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> Maybe they don’t start as a “computer programmer” there, maybe they start as an analyst or some other role. But the ability to program on top of that role will be very valuable and likely set up a great career.

I believe this is the best advice in the thread. The ability to build custom programs that solve real corporate problems is an invaluable skill: - An accountant who can code is a 10x accountant. - An analyst who can code is a 10x analyst. - A procurement manager who can code is a 10x procurement manager. The list goes on.

You don't need to be part of some new 21st-century enlightenment of Rust programmers. A bit of JS, Ruby, or Python here and there, layered on top of an existing corporate skill, is so valuable to a company it's crazy. I think this is a way to be explored for juniors struggling on the job market today.

As CEO of HTMX, I am very proud of the work achieved by the team.

Just made a donation. LibreOffice is not going in the direction I would like to, but this software is bringing so much to the community.

It’s not like this issue had been solved like… what… 15 freaking years ago in China.

The fact that this is shown as a « big step forward » is a a great example of how much the EU is lagging behind. It’s honestly quite sad.

Anyway, let’s wait and see, I already used Wero, it works OK, I don’t really get what the difference is between this and instant bank transfers but again, let’s wait and see.

I tried Datastar and it was great, then I saw this kind of move and it turned me down immediately.

I don't believe it is the right way to play. A Pro support would have been better. Plus the fact that the licensing prevent to use the Datastar Pro in any kind of open-source project. Very strange move.

I read a lot of negative/pesimistic comments, but just to put things in perspective, this phone was developped by a middle/high school guy when he was 13~16 years old… come on guys…

Don't understand shit, but congrats on the website. Is this React 19 ?

Firefox might be irrelevant in terms of market share but is more relevant now than ever as it is one of the few browser that is independent from Chromium.

Mozilla really need to get its shit together and double down on Firefox development and improvement.

The de-facto apps should have been PWA, free, open, accessible, cross platform.

Holy shit (hits the fan). For sure CrowdStrike will be held accountable in several countries, but I believe that some conclusions need to be drawn also from a customer/user perspective.

- Is it reasonable to grant such privilege access to a piece of software that ultimately is a black box ?

- Is it reasonable to put a Microsoft / Commercial / Closed source OS in critical infrastructure ? If not considered as critical, then “important” infrastructure ?

- Is it reasonable to have more than 70% of the computers/servers that run important infrastructure on the same OS / software ? How about the mitigation of the risks etc…

I sincerely hope that all of this CrowdStrike mayhem will push stakeholders to draw some conclusions and actions.

It's not a question of fragile, it's a question of constantly bypassing the security that is supposed to be in place.

I can perfectly understand that my company refuses me to install an app on my laptop because it may cause security concerns (it my case, it was Tencent's WeChat app). What I don't understand is why I can't install my apps (which are very "normal" third party applications) on my company laptop, while at the same time there's apparently no issue to grant insane privileges to a third party application that allows god knows who to push updates without any check and literally brick workstations.

Regardless of anti-virus, threat detection, online games anti-cheat or whatever, no third party applications should be able to push updates over the air without the user being warned and consenting. period.

Another thing that also need to be highlighted is why everyone runs Windows ? We have all seen the pictures of the displays in the subways stations or the advertisement displays, screens showing the gates numbers at the airports etc... Does this kind of tool really requires a paid MS license to fulfill its purpose ? I mean, why MS Windows is necessary to display the number of a boarding gate & flight information in an airport ? Why not using a Raspberry Pi or something ? And most importantly, why a display showing the gate number in an airport has to be connected to the Internet ?

You forgot something. It’s from FT, so there should be something about “deregulating national industries” and el famoso “open public strongholds to the private sector”.

I'll try to build my own corne keyboard so I recently dived into custom mechanical keyboard rabbit hole, which seems to be more of a black hole from which nothing comes out, not even light. (Plot twist: I have no experience in soldering, so that's gonna be fun...)

Otherwise, ThePrimagen pisses me off always talking about Neovim and Vim motions, so I am right now in the painstaking process of learning Vim motions and I want my life to end because of the learning curve.

If it is mainly for web-browsing, then Linux Mint, with only a web-browser (uBlock extension), and an Office suite. How can you go wrong with that ?

It depends on the usage of course. If there's a need to manage pictures from the phone, some music etc... then Mac OS with non admin account. Buy a 1 To external hard drive and setup Time Machine, you can't go wrong with that neither.

Bro... serpentza and C-milk did very qualitative videos around 2015 and 2016 if my memory is correct but the content produced over the past years has turned completely sensational and they accentuate on it purposefully (probably due to Youtube's algo. Some of their content remain super good though and the soundtrack of serpentza's videos is very good ). Their content has to be taken with a (big) grain of salt.

I sincerely hope that you'll get the opportunity to experiment with the immigration process in China which is straightforward and hope that people may overcome the initial reluctance to draw some of the lessons from a country that is far away and has a questionable political system. I am not saying that it is perfect, I am just stating that we have things to learn from it and that I believe it is sad to just overturn anything that comes from countries that are different.

I believe we can end this thread here as it seems that we will definitely not agree, but that's OK. Have a good day and sorry if my behavior appeared as rude to you.

I think it is super cool, and it gives me many ideas. I have a similar personal project that I am working on, and I was struggling to find the proper API to retrieve the data, managed to get some from the World Bank, build my own charts with Chart.js etc... Stupid of me to just not rely on the existing data from OurWorldInData.org. The World Bank has very specialized data that might be handy if you work in a specific industry tough (like logistics etc.). I am in the process of reworking on my personal tool and will definitely get inspiration from your work Lars. Thanks.

It's really a short sighted vision from Mozilla (and others). No doubt that further regions will just copy/paste/modify the current EU framework and apply it locally, there's already discussions in Japan, South Korea and so on (1). Saying "We have no plans to maintain two version of the browser just for the EU" is just ignoring what is likely to happen in the future: An extension of this specific EU legislative framework in several parts of the world.

(1) https://cepa.org/article/europes-dma-goes-global/

What is pretentious however is to judge without having experimenting it. "no lessons can be learned from Chinese bureaucracy about how to deal with immigrants." is quite a bold statement...

But you go ahead, state that the way other countries are doing things are irrelevant because of almighty statistics etc. (in absolute numbers, 0.07% of immigrants in China represents more people than the population of either France or Germany). You are not the first one stating this and it just feeds my narrative of people located in EU countries that are convinced that they have nothing to learn from anything that comes over the Atlantic, the Ural or the Mediterranean Sea, so nothing will ever improve nor be challenged.

Exactly what I was referring to in my previous post:

_I am tired of the pretentious western europe politics/administration point of view that immediately ranks everything (including good ideas) coming from Asia/global South as "not transposable to Europe" or just "not as good as our ways"._

Did you live in China as an immigrant, did you settle down there for several years, did you have to go through their immigration process ?

I lived in France, in China and now in Germany. I would say that somehow, France and Germany are quite similar, it's just that one suck more than another on specific areas and vice-versa. The net salary is somehow higher in Germany but the amount of subsidies you can get from the state is lower also so it's pretty much the same. I prefer the decentralized aspect of Germany (unlike France where everything is just centralized in Paris and the rest is just Silent Hill) and also the fact that you can just live without a car. From France I prefer the more liberal views on "What the state consider to be a family" which is light years ahead of Germany. This said, if you are a married couple with children, you'll get more money from the state in Germany I believe. I believe that Germany is more suitable for mid-40's traditional family, younger/wilder that that, it can be quite boring.

But all of this is just child play compared to how easy things are in China in terms of settle down (based on the experience of someone who has a job with a local company). I am tired of the pretentious western europe politics/administration point of view that immediately ranks everything (including good ideas) coming from Asia/global South as "not transposable to Europe" or just "not as good as our ways".

People can say whatever they want about Thunderbird, but the reality is that it just lags behind web based solutions. It’s seriously 10 years behind what it should be, it’s getting better no doubt but still lagging behind…

“The process was eased, in part, by the ability of macOS, iPadOS, and iOS to work seamlessly with third-party systems like Microsoft Word, OneDrive, Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, and Chrome. To me, this is the best of both worlds, and not a single worldview that tries to force me to see things the Apple way.“

The author is a great FOSS and open-software advocate I see.

Seriously, reading this kind of press article makes me tired, I go to bed. What a way to end the day…

Yeah I know. And I don’t understand 2 things about it: 1) How is it possible to have a company releasing VSCode wich is a quite viable and ok to use Electron app and on the other hand, releasing some Electron garbage such as Skype or Teams. 2) Why MS discontinued the version of Teams on Linux ?! Isn’t the purpose of Electron App to encapsulate web apps to make them look more native *and* be able to release these *cross-platform* I mean if your Electron app is working for PC and Mac, then, why not releasing it on Linux ?

Mmh… I see that we definitely have people of good taste around here.

Last time I tried the new Outlook, I casually pressed “Alt+H, MV, A” to perform an “Always move to the folder…” action, guess what, the new Outlook at the time didn’t even supported the keyboard shortcuts. What is the point of rolling out a new version of your software if it doesn’t even support basic features from the previous version ?

I would prefer MS to be blunt and honest and just say “From now on, it’s Office on the web and suck on it loosers !” Instead of releasing half baked apps that are neither comfortable to use on the web nor on desktop version.

This said, let’s wait and see, MS was able to make a pretty decent Electron App (VS Code) and maybe they can do the same kind of magic with Office apps. I don’t know.

Amateur… I am using a 2009 15’ MacBook Pro Unibody, with a swapped SuperDrive to SSD, another main SSD and RAM boosted to 8Gb. OpenCore Legacy to update to a relatively recent version of MacOS. The only thing that is so annoying is the webcam that doesn’t work anymore, and a USB port is dead also.

So sad this kind of shenanigans are not possible anymore.

You mustn’t have moved from an EU country to another. Being an EU citizen, I drank the cool-aid about the freedom of move and work in any EU country, but the reality being that there are so many cultural, linguistic, administrative, legislative (and other) differences between a country to another that the overall experience is painful and except for very high incentives (big salary increase) the experience is not great.

I struggled less to relocate from France to China than I did to relocate from France to Germany.

Like everything in Europe, on paper it’s good, in reality, it’s often mediocre. Sad thing.

I don’t agree with your comment. I see 2 scenario based on your assumptions: 1 - The companies are making way too much money in the EU and are willing to go through “fines and fees carefully engineered” (which by the way are called laws and regulations). I take for example the case of China where laws and regulations are more tricky and we see Apple or Microsoft thriving there. 2 - Let’s say that the companies are saying “fuck this shit” and actually leave EU. Then I go back to the example of China where you have local players emerging (Bilibili, Baidu, Weibo or Wechat etc…) to bridge the gap and meet the need.

Overall, I support these regulations, I believe that Apple reached a size and a central position in the life of too many people, at some point it needs to be controlled, coerced (or dismantled) to make sure that it doesn’t spin out of control. Same applies for the other companies targeted by the DMA, their size is just too big to allow smaller players to emerge.

I reassure you, it's pretty much the case everywhere. I believe that stellar public services are just a myth that doesn't exists (at least in post 90's western Europe), despite the amount of money pored into it.

The problem is not coming from the taxes or the public services, but from the bureaucracy and the insane amount of norms and regulations that are at best questionable, and plummeting all kind of efficiency.

I am from France, and it is a catastrophe to see the amount of administrative bullshit public agents have to go through just to issue a simple document, and I thought it was the absolute worst... till I moved to Germany and I realized it was even worse, thanks god, it's only the spearhead of Western Europe, what wrong could happen... This combined with the overall aging population which is preventing any form of further digitization or drastic changes, the low-wages in the public sector which are far from attracting the sharpest knifes in the kitchen drawer; you have a recipe for nightmare, inefficiency and down the line, hurt economy.

At some point, someone needs to explain to me why political and/or public figures are still active and using this garbage platform. I would understand this if we were like in 2005~2010 when Facebook, Twitter and co. were at the top of the hype and where centralization was not a big concern for anyone, but nowadays, with all the red flags, all the shit show and all the alternatives that there are... I really don't get it.