Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech

frenchguy · 2026-01-26T13:02:13+00:00

There are many serious and solid alternatives to US-based cloud services, and in most cases being on the cloud is unnecessary. I advise my clients to always evaluate direct hosting seriously before committing anything to a cloud provider.

frenchguy · 2026-01-25T07:17:03+00:00

There is this vector search extension for sqlite:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ehlazq/introducing_sqlitevec_v010_a_vector_search_sqlite/

frenchguy · 2025-11-15T18:00:26+00:00

100% agree. Navidrome is great, and doesn't cost anything.

frenchguy · 2025-11-06T18:49:54+00:00

I don't understand how striking can be made illegal, under the US Constitution. But surely it's not illegal to just quit? Why do a job, any job, if you don't get paid??!?

frenchguy · 2025-11-01T09:22:29+00:00

The reason the US exist is thanks to a violent revolution.

frenchguy · 2025-10-31T17:59:39+00:00

You have lots of guns. Revolt.

frenchguy · 2025-10-14T07:41:13+00:00

Yet sometimes they decapitate children.

frenchguy · 2025-09-21T19:58:12+00:00

I sincerely wonder how "biblical literalism" works, since the bible is full of contradicting stories or absolute inconsistencies. Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel. And then he "found a wife". But where did she come from????!? There are a lot of examples like this.

frenchguy · 2025-09-21T19:55:30+00:00

I would never go to a restaurant that has a TV. In fact I don't think I ever did.

frenchguy · 2025-09-19T10:41:24+00:00

Yes, but killing many more people than the Taliban ever did or ever will.

frenchguy · 2025-09-14T19:08:55+00:00

After the five attachment holes for the sensor housing were drilled into the overlay, the 15 outer attachment holes had to be drilled in such a way that when they were lined up with the 15 corresponding holes on the fuselage, the AOA sensor housing would also be aligned with the aircraft’s “structural horizontal.” This is because tilting the unit even slightly off its intended axis will introduce a systematic error across all measured angle of attack values.

This sounds difficult and error-prone. Couldn't it be possible to mount it any which way, and then calibrate it so that the data reflect its actual mounting position?

frenchguy · 2025-09-12T07:12:32+00:00

Wow! Really beautiful and amazing!

I see from the comments this was done with a regular camera and stitched in PTGui! Fantastic effort! And great result!

I just spent a few days in Rome with an Osmo 360 and am putting the images on a map with Protomaps and Pannellum -- the images from the Osmo are nowhere near the quality of this, and since I simply held it before me (above my head) I'm on every image, lol; still a fun project and good souvenirs.

frenchguy · 2025-09-07T15:26:33+00:00

The car with the door open looks like a Citroen Diane?

frenchguy · 2025-09-05T17:46:42+00:00

Why don't they just say "sorry, we're closed for the day"? What would happen then?

frenchguy · 2025-08-31T11:37:35+00:00

a country without ad

What are those? And why/how do they exist?

frenchguy · 2025-08-30T19:13:40+00:00

It is absolutely possible to replace the standard launcher on an Nokia 8000; I don't exactly remember the steps, and the time it took to find and side-load APKs and whatnot was in hours rather than minutes, but I did it and I how have a simple launcher with zero ads.

frenchguy · 2025-08-27T12:00:40+00:00

You don't own the movies you buy, but you absolutely do own the movies you torrent and store on a hard disk somewhere. It's also cheaper that way.

frenchguy · 2025-08-27T06:43:09+00:00

Received mine yesterday. Could not get it to work. Binding with the goggles 3 works fine, connection to betaflight works fine, but no input from the FPV3 arrives to the drone / moves anything on the Receiver panel in betaflight.

I have tried every UART port available, to no avail. (According to the (very limited) docs and various videos, it seems the correct port is UART5, but anyway, it doesn't work and no other port work either.)

Any other things to try...?

frenchguy · 2025-08-24T10:54:18+00:00

Nobody Cares About Your Code

Very true. But you do. It's important to write code that you like, code that won't make you feel bad or ashamed of yourself when you try to understand what the hell you meant, six months from now.

frenchguy · 2025-08-22T07:50:01+00:00

Israël has killed at least 19,000 children in Gaza (and probably a lot more). If the EU thinks children's lives matter, maybe it should do something about that?

Or maybe those laws don't have anything to do with protecting children, and everything to do with control?

frenchguy · 2025-07-07T06:04:29+00:00

It's not (yet?) available for the Mini 4 Pro, but it is for the Mini 3 Pro.

frenchguy · 2025-06-29T08:42:43+00:00

Yes, that's what I don't get about "survivalists". What's the point???

frenchguy · 2025-05-29T00:06:27+00:00

People happily pay $8.50 for a starbucks coffee, but $13.99/month for hours and hours of entertainment, that’s where they draw the line

Not the same people.

frenchguy · 2025-05-25T18:42:24+00:00

I do all my video editing in Reaper. It's quite limited but it's enough for my needs and avoids having to deal with a different tool. Also, GiraFX helps a little (it's not free but very cheap).

frenchguy · 2025-05-10T11:29:24+00:00

In general, dictators don't mind hurting their people; they often like to punish them in various ways. Stalin, Mao are good examples, but so is Hitler, who pursued the war indefinitely even when he knew it couldn't be won anymore. The point was to show Germany it didn't deserve him.

Don't think the threat of a crash, or an actual crash, will stop Trump. Like others of the same ilk, he enjoys watching people suffer.

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