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You can still just buy Office and not use the 365 offering [1]. The ban on Office 365 doesn't look like it's relevant to Office 2021.

Aside, both LibreOffice and Apple's office suite are perfectly serviceable for K12 education and most public administration.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-the-differ...
Libre Office. Not so sure that it integrates very well with cloud services, though I’ve not tried. It’s a bit of a step back from collaboration on a Google Doc. However, for basic functionality, I’m quite fine with word processing on Libre Office.
Price is supply/demand. More housing usually came because of a huge population causing more demand. Population is almost like a force of gravity where dense places can never build enough because more always want to come.
any info on kernel config, drivers, rootfs etc used?
Where are the fire engines this time guys?
Fun fact, her Cambridge house is worth north of 3.1 million.
Eh, that's just quibbling over the syntax. The `define` forms could be rewritten as `let` to make things look more "pure".

(The only situation where `define` might be considered "impure" is if it was used to redefine a variable that already existed in the same scope; and even then, it could still be considered "pure" as long as it created a new variable instead of mutating the original variable.)
Check out https://berty.tech for direct off network communications when you do not have internet.
Hey, thank you for explaining it so clearly, it makes total sense. Have a wonderful day.
If you want a really high quality premade thing like this, Johan Berglund is your guy: https://berglundinstruments.mediarif.com/
I think you just reinvented the village.
I'm a traditionally very paranoid, very DIY admin/hacker type.
A knowledgeable friend turned my opinion to the cloud a few years ago.
He simply asked me whether I had DLP, an IPS and enterprise-grade firewall for my home systems.
With that line of questioning, he made me realize that no jerry-rigged home-built network system can hold a candle to the security and robustness of a cloud solution, even a mere consumer-grade OneDrive or BackBlaze or something like that.
Since then I haven't really kept anything important on local storage. It's in the cloud, for better or worse now.
LibreOffice for a desktop version of office productivity applications... would be more than enough for most users. Not sure what the options are for web-based office applications though.
its the default option and you have to click more to save to disk
Anecdotally, I think you may be right. Granted, historically there are reasons to think the French want to protect language and so on, but privacy protections are not something immediately associated with France ( whether it is true or not is another story altogether ). Personally, I have the same problem with O365 as I do with with social media. That is: it is your stuff on somebody else's PC. It is almost a given that there will be a conflict over 'who's stuff is it anyway'.
It looks like the HTML is a bit broken... incomplete "a" tag.
i'll add it to my todo pile
This works in many Common Lisp implementations: https://readable.sourceforge.io
They're the world's leading nation (or possibly #2) at manufacturing datacenter infrastructure (by sales volume).
I've built a website and a browser extension/addon that allows you to download any video at it's best possible quality or as an MP3, made it mostly for myself but it was public.

I made sure I don't collect any data except the URLs that come in, for debugging purposes, so that if I see too many failures I can fix whatever the issues is and attached an inbox so people can reach me.

I've seen some really disturbing stuff in the logs, you can tell from the URL alone, zoophilia, murder and executions, rape, but that's all stuff you can find on the internet.

I stopped looking at the logs long time ago, but I vowed that if I ever get a whiff of underage sexual content going trough the site, I will take it down and use it only in private.

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Ow, I also get emails from horny people who really want to download specific porn videos from unsupported websites.
I understand why you don't think Briar has good deliverability.

But what makes you think that the security of Briar messages is suspect?
Sorry, how exactly were messages being transmitted from phone to phone?

Were you connected to the Wi-Fi, with browsing blocked behind a paywall? And that was sufficient for Brair to find the other phones?
amp.dev?
>> an organization such as FTX comprises a complex interaction of financial, technological and legal issues.

>It is unclear if this complexity was designed specifically to hide blatant acts of fraud or just cover up incompetence. Either way, the lack of transparency does not look good for him.

I would strongly suggest neither. I did not intend to imply that this complexity was specific to FTX but rather all organizations in that field. The complexity is a unavoidable result of combining the demands of financial, technological and most significantly legal aspects.
I'd assume you still read the generated code, as if you're reviewing a PR
Ah, I didn't know that. That's actually pretty neat.
> what alternatives are out there for MS Office and Google Docs?

Probably Collabora.

“Collabora Online. Your Private Office Suite In The Cloud”

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/libreoffice-from-collabora-2...

From what I understand, Collabora is LibreOffice in your browser, with cloud functionality
I concur with your assessment. I will not live in a home with stairs again if I have a feasible choice. I guess an elevator might suffice but I don't really want to live in a home with multiple stories, or in a shared building, either. My lower body is not what it used to be. I can go up and down stairs just fine when I need to but I will go out of my way to avoid that requirement at home. Turns out that years of physical labor and military, plus a couple surgeries, can take a toll on the body.
I just put together a new Ryzen system last night, which replaces a core i5-750 from 2009, (which will probably remain in service in some sort of server role). As soon as I got that bad boy running, I jumped through a few hoops to get Diablo 1 fired up to really run it through its paces.
seems to have some issues, but also seems like someone is actually pushing https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

would be interested to hear any expeiences among this crowd
> It's not necessary.

I didn't mean "necessary" in the sense of modal logic, but in a more colloquial sense. Physical laws as known to us today are described using mathematics. We know of no other viable ways to describe them. In that sense, (a subset of) mathematics is necessary for this purpose.

It was just meant as a restatement of the concept of unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in a more natural language.

> The real world has no obligation to be describable by mathematics.

There is no obligation, but that it is so in our particular world is undeniable fact.
I don't know about the outlets mentioned in this article, but there are a few different ways that PR firms can grease the media gears in order to get you good PR coverage. Ranging from, literally paying for a piece to be run, to more subtle things like handing them timely content on a silver platter. Maybe no money is exchanged hands, but they get some of their work done for them instead. It is still value exchanged without money being exchanged.
I figured nc was some terminal utility, and I hope your intent is to point out that there are numerous “right” answers (in which case, thanks)

Was actually called by one of their recruiters, I think she found my linked in because I call myself a “linux enthusiast” on there, and sometimes I wonder if I should take that down but I haven’t yet. I guess I also messed up by telling executive dude that I was more of an relational db guy than nosql guy. Should’ve said something about mongo level webscale :)
> Or rather I wish I had "systems-C" where all the undefined behaviour added for high performance computing was filed off and defined as "whatever the platform does".

Depending on what you mean by undefined behavior, now you've made register allocation an invalid optimization. You really don't want to use that version of C.
What is going to be a replacement?
“The CNIL recommends that institutions use collaborative suites offered by service providers exclusively subject to European law and "that host data within the European Union and do not transfer it to the United States". The centrist deputy had asked the Ministry of Pap NDiaye to find out if Microsoft's free offer in schools did not "become a form of dumping and unfair competition".

Sounds like there are multiple angles to this. Privacy. Monopoly. National security. So it’s not just about it being free.
Would be cool to have some more context about the machine itself, it's history and the machine it's attached to through serial.
Does this include hosted email? https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online-3/ shows that it has a user directory, but I can't find any direct mention of a web email interface.
I used a TSR to run protected mode software under early Microsoft Windows back in the day. Effectively it was letting me have the big allocations I needed while using Windows as a portable display driver.
The difference between other Dev tools and GitHub is the probability of getting things wrong. Like when intellij types out boilerplate or a compiler generates code it's 100 percent correct and if it fails, it fails predictably. Copilot is impressive sometimes but there's no guarantee of correctness or failure mode. I cannot trust such tools for anything serious. If you're in the habit of copy / pasting code from the internet then I can see why it might help speed that up. But imo that too is dangerous and I avoid it unless absolutely necessary
Stockfish 15 is much stronger than SF8.
The cloud is just as vulnerable as everything else is:

https://www.amazon.com/Hack-Like-Ghost-Sparc-Flow-ebook/dp/B...
Microsoft Office isn't banned, just Workspace / M365 / Azure Active Directory as users' IDP.
My experience on Windows is that it selects your Onedrive account automatically. I've had to change the default because it kept trying to upload my documents.

I've also had several scratch documents appear in a cloud drive at some point, probably through autosaves. Disabling cloud integrations tends to generate nag screens or "helpful" warning toolbars to "restore functionality". Going offline in Office on Windows is a path riddled with deceptive design. This is the education version of Office on Windows 11, though I haven't used or updated it in a while; not that I think Microsoft's data collection team has suddenly had a change of heart.

Non-enterprise versions of the product don't seem to be available without signing in to a Microsoft account at all. You can log yourself out out after activation, but realistically very few people know about that and even then you've already given Windows a hint of a Microsoft account, which it will use to try to sign you into every chance it gets.
maybe godsend is too strong a term for a repressive, corrupt military occupation that only ended in 1992.
Opioids are a perfectly good treatment and should be mainstream. Extremely effective with minor side effects.
Have any of them ‘bounced back’?
The bad press seems to be political pressure on Musk and advertisers, over special perks for journalists and politicians. If Musk were very media savvy, he could be playing up the controversy just to keep people talking about (and checking) Twitter, but I doubt it.
Which makes me wonder how much carbon we can sequester per reintroduced beaver. Wetlands are apparently very good carbon sinks.
We are all being preyed upon. The vampire lords are sucking their thralls dry.

Read Michael Hudson and you'll understand.
https://cryptpad.fr

It's an underdog but pretty good. If you want to use something in the cloud which respects privacy more. Does not even need an email for registering and there is a premium plan too.

But I think the more practical solution is LibreOffice/OpenOffice. I think it's encouraged (or even enforced?) to use that office suites for public service/government institutions in France.
You gotta be high as a kite to use AI in its current state to help you write your software. ;)
Surely all of that could easily be replaced with a "virtual" version of these interfaces
Sorry I may have communicated this poorly.

We were connected to the local area network, but we had no Internet access (which was behind a paywall). However, only being connected to the local network was sufficient for Briar -- no Internet needed!
It defaults to onedrive and buries local storage behind a tiny text button. It brings up a giant popup saying 'you need to upload to edit' if you open a form in read only mode and various other ways.
PHP is a well-designed language because it has value types (immutable data structures). That puts it far above any language without them for correctness. The poorly designed old database libraries aren’t really a language issue.
Ok, if anyone from Leaderman is reading: I believe you could make a bicycle-specific multi tool and it would sell like hot cakes.
Cloud can certainly be secure, assuming the security can be verified (through audits and/or open source clients) and the data is end-to-end encrypted.

The cloud isn't the problem, the active data collection that cloud companies do on your unencrypted data is.
This is the type of thing that would be more effective if they focused on publicizing it and publicly pressuring the company to provide a solution that meets their needs. Once they say "bye," msft has no incentive to fix it.
There are midi pickups (or midi guitars) which you can use for this purpose (for future sessions, not for reconstructing existing recording).
Because the incident should be fresh and impactful enough to remember, from my point of view it almost reach levels as bad as Sourceforge adware injection in open source software installers.

For a recap for people who weren't in the industry or have short memory.

Kite took ownership of some popular code editor plugins and injected some adware/tracking code.
https://archive.ph/5dEFc

Another reminder that the US is not a normal liberal democracy. It is a very corrupt pseudo-democracy whose extreme wealth lets it have a higher level of development than other countries to which that description applies.
It always amazes me how compact and readable Elixir code can be. I know the examples in article use a high-quality library that takes care of some of the ETS and Plug piping, but the business-level rules seem compact and readable too! :)
Even then, software engineers tend to have more control over the work process than other roles.
It’s going to be pretty sickening to have to listen to Paul and the other appalling VC people who helped enable all this nonsense once it collapses. They’ll say they didn’t know, but of course what they mean is they didn’t care.
floating doesn't even involve the synchro's unless you mismatch the rpm.

there's no practical advantage, but it's not abuse either unless done very poorly. it's just fun to practice.

anyway, if you just double clutch 1/2 the time and float the rest, your net throw-out bearing wear would be the same. ;-)
It's always worth mentioning https://mynoise.net/

Donate if you can, it's a great resource. No affiliation, just a happy user.
Projecting power is about bringing weapons to places where you want to blow stuff up, not about necessarily having a frontline fortress. That's why US military bases are everywhere (and nearly unfortified).

An actual war with China will be a global affair. The aircraft carriers don't need to get in range of the missiles to bring airplanes, food, and hospitals to somewhere there is fighting. Practically, the bases in Japan are going to be the main hubs for forces fighting near China, not aircraft carriers.
Just to clarify, they are only banning the usage of the free offerings of Office and Workspace which do not provide the data governance / compliance features. The higher tiers of Workspace/Office provide this functionality.
I explicitly said it would be a separate code review. Not every change needs a ticket, and the idea that it does is a barrier to improving code.
I have tried many times to get people who criticize modern banking and the Fed monetary system to watch the Khan videos on how banks work and then to come back and re-do their critiques, but it has never happened. There are some arguments which quite obviously come from ignorance, and there are so many things wrong with the current economic system that it is incredibly frustrating having to spend time debunking arguments by defending the things which actually work somewhat well.
> This is the person who took classified documents including nuclear material home. Nothing happened to him, as usual.

Nothing happened to him yet. The justice system is slow.
"Smoking" in the common vernacular means regularly smoking cigarettes, which is a nicotine addiction in most cases. Comparing nicotine addiction to weed, which has it's own very different abuse profile, only because they often share a method of ingestion, makes no sense.

Vaping nicotine has indeed replaced a lot of the consumption of old fashioned cigarettes. But that has nothing to do with weed.
Often what happens is that as you increase one input/nutrient you discover your process is now rate limited by some other. So any gains tend to be at the margins.
>In Ukraine, I understand, much of the defence against Russian missiles pounding civilians is done from aircraft in the sky, not with rockets from the ground.

Ground based systems still do majority of the work, although this might be for the acute lack of air force.
I’ll just let the execs know that we should not allow ourselves to be acquired again, will I?
On the other hand if you look at the amortized capital cost (and you use a 40 year lifetime), it comes to 37 cents/m3 for Carlsbad and 4.4 cents/m3 for the Israeli desal plant.
Mainly because PG wrote the tweet. Generally I would agree to be honest - but on this forum it feels hard to argue the rules in this case.
Unless you have a moral problem with gambling I don't see this as being any different than any other marketing deals they make.
I've only recently been learning a little bit about permaculture. In essence it seems like agro hacking in a way? A big variety of tricks that you can implement on a plot of land to increase biological values or yield.

It sounds a bit like medicine before medical science. A bit of woo is then to be expected?
Yep, debugging Ramda code is terrible experience.

We maintain a service which is making heavy use of Ramda. It seemed like the right tool for the job, because the service is mostly doing data transformation, and the code ends up "clean" and terse. However, we found that onboarding people who are not familiar with FP is time consuming and often people outright refused to learn it. We decided to ditch Ramda, rewrite the service in vanilla JS, prefering immutability where possible. We're about halfway done and it was definitely the right decision. Sure, `R.mapObjIndexed(doSomething, someObject)` is simpler compared to `Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(someObject).map(doSomething))` and now there's a ton of multi-level object spreads, but at least it's simple enough to understand for anyone familiar with JS.

We also came up with a `pipe` function that handles Promises. It makes chaining (async) functions very convenient:

const pipe = (...functions) => (input) => functions.reduce((chain, currentFunction) => chain.then(currentFunction), Promise.resolve(input));
It's running vanilla Raspberry Pi OS, alsa drivers and fluidsynth, all configured from the main Rust application (https://github.com/jcard0na/haxo-rs/blob/main/src/synth.rs)
Not just the drag, but a pause to take one out, tap-compact it, light it, take a couple of puffs...

As a non-smoker I was at a conversational disadvantage. As a nerd, this didn't bother me much.
> there literally nothing I could say to you that would convince you that you’re wrong and that trans women are women and trans men are men.

All I saw you use is an argument that the impossibility of perfectly distinguishing between a male and a female meant that the question is unanswerable.

I'm not only concerned about actual trans women, but primarily men just saying they're trans women when caught in inappropriate places, so that argument isn't totally addressing my concerns but if you were to try to convince me that trans women were entirely women I'd expect it to include an attempted proof that they exhibit female pattern sex criminality.

Here's a thought experiment. Let's say you're somewhere where nobody has heard of gender, with a mixed-sex group of people. At a small distance you see a male walking by in a garment that is usually worn by a female. One of the females with you says "I'm glad that the changing norms now let a man wear what was once seen as female clothing!".

1) Do you say "You don't know that they aren't a woman!"?

2) Who's more progressive, you or her?

3) Who, if either of you, is creating a third gender category?
I think “company card” is the differentiating point here. I’m not sure how many IC devs have access to that. Which makes me think you don’t fall into the group that they’ve defined as IC.
Seconding this! When I'm on a Mac, I use Homebrew only for casks (automatically downloading .apps and DMGs for macOS GUI), and Nix for project-specific development environments. I do also like to use Nix for globally available packages, though, especially via Nix-Darwin.
Serbia in 1999 comes to mind.
Interesting. So it may be your view of this constituting an extreme level of greed that drives your sentiment in this case. That makes more sense to me, though we clearly differ in our assessment of "extreme" and "greed".

Out of curiosity, would you then apply the same logic to people investing in SPAC's, growth stocks at extreme valuation levels, triple leveraged ETF's, doubling down on NKLA when their trucks are shown to roll down hills, etc.? Or is it strictly confined to crypto? To me, these are all different manifestations of the same thing -- a decade of easy money, enabled by flawed monetary policy. An investor in my view can still be rational (not greedy) while still taking interest in such opportunities.

Also, what if this were only 5% of my portfolio (I'm not disclosing the actual %'age, but consider the 5% for argument's sake), would you still consider it an extreme level of greed?

I have my own views of what constitutes extreme greed, but that tends to have more to do with how certain individuals (in this case FTX's executives, but can also be applied obvious scams like OneCoin, and many other scenarios) illegally enrich themselves by exploiting regular people. That, to me, is true extreme greed.

Either way, I think your response is interesting and I appreciate the extra color.
> I think that this move isn't so much about privacy. I think that French government is beginning to realize that these types of products and services constitute critical IT infrastructure for the country.

It can be both; as surveillance capitalism becomes even more and more pervasively intrusive we can see the risks against both individuals and institutions. There's also plenty of history of major governments (including the US and French) using their intelligence services to help in commercial endeavours.

But the war in Ukraine has also demonstrated how quickly the US can cripple an economy.
>Matt Foley was never intended as a positive role model, that was sort of the whole point.

It sounds great until YOU ARE LIVING IN A VAN, DOWN NEAR THE RIVER.

Great skit. I miss him.
Problem solved. Tokyo.
If you're (me) a high-level language developer eg. web, python, things like that... what part of RISC-V would be tangible? Or nothing, just your OS uses RISC-V underneath like emulating an architecture?

Maybe cheaper computers in general.