Software engineering, AI systems and technical paper reviews.
I read a public site's cookie banner and its privacy policy end to end. The banner has no reject option, and the policy declares a data-retention date six years in the past. Neither is a typo — they're the same mistake, twice.
Il banner cookie di Me Contro Te non permette di rifiutare i cookie non necessari — solo 'Ok' o link alla privacy policy — e la sua informativa dichiara di trattare i dati 'e comunque non oltre il 31/12/2019'. Ecco cosa ho trovato e cosa dice il GDPR.
An Italian streamer shipped a social network built entirely by AI for forty euros, and its admin panel was one URL away from anyone. He knew the risk and shipped anyway — which is the part worth talking about.
Designing a healthcare logging schema on paper is easy. Booting it exposed a hashed-user count that was quietly wrong, a device fingerprint that walked straight past redaction, and a TTL test that proved a caveat I had only written down.
I write about the backend×AI wedge — wins and failures included. Follow along, or say hi.