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glandiumon True Romance (1993) – A 30th Anniversary Retrospective

There's a bunch of legally dubious things in Archive, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of them.

glandiumon Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence

> It seems that the system does work as intended after all.

Does it though? One common thread in the comments here is whether ineligibility is or is not warranted in political embezzlement cases. If hers is justified, how is the lack of Chirac's justified? That he was not seeking to be elected?

Whether or not it's actually a politically motivated difference, it's not a stretch that people question whether it is. Because it's a very convenient sentence. And let's face it, she was very likely to make it to the second round of the presidential election, and I can totally see a number of people being extremely bothered that it was a possibility, because if it did happen, if she wouldn't have won, it would have been very close (although who knows, a miracle could happen, and the political field might be less of a mess in 2 years).

glandiumon Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence

Here's one: Jacques Chirac was condemned in 2011 to 2 years with suspension (so, less than Le Pen) for something very similar (party members paid for fictitious jobs at the Mairie de Paris when he was mayor), and no ineligibility (so again, different consequences).

glandiumon Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence

The problem is when rules don't apply the same to all politicians.

glandiumon Why is this site built with C

Or "server side includes".

glandiumon How one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates

"I'm looking for a dust filter for a Hoover max extract pressure pro model 60"

(from Breaking Bad)

glandiumon The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

I'll take on the occasion to ask the HN crowd: have you noticed that caches, on top of being limited to 10GB, don't seem to expire as advertized, in a LRU manner?

glandiumon Memory safety for web fonts

> Go's compiler will not do those kinds of things.

Go's compiler is notorious for choosing to compile quickly rather than optimize code.

But is that true of gccgo?

glandiumon Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

The glibc memory allocator DOES have pathological cases that lead to what can look like memory leaks. See https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3698 https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3723 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23416 (despite being rather old, it's also still a problem)

glandiumon GIMP 3.0

It always bothered me that some things were tucked away in "obscure" submenus, especially when the obscurity is an implementation detail.

Really, it doesn't matter that GEGL operations are... GEGL operations.

glandiumon Gemini Robotics

And how it just dropped the grapes, as well as the banana. If they were real fruits, you wouldn't want that to happen.

glandiumon JJ Cheat Sheet

> See https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/conflicts/.

Honestly, this page doesn't really make a compelling case as to how checking out the commit with a conflict and amending is better than git rebase/whatever --continue. Overall, it's also quite abstract. Concrete examples would be deeply appreciated.

glandiumon Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

The best part is when you get the "box" on a XHR request. Of course no site handles that properly, and just breaks. Happens regularly on ChatGPT.

glandiumon How to turn off Apple Intelligence

Same with iCloud, too.

glandiumon People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research

"If you have an immersion blender"

You can also make mayonnaise with a whisk.

glandiumon Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units

First time I hear about it. And it's not surprising, because it's not in cron. It's in cronie, and was "only" added in 2016.

glandiumon Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units

At least systemctl status tells you when next the timer will trigger. Cron doesn't.

glandiumon I deleted all of my email filters

I don't know if everyone does it because of that, but I know in some cases, that's done on purpose so that you can notice whether someone else did something with your account.

glandiumon Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale

There are literal live adaptations of Kaiji too (3 feature films starring Fujiwara Tatsuya)

glandiumon Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me

If you take a listen to the linked video, you'll hear other names than his.

glandiumon Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016)

I wonder if Time Travel Debugging would have helped narrow it down.

glandiumon Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again

That's why I've updated my SMTP config to handle - the same way as + 10+ years ago. And to avoid "why is my business name in your email?" questions, I rot13 it.

glandiumon Subprocess: Don't close all file descriptors by default (close_fds=False)

Even posix_spawn didn't fix this problem. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/po...

glandiumon Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

This specific change will not automatically make progress from nightly to release. Specifically, this is enabling tab groups by default in nightly only, for however long it will take for the feature to be stabilized.

glandiumon Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick

This was interesting, but by the end of it, I was still expecting some weird trick to work around the problem without the patch.

glandiumon AI Guesses Your Accent

The app this is kind of a PR for does phoneme-level analysis, so for all we know, this AI could be doing that as well. See https://youtu.be/j6z2WHAvqEs?t=100

glandiumon AI Guesses Your Accent

It's kind of annoying when services like this provide a free trial that you have to give a credit card number to even try, capitalizing on people forgetting to unsubscribe after trying.

Also, I'm very suspicious when a credit card form is on $site.com rather than $financial-institution.com

glandiumon AI Guesses Your Accent

I would be interested in an equivalent app for Japanese.

glandiumon AI Guesses Your Accent

Works fine in Firefox 133 here.

glandiumon AI Guesses Your Accent

I'm in Japan, it correctly detected French. Can't be much further away geolocation wise.