Patrick Kollitsch
@davidsneighbour
German export, two decades in Thailand. Joined the 50+ club — wisdom now priceless and non-refundable. Online since 1994, mostly ignoring social media (except a stubborn Twitter fling in 2005). Doing web things:
Why ad blockers stay relevant: advertising is a code-delivery pipeline. Adform reportedly served ad code that swapped crypto wallet addresses. https://this.weekinsecur... #malvertising
Study: AI advice dropped people's accuracy from 27% to 9%, and cut "I don't know" answers from 44% to 3%. More wrong, more confident, less willing to admit doubt. https://thenextweb.com/n... #ai #criticalthinking
OSV is useful security plumbing: a distributed vulnerability database for open source, with search, an API, scanners, remediation tools, and GitHub workflows in one place. Less magic, more boring infrastructure that actually helps. https://osv.dev #opensource #security
Footer.design is a gallery for the part of websites people usually design five minutes before launch. Useful footer inspiration, plus one awful admission: yes, this is basically a foot fetish for interface designers. I know. Bad pun. https://www.footer.design #webdesign #uidesign
Happy World Malaria Day! If you didn't have it yet, now is the best time... to prevent ever getting it.
He went with Leibnitz. Then I asked for a visual representation. That is where this conversation went a little bit into a direction that, ehm, was interesting.
AI is a tool, not an author. Own your contribution. If your name is on it, you’re responsible. That’s it. kollitsch.dev/blog/2026/ai...
Just in case you live under a hill, here is a task for you to do soon: Go to #LinkedIn, then your account settings, select "Settings & Privacy", then "Data #privacy", and disable the "Data for Generative AI Improvement". This is about *training* the models on your data, not *using* your data with AI
Today, we mourn the passing of Skype, a once-vibrant bridge between friends and families, long forgotten. As we bid farewell to the familiar chime of incoming calls, we, with heavy hearts, are putting to its grave a chapter of our digital lives that shaped so many moments of connection.
See you on the other side. www.theguardian.com/film/gallery... #davidlynch
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,294,403! Better late than never.
Wenn Du nicht wissen was Deutsch dann diese wissenschaftlich erwiesen App ist richtig. #spiegelads
It feels like a waste of space to show a number AND that circle of dread in the new post editor. Put the number into a hover maybe?