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No, because obviously it's not about numbers but about politics.
Re:Calendar on Sunday December 28, 2025 @03:05AM (#46409337)
Is it just me, or can't you close the big pop-in welcome info box on firefox ?
also you can use https://github.com/krtab/agnos if you don't have any api access
My experience with a mac mini in a small R&D team has been a nightmare : the OS sucks so much for anything that is not a single user (at a time) on the machine, coming from the Systemd/Linux world

What was your experience ?

>131 rue de Créqui, 69006 Lyon 6

Yeah, that's a postal box to host compagnies.

Re:FSE meets the FBI on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:21AM (#44222418)
Actually, what does being blocked by half the fediverse has to do with fact checking ? Nothing, but that's the angle the author of this story chose.
Re:FSE meets the FBI on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:16AM (#44222123)
>I'd like to also thank fediblock for never fact-checking anything ever, giving the false impression that things that FSE has never permitted were allowed.

Proceeds to link to a website whose source code is hosted by kiwifarms. If you are blocked, that's because most of us don't want to interact with the "free speech" crowd, that's pretty much it.

François was born in Buenos Aires, how is that the first american pope ?
Re:Giving Software Away for Free on Monday April 28, 2025 @03:19PM (#43824959)
« I haven't seen GitHub break a working URL that they have hosted in the 17+ years since they first launched »

laughs in tornado cash

And that's why we need to stop being dependent on the US: everything in there is described in terms of « market share », and not in terms of usefulness, ethics, or independence.
I've seen stock-outs on free freestyles, following “influencer” videos on tiktok. That's a problem.
Re:Show HN: Hackyournews.com v2 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @03:21PM (#43071314)
>Lobste.rs

>Mastodon web app requires JavaScript or native apps for access

Now that's hilarious (that's a link to https://chaos.social/@hexa/114009069746212598 )

Re:Paris P2P Festival and Hackathon on Friday January 31, 2025 @05:10PM (#42892832)
It's not clear what it's about. I suspect some crypto bullshit.
Re:When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:16AM (#42508875)
I had the problem on APU4C4, iirc. You install openwrt on it, everything is working fine, then, you reboot and you get nothing on the serial port.

You unplug/plug it, cold boot it, and then it works again.

Step 1: Don't use CloudFlare MITM as a service

Step 2: Don't get blocked because you're not a streaming pirate service

Really, I see no downside to this court decision.

Because nixos.wiki was the primary source, until very recently. Then, wiki.nixos.org was introduced, and mass edits were made (without the owner of nixos.wiki being ok with that) trying to redirect people from nixos.wiki to wiki.nixos.org, and now both co-exist.

Reminds me a bit the archlinux.fr vs wiki.archlinux.org fr wiki situation from 10 years ago.

Re:Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker on Saturday September 14, 2024 @12:20PM (#41540764)
so, basically, beamforming but for sound ?
Re:Emmanuel Macron on the Arrest of Pavel Durov on Monday August 26, 2024 @11:05AM (#41357848)
This is France, stop expecting the legal system to work like in the US. Dude was arrested on a /sunday/, and we have a thing called violation of the secrecy of the investigation (yeah, often, it's not respected, but still).

He is presumed innocent, and if there is a trial, it will be public.

Phones can also transmit beacons. The same as laptops, actually, some of them constantly broadcast BLE beacons.

The signature is based on physical layer characteristics, according to the linked paper : « They result in two measurable metrics in BLE and WiFi transmissions: Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) and I/Q imperfections, specifically: I/Q offset and I/Q imbalance. ».

Yes, you would probably need SDR to do this tracking, but SDR are generally not this expensive.

Re:Surprising Gender Biases in GPT on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @05:43AM (#40914155)
What is this paper ? The tested sentences are full of errors…
Re:StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:57AM (#38151653)
> this looks ace, so a serious question: is it widely used?

I know some french cloud provider that uses it, and… I'm not sure they're happy with it. Issues with YAQL, a lot of weird bugs. They mentioned Temporal looking much cleaner.

It is true. The original post writes about reproducing the minimal iso, which contains probably around 1% of the packages in nixpkgs. The remaining packages are not tested regarding binary reproducibility, or, at least, not in a systematic manner, which means regressions may happen regularly (which is exactly what happened with the .iso, see the previous announcement from 2021: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-unstable-s-iso-minimal-x... .)
Yeah, that represent maybe 1% of the packages in nixpkgs (only the installation iso).
For those wondering : it should be remembered that the reproducibility of Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs is only a reproducibility of the sources: if the sources change, one is warned, but it is not a question of the reproducibility of the binaries (which can change at each build). This binary reproducibility of Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs is indeed not really tested, at least not systematically.

Guix, Archlinux, Debian do the binary reproducibility better than Nix / NixOS / Nixpkgs.

Sources :

- https://r13y.com/ ( Nix* )

- https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.ht... ( Debian )

- https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.ht... ( Archlinux )

- https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-... (Guix, might be a bit slow to load, here is some cached copy https://archive.is/lTuPk )

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