Jayjader

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Beigeshirt propaganda?! In MY fun hole?! How conflicting...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Super initiative!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I came across https://defed.xyz/ the other day, but it doesn't seem to fully report everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I suspect there is wisdom to be learned from forest management, specifically how regular, small controlled burns are how you avoid huge, unmanageable forest fires.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Diane Duane's "So you want to be a wizard?" series makes almost the exact opposite in creative choices as Rowling does for Harry Potter:

  • female protagonist with male best friend and partner-in-training
  • becoming a wizard is something that you choose, not something you are born into
  • being a wizard means upholding a certain responsibility towards the rest of the world, specifically that of slowing the progression of entropy and of the universe reaching heat death
  • as part of their initiation, each wizard personally confronts and is tempted by an embodiment of entropy - a sort of reverse pact-with-the-fel
  • Wizards learn their magic through their personal magic guide book, not some boarding school. The book automatically updates it's content according to what the wizard is currently interested in learning about.
  • magic is not incompatible with technology. although the main character is more into "nature" magic at the start of the series, her best friend is very mechanically inclined and his brand of magic follows suit. There is also a young wizard-in-training in a later book whose "personal magic guide book" takes the form of a laptop.

The author seems to have pretty decent views. Notably, she heavily rewrote one of the books that features an autistic wizard kid after getting feedback on how ablist she had written it the first time. (Which means if you're interested in picking them up, do really try to get a more recent printing).

There's also a book in the series that deals with having a parent losing the battle against cancer.

All in all, while they never gave me similar feelings of whimsy and quirk as Harry Potter, I loved these books just as deeply while growing up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's probably not what you're imagining, but there is the lemmynsfw instance which is a Lemmy instance that is more or less explicitly for porn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But there is one other, probably even more important advantage: Prolog is a programmer's and software engineer's dream. It is compact, highly readable, and arguably the "most structured" language of them all. Not only has it done away with virtually all control flow statements, but even explicit variable assignment too! These virtues are certainly reason enough to base not only systems but textbooks on this language.

The 90s certainly were a different time...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Not enough burritos available near me, but I've certainly been through the exact same experience with cheese naan kebab in front of the computer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Et sinon, amener un marteau & burin avec soi la nuit ca peut aussi être du temps a perdre mais moins que de tenter le tribunal.

Encore moins de temps a perdre, une bonbonne de peinture jaune fluo, histoire que le dos-d’âne soit visible a > 50m. Idéalement en écrivant "CE DOS-D’ÂNE EST ILLEGAL ET MEURTRIER" dessus 😈

Je pense au fameux meme du ricain qui dessinait des teubs autour des nid-de-poules dans son village pour "obliger" sa municipalité de les remplir/réparer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

In France, we literally call freedom of religion "freedom of cult" sometimes (and "freedom of conscience" some other times). I think it's weird how different the connotations of "cult" and "religion" are nowadays. Too many people don't realize that dictionaries record how words are used, they don't define what they mean.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?

All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.

.... How can the market be "real enough" if we can't tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don't know enough about economics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's not much of a dystopia, and it certainly doesn't seem to end that way, but the animated movie Robots just keeps feeling more and more relevant.

 

Article paru dans La Dépêche du 5 Mai 2025.

Surtout une confirmation du chad Jean Moulin vs le virgin Klaus Barbie, je trouve. C'est quand même époustouflant, si vrai, que Moulin a réussi a se donner la mort en s'ouvrant lui-même son crâne contre les murs de sa cellule.

~~J'éditerai dès que je suis devant un pc avec clavier l'alt-texte de l'image ainsi que je retranscriverai l'article en commentaire sous ce poste.~~ edits faits !

 
 

Je découvre ce titre aujourd'hui 😇

 
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réf a mon poste

 

95,350,331 documents from at least 17 data breaches and had a total size of 30.1GB

“This database is dedicated to compiling information from multiple French-related data breaches and includes previously known and unknown leaks,” researchers said.

L'explication donnée par l'article me parait correcte, mais j'y connais rien a ce genre de fuite.

Parmis les fichiers du leak, le seul truc que je reconnais est le suivant:

ldlc.txt. Points to an alleged compromise involving LDLC, a French online electronics retailer.

LDLC pwned ? :(

 

Je lisais des fils dans [email protected] et suis tombé sur une n-ième discussion concernant les chars, les ours, et la dés[t]alinisation du développement du logiciel lemmy (dsl pour les jeux de mots enfantins mais c'est pas la partie importante de mon message et je ne veux surtout pas relancer de sujet à leur propos).

Non seulement des discussions assez intéressantes politiquement (et pas que sur les logiciels du fédivers), mais surtout j'y découvre qu'il y a plusieurs tentatives de fork de Lemmy en ce moment, ainsi qu'apparemment sublinks se voudrait être capable de fonctionner directement avec une ancienne db de/pour lemmy.

Le commentaire qui en parle dans la discussion : https://jlai.lu/comment/10577392

Perso, je préfère investir mes efforts sur mon projet de client activity pub multi-services^[0], donc je ne vais militer dans un sens ni l'autre. Ça me semblait juste pertinent de partager cette info au cas où ça aiderait la réflexion (si elle n'est pas déjà résolue).

[0] : pour l'instant ça sait afficher des objets AP lus sur une URL en json brut, et si toi tu lui dis qu'un objet particulier est un pouet masto il l'affiche alors un peu plus mis en page. Si un jour j'arrive a en être satisfait de sa capacité "client Lemmy/piefed/etc" je reviens volontiers en faire la promo, mais c'est pas pour demain!

 
 

J'ignore comment rendre justice à l'expérience qu'à été ma lecture de ce livre.

Dévoré en quelques jours. Le dernier tiers en particulier m'a retenu éveillé jusqu'à 3h du matin, le récit tellement fort que je ne pouvais me convaincre d'attendre le lendemain pour le terminer.

Un certain ressenti de découvrir le livre que j'aurais écrit, dans une autre vie, si j'avais choisi un parcours "littéraire" et non "scientifique". Un renouveau de rage écologique maintenu sous contrôle, presque étouffé, par un calme fataliste qui n'est pas pour autant un lâcher-prise. Si Les Soulèvements De La Terre était une religion ceci serait sans doute un de leurs textes sacrés, et Powers un de leurs prophètes (bien que Bouddha serait plus apte comme label). Heureusement, ce n'est pas une religion, et ce livre n'est pas un texte divin. Au contraire, je le trouve profondément profane, et humain.

Au-delà du "contenu" (cad les thèmes abordés, les arcs narratifs et péripéties suivi(e)s) la forme est remarquable. Powers écrit avec un style de narration qui, tel la conduite d'une auto à boite de vitesse dans une contrée vallonnée, change de trajectoire et d'allure dès qu'on a avancé une centaine de mètres. Et tout comme cette conduite, l'expérience qui en ressort n'est pas une succession d'interruptions qui nous laisse sur le qui-vive, mais un état de conscience profonde qui s’imprègne simultanément de chaque détail séparé et du mouvement de l'ensemble. Il y a des phrases qui donnent l'impression que le livre entier a été écrit et construit autour d'elles.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arbre-monde

 
 

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/10771034

n’hésitez-pas à me demander de traduire certains passages de mon post en français si besoin

Personal review:

A good recap of his previous writings and talks on the subject for the first third, but a bit long. Having paid attention to them for the past year or two, my attention started drifting a few times. I ended up being more impressed with how much he's managed to condense explaining "enshittification" from 45+ minutes down to around 15.

As soon as he starts building off of that to work towards the core of his message for this talk, I was more-or-less glued to the screen. At first because it's not exactly clear where he's going, and there are (what felt like) many specific court rulings to keep up with. Thankfully, once he has laid enough groundwork he gets straight his point. I don't want to spoil or otherwise lessen the performance he gives, so I won't directly comment on what his point is in the body of this post - I think the comments are better suited for that anyways.

I found the rest to be pretty compelling. He rides the fine line between directionless discontent and overenthusiastic activist-with-a-plan as he doubles down on his narrative by calling back to the various bits of groundwork he laid before - now that we're "in" on the idea, what felt like stumbling around in the dark turns into an illuminating path through some of the specifics of the last twenty to forty years of the dynamics of power between tech bosses and their employees. The rousing call to action was also great way to end and wrap it all up.

I've become very biased towards Cory Doctorow's ideas, in part because they line up with a lot of the impressions I have from my few years working as a dev in a big-ish multinational tech company. This talk has done nothing to diminish that bias - on the contrary.

 

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/10771035, https://jlai.lu/post/10771034

Personal review:

A good recap of his previous writings and talks on the subject for the first third, but a bit long. Having paid attention to them for the past year or two, my attention started drifting a few times. I ended up being more impressed with how much he's managed to condense explaining "enshittification" from 45+ minutes down to around 15.

As soon as he starts building off of that to work towards the core of his message for this talk, I was more-or-less glued to the screen. At first because it's not exactly clear where he's going, and there are (what felt like) many specific court rulings to keep up with. Thankfully, once he has laid enough groundwork he gets straight his point. I don't want to spoil or otherwise lessen the performance he gives, so I won't directly comment on what his point is in the body of this post - I think the comments are better suited for that anyways.

I found the rest to be pretty compelling. He rides the fine line between directionless discontent and overenthusiastic activist-with-a-plan as he doubles down on his narrative by calling back to the various bits of groundwork he laid before - now that we're "in" on the idea, what felt like stumbling around in the dark turns into an illuminating path through some of the specifics of the last twenty to forty years of the dynamics of power between tech bosses and their employees. The rousing call to action was also great way to end and wrap it all up.

I've become very biased towards Cory Doctorow's ideas, in part because they line up with a lot of the impressions I have from my few years working as a dev in a big-ish multinational tech company. This talk has done nothing to diminish that bias - on the contrary.

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