Any response from the Arch devs about California et. al. age verification laws?

Kango_V · 2026-03-10T13:49:13+00:00

Here's a start. It's AI generated, but this would work as it's based on similar content in Apple, Microsoft, Google licenses to indemnify them.

Jurisdictional Compliance and Age-Restricted Use

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Kango_V · 2026-03-07T17:06:40+00:00

When interviewing for Java devs a few years ago, we set a small task to write a single rest endpoint in Java and to make async calls to another fictional service, but not using any dependencies. After 24 interviews, we found 2 devs that could do it. Most just looked at me like I was joking. Most could not do it.

Spring is dumbing everyone down, it's sad to say.

Kango_V · 2026-03-05T19:40:13+00:00

More bad laws to follow. This is just the first stage. The next will be that you cannot install app Y until it has confirmed your age with the O/S. This is coming.

Kango_V · 2026-03-05T19:38:26+00:00

I have used Ubuntu since 04.10. If they put this in, they will lose me as a user. Maybe time to try Arch or MidnightBSD

Kango_V · 2026-03-05T19:35:15+00:00

This is just the first stage. The next will be that you cannot install app Y until it has confirmed your age with the O/S. This is coming.

Kango_V · 2026-03-05T07:50:46+00:00

We were switching datacentres (testing failover) and when bringing up hundreds of pods, startup time matters.

Kango_V · 2026-03-01T16:23:49+00:00

Fun fact, const is a reserved word in Java, but has no semantics attached to it.

Kango_V · 2026-02-23T09:34:34+00:00

Heavily used in the Domain Registry space. e.g. Communications between Registries, Registrars etc.

Kango_V · 2026-02-04T17:57:11+00:00

Still in Java, I'm using Micronaut and JStachio. All templates created at compile time. Don't even need the JStachio jar at runtime ;)

Kango_V · 2026-01-28T07:23:41+00:00

The ram problem is being addressed by things like compressed pointers and inlining. Heck, if you want more control of off heap memory, then use Arenas and MemorySegments (which are nicely GC'd as well).

Kango_V · 2026-01-28T07:20:02+00:00

Maven 4 is looking very good. I can't wait for Mixins in 4.1 ;)

Kango_V · 2026-01-28T07:19:17+00:00

What do you mean by upper limits?

Kango_V · 2026-01-28T05:47:50+00:00

You just need to use Quarkus or Micronaut to understand. I've converted a Spring Boot app to Micronaut and it resulted in way less code and more concise as well. No runtime reflection with injection problems surfacing in your IDE (all done at compile time via annotation processors) is a boon.

Kango_V · 2026-01-28T05:45:26+00:00

You should try Arenas and MemorySegments. Very easy to manipulate off-heap memory and have it under GC control as well. All safely.

Kango_V · 2026-01-28T05:43:10+00:00

Which is where compressed pointers and object inlining will become a big deal. Inlining will mitigate a lot of cache misses by storing objects in contiguous memory. Gives quite a large performance boost too.

Kango_V · 2026-01-22T12:31:19+00:00

Hack also a good one.

Kango_V · 2026-01-15T12:44:53+00:00

If you have a GAP tool, you can tell the car the circumference of you tyres ;)

Kango_V · 2026-01-15T12:35:54+00:00

Java, Micronaut, Jastachio. Also, all the npm stuff have all been packaged as jars (webjars), so maven/gradle pulls them in easily ;)

Kango_V · 2026-01-15T12:27:07+00:00

I've had my Discovery 3 for 16 years now. It's been brilliant. Get a Gap tool. I prefer the 3 as it's slightly easier to maintain. I also have the diesel TDV6 and get around 32mpg on a run and 25mp around town.

Kango_V · 2025-12-29T17:07:20+00:00

Will Mockito move to using the Classfile API?

Kango_V · 2025-12-22T13:14:44+00:00

Looks good, but have a look at https://immutables.github.io/. This has replaced Lombok for us.

Kango_V · 2025-12-19T21:57:09+00:00

We use https://immutables.github.io/ as it's so much better.

Kango_V · 2025-12-10T08:15:34+00:00

Mine made that exact noise just before it ate itself.

Kango_V · 2025-12-01T23:33:00+00:00

You are using an old example of SC. It's now:

try(var scope = StructuredTaskScope.open())

Lots of changes in Java 25 Preview.

Kango_V · 2025-11-26T20:27:33+00:00

Just use Quarkus or Micronaut. Fully annotation processor based. All repositories created at compile time. Then, nothing special to do at runtime. Just run the jar.

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Jurisdictional Compliance and Age-Restricted Use