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Personnaly I didn't felt as if I was trying to recognize a place and period in history, but trying to guess what prompts were used to generate the pictures. Or at least for some of the pictures where I wasn't as sure of the event (like seeing the rose on a picture for the war of the roses).

Also I didn't listen to many of the sounds, but I got English voices for something happening in France (the Fauvisme guess).

But still I had some fun and it's nice to see a good use for AI

Maybe because Spain and Portugal lost their empires earlier than Great-Britain?

When Google nuked the (manifest V2) extensions I had on Chrome, without letting me export their settings (custom filters for ublock origin, RSS reader feeds), I bit the bullet and switched to Firefox.

> German conservatives [...] decided to break their main campaign promise and renege on doing what they said they would do.

what kind of promise was it?

> If you as an independent commentator are tied to a centralized platform, you are a feature to be sold, and will be muzzled or deprecated if needed.

Wasn't one selling point of Substack that you could easily leave with your subscribers, so substack writers aren't really for sale and can't be muzzled/deprecated? Or did it change since Substack was launed?

Also are you thinking about specific writer(s)/events when you wrote 'muzzled or deprecated if needed.'?

I agree that some of the outputs of the SAFe process aren't useless, like expressing dependencies between teams and discussing objectives, but the process is way too costly for what it achieves. Maybe if the name was changed to something like SCRUM and Waterfall evil child...

> SAFe was truly one of the worst things I encountered with consulting clients.

we've been using SAFe for a few years, I despise every minute of the planning process. Feel like a mix between using a crystal ball and forcing square pegs in round holes... Of course the additional disfunctionality at my company between sales, PO/PM/BO and engineering doesn't help, though it seems that I've avoided the worst SAFe train of the company.

but for computers, it's the same

> People don't know how to pop their hood now because they don't need to.

you don't need to figure how to create your own note taking/list making/accountancy software, you just open your favorite/default search engine, write the query and get a plethora of options, for nearly any platform under the sun, because of all the work has already been done, as you pointed out in your last paragraph.

> The difference is that there was a community around Reader’s social features.

Are social features the main selling point of RSS readers? I mean I just use mine to know when there's a new blog post/webcomic posted on a few sites I follow, without having to give my email or use another platform like social media to know about it. And I'd use the social features which are present on the blogs, under the control of the blog owner(s), if there's any. Or maybe my use case is not the most common one?

Though I agress about the signal Google sent by killing GR.

and before the Borderlands 4 ad, it was an ad for BL 3

> - Ten hours of programming saves one hour of planning...

If the planning is done with 5 or more people in a meeting, there still might be some time savings...

> But they also have 100% wood

Yeah, the bed I'm sleeping in is something like 20 years old, has gone through 3 moves (plus one where it wasn't dismantled) and is from Ikea. It's a full wood and is quite sturdy. I guess my parents paid what was needed for quality stuff.

> Having kids while living in the center of a large city is great

If you can afford a flat that's big enough for you and the kids

> smelting of silver and lead ores

The smelting of silver and lead is detectable via ice cores, I remember seeing a graph showing the height of Roman silver production was only matched in the 18th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_economy#/media/File:Worl...

> I didn’t feel that I belonged in [Croatian] society.

Why is he surprised? He doesn't speak their language, is just a privileged sportman running through their town/city/village.

I'd say the comment section of the website acoup.blog (which have been linked a few times on HN, that's how I discovered it), the commenters usually give the impression they've read the article. Of course it can also be due to the fact that it's a blog comment section, not those of a link-sharing site.

> You fight censorship with openness.

because TikTok is the epitome of openness? Has never censored any opinion?

While they might be using an email address from a public service doesn't mean they are browsing HN while on the job.

I haven't tested, but in addition to map sales there's a subscription option, for more features https://pastmaps.com/plus?src=header

that feels dystopian. And it's reflected by the title of the webpage: "The Brave New World of A.I.-Powered Self-Harm Alerts"

the last two payments I sent by cheque here in France got processed, one by the national electricity provider for about 50€ and the second by an association/company (I'm not sure) for 200€. The last cheque I received, in 2021 (my grandmother reimbursing me the gas refill I did on her car one week before she died), got processed for free by my bank.

But I don't think the chequebook I have can be used to sent money to someone outside of France. And I only have a chequebook because that's how I have to pay my electricity bill.

But I don't see anything in the document that shows that people are using personal vehicles for deplacements they could have easily been made with public transportation. Which was your original point that I disagreeing with: people aren't 'brainwashed by cars', but rather can't practically use another way.

Also, according to one of the linked pdf, cars in Paris are barely for Paris-Paris movement, but more for Paris-suburbs, which is still the biggest weakness of the public transportation network.

> Yes, there are a lot of people that use the car when they can not use it, thats still most of the car traffic.

so, do you have any data to back up that assertion? (I won't claim that I have any favorable to my argument, just the observation that driving in and Paris around Paris is pretty bad)

> For a lot of destination you can take 2-3 differentes routes.

most alternative routes usually take longer and end up congested whenever the main route is having issues.

I'm not sure Paris has one of the best public transit in the world or maybe that's just an indicative of the sorry state of public transit worldwide. I mean I wouldn't call world-class a system where just a single failure easily strands 1 million people halfway to their destination and where trains are delayed and cancelled routinely, often without information given to passengers.

I'm in favor of more public transportation, but if you think people use car willingly in and around Paris, I don't think you've tried it; it's so bad that only people with no viable choice will use a car. Or maybe you could explain (for example) how my sister in law was supposed to carry her two baby kids to the daycare using an overcrowded metro (and bonus, through stations without working elevators) or how my brother was supposed to carry the equipment he was using to constructions sites he was working. And then you've got all the places where taking a car is a 30 min trip vs 2 hours by bus or public transportation (thankfully the Grand Paris initiatives are helping a lot there).

For now, removing cars in Paris just push them around the city, because the public transportation network isn't ready.

it's also useful when power is cut, for example in case of natural disaster (I just saw today a video on Waffle House, where their disaster playbook mentioned just that)

while I'm not a big fan of US hegemony, I think it is preferable to most (all?) other contenders to the title of global hegemon. And I don't think a multi-polar world is any better, it'd just lead to more global instability.

Part of the issue is that rubbish in our bin (in the West) sometime ends up shipped across the world, in theory for 'recycling', but instead ends up dumped in another river...

Of course sometime I see littering in streets and parks, sometime literal feet away from bins and yeah, that's infuriating.

other just think pirating is an acceptable way to stick it to the Man.

well, being part of the Roman Republic/Empire meant peace, even if it was enforced at the tip of a pilum. And the population under the Empire were more prosperous and numerous, so much that the collapse of the Empire in the West had long-lasting negative consequences (I'm mostly basing my opinion off this article: https://acoup.blog/2022/02/11/collections-rome-decline-and-f...)

At least in France I don't think I've seen either of those. More common are poster stuck on public infrastructure