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New comment by astrolx in "Maybe there's a pattern here?"

astrolx — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:06:51 +0000

And in France you'd have gotten Clément Ader as reply.

New comment by astrolx in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

astrolx — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:02:48 +0000

My phone (Teracube) is running /e/OS now for 2 years. Nearly everything works out of the box (bank apps, e-identity apps etc ..). The only issue I have is that the app I use to take contactless payment on the phone via NFC does not work (while it works using Android).

New comment by astrolx in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

astrolx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:03:09 +0000

Generally, I am supporting of that move. One thing leaves me non-plussed as a non-USA citizen, "the mass domestic surveillance of Americans" exception. That means that Claude can still be used for mass surveillance of everybody else on the planet right?

New comment by astrolx in "Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties (2021)"

astrolx — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:38:17 +0000

Can confirm, I've put tens of zip ties on a Mars lander, and in other science instruments!

New comment by astrolx in "The Mongol Khans of Medieval France"

astrolx — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:13:44 +0000

Baudolino from Umberto Eco (an excellent book) is partially about that, I recommend the read !

New comment by astrolx in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

astrolx — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:27:49 +0000

I think an unsung hero in making open source broadly known and adopted in France is Framasoft [https://framasoft.org/en/], a non-profit association. They have since many many years an initiative to de-google internet and provide free and hosted alternatives and resources.

New comment by astrolx in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

astrolx — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:12:39 +0000

Judging by the amount of people who still suck at Zoom or Teams after 6 years ... I am not that sure :)

New comment by astrolx in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

astrolx — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:28:36 +0000

I work at a French research institute and our Zoom contract ends soon so we get to switch to Visio. It's not too bad but quite tier below Zoom. Noise cancellation is not great, being browser based also comes with limitations, in half my meetings people don't manage to find the permissions to allow mic and/or webcam ...

New comment by astrolx in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

astrolx — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:34:48 +0000

After many years of Nova, switched to Olauncher. I'm a happy person.

New comment by astrolx in "A4 Paper Stories"

astrolx — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:13:55 +0000

0.8 Mmol?

New comment by astrolx in "iPhone Pocket"

astrolx — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:15:15 +0000

> It might be dumb, but at least it's expensive.

Just realizing that the reverse could be a selling point for a phone here: It might be expensive, but at least it's dumb.

New comment by astrolx in "'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested"

astrolx — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:27:51 +0000

After a long day out that started early, I can tell you that our riot police has no budget issues!

New comment by astrolx in "'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested"

astrolx — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:21:55 +0000

"The math".

We don't have issue with the math, we just disagree on what to fund to balance things out.

An example, 200+ billion euros are given yearly to large companies as tax breaks and the like, without the government asking anything in return. The senate had a report about it recently [https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/economie/un-cout-annue...].

Another example, the military and defense get a huge increase in budget. schools, hospitals, research, nearly every public service get a budget cut instead [ https://www.force-ouvriere.fr/non-aux-44-milliards-d-economi...].

New comment by astrolx in "The future of large files in Git is Git"

astrolx — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:15:54 +0000

For what it's worth, I have a self hosted git forge where I upped the maximum filesize limit. I use git repositories for my science projects, they can each have hundreds of large files (> 25 Mb as described in the article). I don't use LFS, I don't encounter any issue.

New comment by astrolx in "GitHub was having issues"

astrolx — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:38:22 +0000

forgejo [1] works well for me. It can be self-hosted, otherwise e.g Codeberg [2] runs a good instance [2]

[1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

New comment by astrolx in "Millau Viaduct"

astrolx — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:27:42 +0000

Yeah, the plurral was also just borrowed straight from French

New comment by astrolx in "The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath"

astrolx — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:57:41 +0000

I am at the intersection in this Venn diagram and I love it!

New comment by astrolx in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

astrolx — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:17:28 +0000

It degraded so much, I remembered how the UX used to be so enjoyable. Now, a forgejo instance hosted on an old raspberry pi at home is where my projects live, and it is fast and snappy in comparison.

New comment by astrolx in "Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025"

astrolx — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:27:00 +0000

In French, I find that translations of Edgard Allan Poe by Baudelaire are really nice. I enjoy them as much as the original version. Sci-fi translations of US science fiction classics (Orwell, Bradbury etc..) are usually excellent too. I find myself re-reading these books in French and/or English according to mood.

On the other hans, I find that French translators usually utterly fail to capture the dry kind humor from British authors. From Jane Austen to Lord of the Rings, it reads so serious in French translations!!

New comment by astrolx in "Sam Altman and Jony Ive 'IO' Lawsuit Copy [pdf]"

astrolx — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:08:30 +0000

I am a "republican", small "r" as you would say. I pay yearly fee to a "republican association" in a country that is a monarchy, the goal is to end the monarchy. Nothing of it has to do with the US or its Republican party. Get a grip, learn history. Other countries also have shitty political parties using that ethymology ("Les Républicains" in France for instance). Let that ideology burn, and let republicanism [1] thrive.

[1] Republicanism is a political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others.