In Europe, we changed to the Euro not that long ago. I was a student and I used to use a shared laundry machine. It was the day before returning to school. I was barely alone in the dorms. Let’s do a laundry !

The machines were updated to get euros. There was another machine just to change the coins, especially since the washing machines only took one kind of coin (20 cents).

I put one fresh euro in the exchange machine, expecting to get 5 coins of 20 cents.

Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>…

What ?! The machine was buggy and would not stop. I grabbed a hoodie to put the coins in it. Soon, it was not enough. After what seems to be an eternity I was there with around 50€ and kilos of coins.

And Barbie. What a spin-off !

You know what? It’s BECAUSE of the US that we, French, have this now.

What a shitty present!

In the news, 5.000 years later : “Scientists warned that our mass extraction of hydrogen may produce global salinization, but no one wants to reduce its energy consumption.”

And there was r/gadget . Funny thing, I went from r/technology to r/gadget for the same reason : r/technology was 90% business news

It would not be the first time that a second game from one successful developer will never come to life. I wish that I am wrong.

That’s why I sent a link with comments and not the blogpost itself.
This comment is interesting :
https://bolha.forum/comment/381393

Here is a link to send to your friend : https://bolha.forum/comment/381380

From my experience, it depends on the instance. Sometimes, one instance of Piped will not work, but another will be OKish.

My kids don’t have a phone number and I would be glad we could use Signal.

I loved Edge when it was a browser.

Now it’s a trojan to make you use Microsoft services that you don’t want to use.

And that sounds like a much lower quality car.

It’s way more practical than a Tesla. Whatever, the Berlingo model now starts at 39.000€ (EV only). That’s twice the price I bought mine. My salary has not doubled in 10 years.

That’s… expensive ? The last car I bought new was 17.000€ (12 years ago, a Citroën Berlingo).

The model 3 in Europe is 43.000€.

The price of these cars gets me depressed.

No, that’s not that clear for the moment.

Let me explain the French case :

• Webedia is a big company that owns most of the famous French websites (jeuxvideo.com , etc.). All these websites have cookie walls with an alternative : a paid subsription. What they say, is that the website is now accessible with subscription only. However, if you accept cookies, you’ll get a discount (free access).
• The CNIL (a big French governemental entity) tried to forbid this. If someone reports a website, it’s for this entity to take action. There is no need to report Webedia, the CNIL knows already :-)
• The Conseil d’Etat (juridical entity of the French gov) said that “non”, it’s OK for Webedia to use such paywalls. The CNIL can’t forbid Webedia to use them.
• The CNIL asked the jusrists at the European level… here we are. We still don’t know.

Here is a French website where the CNIL explains this :
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookie-walls-la-cnil-publie-des-premiers-criteres-devaluation

There are multiple French websites that do this. It is legal (otherwise these websites would not do this anymore, it’s been a while).
There is a popup asking you if you consent to get cookies (for advertisement). If you say “no”, it leads you to another popup with two choices :

• Change your decision and accept cookies
• Pay for a premium service without advertisements

Aviation is now mostly full automatic. On the otehr hand, there are tons of beacons to help it.

That’s a great idea to have these comments for the posterity.
To my lawyer in the future :

“Everything I could have wrote in reddit about pirating was a lie to get upvotes. Don’t take any of it seriously.”

There are small subreddits that are definitively private now. But only very small ones.