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Hosting forgejo on a cheap Hetzner server is the best and easiest trick that happened in my work life these last years !

And in France you'd have gotten Clément Ader as reply.

My phone (Teracube) is running /e/OS now for 2 years. Nearly everything works out of the box (bank apps, e-identity apps etc ..). The only issue I have is that the app I use to take contactless payment on the phone via NFC does not work (while it works using Android).

Generally, I am supporting of that move. One thing leaves me non-plussed as a non-USA citizen, "the mass domestic surveillance of Americans" exception. That means that Claude can still be used for mass surveillance of everybody else on the planet right?

Can confirm, I've put tens of zip ties on a Mars lander, and in other science instruments!

Baudolino from Umberto Eco (an excellent book) is partially about that, I recommend the read !

I think an unsung hero in making open source broadly known and adopted in France is Framasoft [https://framasoft.org/en/], a non-profit association. They have since many many years an initiative to de-google internet and provide free and hosted alternatives and resources.

Judging by the amount of people who still suck at Zoom or Teams after 6 years ... I am not that sure :)

I work at a French research institute and our Zoom contract ends soon so we get to switch to Visio. It's not too bad but quite tier below Zoom. Noise cancellation is not great, being browser based also comes with limitations, in half my meetings people don't manage to find the permissions to allow mic and/or webcam ...

After many years of Nova, switched to Olauncher. I'm a happy person.

0.8 Mmol?

It might be dumb, but at least it's expensive.

Just realizing that the reverse could be a selling point for a phone here: It might be expensive, but at least it's dumb.

After a long day out that started early, I can tell you that our riot police has no budget issues!

"The math".

We don't have issue with the math, we just disagree on what to fund to balance things out.

An example, 200+ billion euros are given yearly to large companies as tax breaks and the like, without the government asking anything in return. The senate had a report about it recently [https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/economie/un-cout-annue...].

Another example, the military and defense get a huge increase in budget. schools, hospitals, research, nearly every public service get a budget cut instead [ https://www.force-ouvriere.fr/non-aux-44-milliards-d-economi...].

For what it's worth, I have a self hosted git forge where I upped the maximum filesize limit. I use git repositories for my science projects, they can each have hundreds of large files (> 25 Mb as described in the article). I don't use LFS, I don't encounter any issue.

forgejo [1] works well for me. It can be self-hosted, otherwise e.g Codeberg [2] runs a good instance [2]

[1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

Yeah, the plurral was also just borrowed straight from French

I am at the intersection in this Venn diagram and I love it!

It degraded so much, I remembered how the UX used to be so enjoyable. Now, a forgejo instance hosted on an old raspberry pi at home is where my projects live, and it is fast and snappy in comparison.

In French, I find that translations of Edgard Allan Poe by Baudelaire are really nice. I enjoy them as much as the original version. Sci-fi translations of US science fiction classics (Orwell, Bradbury etc..) are usually excellent too. I find myself re-reading these books in French and/or English according to mood.

On the other hans, I find that French translators usually utterly fail to capture the dry kind humor from British authors. From Jane Austen to Lord of the Rings, it reads so serious in French translations!!

I am a "republican", small "r" as you would say. I pay yearly fee to a "republican association" in a country that is a monarchy, the goal is to end the monarchy. Nothing of it has to do with the US or its Republican party. Get a grip, learn history. Other countries also have shitty political parties using that ethymology ("Les Républicains" in France for instance). Let that ideology burn, and let republicanism [1] thrive.

[1] Republicanism is a political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others.

The aspen for me, I love how the leaves shake in the wind. My kid used to fall asleep watching them while I was carrying him around on walks at sleep time, good times!

How can someone hate "étui" so bad !?

I'd like to see stats about that middle user though, I would think that this usecase decreases fast as things are moving to the browser (Office366, Drive, mail, even corporate apps).

Other types of usecases have gone very Linux-friendly recently (e.g video games thanks to Valve).

This. I bought a System76 laptop in 2011 which is still working very well with lubuntu for office and browser and such, it's now the laptop of my neighbourhood association. I could without problem upgrade RAM and drive to SSD, I could even swap the keyboard after I broke it.

I bought a new one from them this year, still incredible hardware.

My only issue with them, which is a big one, is that they ship only from USA. So as EU customer I have to pay VAT on top!

OMG I thought it was something wrong on my end, privacy add-on or whatnot. Glad to see they just lost it.

"Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion." https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/30/18203911/davos-...

This is great. Furniture from one type of wood piece. Went recently through a similar process to optimize building bird nests from one type of wood planks from the local sawmill. I think I'll give the hyperwood bench a try next week.

Funny enough, DMS is a fermentation byproduct in beer brewing and it's detectable for us at low concentration. The off-flavor it can cause is indeed "cooked corn" or "cabbage". [https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/acceptabl...].

Sweden has 'lätt svenska' (easy Swedish) radio and TV news - https://www.svtplay.se/nyheter-pa-latt-svenska - https://www.sverigesradio.se/radioswedenpalattsvenska

pretty useful for learning indeed!