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Commentary (in French) from CNLL, the French Open Source Business Association: https://cnll.fr/news/strategie-open-source-europeenne-deux-r... Here's a TL;DR in English: CNLL commu…

I was really surprise by the recommendation to use "uv tree --outdated --depth 1" to list outdated deps. I personally use "uv pip list --outdated" since it has been introduced. I a…

https://euro-stack.com/ (which I'm personally managing myself), among others.

I have made some experiments with P2W, my experimental Python (subset) to WASM compiler. Initial figures are encouraging (5x speedup, on specific programs). https://github.com/abil…

It is a disgrace how Google has managed this situation. To recap the storyline, as far as I understand it: last August, Google announced plans to heavily restrict sideloading. Foll…

There was a Linux distribution (briefly) called "$DISTRO". Known today as "Ubuntu".

70 propositions from the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, written in part by yours truly (in early 2025, i.e. before the "Trump effect" was in full force) and…

Cf. "The rise and fall of Limux" (2017) https://lwn.net/Articles/737818/ Initiated by the city of Munich, LiMux aimed to migrate public administration systems from Windows to a Lin…

Little known fact: OCaml was at one point called "Zinc" ("Zinc is not Caml").

Published in 2000. (I studied schemes 10 years before, but I quit maths in 2000 so this book wouldn't have helped me. It seems like a good introduction, looking at the TOC. Grounde…

"this revolves a lot around the backend returning HTML" → This is the way the Web used to work in the era of 56kbps modems (also, with ten levels of " " for layout).

"I was late to the hypermedia party" → very late indeed :) The term was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson in: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800197.806036 Here's the exact sentence: "Th…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Dylan

"... and the chicks for free "?

70 KLOC

I thought for a second that it was about the Enso programming language ( https://modeling-languages.com/enso-dont-design-your-program... ) :)

The "Acme Klein Bottle Wine Bottle" is incredible. It strongly reminds me of Jacques Carelman's "Catalogue d'objets introuvables" (1969) [translated as "Catalog of fantastic things…

The "EU" is not a political institution. It is a "a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.". The (main) political inst…

1) You are confusing copyright and trade marks. 2) Is "American" (or "Chinese", etc.) trademarked?

The project is led by EU citizens. Do you want a stamp from the European Commission to call it "trully European"? (If so, I would object).

"Yet most of the public money goes to proprietary software, and Open Source is the exception." → I've asked, twice, for the CNLL, the French Court of Auditors (Cour des Comptes) to…

Start with https://opensource.org/about In more concrete terms: they're the stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD), which is a rather explicit, but still subject to interpret…

If you're French, it's Clément Ader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9ment_Ader

Also FISA702 and EO 12.333