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bestouff··on Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections
Just do stop killing people like any civilized country.
bestouff··on Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page
They move on my Firefox mobile
bestouff··on Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted
Sure. And nobody has a duty to use it. This user states that (s)he doesn't want to use an editor that doesn't care for its users. I don't blame anyone here.
bestouff··on 7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries are breached
The problem is the collateral damages. It will take a lot of other species with us.
bestouff··on BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video]
So now Iran with their freedom ?
bestouff··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
"Move fast and break things" looks obviously bad for an autonomous vehicle ...
bestouff··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
I love Debian so much. The amount of work done by volunteers is staggering, and the result is impeccable.
bestouff··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
I really enjoy single-executable Rust things - that's what I use for building web apps (SSR). But it's not that widespread (for now ?).
bestouff··on A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs
I did. Modern projector have the same spying shit nowadays. Streaming apps, games, ads and all.
bestouff··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
My fav is this :

> Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

This is so true, and not only under Windows. Install any modern program under any modern OS and have a look at the filesystem, it's a flaming mess. Nowadays the only solution "smart people" have found is to install a complete system, complete with libraries and frameworks, for each program.

I miss the days of simple executables.

bestouff··on Four Weeks of a Vegan Diet Alter Signs of Inflammation and Aging
I'm also vegan except for fish. And meat.
bestouff··on Don't Use a gmail.com Address
Surprise surprise : lots of companies really use gmail with a custom domain. No way to escape.
bestouff··on Don't Use a gmail.com Address
Same same. People raise an eyebrow, ensure they got it correctly then they move on.
bestouff··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
Sure. In a good way.
bestouff··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
I dunno about that. I'm living in the mountains (French Alps) and it's unusually dry here. Trees are dying.
bestouff··on TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store
If it doesn't survive a power loss it may not survive a kernel crash.
bestouff··on GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)
They also say that the Pixel 11 is a very very tiny improvement wrt the Pixel 10, with less RAM and more expensive.

So basically they say don't buy it, wait for the Motorola phones.

bestouff··on TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store
I said elsewhere this doesn't survive a power loss.
bestouff··on France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
Indeed this is hard to believe : a common theme here on HN is how EU and particularly France taxes too much people earning money.
bestouff··on France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
> Usually, this is money taken from people that aren't well off either... So it's not a clear cut positive.

Well in France I tend to think the taxes are pretty progressive, so the money isn't taken from poor people. But yes, somehow the ultra-wealthy people always manage to escape what they owe.

bestouff··on GLM-5.3-Flash
Or Deepseek, Qwen, any other open model hosted by whoever you trust most.
bestouff··on The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax
Their social credit score is the same thing as the US credit rating individuals are scored with.
bestouff··on Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles
You will never see those in the EU.
bestouff··on Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU
Not on YouTube.
bestouff··on Casio F-B100W-1A
Indeed (French here). 12h time is still there in spoken language sometimes, but never in writing.
bestouff··on Casio F-B100W-1A
I learnt English as a kid with the 12h time, but UK friends nowadays say they tend to use 24h everywhere precision is needed (e.g. transport timetables) and less and less 12h in everyday chat. I was supposing USA was the same. Obviously not.
bestouff··on Casio F-B100W-1A
> Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, which alone are acceptable to the Lord". His organization later went so far as to publish music for a song proclaiming "down with every 'metric' scheme".

Ooh that explains a lot.

bestouff··on Casio F-B100W-1A
I knew for the imperial units but not this. This country ... let's say it always amaze me.
bestouff··on Casio F-B100W-1A
Ok right. I didn't know people were used to that.
bestouff··on Casio F-B100W-1A
OK, but who would use 12h time ? I never understood, this seems so backwards.
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