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L'association des @Cemea_France recrute un responsable informatique en CDI pour gérer une équipe de 4-5 personnes sur Paris. Environnement pro-libre (mais pas que) et communs numériques @zourit #logiciellibre
Gestion d'un parc de 90 salarié·es. Expériences souhaitées dans la gestion d'une équipe.
#jerecrute
https://interne.cemea.asso.fr/api/docs/data/19334235ochyhbjfx3b5
When you want to call a paper from 2017 a "recent study" and realize that was almost a decade ago
@aesthr wait a second, that’s totally recent!!
*waves walking cane in protest*
How could the Terminator possibly find John just by riding around LA hoping to run into him? Like, what are the odds of that? I asked my therapist this question but she told me to just focus on my own mental health.
@dirtycommo I'd propose the Freenove LCD board instead. I made an enclosure for it over the weekend. Check out the whole project too, it might be interesting to you:
https://github.com/clackups/draftling/tree/main/3D_Prints/Freenove_fnk0104s
your social and mental life almost magically improves once you start carrying yourself like someone who genuinely has no desire to be liked by anyone.
found this old clip from that one time I attached a camera to our cat
checked how the vibecoded video site does activitypub fetches. it does follow redirects, and it downloads the resource before checking whether it's too large
I need to start tighter integration between @frax and @wavedashdotcom. there is real potential for a nice and fresh games platform
Y'all. If your child is riding on a bike they need to wear a bike helmet.
If your kid is riding a motorcycle your kid needs a motorcycle helmet.
The helmet is to protect their brain, an important part of their body that regulates systems that run the body.
It doesn't matter if your child is "being careful" or "staying close to home" or any other seriously ridiculous bullshit you say to explain why your child is riding without brain protection.
In closing, just because you quit using your brain for anything useful doesn't mean you get to neglect your child.
Sincerely,
An adult
“Understanding the True Purpose of Generative AI in Ads”
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/11/02/microsoft-just-gave-us-the-perfect-name-for-ai-thieves-kyle/
> The narrator drops a precise timestamp, like he’s recounting the exact moment of a terrorist bombing inside Kyle’s soul.
When you want to call a paper from 2017 a "recent study" and realize that was almost a decade ago
Tonight’s movie night movie will be, “V for Vendetta (2006).” I don’t remember remember much of this movie but gotta watch it because it’s November.
@bigzaphod the comic is well worth a read if you’re into that sort of thing.
The one I have has a foreword from Alan Moore about the dangers of England sliding easily into fascism and you think “ahh yes those themes are relevant today” and then you notice the foreword was written in 1988 🥲
@ghostdancer @Leviatar
Y al final Paul Bocuse lo que decía es que las patatas a la riojana eran su plato preferido.
Over the past few days, I've spent quite a lot of time revisiting some tools I wrote for Linux many years ago. Some of them have been running in production for well over a decade. They work well, I've kept improving them over the years, and I think they could be useful to other people too.
So I started cleaning up the comments (in Italian, mostly), reviewing a few things, thinking about making them public. And then I stopped.
I'm not sure I want to release them anymore.
It's not about the work involved. I enjoy writing things, and I enjoy sharing them. I've been doing both for almost thirty years. But lately, with some of my projects, I've found myself spending more time explaining why I chose to do things in a certain way than discussing the software itself.
Why didn't I use this? Why didn't I follow that convention? Why isn't the development history publicly visible? Why not simply do what everyone else does?
And, to be clear, I have absolutely nothing against these questions. Asking questions is perfectly legitimate. What bothers me is the assumption that, if someone does things differently, there must be something wrong with their approach. Sometimes even something suspicious.
Last Saturday, during my talk at Linux Day, I mentioned something that I consider fundamental: Open Source is about freedom. Not about replacing one set of imposed conventions with another.
Thirty years ago, people asked me why I didn't just use Windows. Today, when something doesn't compile on a BSD, someone inevitably asks why I don't just use Linux. Which is rather funny, considering that I use Linux extensively and have done so since 1996.
But that's not the point, is it?
I don't dislike conventions. I don't dislike Git, public development or any of the practices that have become common over the years. I use many of them myself. I simply don't think they should become requirements for being considered a legitimate member of the Open Source community.
I have always disliked monopolies, including monopolies of thought. And I find it rather sad to see the same pressure to conform appearing in a world that attracted me precisely because it offered an alternative.
Perhaps I'm just getting a little tired. Not of developing things, but of having to justify my choices every time they differ from what people expect.
So, for now, I think those tools will remain where they've been for all these years: running on my servers, doing their job. Maybe I'll change my mind. I hope so, actually.
But right now, I don't feel like going through all of that again.
And that's a pity, because I still believe that sharing what we create is one of the best things about Open Source.
@stefano Sometimes I ask those kinds of questions, too. But I'm not trying to be judgemental, just genuinely curious. Why did someone do things this way? Do they think it's better? Does it make them feel more comfortable? What can I learn from this? Is there a better way I haven't thought about?
@durru y la fama se la llevan los franceses cuando es algo copiado de sus vecinos del sur 
A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process (Rivka Galchen/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/11/09/the-year-math-changed-forever?currentPage=all
http://www.techmeme.com/261102/p7#a261102p7
The Jepsen analysis of ParticleDB is so funny
DB companies usually commission Jepsen so they can go ‘hey, this expert analysis found some bugs which could happen under very rare conditions with multiple servers and multiple clients, and we fixed them’ – it’s overall good publicity because it makes the company look diligent about data integrity, notwithstanding the discovery of bugs
This one is ‘the expert analysis found that almost no functionality worked as advertised even with a single server and client, basic SQL semantics were horrendously broken, some new versions created even more bizarre bugs, and the analysis also reveals that nobody at the company was able to explain the bugs or how they were fixed, and even the test suite they claimed they’d already successfully run was actually failing to begin with’
(Also: Damn, it must have taken the patience of a saint to work with these people)
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