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alexduroson Apple’s renewable energy projects are helping to create 1.2GW of clean power

Please stop using "clean" next to "power". At least "renewable"...

alexduroson Urban gulls adapt foraging schedule to human‐activity patterns

New research found out that urban gulls schedule its food research based on human acticity. It turns out that those urban gulls go to schools or waste centres on weekdays and to parks during weekends. Fascinating.

alexduroson France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools

I don't know if it's good or bad news. But what is very disappointing is that when French government deal with digital natives issues, it's a question about "should we fear about smartphones or not ?" As Laurent Alexandre explains it perfectly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJowm24piM4, in french) in many talks he gives those times to the French government, we should spend more thinking about how to educate our children to use and understand those new technologies, instead of fearing it and applying the "good old french precautionary principle" to keep our eduction system free of smartphones, full of chalk and blackboard...

alexduroson GitHub.com with black ribbon – what happened?

Amazon style ? ;)

alexduroson GitHub Audio

Actually, the simple fact that this thread appears in 1st in HN lead me to this wrong way, prior to the TLD.

alexduroson Gitless: a version control system

The approach of this experiment is interesting. But, as an experienced git user, I think it does not include easy access to very powerful and easy-to-learn features of git like "git * -p" which bring some interactivity in git commands.

alexduroson What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox

A good sum up to play with flexbox here : https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

alexduroson HTTP Live Streaming in JavaScript

> Obviously DRM would still be an issue unless the browser natively supports EME.

Actually, with HLS, DRM is an issue on browsers since HLS is not designed to work with EME spec.

By the way, some open source players like https://github.com/canalplus/rx-player implements EME spec to work with DRM, Smooth Streaming Format or MPEG DASH format, that are compatible with the common encryption model.

alexduroson XSA-108 Advisory

interesting link ... from 2010 http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/x2APIC-emulation-for-HVM-gu...