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olivierduval

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    Comment #48185824

    Can we talk about features like JavaFX being free (community) before and then starting to become paid ("ultimate" version) after update ? Of course without telling: "while upgradin…

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    Comment #47554316

    Obvisouly, with the current US Administration, EU will fully trust US to process the datas of its citizen in a way that respect the ... US interests ! And Europe will trust the US …

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    Comment #45031211

    In that regard, US is obviously Europe's enemy, isn't it ? ;-) :-D

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    Comment #44525383

    Actually, I dont need a "smart newsfeed" to hear about Trump. Smart is not about who is doing the show every day, it's about what's important and may be missed

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    Comment #44521195

    Hi First, it's a great idea! The "introductory" speech is interesting then... the result is really disappointing :-( You see: I'm French (and European). So, I don't necessarily con…

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    Comment #43932210

    Actually, you can't neither read that or the opposite from the graphs: it doesn't if the new code is for new functionalities or if it's to replace (without deleting) some old code.…

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    Comment #43676471

    All about time is about the use of time. So what is your use-case? Time is either some "point in time" (like a date) or "duration". Your use-case is not the first one because a "po…

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    Comment #43192324

    Seriously ???? Did you buy JD Vance on "free speech" in EU ? Actually, you should get better information (and a link to the EU Commission website is nothing if you dont read or und…

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    Comment #43024830

    Sadly, that money will be wasted: * that money will go to "big corp" who know and have to time to build application forms... even if they don't have the knowledge ("take the money …

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    Comment #43024303

    So you bought an iPhone because of its "(product) design" (how it fullfill your needs) and not about "marketing" (how to define the markets for a product and why people in these ma…

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    Comment #43023894

    At the same time, "Europeans think US is 'necessary partner' not 'ally'" ( https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/12/europeans-thin... ) I wonder why... maybe because it look l…

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    Comment #42983973

    The OP mentioned: "This provision requires large online platforms to provide researchers with immediate access to publicly available data on their platforms in order to assess syst…

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    Comment #42931244

    "Companies that are found to be using any of the above AI applications in the EU will be subject to fines, regardless of where they are headquartered. They could be on the hook for…

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    Comment #42931178

    Actually that could be an interesting case... except if Twitter can show that its algorithm is "deterministic"

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    Comment #42850966

    Actually, a lot of territorial claims start with "renaming", to provide support for some kind of base for the claim. That specific case would have been quite minor (in the Trumpian…

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    Comment #42831146

    That's called "barrier to entry" to a market (or "un-leveling the field of play"). Actually, that's what any significant corp use first to forbid any new competitor to compete (and…

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    Comment #42829143

    Actually, it's more complex than this in France. There is 5 systems: - depending of the Ministry of Eduction : - for toddlers : maternelle (3-6 yo) - Primary : CP (6 yo, primary), …

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    Comment #42686875

    Curious :why Bluesky and not Mastodon? I would have thought that decentralization would be a better safeguard against Bluesky becoming Twitter after being successful... Honest ques…

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    Comment #42602735

    I think that you missed the point and should have read until "That’s exactly how we feed codebases to AI"... ;-) Actually, the article shows that feed an AI with "structured" sourc…

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    Comment #42430452

    And that's why X/Twitter should be banned too... ;-) And Facebook too !! :-D (obviously kidding but... well... not so much after seing https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documenta…

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    Comment #42278346

    The problem is not "ads" per se... it's engagement focus Ads or clickbait posts or filtering/ordering algorithms are just some consequences of engagement focus (also called "attent…

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    Comment #42278245

    Actually, focusing on "engagement" is already showing that the game is lost and that the we're seing another Twitter clone... :-( Because "engagement" is about "money" and "ad" and…

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    Comment #42135482

    Actually, it shows the real problem about education... and what education is for! Education is not a way to memorize a lot of knowledge, but a way to train your brain to recognize …

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    Comment #41655320

    > Most crates I use - like human-size or serde don't need any special capabilities to work. So we don't need to worry so much about their authors "turning evil" and adding maliciou…