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> Freedom to say (almost) anything, publicly, including criticism of the elite and powerful.

Most European nations strongly protect free speech, allowing open public critique and satire of politicians, the wealthy, and the powerful.

> Freedom to do, to create a business with far fewer roadblocks than in, say, Europe.

Several European countries actually lead global easy business rankings, some offering fully digital, single-day company registration, very little bureaucracy (not mine, sadly)

> Freedom to go, to travel anywhere in a really large country, with no borders or restrictions.

The schengen zone grants passport-free travel across 29 nations, spanning thousands of miles without a single border checkpoint.

Re:Ask HN: Secure Wrapper for Coding Agents on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:41PM (#48738188)
If you're on a mac, lookup https://bromure.io/en/agentic-coding

(Lookup the browser too: https://bromure.io/en/secure-web)

Everything you see is made by Claude (and Renaud Deraison :-)) and working quite well jugding from the demos)

See here for more details (in french but English subs available (and more)): https://www.sstic.org/2026/presentation/cloture_2026/

Re:Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:53PM (#23988879)
This website is likely targeted at the French administrations like the ANSSI (National Cybersecurity Agency of France) which is often mocked because of a somewhat strict `French Only Policy` in internal documents.

Here they are using `Biscuit de pile` for `Stack Cookies`: https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/actualite/CERTFR-2015-ACT-047/

It may be the other way around, eg: someone inside ANSSI choosed to use `Biscuit de pile` to make people react:

- https://twitter.com/newsoft/status/671213007301648384

- https://twitter.com/x0rz/status/738272442771202048

Re:Source for theguardian.com on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:27PM (#17921624)
I can attest, this man surely knows his Galette-Saucisse stuff !

I'm sorry for your loss, take care!

I suggest you to take a look at this: http://10degres.net/subdomain-enumeration/ :-)
Re:Saying Goodbye to Firebug on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:34PM (#15545007)
Totally overkill yes, but without internet, you use whatever you're able to put your hands on ;-)

Ironically, the first software I cracked, well tried to, was an IRC client named Klient if I recall correctly. I bypassed the license check, but, this software included a functionality which, when it detected this, broadcasted to everyone (except me) that I was using a pirated version and that I was accepting the CTCP reboot command :-)

Re:Saying Goodbye to Firebug on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:29PM (#15543356)
Yeah, SoftICE, I remember buying Hackerzvoice (a French newspaper-like hacking magazine) which included SoftICE tutorials on how to crack WinRAR license verification. (for educational purposes of course)

I was amazed that I could breakpoint and debug any running app. I miss SoftICE.

I read this a while back from someone who work for the company which owns SoftICE copyright : https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1445/...

Re:Interesting commands for the Linux shell on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:31PM (#15250316)
The only forbidden characters in a Unix filenames are '/' and '\0'

Want to mess with such a script?

$ touch "$(echo -e -n 'lol\nposix')"

Re:GitHub's post-CSP journey on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:57AM (#13442677)
CSP mitigates the risks of XSS attacks.

If you look at : https://cspvalidator.org/#url=https://github.com you'll see that the CSP policy directive defines the origins from which images can be loaded

    'self' data: assets-cdn.github.com identicons.github.com collector.githubapp.com github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com *.githubusercontent.com ;
Previously, images could have been loaded from additional domains (gravatar) and could have been used to leak CSRF tokens.
Re:AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:23AM (#13328410)
> Who uses Chrome anyway?

Anyone who's (or should be) a little bit concerned about security ?

Firefox has been absent from 2016's Pwn2Own contest because of insuffisant "security improvements in the last year".

This may change with the Electrolysis project[1]

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

Please help find Filip Novonty, he's hitchhiking in Japan, last seen April 20th

Please help us find our friend Filip Novotny!He's from Czech Republic, he is on a hitchhiking trip, see his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/takemeeast<p>When he last contacted his friends he was somewhere around the Tokyo university of arts.If you have any information or have seen him, please contact Orianne at [email protected] you very...

( Read More... | 2 comments | 11 points | on HN )

  What is this about?
  Janela Sagynbaeva is 24, she's a girl from a village in 
  east Kyrgyzstan. She has to pay a family debt wich is way 
  beyond her financial means. Today, nearly all her time and 
  resources are focused on that effort.
  The debt that has accumulated is the result of an 
  unfortunate event.

  Janela's Father has been selling fruits in Kazakhstan.
  The fruits he was selling were not only his but also 
  those of his neighbours. He was supposed to collect and 
  bring back the money to be shared among the villagers. 
  When going back with the money, he was robbed at gunpoint.
  Unfortunately, the neighbours requested their money no 
  matter what, hence a $5000 debt. The event had occurend in 
  1997; since then, through various interest rates and 
  further credits, the debt has risen to $15,000. The 
  current interest rate is 13% which makes it hard for the 
  family to pay the percentage, let alone the initial sum.
Here are the links with more information:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/janela-s-life-back https://www.facebook.com/janelastory http://takemeeast.net/blog/janelas-tragedy/ http://www.facebook.com/takemeeast/

Please share and donate if you can! Thank you!

Re:BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @12:21PM (#5596069)
A de facto standard, potential opensource clients, free, server-less, not tied to a specific company, and more.
Re:Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:37AM (#4871368)
I understand what you mean but there is a lot of cliché in this homepage, pinky stuff, girls, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that friendship is for girl and construction is for boys.

I'm just saying that Lego Friends universe use some stereotype marketing

I would have been much less negative, if they included boys, girls, because, boys likes animals friends, pink as well as girl likes blue.

Lego: Please skip the stereotypes

Re:Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @09:44AM (#4871085)
> "Lego Friends" sets don't appear particularly gendered:

> The fundamental difference between Friends and the rest of lego seems to be that Friends is about people, whereas the rest of lego is about building stuff.

You can't say that Lego Friends marketing isn't seriously targeted at girls.

http://friends.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

Re:SSH2 client written in pure JavaScript for node.js on Monday November 12, 2012 @05:33AM (#4772268)
There's several things left to do: https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2/blob/master/TODO

But I wouldn't be so negative, there's plenty of reasons why this might be great / a good idea. (And a lot for it to be a bad one, crypto, security, etc.)

Re:Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @04:35AM (#4716601)
It may be related to patents:

"Why Android Jelly Bean 4.2′s Multiple User Account Switching Is Tablet-Only? (Hint: Nokia Patented It For Phones)"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/29/why-android-jelly-bean-4-2s...

Re:ShareJS – Live concurrent editing in your app on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @09:38AM (#3918947)
This would be a great way to enable collaborative email sharing. I always wanted a way to let someone spellcheck, review or edit a mail I was writing (Inside Gmail)

For now it's Google-docs, then copy/paste, but sharing the mail on the go would be so useful.

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