Blisterexe

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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

In my idea of this at least it would be paired with free education and the creation of big infrastructure projects like rail systems and dams or whatever, so that the government jobs are actually doing something.

It could also result in more teachers in classrooms and better road maintenance for instance.

Obviously it's a bad idea if it's handled poorly.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I think that currently a job guarantee is much more practical and doable, and would have much the same benefits. Why would a company get away with treating you like shit or paying like garbage when you can easily get a government job?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I love arte for francophone stuff, public broadcasting is the best

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Claiming we now speak in a chatbot-influenced dialect disregards the beauty of human expression. Language evolves with technology, but that doesn’t mean we’re losing our voice. Instead, we’re blending styles, adapting to new contexts while holding on to our rich heritage. Let’s celebrate this evolution rather than fear it; it reflects our creativity in an ever-changing world!

/j

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I'm like a third of the way through it right now, and either the french translation clarifies it or I haven't gotten to the confusing part yet. It's very different from the first book but I don't hate it, it's a good "what would happen after the big heroic tale" that the first book sets up well.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Honestly I read it when I was a preteen-teen so right in the intended age range and I liked it quite a bit, not my favorite by any means but it was good. Not going to reread it now for obvious reasons, at least not legally.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Honestly the city is very good when it's actually properly designed, unlike most north american cities.

TLDR is that living somewhere with good density (2-3 floor condos being the norm) while still having space so it's not crowded, like most places having backyards that connect to the alley sounds like a compromise, but the upside is that you can walk to literally everywhere you could possibly need to go except maybe your job, which is a suprisingly big boon to qol.

I say this because I used to have a similar attitude, but moving from moncton to montreal really changed my mindset.

If you want an example of what I'm talking about you can see the "le plateau" neighborhood in google street view.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

That's like 3 grand usd every year, who has that kind of money?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

What the fuck? Craziest thing I've seen in the montréal metro was like, a rat.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No I agree that depending on china isn't ideal, but at some point you can't go it alone.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

As if the US is a better trade partner, like let's be real

 

There's been some posts about Graphene leaving france and accusing the government of targeting them.

This isn't happening. What happened is that le parisien posted an article that presents what french law enforcement think of grapheneOS, which is obviously mostly crap, then present part of graphene's respone, which does in fact include their references to human rights organizations, large tech companies and others using GrapheneOS, unlike what grapheneOS claims. The main flaw with the article is the fact that the author takes what the french law enforcement says at face value, which is not a good move.

If you haven't been following this you may be wondering how this was extrapolated into the government targeting them. Well, it's because government owned news sites also reported on this. This is because le parisien's article got regurgitated by a bunch of other news sites looking for an easy article to get ad revenue from, normal news site behavior. The government news sites are fully editorially independent from the government, which the GrapheneOS lead should know, since that's how the canadian CBC works.

For chat control, that measure isn't supported by the majority of french meps, just the (massively unpopular) head of state and his minority government. No similar law has been passed nationally, in fact, a law that guarantees privacy rights is making it's way through the legislature (tuta article). If chat control passes, it affects several of the countries (germany and belgium, afaik) they moved to as well, anyways.

Graphene's announcement also disparages the other two big privacy roms, both based in france, which is odd and makes me personally think this may have more to do with the visible hatred the project lead has for those projects.

Please tell me what you think, and if I missed anything important, because it really seems like a big nothing-burger to me.

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