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In France there had been cases of employees wiring money convinced that they were talking to their CEO/CFO/lawyers over the phone. Many cases were due to a Franco-Israeli gang arre…

I remember him from a tech video on theserverside.com, I thinkg it was on guice and dependency injection back in the 2005-2010 period. He was all smiles, energetic and inspiring. S…

True but you see very different landscapes in these 3000kms and probably more diverse than in the 24000km of the Canadian trail. Also if you like history you probably can visit som…

The trail lacks a segment on the Mediterranean coast. It could extended by going down to Menton on the Mediterranean from the Ecrins National Park via the Queyras and Mercantour na…

The limit to 6 months is pretty disappointing. Also the 1,000,000 ISK monthly salary for workers in the Schengen area is pretty restrictive, except for Switzerland, Norway, not tha…

I built a web SPA "crypto" calculator that performed basic and generic tasks such as symmetric ciphering with block padding, hashing with different algorithms at the same time, pkc…

I managed to have the same battery life if not better than on Windows 11. I own a 3 years old Dell XPS 13, i7 16GB of RAM and run it on the latest Fedora (arch btw before). It is a…

Truly agree. There are also countries like France which only imported cheap and poor labor. France never tried or even discouraged rich people to settle in the country with punitiv…

I used to manage my dotfiles with stow (xstow actually) and do some simple links. Now I run an Ansible playbook that creates links or copy depending on the files and also install t…

I was interested to buy the 14Z90Q since it ticked most of the boxes for me: lightweight, good battery life, TB4 ports, 12th gen cpu, not crazy expensive RAM upgrade, etc. The only…

I ran Archlinux with LTS kernel on my home laptop for 1.5 years and I stopped because of instabilities. The last issue that I had was the update to pipewire, my bluetooth headset s…

Well notifications to subscribe to AppleTV, digitalize a payment card into Apple Pay and another notification for the Apple watch.

I really don't understand the hype for the iphone. I own a oneplus 8t on Android 12, I particularly like the 120Hz display and the very fast charging (65w). When my battery is almo…

We can still see: * a private jet flying from Munich(UPEM008) to Moscow * a commercial flight leaving Moscow to Berlin (Bulgarian Air LZBRU) * a private jet flying over Lithuania f…

You probably know it but you don't need to copy and paste in you terminal, you can use pipes. ssh myuser@myip "cat > myfile" and use tar to stdout, untar from stdin to transfer dir…

I am French living in south of France but I would not recommend France mainly for 1 reason: (the lack of) safety. I lived a few years in Canada so I can compare to North America. F…

I am French and I did try it, recording my voice in English (I have a thick French accent to English speaking ears, ok for French ones). And the result back in French was kind of g…

You mean install docker in the WSL2 installed distribution directly ? I run a Ubuntu 20.04 WSL2 vm. It does not seem very easy to install it directly in the vm, for instance there …

After almost 2 years running Arch I switched back to Windows last summer on my home laptop (Dell XPS 13 9380). The pipewire update needed by pulseaudio effects broke the sound outp…

The point is that Libya or even Tunisia is much closer than Sicilia (>200km away).

France is not the 5th richest nation, it is 7th ordered by GDP.

Wrong and exaggerated on so many levels. What you are saying is caricature of the left extremist way of thinking. No the yellow vest movement was nothing but peaceful, quite violen…

The "A few good men" movie sequence is not really good. First I cannot understand Jack Nicholson's answer and could not rely on the lips movements to get it. It is supposed to be t…

I have done 10+ years of Java development and 1 year of Python. And I disagree, Java packaging is better. You can package all your dependencies in a fat jar like Spring boot does a…

I agree mostly. Some good use cases for Java: - cryptography: It has a wide range support of symmetric/asymmetric algorithms from legacy to modern ones. - XML and SOAP with Web Ser…