Yep was one of these kids… From the very same period, removing 10base2 BNC terminators was also a fun thing to do. Both had the effect to infuriate the computer science teacher…

Thanks for the collection of all this…

(later it was the deadly loop on network hubs and tcpkill… all this is impossible now)

Very interesting comment. Thanks.

Faire et défaire…

Personnally, I started never answering to any unknown number (masked caller id or even just numbers not in my contacts). When it’s legit, caller leave a message on voicemail. Scammer, direct marketing,… never leave messages. Ok I still get the call and have to ignore or reject it (but it’s better than answering and having a commercial starting his speech).

Somehow related, I have also questions as an European (Belgian) who then observe what is happening right now in the USA with curiosity (and fear to be honest). Please don’t take any offense in this question, the purpose is, for me, to understand, not criticize Americans at all. I work with plenty of them who don’t look stupid at all (but I’ll never dare to speak politics with colleagues, a bit of a “touchy” topic with people you don’t know well).

In my country, we have got a new government almost at the same time Trump was inaugurated. They plan to do some changes to the way some aspects of our society is, changes that are a bit difficult for some categories of the population but really nothing like in the USA. Anyway, since January, there have been strikes, protests, people going in the streets,…

Why are we not seeing such things in the USA? I would have thought that there will be millions of people in the streets protesting against the F-gesture done to democracy, LGBT rights, women rights, nonsense with economy (tarriff, that at the end the “middle class workers” will have to pay) and foreign politics but, as far as we are aware here in Europe, I seen no such protests. The only action I seen is some boycott of Tesla.

• Is it a cultural difference with Europe (and other parts of the world) to not go in the streets?
• Are those occurring but the medias do not inform us on it?
• Are people scared to protest?
• Or, people just don’t care or are even, in majority, happy with what happens now?

So, legacy one (without next) is already available on a lot of kobo e-reader. But you should be able to install any TTF font on kobo: https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/13009477876631-Load-fonts-onto-your-Kobo-eReader

The original Atkinson Hyperlegible (without Next) is available by default on some Kobo e-readers. I use it for a few months now and I find that indeed it helps reading at night (or without my glasses because it’s nice to remove them from time to time).

Same in Belgium, no scale involved, just a handled scanner you bring in the shop. At checkout you give (or put back depending on the supermarket) the scanner, then an algorithm tell you if you’re elected to a partial control (in which case a cashier scan some of the articles, again there are some rules depending on the brand of supermarket - some ask rescan 5 random products, some 10, some explicitly list most valuable items, some require the cashier to count items,…). I say an algorithm because experience show it’s not just random (for example in the supermarket brand I most often go, if you cancel an item on the scanner, you’re 100% sure to have a control).

Finished Too Late, by Colleen Hoover. Well I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it’s a good page turner with some suspens and so on. But I was a bit uneasy about the over occurrence of sexual relations described with a too high level of detail. At times, I wondered if I was reading a psychological triller or the scenario of a porn movie… I think this was done in order to describe the horror of the main bad character but it was just too much and unnecessary in my opinion.

Well I don’t know yet what to read next, I’ll look up maybe here if something please me.

Edit: I think I’ll go for The Antidote, by Karen Russell. Seems to have some good reviews.

Waow I didn’t knew this project. Maybe a good alternative to my current solution (rsync through termux over SSH on my fileserver).

This is fair, as long as you still allow to add own search engine it’s good enough (I re-added qwant but I’m testing out alternatives a bit (searxng (public instance first), startpage and re-give a go to ddg to see if it improved a bit for local results)

I wanna try Searx too, I’ll document myself a bit more about it.

This is how I interpreted the policy too but wanted to be sure about it. It’s so easy to get lost in juridic language.

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Ok done a bit the reverse as many here: came from Heliboard and tested out FUTO (thanks to this post and some others telling it was great). And indeed, it works pretty well, better than Heliboard, especially in English (~40% of my use on Android - I’m French native speaker so most messaging is in French and I use English for some search, lemmy,…). So that’s say in French, futo is not as good as in English (suggestions are often less accurate than in English) but it’s still better than Heliboard. The swipe works better too (and doesn’t require an external (proprietary) library). The only drawbacks I see until now is the limitation to 3 suggestions in the suggestions bar, with Heliboard there was a 3 dot menu giving more suggestions and the lack of spellchecker.

Incroyable il a trouvé une ville à 10km de là où j’ai été élevé vachement précis en quelques questions

I suppose this is what is fixed in 2.24.2: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/1845

Finished the second novel of The Housemaid series: The Housemaid’s secret, by Freida McFadden. While it’s written with the same literary structure as the first one, it is also a gripping and surprising novel. I found it to be even better than the first book in the series, as it’s much more difficult to predict what will happen next. The biggest issue with the first novel was the ending, which seemed more reliant on luck and wasn’t very realistic in my opinion. However, the ending in this one is much better and more satisfying.

I’m currently reading the third, The Housemaid is watching and it’s also gripping and fast paced.

That’s how I started last (2024) year, rereading all that good Tolkien’s stuff, Bilbo, lotr, the silmarillion,… It’s really the kind of masterpiece, you can always “discover” new details and links every single time you read it…

I just finished The Housemaid, by Freida McFadden and found it to be a gripping page-turner, very quick to read, and thoroughly enjoyable. However, I was a bit disappointed by the ending, which didn’t quite match the level of the rest of the book. It seemed like the author struggled to find a satisfying conclusion. As is often the case with such an engrossing read, the ending can feel a bit underwhelming. Perhaps an ‘open’ ending would have been a better choice.

I just started The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden, continuing with the series and hoping it will be equally gripping.