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That would be a good one! Count me in!

putting my old man cap on and I would like to weigh in on the US admin export control on Mythos.

It does remind me of the mid-1990s when suddenly asymmetric cryptographic tools such as PGP became a reality and a wide usage possible due to the growing base of internet users.

Governments (US, France…) did not understand how to regulate and banned export (and asked users to apply for a licence).

I do see a strong parallel with the situation that we are currently living.

What’s interesting is what’s happened out of the few years where regulations were strong enough to reduce innovation.

Well, open source won for the common and everyday uses, and even more powerful crypto has been developed and used by corporations and governments.

I can certainly imagine LLMs taking a similar path.

a few notes on what I heard and how I felt about software+products+labs

I have been a customer of OVH’s new Zimbra Starter service. It works for my personal and professional needs, CalDAV and ActiveSync are active. I do not use the web interface so no feedback on this.

To the best of my knowledge opendmarc-reports does not perform a DNS check for external auth, but I might be mistaken.

Major hosts (Google, Zoho, Yahoo, Microsoft) are checking for sure. Japanese hosts are the worst offenders. I will try to do a proper data extraction and report back.

I do operate DMARC report processing service and I have to agree that outdated reporting addresses living in DNS records (in my case, previous customers of mine still using their reporting addresses) are an issue.

Although the RFC 7.1 section regarding External Domain Validation [1] addresses this topic, I've found that lots of final hosts disregard this step and blast their reports to whatever reporting address is provided.

1: https://www.dmarctrust.com/email-dns/fundamentals/dmarc-dns-...

ILFORD is still selling photo paper in rolls with the specific chemicals required for regeneration of baths. It does allow a skilled lab operator to use Durst Lambdas or even a 1hour laser-based minilab like a Noritsu QSS or Fuji Frontier to print on real b&w paper!

However, the same skilled operator should be able to calibrate her minilab in order to obtain decent looking b&w prints on color-based paper (RA4 process - used by Noritsu & Fuji).

I am living in Lille, France, where Gobee.bike begun its French expansion. I am commuting by bike and as a cyclist I do agree with the comment above.

Dockless bikes quickly became a nuisance, a few days after gobee.bike released their fleet. People left those bikes everywhere, including on pedestrian space and bicycle lanes.

On a personal note : there is a well maintained and dock-based bike sharing system provided by the town council in Lille. If bike sharing, as some point, become a part of the town's infrastructure — see: Paris with Velib, Lyon and Lille — I do not see the need nor the space for concurrent offerings from different bike networks.

Former Evangelist team member for Mailjet here.

Mailjet added an Inbound API called ParseAPI. Even if the name is different they are able to process inbound emails :-)

https://www.mailjet.com/feature/parse-api/

Quite an handy list tho. Great work!

We are based in Lille, a close stop from London (90min), Brussels (30min) and Paris (50min).

All the talks are in English and we will have a great selection of Belgian beers :-) (and alcohol free beverages).

More information : https://github.com/robink/take-off-conf-convince-your-boss/b...

Is it really built on top of Twilio?

Amazing lineup, I can't wait to see Salomon of dotCloud on stage.

We tried to build the event that we all would like to attend. I hope that European Hackers will enjoy our proposal !

The 35 hour workweek is not as simple as "only working 35 hours". It is the case for blue-collar workers (ouvriers) but things are less rigid for white-collar workers and management (cadres).

"Ouvriers" are paid by the hour and "Cadres" per day. All engineers working in IT should have a "cadre" contract, so they do not really count their hours.

Boss or staff, in the French startups with whom I did have the pleasure to work, the 35 hours are far away from the really worked hours.

I don't know exactly the protocols behind Exchange (IMAP ? MAPI ?), but it seems to me that it is, for now, Google's prefered way of accessing emails & calendars from a mobile device (at least from iOS).

Paris is quite cost-effective for Europeans; a quick train ride from London, Brussels or a 1 hour and a half flight from capitals of western europe.

I'm not especially defending the choice of Paris. Brussels or London or Berlin would have been at least as good. Sometimes it's nice to hold engineering meetings elsewhere than in the Valley.

My grand-parents, at 86 and 87, recently had multiples surgeries: eyes, hips, pacemakers... They are quietly approaching the bionic state.

Those are costly procedures, taking place in public hospitals without any extra. Yay for socialized medecine !

Which brings me to my question : what kind of surgeries can't you get at 80+ years old in France ?

French national who visited Canada a few months ago here. I crossed the US/CA border with only a small backpack ( I left my luggage at the bus station ) and the US border agents after the Rainbow Bridge where fun and welcoming.

It wasn't the case in SFO, after a 12 hours flight from Paris, the agent was OK but far from welcoming.

Related : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/youre-probably-stor... + comments.

If your software is able to decipher something, someone else could do the same.

This is called a NIC handle : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIC_handle

This is not some crazy French law; Gandi has been in the registrar business for quite a long time and OVH loves standards :-)

I would not worry too much about that. I think that they will be able to handle the Fahrenheit/Celsius conversion.

I compete with myself on a daily basis to add some points on my coverage %. Having a tool like Jenkins to graph my progress helps a lot.

A safe design for a device producing nuclear waste can't exclude once-in-millenia earthquakes and tsunamis parameters.

As an indie E.U. based developer, I must confess that everything that I'm reading here about patent trolls is scaring me off. It will probably keep me from even thinking about building a product for the U.S. market for a while.

I may add that that after all, all the money granted for the Minitel program by the gouvernement has been recovered with taxes on Minitel minutes.

I would consider the Minitel as a success of central planning. 20 years of e-economy and quite a lot of money moving from French citizen to French corporations or smaller businesses.

Yes, they do. There are several billing schemes. Usually a connexion fee plus a per minute billing.

The fun part being that there was e-mail and www services accessible from the Minitel.

France Telecom internet provider, Wanadoo (now Orange) used to provide an ActiveX application to access the Minitel over IP; with the per minute usage being billed on the Internet account owner tab.

I guess that going out of the patent business in the US will be a battle as big as the one that we are currently fighting in Europe in order to keep software patents out of the EU.

belongs sounds good.