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astrolx··on ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy
I think it is a sensible idea, as a matter of fact, I think journals should do it too, maybe even more strict. Because the hike in submission means more burden for the peer-reviewers -- and this work is done (so far) for free.
astrolx··on Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
The legal implications of these devices are just baffling. I see Meta glasses being sold where I live. The law states that you cannot photograph of film people without their consent, even in the street where there are other people around ...

Now it will also be voice recording one has to be aware off ?

Is that the AI future we want or need?

astrolx··on Splash-free urinals (2025)
And those, when they have a target on them (like football theme often seen in pubs in Europe) kinda combine the igNobel prize with the "Nobel" [0] prize on nudge !

[0] not a nobel prize but the prize of the swedish bank in memory of ...

astrolx··on Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com
Same, for years. Going to move soon to a EU provider though. If anyone has recommendation, happy to listen!
astrolx··on Nebula Sans
Is it that different from Source Sans?
astrolx··on Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
Really? I frequently use Wero but never installed their app. I use it through my bank application on /e/os
astrolx··on Astronomers may have found the first exomoon
Nice result, but I find they are selling it a bit too much. I'd rather call it an exoplanet (orbiting a brown dwarf orbiting a star).
astrolx··on Astronomers may have found the first exomoon
Exactly. Chile has a special status as host country of the observatory!
astrolx··on GitHub and the crime against software
Hosting forgejo on a cheap Hetzner server is the best and easiest trick that happened in my work life these last years !
astrolx··on Maybe there's a pattern here?
And in France you'd have gotten Clément Ader as reply.
astrolx··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
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).
astrolx··on Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
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?
astrolx··on Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties (2021)
Can confirm, I've put tens of zip ties on a Mars lander, and in other science instruments!
astrolx··on The Mongol Khans of Medieval France
Baudolino from Umberto Eco (an excellent book) is partially about that, I recommend the read !
astrolx··on France's homegrown open source online office suite
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.
astrolx··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
Judging by the amount of people who still suck at Zoom or Teams after 6 years ... I am not that sure :)
astrolx··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
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 ...
astrolx··on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
After many years of Nova, switched to Olauncher. I'm a happy person.
astrolx··on A4 Paper Stories
0.8 Mmol?
astrolx··on iPhone Pocket
> 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.

astrolx··on 'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested
After a long day out that started early, I can tell you that our riot police has no budget issues!
astrolx··on 'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested
"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...].

astrolx··on The future of large files in Git is Git
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.
astrolx··on GitHub was having issues
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/

astrolx··on Millau Viaduct
Yeah, the plurral was also just borrowed straight from French
astrolx··on The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath
I am at the intersection in this Venn diagram and I love it!
astrolx··on Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
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.
astrolx··on Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025
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!!

astrolx··on Sam Altman and Jony Ive 'IO' Lawsuit Copy [pdf]
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.

astrolx··on Tell me about your favorite tree (a slow-web proposal)
The aspen for me, I love how the leaves shake in the wind. My kid used to fall asleep watching them while I was carrying him around on walks at sleep time, good times!
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