It’s either a political move (nobody wants to be responsible for and/or depend on another ministry), or 4D chess where they would prevent a single vulnerability to expose the entire user base.

Fun fact, Orange (former France Telecom) has developed its own distro for the best part of the last 25 years. It’s… very peculiar.

By who are we kidding. The actual work will be offloaded to the shittiest contractor available (Capgemini/Atos/SopraSteria), it will take 5 years of the planned 2 and will cost 3.5 times the initial budget, for something sensibly shittier than an uBlue script.

I just need an AirPlay Audio server so I can stream music from my phone to my stereo. Volumio fits the bill but is probably overkill. I’m open to any suggestions for an up to date FOSS alternative.

There is a contraption often found in commercial kitchens where you can push a bar with your arm that squeezes the bottle to dispense soap without touching anything with your hands. No idea how it’s called but extremely low tech and efficient.

It was a long time ago when code reviews were not yet standard practice everywhere. He was also protected by one of the few customer’s employees in the team, who was almost universally hated, because they bonded over some controversial political views.

Yeah nowadays this code would never make it past a PR.

STORY TIME.

I once worked with a guy who spent so much time and energy trying to prove he has smarter than any of us. That smug bastard was a senior contractor paid twice as much as us lowly regular contractors. I once had to do some simple evolutions on one of his projects. Seriously it was one of the worst shit code I’ve ever seen.

Every single line had to be a 200-character long hack of nested functions, ternary operators and conditional operations. It’s like this condescending fucker was living in a hackathon where the most simple shit had to be implemented in the most brain-fucking, unreadable, convoluted manner, in as few lines as possible. His code was a literal fucking brick wall of symbols. It’s like this fucking idiot never heard of if…else blocks and/or decided that ternary operators were the only way to do conditional statements.

This cunt was fucking proud that none of us rubes was able to maintain his shitstain code. He even gave me a smug smile when I started working on this dumpster fire.

Anyway, I trashed the whole thing and rewrote it from scratch in a “dumb” way. Lots of air, simple unitary instructions, a code so simple a non-tech person could probably follow it along with little difficulty. Oh, I also fixed several major bugs and design flaws while reimplementing it.

Guess which version is still in production and has been evolved and maintained by more than a dozen contributors since then?

Funny thing is, when he eventually got booted from the project, we realized that nobody could maintain his code, not even himself. Since his main project wasn’t in my department I barely looked at it when he was here, but when I was asked to take a look, a simple commit history check told me everything I needed to know why every single feature took fucking weeks to be released and had some weird-ass edge-case regressions in unrelated places.

They are legally bound to eventually adopt the euro. But they can deliberately fail to meet the convergence criteria, like Sweden does.

Not sure how I managed this but I installed windows long after Linux on my gaming PC (to use a VR headset that was given to me), and somehow it created its own EFI partition without nuking the real one.

I see no point in keeping my power hungry monster awake 24/7. I’m in any game less than 3 minutes after a cold boot.

When seasoning meat, remember that you are also meat and therefore susceptible to be seasoned.

Basically the whole shenanigans around cheating at every single turn to get a car in the points. Every single member of the team would get a disqualification/ban faster than you could spell “crashgate”. I think they could have written an entertaining story without breaking every single racing rule in the book several times per race.

It’s a pretty solid movie if you don’t give an actual fuck about F1. It’s a wildly unrealistic fantasy film with bland, one dimensional characters and I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it was set in a fantasy series. Grounding it in an hyperrealistic setting with real teams, real cars, real people on real tracks is too much of a cognitive dissonance for me.

The actual racing footage slaps tho. But the movie itself is miles away from Rush or Ford v Ferrari/Le Mans '66, which are actual good racing movies based on (heavily dramatized) real events.

I’m almost certain it’s aluminium. It looks like it’s was initially chromed. The plating on the outside flakes off a bit.

There was a lot of “mud” in the boiler, dark powdery residue and white crystals. Based on your analysis it does look like aluminium oxyde crystals.

C15 was probably white in 1986 and is now a mixture of dirt, moss, rust and soot. Inside, it smells an almost unbearable melange of engine oil, dust, ashtray, wet dog and crumbling pleather. Somehow it still runs perfectly, except for the radio.

Not sure what your point is but when I was in high school, I saw a lot of theater productions with my class. Not local or amateur productions but professional ones on national tours. And also a lot of contemporary an thought provoking plays.

It’s not the best and given the choice, I’d rather bike in dry weather but with the right equipment (waterproof jacket, waterproof overpants and waterproof shoes), it’s fine.

It’s been raining nonstop for months here and I’m still happier on my bike than in any alternative like getting stuck in traffic for hours searching for a parking spot or shoving myself in public transportation with hundreds of people including reeking teenagers who confuse a shower with Axe body spray.

The entire country of the Netherlands have proven that infrastructure, not weather, makes cycling the most popular mode of transportation. Hell, most of Nordic big cities are cycling heavens despite their shitty snowy/rainy weather.

Because it’s a surveillance state baby. Everything is uploaded to a central server so our corporate overlords can monitor our usage.

And guess what, the company I work in proudly announced today they will replace our internal chatbot with ChatGpt Enterprise. It’s like they gladly and actively increase their dependency on an enemy state.

Not true. 500Mb models suck ass and are just here for fun. A lot of local models in the 2.5Gb range can run on a phone and produce very coherent output on par with free-to-use LLMs without actually destroying the planet (while using them I mean, training is still a nightmare).

“Fun” fact, political bias is baked in the local models too, don’t ask Qwen3 about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989…

Agentic IDEs like Cursor track usage and how much of the code is LLM vs human generated.

Which probably means it tracks every single keystroke inside it. Which rightfully looks like a privacy and/or corporate code ownership nightmare.

But hey at least our corporate overlords are happy to see the trend go up. The fact that we tech people were all very unsubtly threatened into forced agentic IDEs usage despite vocal concerns about code quality drop, productivity losses and increasing our dependence on US tech (especially openly nazi tech) says it all.