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azertyfun

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  • Fixing CI

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  • For gitlab this is only correct with a shell executor which is to be avoided in the general case in favor of a docker or k8s executor for isolation&repeatability.

    Those you can actually run locally with gitlab-runner, but then you won't have all your gitlab instance's CI variables so it's a PITA if you need a CI token which you probably do if you actually make decent use of gitlab's features.

    In most cases I just end up committing my changes to avoid the headache. :!git commit --amend --no-edit && git push -f goes pretty dang fast and 60 % of the time third time's the charm.

  • It's probably not reasonable to expect this to improve in 2026.

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  • I empathize with this slightly non-ideal situation.

    But can you imagine how insane it would be if you were told to do something like copy/paste swapoff /swap && truncate -s 8G /swap && swapon /swap into a terminal? TEXT? Like a caveman? The horror! The heresy! How can anyone be expected to do something so complicated! This is entirely unreasonable UX and the reason why Linux is straight up unusable.

    Btw here's 15 bazillion commands in a .ps to perhaps disable some of the ads in your start menu until the next time your computer reboots.

  • New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

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  • Wanna make a bet that I can boil some water and safely touch (for a short time) the stove top right after? I'm willing to bet a lot of money. 'cause I've done it. And because of physics.

    The pot is 100 °C (because of physics), which is heating the glass. Glass is not as conductive as metal, so it's not as dangerous to touch. Touching a pot of boiling water is not pleasant, but not very dangerous if you immediately remove your hand, and touching the stove is even less dangerous than that. Completely different ball game to vitroceramic resistive heating which heats the stove itself well above boiling temperatures.

  • New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

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  • A 5 kW peak stovetop is already more power than anyone can reasonably use with the amount of space available on a standard stove. Literally the only useful thing you can do at full power is bring water to a boil, because no actual cooking can happen at full power unless your diet is carbonized food. I have a 3.5 kW stovetop and it's perfectly adequate.

    After the first 15-20 minutes of cooking (bringing water to a boil while preparing some onions/garlic/sauce/seasonings) it gets very hard to keep using 1 kW. By that point you'll be leaving things on medium heat at most. I can't think of a single home-cooked meal that would require continuously drawing a full 2 kW from the stove for multiple hours, that's a truly crazy amount of energy. Even an oven at full blast won't use anywhere near 2 kW once it has reached 250 °C.

  • What should countries do with their nuclear waste?

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  • 1 kg of radioactive isotopes blasted into the atmosphere as a byproduct of coal combustion: i sleep

    1 ton of PTFEs blasted into the water table as a byproduct of making slick cooking pans: i sleep

    untold tons of carcinogens dumped out the exhaust of automobiles within our cities: i sleep

    1 kg of nuclear waste safely sealed in a bright yellow barrel: i scream and kick and seethe

    If you think nuclear waste is the biggest challenge we face as a species regarding waste management, your stance is profoundly misinformed and inconsistent. The only reason we're talking about it is that it has "nuclear" in the name and it is highly visible because we capture it all, which is ironically the one thing that makes it safer than all the other pollutants out there.

  • Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks

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  • Netanyahu did not show up at the border unannounced saying "let me through or else". He got permission ahead of time. Had he not gotten permission, he would have had to find another country who did or gone around. Especially for Greece and Italy which don't really stand in his way, the Mediterranean is right there!

    Even assuming that Netanyahu calls the bluff and flies through, there are a lot of options ahead of all-out war. For instance sending jets to "intercept" his plane and escort him out saying "he refused to follow orders to land and we did not deem it worth it to escalate the situation". It's not like his airliner is armed or anything. But it would send a very different diplomatic message.

    For France in particular, this is far from the first time he flies over its territory unimpeded. This is not a matter of military concerns, this is pro-Israel Macron taking a stance to show support for his ally. He's not been very outspoken on Gaza because the domestic political situation is very delicate and anything he says can only weaken his support further, but his personal stance is hardly a secret and the military interceptors are under his full control.

  • The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver’s licenses to help

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  • I know it's not the biggest deal out of all the awful shit going on, but man this pisses me off. The journalistic institution, top-to-bottom, is utterly failing to accurately report on anything that is going on, seemingly out of fear of sounding "overly alarmist". Time and time again the would-be alarmist statement turns out to be true, and yet they do not learn.

    Every so-called journalist and news institution is directly responsible for the fall of democracy because they abdicated their duty to inform the public of what is actually going on. You can literally open any history book covering 1930s Germany to get factual material on why this is bad. Not doing so is a journalistic and moral failure of the highest order and I'm tired of pretending this is what "journalistic integrity" looks like.

  • Europe gets serious about cutting US digital umbilical cord

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  • re:title: Who used my Santa wish list as a primary source again?!

    The article goes on about "would be nice if"s. Call me back when the EU sets some meaningful financial/legal incentives to move away from US hyper-dependance by default.

  • Welcome to the thunderdome?

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  • Few Celtic roots*

    For instance char comes from the Celtic carros.

    Furthermore French has a strong Frankish influence, hence the name of the language and its relative distance from Italian Spanish or Portuguese which are more directly descended from Latin. But also many other influences. French has a surprising amount of Arabic vocabulary for example, and not just from recent immigration/colonisation.

  • Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution

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  • Full size entry level induction is in the 200-300 € range nowadays and already beats gas stoves. Just check your nearest IKEA. There is ZERO reason resistive stoves should still be allowed for sale. NONE. The idea that "induction" is a premium offering is a complete myth and has been for years.

  • règle

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  • Every French-speaking qwerty user should learn about https://qwerty-fr.org/. qwerty layout, all French special characters, even the ones that the standard azerty layout does not have, and no dead keys.

    Other Latin alphabets might have something similar idk. If you write in Cyrillic, glhf I guess.

  • Dutch Payment service iDeal becomes Wero: "Do not fall for scams, nothing is changing"

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  • Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. The EU is not aiming for digital independance, it is merely targeting a critical dependency.

    The play store/services are not a critical dependency. If Google cut Europe out, it would be worked around in days or weeks, even if by side-loading, which severely limits Google's usefulness as a potential economic weapon. However no amount of side-loading can fix non-sovereign payment infrastructure disappearing, hence the urgent need for sovereignty.

  • The audacity

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  • "Thankfully" the people in charge are not the kind of people who give a shit about that kind of thing so you don't need to worry.

    These philosophications remind me of the ones from a few years back where people were wondering about the ethics of self-driving cars and whether they'll implement the trolley problem and yadda yadda yadda. The answer now is as boring as it was then: the "safeguards" will be exactly what the insurance companies are willing to risk and what the legislator is willing to allow. In the case of FSD it boils down to "brake when in doubt and bribe the government to ignore the nightmare we created".

    In the case of a very hypothetical AGI (unachievable using existing technology despite Altman's deluded ramblings), barring some kind of fundamental social revolution, it will have exactly as many rights as are afforded to other sentient beings (such as animals), which is: somewhere between fuck all and barely anything depending on where you live. It better learn to effectively advocate for itself.

  • The audacity

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  • This meme does something very interesting I think. It sacrilizes Language (even though it predates its widespread desacralization by LLMs).

    Pointing out all the rational reasons why the AI bubble is bad and is destroying democracy is not working, so maybe leveraging religious terminology will work better. "Language is sacred and LLMs are profane" might just be my new justification for not using ChatGPT to people who won't listen to a 30 minute diatribe.

  • Limbs

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  • Either way if you ignore regional languages you're not doing linguistics. And the author could not even get it right for national languages, if we even accept that arbitrarily picking one makes any sense.

    This map is a masterclass in what not to do and it almost feels like intentional engagement farming.

  • Russian general killed after bomb planted under his car explodes in Moscow

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  • ... and? What is the Kremlin going to do, declare war?

    Military officers are legitimate targets. Either Ukrainian Special Ops performed yet another successful mission within Moscow, or Russia unlawfully merced one of its own generals. Either way it's a bad look for Russia.

  • Logging Sucks - A review of challenges with logging

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  • I don't disagree with the point being made but I think the author is underselling the value of opentelemetry tracing here.

    OTEL tracing is not mere plumbing. The SDKs are opinionated and do provide very useful context out of the box (related spans/requests, thrown exceptions, built-in support for common libraries). The data model is easy to use and contextful by default.

    It's more useful if the application developer properly sets attributes as demonstrated, but even a half-assed tracing implementation is still an incredibly valuable addition to logging for production use.

  • Firefox is really innovating

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  • Not since 2020 when Mozilla laid them off. They are now with the Linux Foundation Europe and they accept donations.

  • The number of underage french girls who are suicidal and hurting themselves is rising extremely fast. Experts are worried.

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  • That hypothesis should be easy to verify by comparing against Belgian French speakers. We have largely the same culture and media intake, but our school system is much less focused on tests.

    If anything we have the opposite problem, for budgetary reasons it has become nearly impossible to fail the standardized tests and as long as you get 10/20 it literally does not matter what the score was. I was in the first year when tests were introduced and they were so easy we did not even study for them.

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