence for them. I bet there is a lot of other weird stories like that.

In this case it’s not “never”, I don’t use twitter and saw this news on Lemmy this morning.

Yes she still is. She apologized for supporting Masterson (I think, she didn’t name him in the post). But she seems to be OK with her cult terrorizing Masterson’s victims, among many others.

To be fair she was born into it, it’s not easy breaking free from this kind of brainwashing.

Pretty sure the French far right straight-up ripped off this conspiracy from the US alt-right. Same as the trans hysteria.

What do you use? I rooted my phone precisely for this, but google pay and my bank still see I’m not on the stock ROM : (

They have to call, mail or physically go to the bank I guess.

Unfortunately it will, if I want to add a new transfer recipient or make a payment on a 3D secure website, the app is mandatory, even on desktop.

Sadly most French banks use a custom validation process which requires you to use their app to validate a transaction. And my main bank’s app has warned me that it will “soon” stop working on custom ROMs…

Yeah but banking apps are starting to check integritynet, and (in France, at least) they’re pretty much mandatory to do anything useful with your bank account/credit card online… I think Uber does too, I boycott them but others might follow suit…

Currently running lineageos, but I think I’ll just give up and go for a Pixel for my next phone… Sucks to let google win but I like to do useful things with my phone…