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axx, 9 months ago to random

@borgmatic Hey, looks like your Gitea is throwing 500 errors when trying to log in using Github.

I was going to try and improve the https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/provide-your-passwords/ guide to include how (wonderfully) simple it is to delegate providing the passphrase to a separate app using encryption_passcommand: pass borg-repokey.

It's a shame that info is not in the guide.

axx, 1 year ago to random

C'est entièrement fabuleux qu'en 2023, ça prend ~8 secondes de faire un virement avec Wise (rendant, au passage, possible le truc que Bitcoin promettait de faire : du paiement électronique entre individus immédiat. Sans la partie P2P, dommage.), mais une demande de virement à 14:00 un vendredi aprèm à une banque comme HSBC n'aura lieu que le lundi matin vers 5 heures.

Soit 63 heures plus tard.

Environ 28 350 fois plus lent, donc.

axx, 1 year ago to random

So i was able to fix my GNOME (Fedora) failing to log in by changing the firewall rules on the loopback interface (what the…)
Running "iptables -I INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT" was all it took, after a few weeks of having to log in by first putting gnome-session into failsafe mode. I would never have guessed this one.

axx, 2 months 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, 11 months ago to random

"AI" is the new "HD". It's now starting to be slapped on entirely random things, like "AI shoes".

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, 5 months ago to random

@organicmaps hey, i tried to find a French departement (and a small town in that departement) and Organic Maps returned absolutely nothing useful. I love the app, but this is pretty disappointing. I want to be able to see where a place I've not heard of before is on my map app.

Any ideas?

axx, 10 months ago to random

Concrètement, sans accès à des infos opérateur / FAI, que peut-on vraiment déduire d'une adresse IP seule, au-delà des informations renvoyé par un whois? (opérateur/AS et contacts officiels)

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, 5 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).

axx, 1 year ago to random

I never tire of reading about the absolute shipwreck that is Uber.

"Uber also covertly operated the microphones in its drivers' phones to listen for the chimes the Lyft app made: drivers who had both Lyft and Uber installed on their devices were targeted for (strictly temporary) bonuses."

Wonderful. More generally, as @pluralistic puts it Uber "invented algorithmic wage disrimination, an exciting new field of labor-law violations".

(from https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/#millennial-lifestyle-subsidy)

axx, 10 months ago to random

I have an extra Chaos Camp ticket going, if anyone needs one! Get in touch and :boost_requested: #cccamp23

axx, 24 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, 7 months ago to random

Wally Dia, constant dans son style et sa justesse :
https://twitter.com/WalyDIA/status/1713671753237463418

axx, 4 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, 8 months ago to random

When did bluesky launch now? 6 months ago? Are there other servers than the bluesky social one?

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, 8 months ago to random

« les dangers que revêtent de ce point de vue les innovations technologiques en matière de contrôle politique et l’imminence de l’arrivée au pouvoir du Rassemblement national auquel les gouvernements précédents auront fourbi un arsenal répressif rendant superflues de nouvelles lois liberticides. »

« Où va la France ? », vu de Suisse, par Jean-François Bayart dans le Temps https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/debats/va-france

axx, 9 months ago to random

Just a reminder that we live in a world were the USA, supposedly a modern 1st world country, is currently passing child labour laws to make it easier to put kids to work, not harder.

Progress is never secured, only temporarily won, and we need to keep fighting for every bit of it.

axx, 2 months 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

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

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, 9 months ago to random

Can anyone remember the quote by, i think, Terry Pratchett that goes something like: anything invented before you are 15 is normal, everything invented until you are 35 is exciting and anything invented after that is just wrong and should never have been created?

axx, 7 months ago to random French

Dites des expatrié·es, vous avez quoi comme solution maligne pour avoir un numéro de tel en France qui en fait vient faire sonner un numéro à l'étranger ou une appli SIP / VoIP ?

J'ai voulu passer par Localphone pour prendre un numéro parisien mais il m'ont renvoyé un mail me demandant une preuve de résidence à Paris (euh, justement…) et un formulaire en trois partie je sais pas quoi.

Pas le temps de niaiser, je veux juste un DID moi.

J'ai utilisé OVH par le passé, mais s'il y a autre chose…