A random collection of rants about real life development mistakes.
10 Sep 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Luca B
Passwords are one of the most common forms of authentication to confirm the identity of a user. As they provide the key to access accounts and services, it is fundamental to choose them carefully so that they cannot be easily guessed. In other words,...
7 Sep 2020 5 minute read 2 comments Luca B
Modern online services (websites and platforms) do not allow multiple unrestricted login attempts as that has been identified as a vulnerability: only a small number of wrong passwords (typically 3 to 5) can be tried before the account is locked down...
2 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Luca B
Microsoft has announced last week that the company has decided to delay the scheduled end-of-service date for the Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions of Windows 10 version 1803. In the announcement post published on the company blog on...
30 Aug 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Luca B
In the early hours of 30 August 2020, internet users all over the US and Europe got a rude awakening as their connectivity stopped working: all of a sudden sites such as Discord, Hulu, Feedly, Xbox Live, and dozens of others appeared to be offline. E...
28 Aug 2020 4 minute read 15 comments Luca B
Brave is the crypto-friendly browser that has become very popular in several communities thanks to its unique feature set: not only it's an excellent browser on its own - thanks to its Chromium underpinnings, effective AdBlock capabilities, and priva...
28 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luca B
While the legal fight around Fortnite is still in development, Apple is attracting attention again due to another App Store policy controversy, and this time the opponent is Facebook. In early August, the social network announced their plan to roll o...
24 Aug 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Luca B
Do you remember toothing? It was a spectacular prank perpetrated around 2004 on the media who reported it, according to which Bluetooth-enabled devices were used to arrange random sexual encounters. What made it special was that, unlike any generic...
23 Aug 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Luca B
When Pandora Radio started its operation in the year 2000 with the purpose of creating a personalized radio station for each user based on the music the user prefers, little would they know that would trigger a literal revolution in mainstream consum...
20 Aug 2020 4 minute read 1 comment Luca B
We know you thought "Puff the Magic Dragon" was about the innocence of childhood lost (hey, it actually is), but sometimes things are not quite what they seem, so we're here to help you and avoid the embarrassment next time you dedicated a song. In p...
16 Aug 2020 5 minute read 4 comments Luca B
You might have heard it in the news: Apple has removed the uber-popular game Fortnite from the App Store, and Epic Software relatiated with an unprecedented social media campaign. But while this may seem just some quarreling between two corporations...
