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New comment by sligor in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

sligor — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:26:31 +0000

Aside of the fees, another important goal is political freedom against any US sanction on our citizen.

We saw recently that ICC judges were excluded of Visa/Mastercard/... payment system

source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...

New comment by sligor in "GitHub cancels Actions price change for self-hosted runners"

sligor — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:42:05 +0000

Is there good self hosted alternative to github action ? Jenkins should be still good even if old ?

New comment by sligor in "Monumental rock art: humans thrived in Arab. Desert during Pleistocene-Holocene"

sligor — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:48:06 +0000

it was greener (grassland, savannas) but definitely not a rain forest. And in fact it was also the same for Arabia. More grassland and savannas than today.

But it was only partial: there was some desert area too. They were just not a large and mostly very dry desert like today.

New comment by sligor in "Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him"

sligor — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:47:20 +0000

Well, Russia itself is oil founded (huge part of the budget)

New comment by sligor in "Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him"

sligor — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:46:18 +0000

Who needs argument in 2025 ? Just say it is "woke".

New comment by sligor in "US to rewrite its past national climate reports"

sligor — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:46:10 +0000

revision based on new findings is how science works revision based on ideology is how fascism works

New comment by sligor in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

sligor — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:18:30 +0000

well after a quick search it exists: it's called tmux control-mode https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Control-Mode

So terminal clients just have to implement this protocol... it's already implemented in iTerm2

New comment by sligor in "You might not need tmux"

sligor — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:15:08 +0000

Yes the clean and efficient alternative would be a session manager "server" running on the server and communicating with the terminal "client" (like kitty) using a more efficient protocol for handling panes/windows/drawing etc...

AFAIK this doesn't exist, so I'm using tmux...

New comment by sligor in "Org tutorials"

sligor — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:26:18 +0000

What makes org mode tied to emacs ? I really need to try org mode to understand it. If only I had time...

New comment by sligor in "AI's energy footprint"

sligor — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:14:22 +0000

I would like also that devs run their site/apps on downgraded machine/VM so that they can early detect performance issues.

New comment by sligor in "Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003)"

sligor — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:47:31 +0000

what's wrong with luajit ? (I never used it)

edit: sorry I should have searched, Luajit only supports up to Lua 5.1

New comment by sligor in "Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges"

sligor — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 18:24:06 +0000

True ! that's why I said medium sized car. :) And I don't use it for commuting to work or go to groceries. So what's remaining needs a car with descent size and range for 2 persons. Best alternative for me would be that a fair car sharing/rental system develop even more so I can ditch my car and only rent the car size I need for the trip.

New comment by sligor in "On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers"

sligor — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:54:43 +0000

> If certain people cannot contribute to the Linux kernel

You don't need at all to be an official maintainer to contribute to Linux

New comment by sligor in "On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers"

sligor — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:37:13 +0000

People should stop to use the term "Russian developers", this attracts a lot of people complaining about Russophobia (either innocently or not...)

They were removed NOT because of being Russian but because of their link to Russian state owned company (also, either legitimately or by mistake...)

New comment by sligor in "Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges"

sligor — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 08:02:40 +0000

I have no problem with families buying large cars. But it's a minority. For example in my country people that buy huge SUVs are mostly retired.

New comment by sligor in "Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges"

sligor — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 07:50:53 +0000

Compared to my medium sized early 2000's European car it is still a monster But yes, sure that compared to an average 2024 american car it is small.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-206-2009-5-...

New comment by sligor in "Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges"

sligor — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:45:04 +0000

So the future of electric cars is only huge SUV ? It feels like green washing

New comment by sligor in "A Compiler Bug (2023)"

sligor — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:07:45 +0000

Volatile were buggy in old compiler: https://llvm.org/pubs/2008-10-EMSOFT-Volatiles.html [2008 paper]

Even if compilers are better now, if possible it is better to wrap any IO memory access into ioread/iowrite inline (no cost) functions. This can then be implemented in a way known to be safe for the compiler used. And that can be changed easily in case the architecture or the compiler changes ( yeah abstraction ! )

As linux does for example: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/driver-api/device-io.h...

New comment by sligor in "How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]"

sligor — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:38:09 +0000

That's exactly how we were able to go to the moon in 55 years ago. And why it's complicated today. It was of course lot of money. But it was mostly a lot of highly skilled, motivated devoted people doing for an ultimate common goal. Money would not have been sufficient by itself.

New comment by sligor in "LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool"

sligor — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:00:21 +0000

garbage in, garbage out ?