Posts by ploum@mamot.fr
(DIR) Post #B1B8dWSGRiqjc5jqiW by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-12T14:48:04Z
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Ado1 fait remarquer que son nouveau téléphone n’a pas de prise jack et demande des écouteurs sans-fil pour Noël.J’hésite à offrir un adaptateur USB-C -> audio jack à 5€ mais je sens que je vais me faire détester.Du coup, vous avez des recos d’écouteurs sans fil, adaptés au sport extérieur et compatibles avec un téléphone Dégooglisé ? (Murena Pixel 8 sous /e/OS)Je demande parce que je vois passer des écouteurs qui intègrent l’IA Google et je veux éviter ça à tout prix.
(DIR) Post #B1FYqAA810SvgBmcsa by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-14T13:46:07Z
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@paul_denton : je me souviens d’une anecdote similaire à la fin du mandat de Bill Clinton : il s’est retrouvé devant un distributeur de billet et n’avait pas la moindre idée de ce que c’était ni comment s’en servir.À sa décharge, ces distributeurs se sont popularisés pendant son mandat.Sarkozy raconte n’importe quoi : il a connu les téléphones toute son enfance et sa vie.
(DIR) Post #B1J6O5VtgafF4Jd6PY by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-15T14:49:30Z
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"How We Lost Communication to Entertainment"A following of my post about PixelFedhttps://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.htmlAlso available on #gemini :gemini://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.gmi#fediverse #geminiprotocol
(DIR) Post #B1J6O9JzWnW8sY5ePQ by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-16T13:09:18Z
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@arkholt : you should read again what I wrote. The issue is "people posting messages expecting people to see them while they can’t see them." Nobody post pictures on Gemini and is surprised that some people can’t see them. Mastodon only shows 4 images from Pixelfed users when they post multiple images. And that’s bad! That’s a problem. We totally miscommunicate (imagine a comic that appears as racist until the 5th picture change the whole meaning).That’s the problem I’m talking about.
(DIR) Post #B1Jv5q4xQa0beJ5Icy by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-16T19:38:51Z
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Mozilla has a new CEO who:- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")- Is all-in on AIThat’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.
(DIR) Post #B1MeAJLlQPNrqMN7rc by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-17T19:20:16Z
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I ask my students to contribute to the opensource project of their choice. I just did a quick grep through the 238 projects I have in my archives.Of 238, 7 don’t mention "github.com".On close inspection, 6 of them are because the student forgot to putt the URL of the project repo.So, on 238 students, only one managed to contribute to a project which is not hosted on Github.It is even worse than I thought.https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html
(DIR) Post #B1PcG0CduRjxlNZUS8 by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-19T16:29:09Z
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– But your AI is completely stupid ! It is stupid to even think about putting it everywhere, even more stupid to think about letting it running a business !– Well, the best you can do is to prepare for that stupid world.That answer is not mine. It is exactly (minus the stupid word) what an Anthropic employee told to a Wall Street Journal Journalist in a promotional video. That’s how those people think.https://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.html
(DIR) Post #B1Q2ue6Pa54VtuhKJE by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-19T21:39:36Z
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@davidrevoy @gee @framasky @booteille : ce crossover absurde est totalement délicieux !
(DIR) Post #B1i3Ev6XqFhhjlSei8 by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-28T13:37:47Z
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I’ve received multiple emails from people telling me that I was on the frontpage of HackerNews so I checked it and saw "508 votes" for one of my article.Then I refreshed the page and the count fell to 489.I don’t think you can downvote on HN so I’m wondering how this is even possible. (now back to 494).One thing I’ve learned after all those years is: don’t read the comments on HN. Don’t even skim. Avoid at all costs.I appreciate the nice emails though…
(DIR) Post #B1mZbmvCPFgkBSwTZ2 by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-30T17:32:51Z
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Dear politicians,The problem is not that I disagree with you.The problem is that your only job is, by definition, to protect the common good. But big corporations managed to brainwash you into thinking that there’s no such thing as the common good.You are not yet on the level we can disagree with. You are not even on a level we can discuss with. You are a child playing the "elect me game" to distract our attention. And it works.That makes me sad…
(DIR) Post #B1mb2pxZJn47NbVpGS by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-11-23T11:21:35Z
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Suite au dernier post de @tcrouzet , je relance ma quête d’une solution libre de "newsletter" et non de "mailing-espion-mis-enpage-dans-une-usine-à-gaz-web-pour-lobotimisés-des‑écoles-de-commerce"https://linuxfr.org/users/ploum/journaux/solution-pour-diffuser-une-newsletter-des-emails
(DIR) Post #B1nsOpeB3Qz59wTZCq by ploum@mamot.fr
2025-12-29T09:06:15Z
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@davidho : as someone who develop a browser optimized to work offline, I was completely flabbergasted by a blog post wrote by a sysadmin working in Antarctica. He was trying to do stuff like updating every Windows machine on a very slow connection. There’s a whole niche of #retrocomputing #permacomputing #smallWeb #smolnet people who are doing exactly that: using and developing minimal ressources tools optimised for low spec hardware on really slow and intermittent connections.
(DIR) Post #B1zmEEYpoj23Pm3jiS by ploum@mamot.fr
2026-01-05T21:31:14Z
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I wonder how much of the Venezuelian IT infrastructure relies on Google Workspaces/Microsoft Sharepoint.But what we will never know is how many documents/email/info stored there were directly studied by US intelligence to prepare their attack.Because, at the very least, we know it could have been done.
(DIR) Post #B1znyUHtmFdbSvkzB2 by ploum@mamot.fr
2026-01-05T11:26:54Z
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How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html#github #floss
(DIR) Post #B24oYuZ3CzEMEIGOcC by ploum@mamot.fr
2026-01-08T13:33:57Z
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I send exactly 2 emails per year using the Microsof Outlook, to announce the exam to my students. Guess what? Outlook cannot show me those emails I sent. It displays a threads of answers by students, not the original one. Also, no subjects are displayed for each email. But, at least, I’m offered to summarize the thread.Guess what? That summarize button open a sidebar chatbot which asks me to copy/paste the content of the email in the chat.The whole thing is beyond parody.
(DIR) Post #B26Y1xS0FKjQft9S2C by ploum@mamot.fr
2026-01-09T09:32:39Z
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Je découvre via des affiches dans ma ville que les étudiants peuvent imprimer gratuitement leurs cours en échange d’avoir des pubs insérées dans leur matériel d’étude.https://pappaye.be/etudiants/Je suis complètement choqué, j’espère que les étudiants le sont autant que moi. Même dans Printeurs, je pense que je n’aurais pas osé la faire celle-là !
(DIR) Post #B2MUgjVdh4og1POmTA by ploum@mamot.fr
2026-01-16T22:16:15Z
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@cstross : Sentence also work by replacing LLMs by "marketers" or "people holding a MBA"
(DIR) Post #B2TXeF737Qf2sGff1c by ploum@mamot.fr
2026-01-19T18:47:23Z
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Giving University Exams in the Age of ChatbotsHow I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not.And what I learned in the process.https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html
(DIR) Post #B2XtgEIs4eKsZEOPtA by ploum@mamot.fr
2026-01-22T12:40:13Z
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Why there’s no European Google?And why it is a good thing!My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi
(DIR) Post #B2ZYn2mLbwWc88VYYq by ploum@mamot.fr
2026-01-22T20:04:03Z
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Idea: "The unbillionaires list", to promote contributors to the common.A collaborative website that lists people who created something useful to millions but purposedly choose to put in in the common and didn’t earn money directly from it (or not as much as expected)Besides those listed in https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.htmlI would add Henri Dunant (Red Cross, he died in great poverty), Didier Pittet (who invented the hydroalcoolic gel we now use everyday).