@pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

L'État a refusé d'examiner la pétition à presque 60000 voix pour arrêter le massacre des renards, qui se basait sur au moins 20 ans de travaux de recherche scientifiques, et créée par 6 associations de défense des animaux.

Par contre, ils ont accepté d'examiner la pétition à 78000 voix pour l'abrogation du contrôle technique pour les motos, créée par deux retraités en colère criant à l'injustice, sans aucun travail de recherche, rien.

Voilà, c'est ça l'info.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 20mo ago

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@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place Then you realize that "chopping the carrots" has at least 5 different definitions of it, and the recipe doesn't specify any. Next, there are so many ways to heat and boil them in that stew: do you add water, how much oil, too much oil will make them mushy, too few and they stick to the pan. Too hot and they get roasted, not hot enough will blow your electricity bill. No, cooking is JUST LIKE programming: give fucking precise specs.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

If a project has some minor releases during the year, and a lot of patch releases, like at least one per month, what do you think it means about the project's health?

Note:
- 📊 Sharing allows more consistent data!
- 💬 Commenting allows for a broader view that's more exhaustive than checkboxes.
- 🙏 Since I can't make 2 polls in one post, please only check 1 box per release type (patch / minor), thank you!

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@BertrandCaron @tuxicoman En gros : spawn un navigateur quelconque (firefox, chrome...) avec le WebDriver, et le contrôler avec des scripts pour naviguer sur certains sites. Lorsqu'une restriction est rencontrée (type "captcha" ou autre), faire une alerte pour essayer de voir si un humain peut le remplir, ou essayer d'utiliser un autre User-Agent, ou une autre adresse IP, bref, tenter d'autres choses. Dans tous les cas, ça rend le travail beaucoup plus difficile :(

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca with component-based frontend tools, it's now easy to scope css for a single component with basic CSS classes, and just analyse potential double usage of certain rules in order to create one additional common CSS stylesheet. Been doing that for a while without tailwind and it's perfect (and I'm more of a Bootstrap old timer 🤣)

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@bonpoteofficiel@mamot.fr Désolé pour toi que les premières réponses que tu as obtenues aient été perçues comme pédantes ou autres. Les libristes et autres défenseurs de souveraineté numérique sont souvent des gens qui découvrent (donc effet dunning-krueger possible) ou des gens qui font ça depuis longtemps (et sont fatigués de toujours répéter les mêmes choses). Tu as bien fait de republier une mise à jour ! Celle-ci est beaucoup plus nette, et clean, merci beaucoup !

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@heiglandreas@phpc.social @mnapoli@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social It has not always been like that. This kind of change only occurred with revolutional technology. Agriculture, wheel, paper, photography, electricity, radio, TV, internet, now AI, all of them brang the exact same promise: "a better world". But they also allowed the owners, landlords, the overall richest people, to hoard everything and justify their power on nonsensical virtual stuff, while exploiting the proletariate, creating more poor people.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@heiglandreas@phpc.social @mnapoli@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social The phrase "You don’t have to like the game to play it." is just a mark of abandonment: you abandon yourself to the system, because the system is rigged in the first place, and you need it. I'm not saying that it's a form of individual weakness, but it's definitely a mark of weakness from people thinking the same relative to the power in place. If you re-read "1984" or "The Handmaid's Tale" again, you'll see we can fight while "collaborating".

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

EDIT: I found everything I need now!

--- previous post:

Apparently I found a job for January 2026 (Party time! And it's a great position🎉), but in the meantime I've got nothing and I'm broke.

If you remember well, almost a month ago I said "If I don't find something in 30 days (...)" , well, these 30 days are quite soon now.

I just need something until the end of 2025.

If you have some budget for a developer, expert with PHP/Symfony/Svelte/Typescript/and [… redacted for lack of space]

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@blinry Does it mean that it's time for me to say that I've created a small CLI tool in PHP to list your threads in HTML files? https://codeberg.org/pierstoval/mastothreads I mean, it's still a prototype, but it's definitely worth having IMO.

Codeberg.org

mastothreads

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@afilina I've always secretly hoped for smarter people to find a real way to estimate the value of the renovation skills we have, but I think it's not possible. We do it, we know it's better, we have arguments, but it's hard to convince people... And when you succeed, it's even harder to fund it.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@afilina The job you've been doing for your career is the most noble one in tech: fix things, repair, enhance, teach and help. The problem is that company owners are mostly "build fast and break things", which includes "cheap & bad". The things we do has no numberable value, because it's impossible to do actual scientific research on refactoring, change of workflow, or progressive migrations. You can only do it a posteriori for one project, and hope it's gonna be good for it, and the next one.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@mimimaton @Julianoe t'as raison, j'ai rien appris mais d'autres auront besoin de ces remarques j'imagine. On le sait que l'on ne vit pas en démocratie en France

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Julianoe Bah ouais, mais pour autant, tout le monde s'en fout, y'a pas de révolution, les gens sont pas écoutés, et ils n'en ont rien à cirer 🤷‍♂️

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@tipiak75 Architecture, the problem-solving process, the knowledge of the ecosystem, which 3rd-party tools are okay to use and which ones are not, how to fix bugs that have never been reported and that AI can't fix in less than hundreds of thousands of tokens, thinking about all the possible edge-cases for a requested feature, etc. AI can't do all this, it's just impossible. It might help, but only seniors will think about training an agent for these. Juniors will prompt "implement all cases".

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@tipiak75 By SE, you mean "Software Engineer" or "Senior Engineer"? 😅

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@BertrandCaron @tuxicoman On aurait pu imaginer des "plugins" pour tous les softwares open source (spip, wordpress, drupal, et tous les autres) afin que ces outils permettent "d'autoriser" la BnF. Sauf que (et je le fais souvent moi-même) parfois la restriction est direct côté serveur, infrastructure réseau, etc., et dans un tel cas, ce n'est peut-être pas le même interlocuteur. Reste la solution considérablement moins performante mais ""peut-être + efficace" de passer par un "vrai browser"...

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@BertrandCaron @tuxicoman L'autre solution serait "une participation citoyenne" : idem que pour les wordpress, drupal et autres, fournir un outil qui va faire l'inverse : fournir à la BnF les données directement, et donc il serait à la charge des hébergeurs d'installer ces outils et d'activer une exécution régulière de ceux-ci pour donner les infos à la BnF. Mais encore une fois, c'est "détourner le problème". Cela dit : mieux vaut plein de solutions pas ouf plutôt qu'une seule inefficace :(

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@heiglandreas@phpc.social @mintopia@phpc.social Same here: prod debug for me is mostly reading logs, reproducing issue locally, and fixing it locally. xdebug, on the other hand... I agree: setting it up is sometimes easy, sometimes a true hassle. I only use it in CLI mode when running test suites, because it's usually easier to configure, but right now with the project I'm working on, I still can't set it up, it just doesn't work with my IDE, and it's extremely annoying because I can't step-debug tests 😭

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social I'm pretty sure that people like you, that own some parts of the web infrastructure, could extrapolate a left-pad-gate-like event, if you organized with even a few other people owning critical tooling. Package managers, libraries, deployment tools, EVERYTHING can be used for that. Even the "just fork it" won't be useful: if too many tools are unavailable even for a few days, big corps can't compete, it'll cost them too much. They'll comply.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@heiglandreas@phpc.social @mnapoli@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social And since we all need the money because the world is as it is, we all comply somehow. All of us. Because we're either small entrepreneurs, or employees, and we have no power. If we were "in charge", we could definitely have more power on the decisions. But everyone is dependent on GAFAMs, AI providers, and all tech that's built by engineers and owned by big corps. Even Open Source doesn't help because OSS itself has no power on anything.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

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@alextecplayz@techhub.social @FrankauLux@mastodon.social @Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place we should find a way to make the fsf's creed true one day: public software that's critical for everyone in the world should be made free and funded by countries. Certain western countries could donate 100k€ or 200k€ each per year to a nonprofit org that creates a public browser (let's start with firefox), countries people vote for features, priority is given to BC policy, cross compatibility and stability. I know, it's end-of-the-year-utopia but still..

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

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@zenbrowser You'll continue to do so until you get substantial funding from a big corp that will make you depend on this funding and therefore comply to all their AI tantrums. You should also protect yourself from big corp funding mayhem, because that's pretty much what happened with Github when bought by 'crosoft, and Firefox when bought by, well, big AI-maniac funding tech bros.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@derickr@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @mintopia@phpc.social IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate with several PHP extensions

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@toflar@phpc.social @michelle@phpc.social I agree. The market is hugely disturbed right now, I sincerely hope you're gonna find something because it's super hard 😞

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@hywan Google seem to want to put AI on every network packet, it's insane

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social I gotta feed my kids, I have a family that has handicap, neuro-divergency, my wife can't really work, I'm the only money-earning person under my roof, so it's either "participating and hating it" or changing job, and changing job puts us in more problems because no job will earn as much as what we get as engineers. I made a choice 15+ years ago to join tech, and back then I never thought I'd be alienated to this point. It's a false choice.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social You might lose a few hundreds of $/€ during these times. The other people joining you too. But you guys are the leaders of the OSS world, and if your tools just vanish, almost everyone on the planet is impacted. The money big corps will lose is much higher, by lots of orders of magnitude, and trust me, if you join with even 10, 20, 30 other OSS-leading maintainers, you'll win. Definitely.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 20mo ago

Replying to

@msbellows@c.im @djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place Those people who don't care about actual end users should be worried, indeed

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social I''m not saying it's black&white. I'm saying that we all are forced to participate in some way because we need to feed our kids (or we need to "not die"), and the ones who leave tech because of that are not many, and they abandon the ship for something different, therefore they let the remaining people with the existing system. It's similar to the people who don't vote because they dislike the system. It's maintaining a statu quo.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@bonpoteofficiel@mamot.fr Au passage pour les services de streaming, quelqu'un a compilé des stats (notamment de financement) pour chacune d'entre elles, si ça peut agrémenter ton propos : https://www.instagram.com/p/DTs1yKyDvXb/

instagram.com

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 15mo ago

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@kytta Google Maps has my address wrong too, because one part of the road is inaccessible to cars, and the name of my very small village is spelled wrong, I asked to change stuff there many times, the only thing they accepted was the streets names (streets were unnamed up until 2022-2023). I'm annoyed that they accepted streets names update but not the village name itself. Streets were easy to update but I have no idea for the village? 🤔

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange If I had a job, I would agree, but so far, most companies using AI won't hire me, others won't either because they don't accept remote, and some others won't accept me because they don't need more experts in their ranks because AI is doing code review for the junior vibe coders they actually hire...

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social I'm genuinely interested too, because so far, maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I think the only way to "change" the system is by exploding it with some sort of revolutions (Luigi-like, if you know what I mean). I tried to change things from within in the past, and I've received responses so harsh and hurtful that I can't do it anymore now, it's way too hard.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social So no, it's not black and white, it's a system that empowers oppression, that brings illusions to all its participants: the elites have an illusion of innovation to their benefits (which would die if any cog was rigged in the system), and the workers have an illusion to participate in a system in ways they could have liked before, and no longer like anymore. We liked to build, they paid us for it, now we're stuck.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

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@catsalad@infosec.exchange What's fun is that if the cat is fat enough, you can *actually* use its built-in back-sided wind output orifice and plug it to the bagpipe's mouthpiece. Or you put the squeakers and chanters directly there, it's up to you. All it needs is constant fat-rich feeding, but I'm pretty sure some DIY nerd has built an automated 3D-printed cat-powered-bagpipe feeder

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@onorio the only GUI I use is the conflict resolution tool from my IDE

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 21mo ago

Replying to

@bedast@beige.party @howisyourdog@cupoftea.social all browsers end up forcing stuff on users anyway. Chrome is the leader in forcing stupid things though, especially regarding privacy infringement.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@oceane Merci ! Content aussi, même si l'attente va être douloureuse 😅

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mnapoli@phpc.social I personally had these conversations a long time ago when gen-AI started being public stuff. I even had harsh debates with tech bros claiming it was the "new industrial revolution" (y'know, the one with fordism and all its problems). It's not new. Yes, we need to be scandalized, because the longer we wait, the worse it gets. @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social Man, you own Bref. Just disable it entirely, remove it from the internet until EU regulates something. Even my employer is using Bref for critical deployment systems. Rally with other people that can do the same thing, and there's a lot of you guys that could definitely have an ENORMOUS impact if you went on a strike together against unregulated AI. Strikes have always worked. And with OSS, if everything disappears, it's worldwide mayhem.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@mnapoli@phpc.social Who are you to force your POV? You're not the only one to have this POV, that's exactly who you are: part of the people that don't want the system we're in. Alone, you can do small things, but if you organize with other OSS-leaders, you can work on a list of rules to fix in the existing system. Even a few could be good: AI regulations for privacy, media to stop propaganda, big tech taxes enforcement... So many things to think about. @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@Looping@anticapitalist.party J'ai quand même une interrogation majeure sur ce sondage sur twitter : QUI, mais alors QUI va voter "fasciste" alors même que la plupart des fachos ne VEULENT PAS se revendiquer fascistes ? Avoir un certain pourcentage, je conçois, mais 47% !?

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@heiglandreas@phpc.social @mnapoli@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social Those in charge have always used propaganda and systemic oppression to enforce exploitation on the masses, and they have always tried to create a balance that made sure people had "enough to live and work", but "not enough to rebel". Either materially or mentally. That's why dictatorships always fail at some point: whenever oppression is too harsh, people will rebel. Capitalism finds a balance that benefits the elites so masses don't fight.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 33mo ago

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@WPalant@infosec.exchange @thisismissem@hachyderm.io Many judges in court don't know jack shit about programming, and "compiling" is the same as "encrypting" for them. As many analogies said: if you give someone the key to your house, whether it's wrapped in tons of cardboard and tape, they still have the key. The software provider must be condemned as a security flaw, endangering all users.

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 24mo ago

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@catbailey@infosec.exchange Couldn't find this for my account. Maybe it's not active everywhere yet, or maybe it's because I'm in France, I don't know. But thanks for the info, I'm gonna keep an eye on this :)

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@bonpoteofficiel@mamot.fr J'ai lu ton article, et il est assez détaillé quand même ! On pourrait encore en rajouter (notamment Deezer qui finance Trump par exemple, ou Proton qui chiffre les données et qui crée des incompatibilités avec certains autres fournisseurs de mail), mais c'est une excellente base ! Pour que ça se diffuse, il faudrait faire des shorts en vidéo à mettre sur toutes les plateformes !

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pierstoval @pierstoval@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@heiglandreas@phpc.social @mnapoli@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social The French resistance was a small minority of people, and a lot of them were actually "in the system", trying to build change with smaller steps, with the few power they had. We're all engineers, building the web, and so far, the people that refuse to join the AI hype are a tiny niche amount of people, and like you say @mnapoli@phpc.social : "it's either this or changing jobs". And I know some people that changed jobs, and left tech, because too hard.

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