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no it's never fair to ruin lives and torture people ("the hole" during months is torture [0][1]) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement_in_the_Un... [1] https://www…

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He's not sharing the email adresses, only anonymous password attempts.

I've seen two 2CV in Montréal, with Québec immatriculation on the back and French immatriculation on the front (modern post 2009).

"CV" is for "Chevaux" (horses) but we're talking "tax horses", a calculation used for a taxation system where more powerful vehicles cost more. The current french formula is 0.0001…

The Xantia can have the classic hydraulic suspension (hydropneumatique) identical to the Citroën BX or the Hydractive II system with an electronic calculator on board and more "sph…

It’s the case with .docx modern files. Older .doc files were binary (memory dump).

We're missing a high-speed connection here. The Bordeaux-Sète line is relatively slow (130-160 km/h) and handle a lot of different traffic (freight, regional, TGV, intercity). If t…

On some routes between France and Switzerland police and customs inspection seems to take place on board. It's even better, no time wasted. https://www.tgv-lyria.com/ch/en/travelli…

The Adirondack train is suspended since 2020 and had a commercial speed of 56 km/h (35 mph).

This FOSDEM conference from Frédéric Bisson might interest you: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/retro_revivin...

In the 90s, one of the most expensive Minitel, the Magis, had a card reader on the side, probably working like a point of sale terminal. [0] The overlay of X.25 Transpac network on…

I still have the 4 floppy disks (french version). I remember the sentence generator with random words that was really funny. The word processing interface had a ribbon-style toolba…

Maybe you could try to build Notepadqq for MacOS [1] but it's not well integrated at this time. [1] https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq/wiki/Compiling-Notepa...

On analog satellite, Canal+ had analog stereo (not NICAM) not scrambled audio, much better than the AM distorded signal on terrestrial tv.

Canal+ was the first private and pay-per-view channel, using the VHF bands empty after the shutdown (in 1983) of the 819 lines black and white signal of TF1.

Where is the Apache (httpd) server?

It's really a nice idea to save and collect these little history artifacts. In the same way, I wonder if we can extract the serif monospace font used on these workstations.

In Québec, Apple Maps is pretty good for directions in french language. I asked relatives in France and they say Apple Maps has improved a lot, and is better than Google Maps on pu…

Only two CSS rules can enhance the readability a lot on my screen: body { font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.5; }

KolourPaint is a better alternative to MS Paint with pretty much the same UI.

It reminds me the warning on the back of my child schoolbooks: "Danger, le photocopillage tue le livre" ("Warning! copying kill the book" but with a pun between "photocopy" and "pi…

The only 24 inches monitor on the market is the Ultrafine 4K for Macintosh. It's not even true 4K but UHD (3840x2160) for 184 dpi.

I remember when bigger monitors had higher resolution. 15 inch monitors were 1024x768, 17 inch were typically 1280x1024 and some 20 inch monitors 1600x1200. Now nearly every panel …