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The notification only exists since Plasma 6.2 (august 2024) [1]. Maybe some Linux distribution disable it?

[1] https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-i...

I also block ads everywhere I can, but I have to admit that an open source project such as KDE showing once a year a simple text notification asking their users to consider making a donation has nothing to do with a commercial ads in my opinion.

I know, but at the time I had to choose an ISP, they were the only ones with an offer with just internet (and a phone line), all others ISP forced a bundle with dozens of TV channels that I don't need along with their internet access subscription. They were also the most competitive price wise, and other than this problem (which is new for me, I had an IPv6 and a static IPv4 until a few weeks ago), I'm satisfied with the service :).

Yep, with "RED by SFR" specifically.

It amuses me to see that according to the map, France is best in class or close to be, while just a few weeks ago, my ISP in France stopped providing me IPv6 connectivity…

The story is that at the beginning I had IPv6, and a shared dynamic IPv4 behind a CGNAT, I asked for a rollback to a full duplex static IPv4 and for three years I had both a static personal IPv4 and an IPv6. A few weeks ago my router went down and since it went back up, I no longer have an IPv6 address. I called my ISP and they explained that I could either have IPv6 or a static IPv4, but not both, and that it's abnormal that I had both for so long… welp, it's sad to see IPv6 but getting it back is not worth abandoning my static IPv4 and going back to a dynamic shared IPv4.

> Google have robust email abuse monitoring

But only in Gmail then? Where is it possible to report a spam from a Gmail address received on a non-Gmail inbox?

Google is being a real PITA as the receiving side for people who try to self-host their mail or who use small providers. They should at least be good citizen on the sending side, which it seems they're not. They are killing email.

That's cool if they can make it work.

I don't understand how Google's indexing work anymore. I've had some website very well indexed for years and years which suddenly disappeared from the index with no explanation, even on the Search Console ("visited, not indexed"). Simple blog entries, lightweight pages, no JavaScript, no ads, no bad practices, https enabled, informative content that is linked from elsewhere including well indexed websites (some entries even performed well on Reddit). At the same time, for the past few years I've found Google search to be a less and less reliable tool because the results are less often what I need.

Anyway, let's hope this new policy can improve things a little.

This made me think of Recursive Sans and Recursive Mono, two fonts which are also very malleable with multiple settings, but also open source.

https://www.recursive.design/

French subreddits, coffee subreddits, free software and free culture subreddits, specific programming languages subreddits, computer science subreddits, and yes, general tech subreddits which are also flooded with AI stuff, but I feel that it makes a significant difference that users can still downvote links there, which hasn't been possible in years on HN (not saying that it's a bad thing, just that it's a significant difference).

There was always tech content. I'd say it was even a more important part back in the days, and it was more diverse. There were always some trends (Ruby on Rails, Rust, etc.) but it was never like these days with LLM-related content which is almost all of the tech content. Because of that I've gone back to Reddit like two years ago, and now spend even more time there than here, which hadn't been the case in almost 15 years before that.

Haha ^^'.

Honestly, yes. I'm on HN for tech content, I don't really care about startups and the business side of things, even though sometimes there are interesting reads on this side as well. Also, it may very well be the case that I rediscover the meaning of MRR for the second or third time in sixteen years :).

Just in case, if there are others like me who where wondering what does "MRR" means, it seems to be "monthly recurring revenue".

Chances are the key to those is simply lost forever.

It was KTorrent! But to be fair I just arbitrarily thought that 30MB/s would be more than enough speed (at my place in France that's probably the fastest my internet connection is capable of), tried that, it worked, in a few seconds the file was there, and that was it. I didn't try to see how fast I could go before a crash, maybe if I would have set it to 100MB/s it would have still been ok.

My sister lives in Switzerland, in a remote place in the mountain from a small town. Even over wifi the bandwidth at her place is so fast it made my BitTorrent client crash repeatedly. The solution was to disconnect my system by deactivating the wifi, relaunch my BitTorrent software, set a rate limit to the download speed at 30MB/s, and then reactivate wifi.

“Anthropic issues copyright takedown requests”.

This could really be an April's fools joke.

I used ninja only a few years ago when contributing to KDE software (Dolphin, Kate, KTextEditor, etc.). I had no prior experience with it and it was easy to apprehend, so a rather good experience.

The title is very misleading. This has almost nothing to do with coffee. I was expecting that the input would be the parameters of a coffee recipe (like quantities of coffee and water, grind size, etc for a given type of preparation), and the output to have something to do with coffee too (like extraction time, rate, etc.). It actually is just about water cooling down. Also, it doesn't actually ask the LLM for actual prediction about the result of the experiment, only to generate a ±textbook formula for the situation (which is a good point since LLMs aren't made for that at all, but contributes to make the title misleading).

It's always a good thing to have multiple players and I hope we can have actual EU-based alternatives, but I feel like this project, simply being a rebranded NextCloud as far as I can tell, is less interesting than La Suite numérique [1] developed by the French government or CryptPad [2] developed by XWiki, a French company based in Paris.

[1] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

[2] https://cryptpad.org/

> it’s not popular enough for LLMs to meddle with

About that, I was sad to see that TDMRep [1] doesn't provide a way to signal reservation for RSS feed, so it has to be done at the HTTP level, otherwise the same content delivered in RSS feed can be legitimately scrapped and mined even if the author opted-out using an HTML meta tag on the website.

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/tdmrep/

This is amazing. I would love to have this game in France! We have a geocaching scene (https://www.geocaching.com/, https://france-geocaching.fr/), but I really like the idea with payphones and this system of calling to claim findings.

The "love letter to a disappearing piece of infrastructure" bit makes me think of the payphone pictures that are published in each of 2600 magazine issues: https://www.2600.com/payphones

I remember stumbling uppon Menuet when it was still 32 bits only, (probably around 2006?). I tried it, booting from an actual floppy disk at the time. Nowadays, I don't even know where I would find a computer that still has a floppy disk drive. Time flies.

Comparing artists and a company like Google is… bold of you.

If you're thinking about content creators, you're just wrong. Most of them get almost nothing from YouTube ads, and for those who do, a few of them have no money have multiple revenue sources of which YouTube AdSense is very rarely the main one. Many do in-video product placements, which are not affected by being able to get audio only or having an ad blocker, and many have things like a Patreon, Tipeee, Ulule, of some sort. I pay monthly directly to the creators I watch the most on these platforms and who do not have millions of followers, because that's what they say help them the most.

Really, thinking Google worsening our user experience is even remotely something they do in favor of content creators having a hard time at the end of the month is beyond naive.

That's a very narrow view. YouTube is the only reason I have a Google account. Because of it I use some of their other products. And because I'm connected to my YouTube/Google account, they can track my behavior across products and across devices. My usage profile has value if only because it can be correlated to others (who don't bock ads), and because I share link to their platform on social media and messaging app. That's still true even if I'm able from time to time to continue listening to a YouTube video while my phone is in my pocket. But I will share less link and leave them a lot less usage data if they push me away from their products.

What a shame. What's the point even? I'm not going subscribe to YouTube premium anyway, and even less install and use the YouTube app. What happens with this move is just that I will just use YouTube less. I believe that's the case for most people who chose to use YouTube in a browser precisely for background playback.

As an example: knowing that I won't be able to keep the sound playing for the 5 minutes in between two buses when I need to walk and pay attention, I'll probably just launch a podcast from the beginning of my hour of transportation so that I'm not interrupted. For these five minutes, they loose me for almost an hour.

The standard of living is higher in France than in eastern Europe, and even in France that's considered a high salary.

Nice post :). It made me think of ugit: DIY Git in Python [1] which is still by far my favorite of this kind of posts. It really goes deep into Git internals while managing to stay easy to follow along the way.

[1] https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/

I did something similar a (very) long time ago (15 years back!), a static site generator and blog engine entirely coded in sh (yes, not even Bash) + coreutils. The idea was to use those scripts in git hooks, as they provide a template engine that allows to use the Git repository as a storage backend and publishing method, both for posts content (as file or as commit bodies) and for meta data about posts (author, date, etc). It was fun to build and got a few dozen users at the time, some even contributed small bugfixes and features :).

The README is here: https://p4bl0.net/shebang/fugitive-readme.html

An additional short read which is really worth it: Il fascismo eterno by Umberto Eco, in which the author describes 14 properties of fascists regimes.

It's been translated in English as Ur-fascism and is available online for free at the anarchist library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci....

It does :). Thanks!