liotier

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by liotier 9d ago
You need to go out and socialize with a few satisfied McDonald's customers.
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by liotier 10d ago
Any opening of proprietary chat to useful tools will be used for spam too. It is a curse.
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by liotier 26d ago
I second that remark about Kdenlive having stabilized most impressively.
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by liotier 26d ago
Indeed, Ikea nowadays caters to a range of quality/price optima. Kitchen door finishes make a world of difference in durability and prices. Bedside tables exist with wood-on-plastic-slides drawers - and other models with ball bearing d
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by liotier 1mo ago
The existence of "XEP-0365: Server to Server communication over STANAG 5066 ARQ" suggests military usage. Isode advertises XMPP as "The NATO Standard for instant messaging" ( https://www.isode.com/secure-x
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by liotier 1mo ago
At this point, self-hosting email is as much a practical convenience as it is a political statement. Or maybe I'm just stubborn.
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by liotier 1mo ago
Remember December 2025, when Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move ?
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by liotier 2mo ago
GPON sniffing made easy, but that is only the first step: nowhere does this project mention AES, churning keys, or any decryption routine. Nowadays most GPON traffic is encrypted (ITU-T G.984.3/G.987.3).
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GPWN: Wiretapping Fiber ISP Deployments from the Comfort of Your Home(gpwn.io)
4 points by liotier 2mo ago|1 comments
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by liotier 2mo ago
They are relevant to me, because I often look for documents rather than answers. I think the market segmentation is: - Seeking documents: search engine - Seeking answers: LLM
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by liotier 3mo ago
Save yourself the blogspam, go directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-dissipating_concrete_bloc... and enjoy the whole collection !
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by liotier 3mo ago
> I ditched osmand because the interface is so convoluted. Ridiculously so OSMand is a cartographer's friend - it does everything and more... With all the drawbacks of doing that. CoMaps is better targeted to the needs of most peopl
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by liotier 3mo ago
> Are there any side effects of leaving Immich public ? Yes: it is necessary to share selected albums through public URL.
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by liotier 3mo ago
> Euro English I call it Eurospeak, for extra outrage - though that word currently has European Union civil service connotations (cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eurospeak ) Eurospeak is definitely the language of
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by liotier 3mo ago
This French person has taken to writing in en-GB, as a token of protest against current USAian politics. I thank the USA for this step in French-British rapprochement ! Also, in the late 90's, The Register made me love British English.
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by liotier 3mo ago
... And that is the straw that broke the camel's back - and convinced my elderly father to accept my offer to migrate to KDE. Also, I can now shield him from most of the incomprehensible unsolicited dialogs that triggered support calls
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by liotier 4mo ago
kha-euh-ro - including the "euh" impronounceable by non-French.
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by liotier 4mo ago
In French project management parlance, we use k€ all the time.
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by liotier 4mo ago
> HN is an online community. Same as forums, and BBSs were. That is the very definition of social media. "Social media I like" vs. "Social media I don't like" isn't valid categorization.
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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet (by Mike Masnick)(liberalism.org)
8 points by liotier 4mo ago|1 comments
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by liotier 4mo ago
Sorry, and thank you for noticing. I tried posting the correct URL at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386203 - but HN mangled the it again... So, I had actually posted it right the first time and there is a technical
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[URL in comment] European Commission proposes tech sovereignty package(ec.europa.eu)
7 points by liotier 4mo ago|2 comments
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by liotier 4mo ago
I entered the MANGO rabbit hole... Lots of 5:7211 lore from 1994 at https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Comp_Articles/Health_Net_Zimb.h... - satellite groundstation too !
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by liotier 4mo ago
Programming sequencers visually and with tons of help from the tooling pushes the ear sharpening later in the learning process - and I'm only now starting to realize that maybe making music is about deciding what sounds right... I supp
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by liotier 4mo ago
I suppose one's ear gets sharpened fast, out of necessity - but I recoil at imagining what the other band members have to get through meanwhile. The process for violin is the same though.
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by liotier 4mo ago
> But, how can a trombone ever be better than the piano when there’s so many variables? Well, unlike a piano, where each key produces a fixed pitch, a trombone lets me subtly adjust every note as I play. Thanks, but I'll stick to my
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by liotier 4mo ago
In Harare in 1998, I remember the pleasant surprise of finding a good "internet café" in some downtown office building... Was Fidonet still active in Zimbabwe at that time, or had Internet access supplanted it already ?
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by liotier 4mo ago
Early KDE made no sense for me - I went Gnome, then migrated to xfce in disgust... I saw myself using an increasing number of KDE applications (I was impressed by Dolphin and Kate), I thought I might as well go the whole way and setup my De
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by liotier 4mo ago
> I use KDE now as a bog standard boring Linux desktop that just works "bog standard boring Linux desktop that just works" is a low key major achievement - I love it !
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by liotier 4mo ago
> Hosting a Minecraft server was pretty big for me. This seems to have been the gateway to systems administration for a surprisingly large number of contemporary young people - just like IRC, Quake and Counterstrike servers in my teen ye

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