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baud147258··on Big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood– they pay for proprietary groupware
You're welcome :). I though it might interest some people here
baud147258··on Communities are not fungible
Discord's just a platform. When Discord will disappear, I don't think it would happen overnight and the communities would have time to decide where to relocate, hopefully for an open-source self-hosted solutions, but more likely for the next hot thing in instant communication. And it's not as if communities don't move from platform to platform already: like wasn't there a big wave of people moving from Digg to Reddit a while back?
baud147258··on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
For France, I'd argue (just like in the US) that the break in construction of new reactors gutted the industry and institutional knowledge around the construction of reactor
baud147258··on FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
Because they may be your neighbors, your colleagues? Because they're going to the same third place as you, whatever that might be?
baud147258··on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
As a cyclist, I'm not a big fan of roundabouts, because I'm always worried I'll get hit on the side by a car entering/leaving the roundabout whenever I don't take the first exit, mostly because I feel like I have less visibility in the direction from which the car might come from, compared to a standard crossing.

Though I've never been in an accident either on a crossing or roundabout, so I can't really judge how true my impression is.

baud147258··on San Francisco Graffiti
Because if graffitiers didn't degrade your property, you wouldn't have to clean after them?
baud147258··on San Francisco Graffiti
because you find it ugly? Because the city/HOA is asking? Because it's a political message you don't agree with (or don't want your house to get burned for it)?
baud147258··on San Francisco Graffiti
> the majority of graffiti is artists just putting up art.

Art? Where I live the overwhelming majority of graffiti is just a few letters forming meaningless words... Like even if it was art, no one could appreciate it because no one could understand it.

baud147258··on San Francisco Graffiti
> It's a way for anyone to express themselves on their environment

no, just a way for a minority to trash public infrastructure because they're assholes

baud147258··on Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
> France and Germany are the ones who actually runs high speed trains on old tracks, a lot.

At least in France, high speed trains on older tracks won't go as fast as on the dedicated high speed tracks

baud147258··on Sony wiped over 1k shovelware games off the PlayStation store without warning
I've been hearing the term since Unity made easy (easier?) to create low effort assets flips.
baud147258··on Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
well France is still in the EU and has nukes (including some in nuclear submarines), for what it's worth. Though it's not a given that the French would use their nukes to defend the EU.
baud147258··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
I spent a lot of time answering rather primitive questions, but since it was on a narrow topic (Logstash, part of the ELK stack), there wasn't many other people eager to post answers. Though it often ended up with the same type of issues, not necessarily duplicates, but similar enough that I got bored with it.
baud147258··on I wish people were more public
> can anyone recommend any decent forum engines

I've spent (way too much) a lot of time on forums built using xenoforo, though I'm not sure of what's the stack underneath and what was built-in and what had been added by the operators.

baud147258··on Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)
why did you link that instead of the original source (https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2025-12-18_Shhh...) , since it's already linked in the page?
baud147258··on Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work
> a short paragraph on expectations.

or worse, multiple bulleted paragraphs fulls of expectations that have little to do with how the software actually work and is used by the actual users.

baud147258··on Powder and stone, or, why medieval rulers loved castles
I don't think castles, especially the moat and bailey types discussed in the article. Even those built of stone required maintenance to last longer than decades, especially if you want something usable and not a ruin (and at the time, any construction that's not in use would likely be dismantled, with the construction materials to be re used).

But I agree that money played a part: castles were the place from where the local lord was controlling his estate, extracting taxes from the local farms and controlling the military force that would prevent other from trying to pillage/forage on his lands.

baud147258··on I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop
ok, I guess. I just never handled that many. I would also have though that the bank might ask questions
baud147258··on I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop
When you said you paid cash, you paid all ~7.5k€ in paper money? How do you get that much cash out of your bank?
baud147258··on Super Mario 64 for the PS1
it works if the console isn't sold at a loss, which isn't always the business model
baud147258··on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]
> What’s the problem with the F35 and combat readiness?

For example, the UK would like to use its own air-to-ground missile (the spear missile) with its own F-35 jets, but it's held back by Lockheed Martin's Block 4 software update delays.

baud147258··on How Brussels writes so many laws
Just ship it, it will be someone else's problem
baud147258··on After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
yeah, but at this point it's weird they just don't grab a studio, give them a funding for 2 years and say them 'copy the latest indie trends with a tad more polish' and let them cook to see what comes out.
baud147258··on Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25k vehicles go?
While I agree with some of your points in the thread, Paris is a pain to cross, whatever the direction.
baud147258··on Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25k vehicles go?
The article opens up with a glaring mistake:

> Paris, 15th April 2019, 6:43pm.

> Inside the ancient cathedral all is quiet.

The fire started during the mass, so not fully silent. And a first fire alarm had already been sounded 20 min earlier.

baud147258··on The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
Stormfront users wouldn't have really been relevant for the FSF. But on a platform like Twitter, which isn't mono-subject like the Stormfront forums, would have been relevant for an organization like FSF.

And personally the few people I follow there (mostly game devs) are totally worth talking to.

baud147258··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
Maybe if you include all the eggs in processed food like cookies or cakes and in restaurants or other catering operations you reach that number? And eggs consumed at home could still be around 12 per person?
baud147258··on Advent of Code 2025
well, I tried to do the first day and I think it's an indictment of my own capabilities that I spent most of my day on the second part and still failed to get the correct result. That sort of programming is not something I've been doing at my current position, but still as programmer that has been working for a decade, that smarts a little.
baud147258··on Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
> Well the US has lost every military conflict it's entered for the past 70 years.

Operation Just Cause? Desert Storm?

And, depending on how you look at it, the US won the war in Afghanistan and Irak, but lost the peace afterwards.

baud147258··on Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU
if you're a sole, unknown candidate, how do you expect to be elected?

More seriously, you can still hand out leaflets, meet with locals in public, cold-calling the locals, sticking placards, talking to journalists working for a local publication (if available).

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