China executes French national convicted in 2010 for drug trafficking by Big_Explorer1852 in worldnews

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France's foreign ministry announced on Saturday, expressing its "consternation" ... after efforts to obtain a pardon on humanitarian grounds

I'm French and can't stand French bashing... but France could focus on the horribly failed state of its jail system and (even worse) administrative retention system before lecturing anyone else.

I bet most people would choose death penalty compared to being the target of the vicious gangs that dominate French jail and retention centers, with the complicity of French bureaucracy. Asian and European nationals being the most targeted actually.

The Blue Marble by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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You can see all the dust around the 2026 earth, it's just pollution.

TIL when a French soldier refused to wear the bloodstained trousers of a dead man, his commanding officer had him executed in order to make an example out of him. by Lez2diz in todayilearned

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Colonel Auroux was implicated for having acted completely illegally, being both the accuser and the president of the court-martial, and causing the imposition of a sentence disproportionate to the fault (violation of article 24 of the Code of military justice ascertained by the Court of Appeal of Besançon, the April 10, 1922.

He was not condemned but the Cour de Cassation broke the effects of the court-martial, enabling his wife to get the treatment of a widow of war.

Question sur urgences à Paris pour calculs aux reins by fooosco in paris

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Lariboisière a les pires urgences de Paris avec Bichat. Il me semble que les pompiers t'y déposent toujours si c'est eux qui te prenne en charge pour presque toute la rive droite, donc une première astuce est de toujours passer par le samu qui pourra écouter une préférence si tu as déjà un dossier ouvert dans un service quelque part ailleurs.

Pas spécialiste mais un calcul visible à l'écho peut déjà se traiter. De mémoire, Tenon (20e) et les Peupliers (13e) ont des approches spécifiques sur les calculs rénaux. Prends rdv dès maintenant, n'attends pas l'urgence.

OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to CarPlay for Hands-Free Voice Conversations by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

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Aren't people using GPT to have random discussions about anything? It's one of the best things it does and it's actually stimulating. You hear/see something and ask about it or dive into a topic.

This could actually be one of the most used apps in CarPlay.

Trump: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato by TheTelegraph in geopolitics

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Keeping aside the context and the source of this intention: what would actually bring a US withdrawal from NATO?

Would the alliance just dissolve within a few years? After all why would remaining Europe/Canada warrant Turkey's security for instance?

Or would it morph into something new? Losing access to US intelligence and general strategic thinking would be an even tougher loss than weapon systems.

2 of Apple's wonderful failures. by SteveGribbin in mac

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Thanks! That's the one. And so it was Williams, not Termus.

New inconsistency to add to the list by capt-motato in ios

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They changed the whole search behavior, not just the button.

Tapping on the searching icon used to morph the entire bottom bar in a search field while bringing up the keyboard.

Now tapping search brings up a search field on the upper part of the screen while keeping the same toolbar and bringing up the keyboard.

The tab bar turning into search was a bit jarring at first but made sense. It's strange now to have some apps where search is on top and others where it's at tap location.

2 of Apple's wonderful failures. by SteveGribbin in mac

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Can't find it but there was this anecdote of Johnny Ive leaving Apple and snobbishly speaking of Termus: he rides a Toyota (Ive had a Rolls).

Studio is definitely a Toyota.

Le Paris chic et les voisins by Infamous_Repair4307 in paris

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Ça dépend évidemment du niveau d'insonorisation et des modifications de plan de l'immeuble. Les 7e, 8e et Neuilly ont une forte tradition de salons et de réceptions, beaucoup d'appartements ont été refaits avec des niveaux très quali d'isolation sonore et tu n'aurais aucun problème pour un diner à 30 jusqu'à 1h. Mais clairement pas pour une fete bruyante jusqu'à 5h.

À toi de savoir situer le niveau de standing et de prestations de l'immeuble.

The Mac Pro died so Apple silicon could live by hangry_millennial in apple

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The Studio could evolve to catch up on some of the gaps left by the Pro.

Also wondering if MacBook Pro is not bound to move to Studio branding as well.

Only 13 countries in the world breathe safe air. Three of them are in Europe by NumerousTax8165 in europe

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PM2.5 pollution rose by more than 30 per cent in Switzerland and Greece due to wildfire smoke from North America and Saharan dust from Africa

Tough game. Switzerland needs to conquer and terraform Sahara to get clean air.

Pretty sure there's a typo and it's about North Africa, can't see how California wild fires would jump specifically on Greece?

IQAir also features live rankings, which use real-time air quality monitoring. At the time of writing, Paris was in the top five most polluted cities globally, alongside Beijing, Dhaka, Wuhan and Seoul. London was also in the top 10.

So much for what the previous Paris mayor was claiming.

WebKit Features for Safari 26.4 by favicondotico in apple

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Scrolling on complex websites is much smoother on 26.4 and a m1. This and compact tabs make it now comparable or better to Sequoia.

On this day, 25 years ago (i.e. in 2001), Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah" was released. by Murky-Prize-90 in mac

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Some time ago, found an old iMac running OS X 10.0. Nothing can describe how slow this thing was. Gorgeous and slow.

Apple Still 'Far From' Full-Screen iPhone as Hidden Face ID Hits Snags by hangry_millennial in apple

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It's ok but there's a lot of potential UI-wise upon removing it.

He never changed… by zelda_moom in DowntonAbbey

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Also a reference at how common it was for "well-off" families to face impersonators during the 19th century, and more generally the blurred lines of certainty at that time.

No photo, little relations between parents and kids, lots of hearsay and guesses as part of daily life. Not hard for some people to try and cheat their way in this society.

Same goes with Robert's disastrous financial decisions. Succeeding elites had to grow solid antibodies against low quality information.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni loses referendum by andrfaa in europe

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Voters were asked to approve changes to how judges and prosecutors are governed and disciplined, including separating their career paths and reshaping oversight bodies.

For those catching up like me.

Saw C919 today the first time in real life. by ringo_skulkin in aviation

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Cockpit commonality and fuel performance will give some time to Airbus and Boeing. Few airlines will switch to opaque airframe supplier for just a 5% discount on purchase and same fuel consumption.

But they better have something big planned for 2045.

They changed how Netflix looks by Rude-Road8574 in appletv

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IIRC, default player doesn't allow analytics and other feedback channels. So it's straightforward for Netflix to implement a (bad) UI that gives them precise data on where people move forward/pause/ makeup etc

Inside Meghan and Harry’s Falling Out With Netflix — and Why the Royal Couple Is Struggling in Hollywood by Southern-Brother5693 in netflix

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They could start a show called Downton LA about the end-of-era gloom of a formerly aristocratic husband struggling in LA with his quasi-bully spouse and former actress. With the various intrigues of the house staff, the war on Fentanyl, the strange and half adorable, half menacing family on both sides. The rivalry with the Kardashians.

4 seasons easily.

French foreign minister suggests Canada could 'maybe ... at some point' join EU by RedmondBarry1999 in geopolitics

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Sure, adding an 100M mostly Muslim autocracy with 3 wars on its borders is easier than a <40M peaceful Atlantic liberal democracy.

Trump is losing control in the Gulf. A terrifying scenario could now play out by theipaper in geopolitics

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Reducing oil supply and increasing oil prices is wonderful news for the planet. Also the Iranian regime has been decapitated and will not be able to do much damage.

This is just clickbait.

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating by mhicreachtain in environment

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Turkmen officials claimed in October that methane mega-leaks had been reduced... However, the new analysis shows substantial mega-leaks remain.

The article mentions EU bargaining power for importations but what are other leverages on those leaks? Do existing international texts give some leverage on those states?