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New comment by aaubry in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

aaubry — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:52:41 +0000

The main board of my 3D printer short-circuited and caught fire once. I don't know what would have happened if I wasn't around, but I'm not leaving my printer running on its own without supervision.

New comment by aaubry in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

aaubry — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:35:00 +0000

Thanks a lot for this tip. I don't know how one is supposed to find this setting.

New comment by aaubry in "'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate"

aaubry — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:52:46 +0000

It's not so simple. The developers are not necessarily available for this kind of support. For example, I maintain an FOSS library, but I already have a full time job, and I'm not interested in working more hours. Unless someone hires me to work full time on this library, there is no chance that I provide paid support. I suspect that many other maintainers are in the same situation.

New comment by aaubry in "Health Effects of Coffee"

aaubry — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:44:58 +0000

I do. I really enjoy an expresso after lunch, and sometimes one in the morning when I arrive at the office, but it's really for pleasure and not addiction. If I don't have access to good coffee, e.g. when I work from home, I don't drink coffee at all.

New comment by aaubry in "The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session"

aaubry — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:47:01 +0000

On portuguese keyboards, ~ is a dead key. You have to type ~. I'm not sure whether that's superior.

New comment by aaubry in "Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year"

aaubry — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:14:23 +0000

I gave up ordering online because where I live they deliver the goods in disposable shopping bags. They even use more bags than I would because they separate the products by type. But I'm glad to see that in other places they seem to be smarter about it.

New comment by aaubry in "Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are the Trans Fat Purveyors of Our Generation"

aaubry — Wed, 29 May 2019 09:31:43 +0000

I don't know why some people want vegetarian food to taste like meat. I enjoy eating meat, but the best vegetarian foods that I had did not taste like meat at all, and it is how it should be. It's like with sugar, if I want to avoid consuming it, I don't replace it with sweetener, I just don't put the sugar in and enjoy the untainted taste of the other ingredients.