Niels

Fulltime nerd, software engineer and tech enthusiastic | @[email protected]

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2026 is 0% complete.

[Coinjoined Chris ⚡ @coinjoined]

Germany, everyone: an illegal site sold fake train tickets for months using a stolen signing key. ~50,000 tickets at least €2.9M in losses. The key wasn't revoked for weeks - because the responsible employee was on vacation and there was no backup.

[Niels @n9iels]

@theo And you will probably put it in a case that makes the back level except the camera.

[Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber]

This Week In React 235

Lots of cool React stuff in this edition!
https://t.co/IvrF4b9MTE

⚛️
- React Router RSC
- createStore()
- SuspenseList
- Transition Indicator
- SWC React Compiler
- Render Hooks / With React
- Waku
- React Scan
📱
- Lava
- Fortnite
- Expo
- Skia
- Lynx

[Niels @n9iels]

@theo 70 minutes of content is lazy? 🤔

[Niels @n9iels]

@theo I once worked with a genius coworker, 2 PHDs and could essentially write a compiler from stretch. Also the guy that managed to merge master into master and not being able to rember a single git command 🤣

[Niels @n9iels]

@NS_online het brandalarm op station Gouda gaat al 15 minuten af. Vrijwel personeel aanwezig voor evacuatie en het enige personeelslid dat er is zegt dat je gewoon kunt doorlopen. Lijkt mij niet helemaal hoe het hoort??

[Niels @n9iels]

@TheLyons @theo And because of that same reason there is also no reason to not use npm for 90% of the projects.

[Niels @n9iels]

@JackRhysider For me personally, no issue with swear words. Kinda part of life on the internet. But warnings about "dark" episodes that contain drug usage or self-harm may be very important for some!

[Simone Margaritelli @evilsocket]

* Unauthenticated RCE vs all GNU/Linux systems (plus others) disclosed 3 weeks ago.
* Full disclosure happening in less than 2 weeks (as agreed with devs).
* Still no CVE assigned (there should be at least 3, possibly 4, ideally 6).
* Still no working fix.
* Canonical, RedHat and others have confirmed the severity, a 9.9, check screenshot.
* Devs are still arguing about whether or not some of the issues have a security impact.

I've spent the last 3 weeks of my sabbatical working full time on this research, reporting, coordination and so on with the sole purpose of helping and pretty much only got patronized because the devs just can't accept that their code is crap - responsible disclosure: no more.

[Niels @n9iels]

@RFGFotografie @GemeenteGouda En van welke kosten wordt diezelfde nacht het volledige plein en de rest van Gouda schoongemaakt denk je?

[Niels @n9iels]

@Civixplorer @amazingmap I don’t mind YMD or DMY, but please for the love of god never use MDY.

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

A map of all countries that use the MMDDYYYY date format

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

LATEST: The first flush of 2024’s rainy season and Interceptor 006 is already preventing tons of trash from flowing into the Caribbean Sea from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala.

Will this be our largest river catch ever? Keep an eye on our channels while our crew works round the clock with two excavators to remove all the waste! 👀

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

BREAKING: We just made our largest ever plastic catch. Interceptor 006 in the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, stopped 272 truckloads of trash - equal to 1.4 million kg (3.1 million lbs) - from flowing into the Caribbean Sea. All in a single evening.

[Thomas Roccia 🤘 @fr0gger_]

🤯 The level of sophistication of the XZ attack is very impressive! I tried to make sense of the analysis in a single page (which was quite complicated)!

I hope it helps to make sense of the information out there. Please treat the information "as is" while the analysis progresses! 🧐 #infosec #xz

[Niels @n9iels]

@tijshofmans Ik heb dit ook al gezegd op Tweakers, super pijnlijk dat de advertentiewereld zo werkt dat het gewoon niet anders kan. En dat zegt wat, voor een grote website met zoveel page views als Tweakers.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

A comprehensive map of all countries that use the MMDDYYYY date format

[Rijkswaterstaat regio Zuid-Holland @RWS_WNZ]

De #Maeslantkering is gesloten! Het is de 1e keer dat deze sluit bij deze hoge waterstand. In 2007 en 2018 is de kering ook gesloten, maar toen onder tijdelijk verlaagd sluitpeil om de systemen te kunnen testen. Naar verwachting is de kering morgen 06:00 weer open. #StormPia

[ir. Wouter de Heij @deheij]

Via mijn broer krijg ik zonet een geweldig foto van de gesloten #maaslandkering Dit soort geweldige kunstwerken maakte we in het verleden om #Nederland te beschermen. #hoogwater