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@ Libb @jlai.lu

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I'm currently testing https://piefed.social/u/Libb all my new participation will be posted there, at least for the time being.

A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. Also, I like to write and to sketch.https://thefoolwithapen.com/

  • Politico: Europe Fears the U.S. Could Cut Off Its Internet

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  • I hate our government so much

    Hate is of little help, I'm afraid.

    The question would rather be how such a sad situation could happen? Alas, I fear answering to that question may not be as pleasing as blaming one guy, no matter how poorly educated and ill-mannered he is, or even a group of people (and btw, not just in the USA many Western countries are playing a very similar sick game). And trying to fix that will take a lot more work, and a lot more time too, than just putting someone else in charge.

  • Politico: Europe Fears the U.S. Could Cut Off Its Internet

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  • Probably because, I'm not a fan of using highlighters

  • US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

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  • They want to stay by themselves? That's fine by me. But then they should also stop exporting their Hollywood and streaming turds (as well as their shit food). That would only be fair. And maybe also stop behaving like if they owned the entire planet?

  • [German] Make your data Trump-safe: How Germany's independent cloud can protect you from data misuse

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  • Easy: make your data offline. Or even better, analog.

  • Politico: Europe Fears the U.S. Could Cut Off Its Internet

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  • But the USA would never do that!

    They only play by the rules, and they're the nice guys. Not the kind that would suddenly tell their partners they could go funk themselves because they changed the deal and that we should pray they don't alter it any further.

    They would not.

  • What does 1000€ buy you in your favourite hobby?

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  • I don't think I need to spend that much money on my current hobbies. But I obviously could

    • A real lot of pencils, a lot of Bic and a lot of paper to write with (and to make paper planes, too). Like a good chunk of a lifetime worth of supply :p
    • A lot (but already a little less) of top quality watercolor paint (that I don't need to enjoy my hobby watercoloring), too many top of the line watercolor brushes (that I don't need for my hobby either) and a lot of excellent watercolor paper (that I may enjoy using but still don't really need for my hobby ;)
    • The entire line of Caran d'Ache 'Luminance' colored pencils and the entire line of Faber Castell 'Polychromos' colored pencils, in multiple examples. But why would I need that many colors when I use maybe 10 or 12 regularly?
    • I do a lot of scratch building also using... cardboard. SO, a 1000€ would buy a few decades, centuries?, worth of cardboard and fresh hobby blades too. But since I mostly used recycled cardboard from old packages and parcels... I won't need to buy those.

    Back when I was making scale models (plastic planes and tanks) I could have easily spend that In a couple hour in any hobby shop worth shopping at, buying a few fancy model kits, too much paint and some of the fancier tools, plus reference books. Or on a single camera lens, but that is another hobby I quit practicing. Or on some rare books... which I also quit collecting. It looks like I won't be able to spend much money :p

  • How do you cope with Mondays?

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  • Like with every single other day of the week: I welcome it and do my best with whatever it gives me.

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  • We have people telling us the earth is flat. Them saying so doesn't make our good old planet any flatter ;)

    I mean one can find excess absolutely anywhere, that doesn't demonstrate much imho.

  • [Lundi lecture] 📖 Qu'avez-vous lu cette semaine ?

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  • J'en parlais ici (en anglais), cette semaine j'ai repris la lecture d'une série de cinq recueils de nouvelles sur la thème de... la machine à écrire, oui la veille machine à écrire avece son clavier qui claque et sa feuille de papier. Ca s’apelle « Cold Hard Type ».

    Chaque volume de la série est dédié à un thème/genre spécifique de nouvelles, post-apocalyptique, horreur, voyage dans le temps,... mais toutes les histoires concernent d'une manière ou d'une autre la bonne vieille machine à écrire. Et, oui, je suis assez vieux pour avoir appris à taper sur une de ces machines moi-même ;)

    Comme je disais dans le billet original, en achetant ces bouquins je m’attendais à... pas grand-chose, quelque chose de l’ordre d’un bon fanzine enthousiaste. J’étais loin du compte. Je n’ai lu que 3 des 5 volumes à ce jour mais pour l’instant c’est presque un sans faute. Je me régale.

    Celui que j’ai eu le plus de mal à lire c’est le dernier, Dead Keys dont la thématique est « horreur et fantômes », sans doute parce que ce n’est pas un genre dont je suis particulièrement amateur (je suis fan d'une poignée d'auteurs, plutôt très... atypiques). Je l'ai terminé la semaine passée, après plus d'un an sans y toucher et je suis heureux de l’avoir terminé car ça m’a permis de lire encore quelques très bonens histoires. L'une en particulier que je classe parmi mes préférées dans les 3 volumes que j'ai lu à ce jour: « The Good Fight » par David Tellet.

    C’est l'histoire d'une ado qui, littéralement, chaque nuit, au lieu de pouvoir dormir tranquillement comme elle est supposée le faire avant de retourner à l’école le lendemain, est obligée de se battre contre le mal/le diable qui, sous la forme d'une brume tentaculaire, essaye de s'emparer d'elle comme elle s'est déjà emparée de sa famille et de bien du monde dans leur petite ville de province, les rendant tous méchants et tristes. Elle ne réussi à garder ce mal à distance qu’en écrivant sans répis jusque l'aube, jusqu'à l'épuisement. Bref, est à peu près au bout de forces quand elle rentre dans un magazin d'antiquité pour se trouver un nouveau stylo plume où elel fait la connaissance d'un vieux commerçant ronchon qui... non, je ne vais pas spoiler mais je peux vous dire que je suis vraiment content d’avoir repris ce bouquin que j’avais carrément abandonné, disons-le.

    Là, j’ai commencé le 4ème volume (sur le voyage dans le temps), sympa lui aussi et avec déjà une autre histoire géniale, si pas deux.

    Bref, un sujet de niche (la mchine à écrire) qui n’intéressera pas grand-monde, malheureusement, mais une heureuse découverte en ce qui me concerne .

    Ah oui, les ouvrages sont auto-publiés par Richard Polt et sont uniquement proposés via Amazon print on demand. C’est bien, parce que ça veut dire que les frais de port seront raisonnables où que vous soyez mais c'est aussi (possiblement) moins bien parce que, ben, c’est Amazon.

    Edit: si c'était pas clair, les bouquins sont en anglais.

  • Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by how the world is going this year?

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  • As many as I have days to live.

    (Not the OP but an old dude myself ;))

  • What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?

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    • "Klaatu barada nikto"
    • "Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha"

    The first one is a classic. The second one may not be as familiar but still is a great movie ;)

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    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • I'm not hardcore anything but I quit using Reddit and have not looked back. I also don't use any other social, even tough I own other accounts I have not logged into for many years.

    Why I don't see myself hardcore? Because there is no hate, or anger and no desire to preach anyone to switch either. I respect people's choice. I disagreed with a few of reddit decisions & their policy change back then and took my decision accordingly. I posted a goodbye note explaining why I left reddit and switched to Lemmy. The same with X, Facebook, or whatever: when I realized I could not trust those services, I told people around me and moved away.

  • Would you become romantically involved with someone with vastly different religious views?

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  • I don't date/wed a religion, or a god. Only a person.

    That being said, there would still be the obvious limit that I would have to like (and be liked by) the person which, as far as I'm concerned, would most probably exclude some of the more... extreme religious beliefs.

  • U.S Economy Set To Lose $12.5BN In International Traveler Spend this year

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  • Not enough to compensate for the coming war(s), I'm afraid :/

  • Changement de chat : Nous vous proposons de quitter Matrix et de passer à Zulip

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  • j'ai jamais trop apprécié Matrix (disons qu'il est trop pas assez intuitif pour un neuneu de mon calibre). Du coup, je l'ai jamais vraiment utilisé non plus. Du coup, j'annonce haut et clair que je n'organiserais pas une protestation véhémente si on changeait de crémerie.

  • [Fil quotidien] Discussions du jour (2025-06-21)

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  • Je vais faire celui qui n'a jamais écouté cette chanson, quand elle était toute nouvelle, enfant.

  • France pushes for joint debt to bolster international role of euro

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  • EU leaders to discuss measures aimed at making single currency more attractive on global markets

    Simple, one just need to follow the USA, step by step:

    1. Tell all other countries you altered all the deals you had with all of them. Tell them they now must spend a lot more of their money to buy your stuff, while you will buy a lot less of theirs. Tell them you will also dictate them what their laws and regulations should be like because fuck them.
    2. Require them to also arm themselves and stop relying on your own armed forces like you asked them to do for the last 80 years or so, because you suddenly decided that was a shit deal. But don't let them buy any weapons of their choice, nope, tell them they must buy your weapons, those you have the hand over the 'off-switch' just in case the suckers would one day decide to fight against you.
    3. Shame/ridicule/insult and threaten anyone disagreeing with you. Insist on shaming and insulting and threatening your closest allies even more so than your lifelong enemies, as that will teach them the trustworthy and reliable partner you're.
    4. And if that's not enough, well, there is still the possibility to kick their fucking stupid foreigner ass with your big manly bombs that no one as one as big as yours and fuck you all, losers.

    Sure, that's hastily summarized but I would say it remains quite true to the much more subtle original.

  • [Fil quotidien] Discussions du jour (2025-06-21)

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  • "pour le week-end", ça fait quand même une banane de belle taille.

  • U.S Economy Set To Lose $12.5BN In International Traveler Spend this year

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  • No doubt the orange clown will sign an executive order making it mandatory for anyone on the planet to send money to the US (not for us to go there, they just want our money not us), otherwise they will bomb their home.

  • Content jacking/reposting is a problem on Lemmy.

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  • But as I said, there’s a lot of people on Lemmy that think theft is okay.

    Theft happening to others, maybe. Try stealing from them ;)

    then it’s up to the moderators and/or admins to deal with that.

    That being said, I agree this is the moderator's job to deal with it but keep in mind that:

    • Mods are benevolent and there aren't that many to begin with.
    • One may still need to report the issue for the mod to become aware of it.