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axx, 3 days ago to random

J'ai (enfin) mis à jour le PC de ma mère de Elementary 5.1 à 7.1 (c'est à dire, réinstallé complètement). Le PC est désormais super lent, c'est flippant. Pas trop sûr de quoi faire là.

axx, 10 days ago to random

These urban #ducks, chilling by the library, are pretty cool. Maybe not @babe duck level cool, but still pretty cool.

Two ducks, the male one sitting and the female one standing on metal and stone outdoor flooring. In the background, the corner of a building can be seen, next to a plastic block and other public works equipment such as blue and orange fences.

axx, 24 days ago to random

"In fact, the #Gaza solidarity encampments on campuses are student-organized and led, with Palestinian students at front and center, and a disproportionately large presence of Jewish students too. It is students, over 1,000 of them, who have faced arrest."

We should all be proud of these kids.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

axx, 1 month ago to random

Well done. Facebook (sorry, "Meta"): "Reality Labs has now lost more than $45 billion since the end of 2020, when Meta first began reporting the business segment separately."

Yes, billion with a B.

That's an insane amount of money. I don't even want to go into the whole "think how many hospitals could have been funded with that money".

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

On the upside, they are consistent in their idiocy and i was wrong to say they'd quietly stopped investing in it. Nope, still going.

axx, 1 month ago to random

Très bon fil sur le racisme anti-tsigane et gens du voyage, en milieu médical ici, sur l'autre site :
https://twitter.com/Dr_Zoe_/status/1783355832106725630

axx, 1 month ago to random

Purée, Qovery / Romaric Philogene qui force Anaïs Urlichs à faire des excuses publiques, via lettre d'avocat, pour avoir fait des tweets sarcastiques sur le manque de diversité dans la tech suite à une photo d'une tablée où on ne voit que des mecs blancs, c'est magnifique.

Apparemment les égos fragiles, c'est pas terminé et ça se traduit par de la bonne menace juridique à la papa, qui fait pendre au nez « compensation pr les dommages subis » etc.

https://next.ink/135147/inclusion-dans-la-tech-critique-le-ceo-de-qovery-menace-une-internaute-de-poursuites/ pour plus de contexte.

axx, 1 month ago to random

I thought that recent Europol press release on #E2EE was a bit off, so i tried to improve it.

cf. https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/european-police-chiefs-call-for-industry-and-governments-to-take-action-against-end-to-end-encryption-roll-out

(real) screenshot from Europol website: European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out

axx, 1 month ago to random

Mais en fait, en France, la politique c'est un concours à la « hold my beer » où chaque premier ministre ou ministre de l'intérieur essaye de prouver qu'il peut faire et être pire que le ou la précédente ?

axx, 1 month ago to random

"Please wrap lines in your email at 72 columns."

Really? It's 2024, i'm pretty sure this is a behaviour that should be enforced by your mail reader rather than me artificially breaking
lines just
to
fit an ancient
custom.

Also, how many pixels wide is your screen? I mean, it's up to you if you want to read text on the visual equivalent of a pocket pack of tissues at the end of the day i suppose.

axx, 1 month ago to random

Musk is a fool who doesn't understand the technology he hypes (and profits from). What's new?

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-worst-predictions-and-broken-promises-1851398745

axx, 1 month ago to GNOME

Location services in #GNOME are eerily precise. As in, to a few metres. Even when tunnelling all traffic through a Wireguard VPN exiting in a different country.

As someone still a bit scarred by Enemy of the State even 25 years later, that freaks me out.

And a cursory search has not reassured me much. It uses Mozilla location services, that much is clear, but how does it still provide such a precise location when traffic is tunnelled?

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/privacy-location.html.en provides no info or explanation.

axx, 1 month ago to random

@organicmaps hello! Did the button to remove a POI get removed? It feels like every other time i look for it (tap POI, expand bottom drawer) it's gone. It drives me a bit mad.

axx, 1 month ago to random

"Funny": the only "feature" of Amazon's supermarkets, Amazon Fresh, was that you could "just walk out" and all their clever magic AI would charge you for what you picked from the shelves.

Huge surprise, it relied on over a 1000 people in India. And it was of course the digital equivalent of having a bouncer follow you around the store taking notes of everything you pick up and put down. Lovely stuff.

Yet again, AI snakeoil and –really– microworkers making it possible.

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

axx, 2 months ago to random

"We know that you are waiting to speak to an agent and will put you through as soon as we can."

The level of disrepair of #jobcentreplus (yes, that is a serious official name), the UK unemployment agency is maddening and depressing.

Their automated phone system is, of course, unclear and at least half designed to make people give up before they reach what they need.

I've currently been on hold for over 30 min just to be able to talk to someone and update them about my situation.

axx, 2 months ago to random

So, VMWare, a company that powers the IT of many organisations via its virtualisation products was acquired by Broadcom in November 2023.

Turns out this was not a seamless transition: Broadcom quickly upended VMWare's pricing model, trying to force loads of customers into much more expensive deals (100 to 300% price increase!). VMWare users are, understandably, furious.

But this may well backfire, as people are now looking at alternatives, and of course free and open source ones. We'll see.

axx, 2 months ago to random

In 2009, the NHS bought thousands of expensive hardware-encrypted USB drives, "SafeSticks", from a company called BlockMaster.
https://www.theregister.com/2009/06/16/review_storage_usb_blockmaster_safestick/

How surprised would you be to hear that the BlockMaster website and Twitter account look like they were all but abandoned in 2011?

Ah, and the promised Linux version of the OS-side software needed to decrypt the drives never materialised, from what i can tell.

I wonder how many of the 250 000 drives the NHS bought are still in use.

axx, 2 months ago to random

Bonjour, je vais avoir besoin de faire parvenir un document de Londres à Paris pour mercredi 13 au matin, il sera prêt lundi dans l'après-midi. Même Fedex etc. risquent d'être trop lents.

Est-ce que qqn va de Londres à Paris lundi soir ou mardi ? Ça me filerait un sacré coup de main si cette personne pouvait emmener le doc avec elle et le remettre à un de mes proches arrivée à Paris !

Le boost est apprécié :)

axx, 2 months ago to random

Wait, so opensource.org is the website for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), opensource.com is a general FOSS blog sponsored by Red Hat, but opensource.net is the blog linked to opensource.org?

Well i'm glad we sorted that out.

axx, 3 months ago to random

A lot of people seem to think that companies like Google are highly rational.

But their obsession with AI at the cost of destroying the product they are known for, search – which reminds us of their obsession for "building a social network" (cf. Google Plus) – and the current debacle with Gemini not being able to answer basic requests shows they are in fact very much driven by emotion, mainly fear.

Unsurprisingly, far right idiots think it's because Google is "woke".

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini-generative-inaccurate-historical

axx, 3 months ago to random

A few years ago, a fellow cyclist on Twitter recommended i get a tungsten tip scriber to be able to quickly leave a "souvenir" on cars parked in the cycle lane. I thought that was a tad hardcore.

Well, let me give you today's improvement on the idea, courtesy of Travis & Sigrid: https://twitter.com/sigirides/status/1757190794866225177

axx, 3 months ago to random

I'm starting to get curious about Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Beyond its wonderful name, just scratching the surface i can see it had some really interesting ideas and concepts.

Did anyone here ever use it? What was it like? I'd like to understand if some of its ideas made their way to other pieces of free and open source software we use today?

axx, 3 months ago to random

I'm not at #FOSDEM, but i was shouted to this for my birthday. Feels just like being in Brussels! Love to all in the free and open source community and beyond! :ancomheart: :debian: :heart_pride: :mastodon: 🖤

axx, 4 months ago to random

This music festival in Portugal is being advertised in the London tube. There's no reasonable way to get from London to Lisbon other than by flight.

Apparently, neither the urgency of curtailing our emissions of greenhouse gases nor the shitshow that a 2° rise in global temperatures – which we are well on the path to – is clear to everyone.

axx, 4 months ago to random

Broadening support in Australian politics for Julian Assange, calling for the end of his incarceration.

At the same time, extradition is nearing and there's now possibly only one more opportunity to prevent it.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2024/01/20/julian-would-rather-commit-suicide-than-go-the-us

In the meantime, he remains in Belmarsh, a prison for Category A prisoners who “pose the most threat to the public, the police or national security”. In 2019 the UN’s Special Rapporteur on torture condemned this detention.

axx, 4 months ago to random

Ça y est, je me suis lancé dans l'apprentissage de l'#ErgoL, une disposition de clavier qui me semble en effet meilleure que le bépo (que j'utilise depuis… 15 ans, autant dire que l'apprentissage est pas des plus évident 🙃). Même si ça m'a pris 5 minutes pour écrire ce message, j'ai déjà le sentiment que ça commence à prendre son sens).