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bbbhltz, 4 months ago

I am a professor as several different schools in France (business, notarial studies, agricultural engineers, communication). I would day 95% of my students are from well-to-do families. But, most of them are required to find paid internships. The notary students usually get unpaid internships.

As an internship advisor, I can confirm one thing: paid or not, they put in the hours and take the same crap as a paid employee. Sometimes it is worse. For example, if an intern is absent from work, the message gets to me, and I send it up the chain of command and sometimes parents get involved. It is stressful for the students. My business students get paid internships (about €1400/month) but still need help from their parents and many of them will be doing something they don’t really want to do (think finance instead of marketing).

Now, being a professor I am in contact with a rather large network of of profs spanning the private and public sector… My colleagues from the public sector are worried about this looming change to laws. It would lead to an overhaul of the system as the internship is counted as a credit. If it is decided that they should be paid, how many companies will want to pay when they can just hire a part-timer for the summer?

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

True! Guardian is British but still, they need a better analogy.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

This shocked me as well because my parents weren’t involved with my work or education after finishing high school.

In France, this is not the case. The majority of people are supported by their parents until the end of secondary education, especially when it comes to my students who are all in private institutions.

It is extremely rare for a student to have a job, for example.

Parents do get involved for even minor things, and will come stomping into the school flanked by a lawyer.

Why would they be involved?

Because they pay. That’s all.

Now, university is practically free and lots of students get a bursary (not a loan) to help them along. But, their parents will still pay rent sometimes because a full-time student with a job is seen as the most amazing thing here.

I will often bring up this stark contrast to how when I was a student I had 4 different jobs and still ended my studies 60k in debt and didn’t even see my parents during the school year, let alone get any money from them.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Probably a private school thing in that case. I haven’t taught at a public uni since 2008, but parents wouldn’t have tried to get involved back then.

I cannot contact parents, but administrators will without question.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

My partner is Spanish. Most of the news her family (from Spain) shares is fake as hell.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

This sounds precise. My partner’s family is ultra conservative. Nothing they share is bland. It is all sensational, end-of-the-world level stuff: the immigrants are coming, the government is controlled by Illuminati, “they” gave us COVID and are making us eat insects while “they” eat like kings, economic collapse is just around the corner…

Not a thing on climate change, though…

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Je n’utilise pas Obsidian. C’est un peu beaucoup pour moi.

Sur la surface, c’est un truc à prendre des notes en markdown… Mais après ça devient un Zettelkasten numérique avec une base de données créée de fichiers interconnectés comme un wiki personnel augmenté avec des plugins…

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

You can achieve this through graphical utilities.

Self-updating apps aren’t a big thing on Linux, so the Windows way isn’t an option…

The signing key is important for security reasons, so you definitely need to add that. After adding the repo you can just use Synaptic or whatever app store thingy Ubuntu uses.

Most of the time you shouldn’t need to fiddle with the command line and the apps you will need are available through the Software Centre and the entire process will work like on Windows.

For me, Linux was the first operating system I used that had an app store or software centre and I was pretty glad to not need to…

• open a browser,
• navigate to a site,
• (hope it is the right site…)
• download a binary executable,
• open a file explorer,
• launch the binary,
• click through a list of options and agreements,
• and finally delete the binary.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

On a bit of a side-scrolling trip these past few weeks: Mario Wonder, Metroid Dread, Yooka-Laylee, etc.

The two big(ger) games I’ve played this year are Street Fighter 6 and Mario Wonder which are both fantastic. I haven’t played BG3 or the latest Zelda or any other major releases, but my partner and I were all in on SF6 for weeks. Wonder, though, is a great throwback to what made us both start gaming: very easy to pick up and play, things to collect, and a tiny bit of grinding.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

I’ve only ever used the F-droid OsmAnd~ version.

It is the same thing as OsmAnd+ github.com/osmandapp/Osmand as far as I know.

I do 50% of my edits with this app. It will not wreck anything.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

I’ve told this tale 3 years running now:

I work at an international business school. I try to stay up to day on world news. There was a paragraph written about “infectious pneumonia” in Time magazine or The Economist the last week of 2019 (so the issue published the first week of 2020, I think).

Returning to work a week later I mentioned it in class, because that year I had about 6 students from different parts of China.

They said, “it’s nothing, just a flu.”

The next week, as numbers started to be published they said, “no, it’s an exaggeration.”

The week after they were the first students to start wearing masks.

Week 4, they told us they hadn’t heard from their families in several days. This would have been February 2020.

I felt so horrible for those students that year. They were only 18 or 19 years old. Sent to France in January 2019 (they are required to come several months before classes start in order to learn French and pass some tests). They were locked down March 16th 2020 and forced to take lessons on Zoom. Unable to return home for the summer. Took another semester on Zoom, etc., etc.…

I think they finally managed to head home in the spring of 2021.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Recommended YT settings might be helpful here.

What command have you been using?

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Nexus is a great and pretty fluid read.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Here are a few more…

“True Names” by Vernor Vinge (1981)

• Themes: Hackers, NSA, Privacy concerns, VR, social network, “true death" is what we call “doxxing” today.

“Daemon” [Series] by Daniel Suarez (2006,2010)

• Themes: Artificial Intelligence runs amock.

“Children of the New World” by Alexander Weinstein (2016)

• Themes: Social Media, VR, robotics, dependance on technology.

“Cumulus” by Eliot Peper (2016)

• Themes: Tech giant (Social Network) with too much power.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

I’m a recent Switch convert. I had only Nintendo until the DS and then ended up with an Xbox 360…and then a PS4. With the exception of a handful of games, like Gears of War on the 360 and Street Fighter 6 on PS4, I have never spent as much time playing as I have during these past few weeks on the Switch.

I’m still trying to put my finger on why that is. I don’t even have a Zelda game yet on this machine, but I’ve already bought a few games to play when I’m through with what I’m playing now.

As an almost–40-year-old who had a Game Boy at age 4, the only thing I can come up with that has made sense to my friends is that Nintendo is for playing as opposed to gaming? I don’t know why that rings true.

I’ve also noticed that Switch-owners have very large libraries of games. While I have just a handful, the average among my friends and students is 80 games. Most of them bought the Switch at launch and again when the OLED dropped. Their machines are just chocked full of games ranging from AAA to indie games.

For me, that might explain the lack of Netflix or Discord. They use their space for games to play. And, also, if you have used the Switch eshop you’ll notice that it is pretty busted and slow. Perhaps the have tried to make other apps, but we’re just too janky or not in line with family values.

[…] Nintendo neglecting every expectation of a modern gaming platform while it instead tinkers away on new hits.

Tinker is the word here. Some of their big games are worked on without deadlines. Even Mario Wonder was made without a deadline, and the result is just great (albeit easy, except for that secret last level where I can’t get the f-cking flag). I would wager that Metroid Prime 4 is just tinkering along as well.

Fine with me.

I’m used to buying consoles long after release, so if Switch 2 comes next year I hope I can pick it up in 5 years.

Until then, it’s like being a kid again: playing Mario and Metroid until my thumbs cramp.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

I work at a university (grande école) where the buildings are mapped like this. Despite being one large structure, it was not always the case. Building A and C were built in the 90s, building B in the early 2000s was built to connect them. We still use the different building names today and have A through H. D is a castle and F was only added last year, even though G and H are nearly as old as A and C. I feel bad for the amphitheatre being left out of the lettered naming scheme… Poor “AMPHI”.

Perhaps your school was built building by building so they just added a new polygon instead of redrawing it.

Should I go change my school’s buildings too?

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Thorgi’s most recent video on the Street Fighter movie is great, even for casual- or non-gamers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q63M0rmeAXU

I agree on the recency bias. We tend to forget about older series and films, or watch them without considering the context of their time. This article even mentions Castlevania: Nocturne, but not the other great Castlevania series.

Was MK a dud? Maybe. But I saw that in cinema and owned it on VHS and had the soundtrack on cassette. It was a little bit of a phenomenon, same goes for the SF movie.

What I think has changed is that now they have decided to throw a little more money at these productions (actors, sets, etc.) and do the right thing by hiring consultants that know the franchise. Give the audience a little more of what they expect. Like with the NieR séries. It is essentially a walkthrough of the game and it is lovely.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

I had this discussion with a class the other day. It doesn’t answer your question really, but the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack is rather unsettling if you’ve seen the film.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Maybe. The newest Rpi can I believe.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Agreed. But, my old 3B is still kickin so I won’t be too harsh.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Got a few on the go because I recently got a Switch.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder: just about 100%.

Metroid Dread: awesome.

Moonlighter: great for a few minutes here and there.

Axiom Verge: for when I get stuck in Dread.

The to play pile is growing, so I better finish one of those soon. Hades and Iconoclasts will have to wait a bit.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I didn’t see it so nothing was spoiled. I’m trying not to read the guides but I do want to know when the last PNR is in case I need to explore a little.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I was worried I would hate them. I find myself looking forward to them. It is always a great feeling to finish one of them off.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

Is the info on www.justwatch.com incorrect? I’m in France and Season 1 is listed on several platforms.

bbbhltz, 4 months ago

I don’t have Netflix but it look like it is on Canal+ as a VOD option… So not really streaming but it is there.