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New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers"

Beretta_Vexee — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:27:19 +0000

It’s not just Europeans who are beginning to realize that the U.S. can’t be trusted; Australians are still waiting for a hypothetical delivery date for their AUKUS submarines.

The Gulf states find themselves with too few interceptor missiles and a war in Iran.

The Japanese and Koreans are building as many war ships as they can.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Dav2d"

Beretta_Vexee — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:40:15 +0000

Don’t worry, hardware manufacturers are going to keep ripping us off with HDR encoding. HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, and so on.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

Beretta_Vexee — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:01:25 +0000

It depends on how long you've been using WordPress, whether you use plugins, whether they're well-maintained or not, and so on.

Back around 2010, there were security vulnerabilities in WordPress or its popular plugins almost every month.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Neoen to Build France's Largest Battery Amid Strained Power Grid"

Beretta_Vexee — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:52:31 +0000

"Installed battery storage in France rose 35% last year 1.61 gigawatts, according to grid operator RTE data."

1.5 GW are pumped-storage hydroelectric power plants (PSPPs). This article is shit.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

Beretta_Vexee — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:58:58 +0000

DRM has always been a means of protecting a monopoly; copyright protection is merely the excuse given to justify the measure and the monopoly.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

Beretta_Vexee — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:30:57 +0000

3D adaptation of the 1992 Cryo Interactive adventure game.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

Beretta_Vexee — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:26:54 +0000

It depends; it’s not bad with the right plug-ins for designing a building, but God forbid you ever have to model a threaded hole.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

Beretta_Vexee — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:40:26 +0000

For decades, employees have been developing tools using whatever was available to them, and in most cases, this was limited to Excel macros.

AI provides access to much better tools for testing and quickly experimenting with new ideas.

The only ones who should be worried are companies that charge millions for four junior developers and an agile coach, and deliver more PowerPoints than code (I’m looking at you, Capgemini).

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

Beretta_Vexee — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:56:34 +0000

It's true, the cost of living in NYC also plays a role. It has become very expensive for many countries to send staff there as expatriates.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

Beretta_Vexee — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:53:46 +0000

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't think these initiatives really protect Europeans. Anton Carniau, a Microsoft executive, testified before the French Parliament that ‘as a last resort, if we are forced to, we must transmit the data’, ‘You cannot guarantee that data entrusted to UGAP will never be transmitted to the US authorities without the explicit consent of the French authorities’.

I just wanted to say that cloud companies were doing a better job of ensuring the collection of European data than Trump's diplomacy.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

Beretta_Vexee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:10 +0000

Half of the UN agencies are relocating all over the world. The financial and accounting departments are moving thousands of people to Madrid and Bonn.

They will not be coming back soon.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

Beretta_Vexee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:54:48 +0000

It is incredibly stupid and counterproductive to make this kind of statement publicly. Most of the GAFAM companies are doing their utmost to try to reassure their European customers with a facade of sovereignty.

All these efforts will come to nothing.

Amazon sovereign cloud https://aws.eu/fr/ Azure sovereign https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/sovereignty Oracle soverign https://www.oracle.com/fr/cloud/eu-sovereign-cloud/ IBM https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/sovereign-cloud ...

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

Beretta_Vexee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:47:23 +0000

The US ambassador to France has just had his access to parliamentarians and members of the government withdrawn because he is trying to turn a neo-Nazi who died in a fight into a political martyr. There are similar situations in Belgium and Poland.

American diplomats have been doing Trump's dirty work for a some time.

I am more concerned about US interference in elections and campaigning for the far right than lobbying for data at the moment.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?"

Beretta_Vexee — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:34:55 +0000

Feudalism : The nobility held lands and means of production from the Crown in exchange for service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's offices, factories and give him homage and labour, in exchange for protection.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

Beretta_Vexee — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:38:55 +0000

This is not the only difference in the banking system; 25-year fixed-rate mortgages are also a feature that is rarely found elsewhere.

The minimum 10% deposit is mainly there to cover taxes, which cannot really be recovered by the bank in the event of default.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

Beretta_Vexee — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:30:51 +0000

On the other hand, I have already seen Germans complaining about the lack of possibility to buy train tickets by bank transfer.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

Beretta_Vexee — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:42:37 +0000

It's more taboo to talk about revolving credit card than crack addiction for a french. I don't know a bank that offer them, even the shady online bank.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

Beretta_Vexee — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:40:55 +0000

There are equivalents in several European countries. The problem is that these networks are national and not European, let alone global.

National banking players did not want to give up their turf. The European Union had to twist their arms to get them to agree to SEPA transfers, instant transfers, etc.

If banking players cannot agree, then regulation (or the threat of regulation) must be used.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

Beretta_Vexee — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:34:03 +0000

There are many countries where debit cards are the norm and credit cards are extremely rare. In France, people are so afraid of consumer credit that cards are renamed ‘deferred debit cards’ rather than credit cards, otherwise people do not want them.

New comment by Beretta_Vexee in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

Beretta_Vexee — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:22:09 +0000

Wero is just one of many systems available that allow individuals to make transfers easily and almost instantly. There is also Bizum in Iberia and Blik in Poland. These instant phone-to-phone transfers are very popular, especially among young people who rarely use cash. Wero itself was launched by large banking networks because they had no solution to compete with neo-banks such as Lydia, which was a pioneer in this type of service. France has its own payment network, Carte Bleue, which dates back to when the very first smart cards were introduced, but it is not European. The real problem is therefore not a lack of projects, banks or services, but a lack of interoperability, too many players and geographical fragmentation. Europe is not fast, but it has worked wonders with SEPA transfers. It needs to put in place a clear timetable imposing the interoperability of these services. The absence of plastic cards is absolutely not a problem, just look at WeChat, Alipay, etc.