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by liotier 1y ago
> "MORSE SPARCstation 2 - The second SPARCstation 2 has a MORSE sticker on it" MORSE was a big Sun reseller in Europe in the 90's. I haven't heard their name since the dot-com bubble popped !
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by liotier 1y ago
Federal Europe is a proto-country - and we are already citizens of the European Union. In short: Europe is my country !
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> “what does a bank add to this situation ?” In developed states (so, not the USA), regulation that protects the consumer.
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by liotier 1y ago
Excess caffeine poured on anxious procrastination makes me a disaster of a person.
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by liotier 1y ago
French Jew here. Antisemitism exists in France, like everywhere in Europe - we have some history about that going back at least a millennium. But Israel's propaganda interpretation of what antisemitism is and how much of it exists is l
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Sousveillance - the first step to taking power to account.
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by liotier 1y ago
Polemics about generative AI might indeed benefit from separately addressing art and entertainment. Generative AI in art is worth debating, but entertainment is not even a question: entertainment is a proven market for mass-produced slop, w
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> In any case, though, it's clear that moderation needs to be baked into the protocol at a lower level than it currently is. Lesson learned and relearned across all social and communication software... Moderation cannot be grafted o
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We are slow to wake up, but the hectic mood in the French arms industry is unprecedented and buying American is nowadays considered a stopgap - temporary evil. Also, European defense firms are getting more competitive, by the simple virtue
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by liotier 1y ago
In 2016, I visited a call center in Bamako - it was powered by an Asterisk VOIP system... And that is what I expected the article to cover... Anyway, yes... Think America is the land of infinite suburban sprawl ? Meh - Africa is where it&#x
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by liotier 1y ago
> leave the change from l'addition Yes, that is the basic tip if you expect to come back to that restaurant and get an upgraded welcome. But even with no tip, being a regular counts - tip or no tip, you are good business and worth c
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France here - no tip is the norm, tip is for service above & beyond... But, contrary to the USA, everyone gets a proper living wage !
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Now that's friction !
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> I'm quite happy that these tiles cut down on the clutter in the original OSM tiles. It made it very hard for me to actually use them for navigation The Openstreetmap.org tiles are a demo and a contributor quality assurance tool -
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by liotier 1y ago
If it solves your problem, why would you care about what other people do with it ? Free software isn't charity, just a way to find allies - usage by other people is a side effect which doesn't cost anything to the project and is e
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by liotier 1y ago
> Users and companies can force you to continue to work on your project. Otherwise they'll fork it, make it worse, blame you for bugs they introduced in the fork, say that the original project wasn't that good, etc. How is it b
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by liotier 1y ago
Scratch your own itch. Anyone thinks you are making a mighty nice itch-scratching machine and wants to make it better ? Welcome, let's cooperate ! Others who want you to scratch their personal itch ? Offer professional services or mayb
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... And that is why, in the case of illicit products, current French legislation heaps responsibility on the platform is they fail to efficiently prevent sales by their hosted traders.
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> A regulator can tell temu/shein/amazon/etc to take down the seller, or even the brand and the next day two new ones prop up selling the product from the same factory. If that game remains afoot for too long, the buck sto
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by liotier 1y ago
It took Trump for the Europeans to realize that De Gaulle was right. The consequences of the European Union realizing the were the USA's protectorate are not going to please the USA though... Buy ITAR-free, buy European !
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by liotier 1y ago
Same in French. When my colleagues tell me about "le repository Git", I love to answer about "le repositoire git" - sounds mightily quaint but that French word is actually the one through which the Latin repositorium per
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I just connected the dots... The identifier digits in the Dewey Decimal classification are called "call numbers" !
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> that sequel tease at the end ? Raaaah - I refuse to believe this scene exists. It doesn't exist in my own cut of The Matrix. And captive humans are biological computers, not silly batteries !
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by liotier 1y ago
> and every summer, young people, possibly a little drunk, jump into the water as a dare from bridges near Notre-Dame After ending high school exams in 1993, we jumped into the Seine from Pont de Neuilly. I suppose this sort of antics ha
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by liotier 1y ago
> eighteen hour waking days leave a lot of boredom time, no matter how many hobbies you have Lol - you don't have enough hobbies.
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by liotier 1y ago
Reading the title, I expected cute network diagrams from aggregated OpenFlow telemetry !
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> The expectation is that we're always connected and respond quickly As someone who twenty years ago published his XMPP presence to his web page ( http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2006/02/27&#
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Soon available: lots of nice used hardware to run Linux on cheaply.
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I naïvely expected some sort of IDE, and jokingly thought about compilation spitting out a vial of CRISPR & payload for the desired sequence... The instantaneïty of computer programming has seriously warped our expectations.
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Mesh networks are the foundation - they are essential to disaster resilience. Then what services to run over them ? Real time chat: wild unsecure simplicity proven to run anywhere (IRC), bells & whistles with contemporary security (Matr

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