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- Comment on Waking up an hour before you intend to 4 hours ago:
Bonjour, yes it is. It’s 11am now so still way before the “Bonsoir” time which don’t really have an official time (it’s when it’s dark and we don’t have a good afternoon equivalent).
- Comment on Waking up an hour before you intend to 4 hours ago:
Ah a fellow 4h30 early bird!
- Comment on Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers 1 day ago:
Musk calling Wozniak a loser on shitter in 3, 2, 1…
- Comment on The FAA Has a Big Problem with Mental Health 4 days ago:
Well yeah, it’s hard to see the radar screen or reach the rudder pedals if you are a dwarf.
I am a blind air traffic controller and even I can see that it would be difficult.
- Comment on The FAA Has a Big Problem with Mental Health 4 days ago:
FAA also have a problem with its ATC branch. Basically they lack fund, workers are overworked, overstressed, tired and procedures are not always safe (visual app for liners, not strong enough phraseology).
This will lead to more deaths and no, it will not have to do with the skin color or sexual preferences of the ATCO.
(+ FAA had a problem as a regulator, see what happened with Boeing)
- Comment on When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept a plane for security reasons, what can they actually do? 1 week ago:
They do, full flaps and uncomfortable high pitch (well, no flaps in that picture as it is a Mirage) but they definitely do.
Of course there are probably certain types of jets that cannot fly below 150kt and it’s not like actual fighters capabilities are advertised on internet. I only know that Rafale is said to go “below 120kt” with 16 degrees pitch up in 15 tons configuration, FA-18 is something like 135kt at pitch 30 !
- Comment on Delightfully so 1 week ago:
I have a friend with a strong scouser accent (Liverpool). I discovered the day I met her that I won’t be able to call myself fluent in English (proper, not simplified) until I manage every accents of the British Isles.
- Comment on I Made Magic in North Korea - Here’s What Happened 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
We know it wasn’t in the US otherwise they would have felt threatened and shot you.
Sorry it happened to you.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 2 weeks ago:
We need Lieutenant Aldo Raine back on duty (Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds)
- Comment on Hexagons are bestagons, we shall destroy Pentagon! 3 weeks ago:
France agree
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 3 weeks ago:
They’re on the backlog for me.
I bought it mostly for supporting the strike and for the Godot C# books.
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 3 weeks ago:
Nope, we learned about it from an English written post (see my other comment) about a pcgaming article.
If course we immediately spammed the French lemmy because vive la grève !
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 3 weeks ago:
I first saw it on !technology@lemmy.world (in English). It was also on !technology@beehaw.org
Direct link to the post but it might take you out of your instance (I don’t know how to correctly link a post). jlai.lu/post/15406809
- Comment on My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads 3 weeks ago:
Ah no it’s not. But I’ll never lose my job over that.
And worst case scenario, I’ll get 80% of a huge salary for 2 years and plenty of free time to start my own business (blackjack and hookers not planned but everything is negotiable).
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 3 weeks ago:
In case you missed it (posted several times on lemmy) the STJV grève bundle on itch.io
- Comment on My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads 3 weeks ago:
LOL
Fuck the employer, we riot and strike every few months, does it look like we care about employer regulations and company image? Without us the company will die and the head of state won’t allow it, so we do basically whatever we want.
Plus safety isn’t the issue here, not when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 was the only supported browser till late 2023. We are talking here about the non safety critical “admin network”, the network with only the administrative computer (emails, word processors etc).
The really safety critical network is air tight from the administrative world and Internet, it runs on Linux with tons of hardware redundancy.
Windows machines are just glorified type writers and internet browsing screens, they serve no operational business.
- Comment on My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about Chrome but that would be worth a search. Our corporate browser was still IE for a while. Now it evolved to Edge.
They are deep in the MS ecosystem…
- Comment on My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads 3 weeks ago:
Mine does the same (well, even less trusty addblocks are blocked).
But I found that copy/pasting the profiles folder of Firefox does the trick. In this folder there is an extension folder and xpi files that I can backup on the corporate cloud + usb drive to restore all my extensions.
Cause yeah, extensions are blocked but pasting into %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ is not :)
- Comment on Another Fatal aircraft flaw that the FAA is doing nothing about!?! 4 weeks ago:
Costs ? Most probably. Until we have bleed less aircraft but even if the tech exists none are in the pipes, not at Airbus and Boeing tho, not until they design an all new aircraft (so in minimum one decade at Boeing and Airbus is not in a hurry because of that).
Including a sensor in the bleed duct might mitigate the issue but it’s more work than a simple software upgrade, so, cost…
Maybe the next incident will force the industry. It would probably need a big enough incident involving a strong investigation board. So not the Swiss STSB (in the case I linked) as they and FOCA lack the influence, nor the FAA (in the video case) as they have proved this last decade to be incompetent as a regulator and ANSP, they have to get their shit in order first and put the money where it is needed.
Best case scenario would be an Airbus and BEA as the latter would put huge administrative and political pressure on the manufacturer whatever the costs are. Then once all Airbus are retrofitted Boeing and FAA would not have a choice but to do the same.
- Comment on Another Fatal aircraft flaw that the FAA is doing nothing about!?! 4 weeks ago:
Toxic oil fumes getting into the bleed air system already made one dead.
A young flight attendant on a Swiss A220 (formerly BCS3). It’s another engine (PW1524G) than the Leap A or B, without the “anti wobbling system” (can’t remember the name) purging the oil, but nevertheless, an oil leak getting burned by the engine will end up in the bleed air.
- Comment on "The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high." 4 weeks ago:
Agree, 30k €/£/chf is very low.
I’ve never worked nor lived in London but it is a capital, it should be at least 50k.
In Switzerland we would have something around 75 to 120k chf according to specific details (industry, experience, location etc).
- Comment on Isn't having your own domain name for email very bad for privacy? And how do you pick a good domain name that doesn't sound goofy? 5 weeks ago:
And its hard to even pick a name that sound good when you say it like Pro-ton-mail is easy to pronounce, I can’t think of some good domain name like that to choose.
I did a 4 letters domain .me
That way it’s quick and easy to say, letters by letters dot me. Usually using your initials (generally 2 letters) + ISO 3166-1-alpha2 letters country code works well.
So if you are Fidel Castro from Cuba your domain would be FCCU.me
- Comment on How are you actually doing today? 1 month ago:
I think that is a beautiful thing, not a pathetic one. If it brings you confort there is no shame at staying under a warm Trek blanket, I survived a year of lame superior school studies by binge watching the Star Trek movies DVD box.
I now have all of Star Trek on my NAS + Plex and I often like to fall asleep at night listening to an old TNG, or even Enterprise (it’s been a long road).
- Comment on How are you actually doing today? 1 month ago:
29 days today*
Thanks, I can’t wait for one month, then one year, then one life.
- Comment on How are you actually doing today? 1 month ago:
I finally quit drinking in 2025 and I’m doing it for the long run (thanks to the simple method from Allen Carr).
I’ll quit smoking in February as well.
So I feel very good.
Except that I just read that post lemmy.zip/post/30949122 about AI and now I feel beaten and angry.
- Comment on How are you actually doing today? 1 month ago:
Lets agree to disagree.
As a Trekkie and sci fi writer I want to believe in this beautiful future and I believe it is any sci fi author responsibility to sell positive stories.
If all we write about is dystopia and zombies apocalypse, then people will abandon the fight as there is no future. But if we sell utopian worlds with a trek style economy and future (or something even simpler, like no food shortage anywhere on our planet) then we might influence people to fight for that better future.
The problem with today Star Trek is not the writers but the corporations they work for. Besides, strange new worlds kept that old trek ambitions.
Whereas section 31 is… Well… Let’s say the best part of that film was the “on yo mama 4” joke at the end…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What’s crazy is seeing a feddit.uk buying french old el paso, probably from the local “carrouf” or leclerc.
- Comment on How dangerous is alcohol, really? 1 month ago:
Same here brother. That’s the way the drug is working on your brain. One drink makes you thirsty, until it is too late.
Also, nice coincidence with !stopdrinking@lemmy.world
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 2 months ago:
That’s good to know, thanks.
But after my message this morning I decided to try out my xgimi projector in the living room instead of the bedroom.
It is perfect like that and I will give the tv (old LG 1080p). A bedroom is not a home cinema anyway, because you don’t want crumbs in the bed 🙄
