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  • Je ne retrouve plus le nom d’un bouquin que j’avais lu gamin. (Il me semblait l’avoir retrouvé avec Google il y a quelques années mais maintenant je n’y arrive plus, c’est moi ou il galère plus qu’avant ?)

    Pour info, c’est le genre de trucs pour lesquels tu n’as pas les mots clefs avec lesquels les LLMs ont un peu plus de chances de pouvoir t’aider.

    Là j’ai “La Cabane magique” de Mary Osbourne qui pourrait correspondre?

    “Les Conquérants de l’impossible” mais c’est dans la plupart des épisodes seulement 3 garçons.

    Dans les deux cas c’est une série.







  • They enrich uranium up to 60%. It is very costly and there is no civilian need for that. No one believes it is a civilian program.

    I am very critical of Israel on Gaza, but on the Iranian nuclear program, there has been decades of procrastination, ambivalence and, since the last Trump episode, downright idiocy, in the handling of the diplomatic discussion. I kinda believe it when they say we were at the point where strikes were the only option to avoid a nuclear Iran.

    Then again, the world pretends that Israel has no nukes whereas it is an open secret. All the other nuclear nations, including Pakistan and India, consider that the only way to be safe in such a situation is the MAD doctrine. Yet we expect Iran to stop its nuclear program and pretend its main enemy has none. I am not sure how idiotic we thought they are but even to religious fanatics it was pretty obvious that the only way for them was to have their own secret program.

    This is a complex clusterfuck where you can’t easily split the actors as good guys/bad guys. There are lots of rational decisions and lots of totally idiotic religion-fueled ethnic hatred.


  • It is also non-coercitive.

    I would argue that when you have 1000+ people, you will necessarily have subgroups, teams, you wont have 1000 on 1000 communication. There will be subtasks, people a bit more specialized at organization and communication. Topologically, you will have a graph of people passing through specialized communication nodes. I think it is unavoidable.

    There is no reason however for seeing these nodes as “above” the others. It is out of habit that we organize things as a pyramid, but the fact is if a dev or a maintainer disagree, they have no way to force each other. Resolution comes from overall consensus, and the reason why Linus Torvalds is often the arbiter of these cases is because he is very respected by the rest of the community, but whole forks have existed (and have been reintegrated).

    Open source politics is quite different from what people are used to. The ability to fork a whole project gives a mean of resistance that no other organization has.









  • I love the lemonaut.

    Also, there is an advice I love, that can be applied to any genre: Do not write with the genre X in mind. Write what you want, pour your love in it, and let others label it. Maybe ‘solarpunk’ will end up not existing and will instead be dwarfed by a similar but different style, tidal romance, alt-earth utopians, skyships lesbian pirate slashfiction, whatever. Do not try too hard to shoehorn the themes of sustainability, it can simply be a background for the things you love.

    Gibson hated the term “cyberpunk”: he said he was just writing the science fiction that made sense to him.

    If you are attracted to solarpunk, you have some thoughts and hope about the future but you are probably also into other things that you love. Make it about that.


  • First of all, I love you, slrpnk admins.

    First, yes, <3 to all.

    Then:

    Meh, I consider that resilience is not opposed to sustainability.

    We don’t have to prioritize it right now, and I will always be grateful of volunteers who do the best they can with what they have.

    And to me the lesson was that several communities (french-speaking jlai.lu) still worked and I just used an alt there to continue the conversations I had, and that I could still access through them the past conversations in slrpnk.net. This is a testament to the resilience of the fediverse architecture.

    I just disagree with the sentiment that we should somehow romanticize power outages. Some people need a reliable power sources to survive, and it is a totally preventable thing. We can route around them in a radically different way though.

    But thinking “this could be down for a week with no warning” also implies that I need to keep a fallback mechanism if I am using it to organize any sort of event with people.



  • En fait, si tu vas dans cette direction, tu vas te rendre compte que les gens qui essayent de vivre de l’open source ont l’habitude de faire des compromis et d’avoir des solutions business hybrides. Il n’y a personne qui arrive à être 100% open source et à faire vivre un business autour de ça. On râle tous sur des compromis. Oui, la com, on doit la faire sur des réseaux sociaux moisis. Oui, il y a certaines briques dans l’écosystème qui ne sont pas encore là et on ne peut pas à la fois monter un business et développer tout ce qui manque pour être 100% open source. Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.

    Les barbus énervés sont utiles justement pour rappeler que c’est un effort constant et ils servent de poil à gratter pour rappeler que dès que tu peux faire des transitions en dehors de services propriétaires, ce n’est pas juste une décision qui idéologiquement a du sens, c’est souvent une décision qui a du sens au niveau souveraineté, contrôle des données, lock-in, dette technique, etc.

    Sur le reste, je n’ai pas particulièrement de conseils, mais je suis tombé plusieurs fois sur des gens qui m’ont dit de commencer avec WordPress et des plugins commerciaux. Il y en a plusieurs. Je crois que c’est Shopify, oui, qu’on me recommandait. Et assez curieusement, on m’a dit (Nota: c’était y a plus de 5 ans) qu’une fois dépassé ça, développer sa solution custom avec Stripe est ce qu’il y a de mieux. Après, en effet, c’est toi qui décide où tu passes du temps et ce n’est pas forcément la meilleure utilisation, mais la plupart des frameworks payants sont chers et limitants.

    Avoir un geek dans l’équipe capable de coder le site dont il y a besoin et de savoir jongler entre les contraintes techniques et les contraintes business, c’est un atout clair. Par contre, à vous de faire le calcul de l’emploi de ton temps. Maintenir un site en prod, c’est drainant et stressant. Ne pas avoir la main dessus et passer par un fournisseur extérieur qui va vous prendre plusieurs centaines d’euros par mois, c’est une autre source de stress.