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They are patent-trolling a non-profit. facepalm

Let's note that this fall apart in Metropolitan French, where we don't say neither « septante » for 70, nor « nonante » for 90 (and even less « huitante » for 80), but « soixante-dix » for 70, « quatre-vingt » for 80 and « quatre-vingt-dix » for 90.

It's quite a shame, because that solution for reading hexadecimal numbers out loud is quite elegant :)

Not every webpage need a business model :)

> Checks? France loves checks and use them more than Americans.

I am afraid your data is outdated: it is now used for less than 15% of payments, mainly by old people or for C2C payments.

I am in my late twenties and have emitted only 3 checks from my account, in my entire life.

Some jurisdictions do (in Europe, for example).

And if you don't want to wait for a long press, you can do one or more quick swipe to the left or the right, and it do the same as a press on the previous buttons.

I don't know if it could really help in your case, but the "Private session mode" available in Spotify's menu could help. In my limited understanding on how things work, I would expect songs listened in that mode not to be used by their awesome recommendation engine.

I would argue that it is maybe even worse, as there is a potential conflict of interests of our main press agency, AFP, about this topic, as they are a huge proponent of Article 11. French media are very reliant on that news agency, so we don't hear about the protests about it, and the public do not care.

It doesn't help that our main EFF-equivalent, La Quadrature du Net, didn't have a very clear position about the copyright directive at some point [0].

[0] https://www.nextinpact.com/news/107093-directive-droit-daute...

Is Mozilla in any way a democratic organization? I understand that the Corp is 100% owned by the Foundation, but how does it work?

Can we do anything, as users, to stop these people from hurting Mozilla, without stopping to use Firefox everyday?

Are they, in any way, accountable to their bad performance for all those recent years?

Ah, it's reassuring to see other people getting mad on that triangle. I am very curious to see the solution for that thing in particular, as I found all the other CSS puzzles way easier :)

My personal best (9px left): https://i.imgur.com/A0LIDxT.png

Flutter. It is so convenient to be able to create a good-looking app that run fluently on both iOS and Android, while having high quality widgets that you can customize very easily… The learning curve is quite easy to climb, and you can inspect how anything is made to create your own, specific widgets if you want.

The only weird thing at first is Dart, but it is so close to any common language that it never was a problem for me. And it is so good to use a language with both AOT compilation and a quick reload mechanism!

Direct link to the talk on YouTube (in English):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtrrN2uWUl8

I may be mad, but I'm at a point where I would trust a self-funded slow-growth profitable startup waaaay more than Google to run a service in the long run.

Decades of "quickly started, even more quickly deprecated" services have taken their toll.

> Native widgets: Instead of drawing widgets that look nearly identical to the platform's design, Boden uses native OEM widgets ensuring that your app will always have a truly native look and feel.

While I fully understand the underlying concept, I don’t understand why so many people seems to be bothered by that anymore; I used to care about that as an Android user, but most of the apps I use everyday on my phone (Twitter, Inbox, Slack, Youtube, even Google Photos or Maps) do not seems to use the pure platform widgets anyway.

If you really care about our privacy that much, please configure the GDPR popup in a way[0] that let your EU visitors to say that they are not allowing third party usage of their personal data.

[0] https://www.leonpaternoster.com/posts/techradar-gdpr/

Qwant is another competitor in that space, too.

Thank you for not having just dumped it like that, but adding quick-start guides, examples and even did some additionnal security checks, it's just awesome for little organizations <3

> I need more than one tap to change the brightness, volume or skip to the next song.

I discovered recently that you could just do a "quick swipe" (very fast) on the button in the right direction on both the volume and brightness virtual button to apply the expected effect. Good enough for my usage.

The VideoLAN organization behind VLC is based in France; software patents are not recognized in Europe.

Problem solved!

> Employing every legal trick to minimize taxes is moral and encouraged.

That's your opinion. Many people disagree that minimizing taxes through tricks and borderline "optimization" is moral (see: tax avoidance [0]).

Not everybody shares the same moral compass, as it is linked to many factors, including your political beliefs, country, education, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance#Public_opinion

Do you think that with WebRTC, we will see – at last! – some Opus support? I thought it was a requirement for WebRTC, but knowing Apple stance on newish-and-patent-free codecs, it would really surprise me (in a good way).

There is quite an outrage on Twitter in French against the people that booed the Netflix logo.

This is clearly a generational problem; we have a lot of rules in France that were designed to protect theaters against early TV diffusion of blockbusters (« Chronologie des médias » [0]), but it is not designed for Netflix model at all.

Most of the film makers and the public understand the need for a change of that regulation, but of course theaters associations are lobbying against it.

[0]: https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pre...

Actually, ANSSI (French government agency for the security of IT) gave some workshops to campaign teams.

Source (in French): http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/lection-presidentielle-l-anss...

Even that was debunked, as a french journalist on Twitter spotted that the pdf leaked (earlier today) was poorly doctored with an vector-based image editor, and was able to move the actual text layer around.

Source (in French but pictures are enough): http://www.numerama.com/politique/254983-compte-offshore-dem...

Also, accounting in French political campaigns are very restricted to ensure fairness between candidates (no more than EUR 4'600 per candidate per physical person, no business donations; the total expenses are capped to ~22m€).

Accounts are checked after each elections by the National Commission on Campaign Accounts and Political Financing; it is an active check, as some of the previous campaigns refunds were blocked because of some wrong doing.

More details available on Wikipedia (translated from FR): https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=...

Of course, there is the mandatory tumblr: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Even if it is sincere (most of the time, it is), there are words or expressions that "tags" an end-of-company-life corporate post very quickly.

If you understand French language, there is an episode[0] from France Inter's radio show "Rencontre avec X" that is dedicated to Gemplus and its takeover by the CIA.

[0]: https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/rendez-vous-avec-x/rend...

They talk about that in the article.

> A solution presented itself in an experiment by Dutch police, who last year used a trained eagle to pluck a DJI Phantom drone out of the air, Peter Holley reported for The Washington Post.

Looks great! What about open-sourced Superset[1] from AirBnB? Both looks great, but Superset seems to have a superset of Redash features (bad pun intended).

[1]: https://github.com/airbnb/superset

For simple objects (that can be a good start for designing stuff around), The Noun Project is great: https://thenounproject.com/