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bytest321
2026 @04:42AM
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Attached to: EU Deploys New Government Satcom Program in Sovereignty Push
The reusable first stage Themis is assembled and will fly later this year, see picture https://cnes.fr/en/projects/th... of course the whole project will take some years to complete, but it's not like starting from scratch.
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bytest321
2026 @09:05PM
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Attached to: What Go Programmers Think of AI
I think the argument is that the AI assistant is so cheap it is worth using even if it is not better than the human. So cheap it even compares favourably to a totally free intern, in that an AI assistant is available 24/7, does not complain, quit, is not temperamental nor hard to manage. Both make stupid mistakes, but the AI is more consistent along time, such that after an habituation period you can depend on it within usefulness boundaries you come to establish.
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bytest321
2026 @08:37PM
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Attached to: Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work
No they can't, that's the thing with their system. Each company either has a union (singular), or does not have. If it does not have one, they still can't create one on their own initiative, they need a majority to agree and vote the creation.
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bytest321
2026 @08:31PM
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Attached to: Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work
keeping the executive officers in a comfortable lifestyle.
Depends what you called comfortable. The news mentions CGT, France largest union with ~700,000 members. The organisation is headed by Secretary-General Sophie Binet, who assumed to earn... behold... between 30 and 35 k€ annually. https://decideursnews.com/tout... (Raw numbers: between 3440 and 4250 € per month, but you need to remove 30% to taxes.)
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February 01, 2026 @03:22PM
from the charging-ahead dept.
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, will be adding spaces for electric vehicle charging to parking lots in 19 different states, reports MLive:
The move follows up on a plan announced in 2023 to build a network of charging stations at Walmart and Sam's Club stores throughout the U.S... "With a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a convenient charging option that will help make EV ownership possible whether people live in rural, suburban or urban areas," wrote Walmart Senior Vice President of Energy Transformation, Vishal Kapadia in 2023. Walmart plans to have the nationwide network operating by 2030.
Walmart plans to have the nationwide network operating by 2030.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis for sharing the news.
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bytest321
2026 @02:01PM
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Attached to: Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction
To be fair the OP did not claim to discover the fact right now, just that it is a case where the conclusion applies. It is useful for people who are taking notes. The decades to come will see many books to be written about this sad part of the history of the world.
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bytest321
2026 @04:26AM
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Attached to: Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work
there are even five different unions for the same company
As an additional detail, this is the normal situation there, all of these unions exist nationwide; two have members everywhere, one targets middle managers, and two target workers of the IT industry. If another studio would start an unrelated strike, you'd likely see the same names. The idea of nationwide unions is they can ask members in other companies sharing similar preoccupations to join a strike nationwide.
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bytest321
2026 @03:43PM
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Attached to: WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers
The Signal client is open source and the binary is reproducibly built, making it impossible for the signal company to embed nefarious behaviour without being detected.
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bytest321
2026 @04:43AM
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Attached to: French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s
IPs have been challenged in court. [...] An official ID is a lot simpler.
But Facebook won't have your official ID. And an exploit of the age verification protocol would be challenged in court as well just as much as your IP.
Don't fall for conspiracy theories (finding obscure ways to explain the facts that involve people conspiring). If a country wants to control dissent, they publish a law about it in the open, they don't find complicated ways to abuse an age verification protocol.
Also, note that party of Macron does not even have a majority at the Assembly that approved the text by a wide margin. The several parties that are part of the current "dissent", which altogether are even at a majority against Macron, would have been the first to vote against if they felt this would be used against their supporters now or in a future legislature.
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bytest321
2026 @04:05AM
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Attached to: French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s
I don't understand the irony. There would have been irony if the poster (Macron) would have been below 15 himself.
If you're going to cut teens off from social media, don't put important information on social media where they can't access it.
This post obviously wasn't the only place where the information was published. Social media is an additional channel of government communication, not the main one.
Young people currently still have access to the social media, and they will until late this year. By that time nobody will need to look up for this post to find out the info.
School is compulsory until 16 so people this message addresses will learn all the needed from their teachers.
I really don't get the problem. Laws about young people are discussed and voted by adults, and not usually published in children books and magazines for them to read. Twitter/X is one more place that will be for grown-ups (15+).
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bytest321
2026 @03:47AM
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Attached to: French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s
I don't see the advantage for the authorities. It seems more complex than doing as they have always, ask Facebook/Twitter-X/... what is the user IP of an offending message, then ask the mobile operator who pays for that IP. For other purposes of age verification, such as purchasing alcohol, the shop knows you by name and address.
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bytest321
2026 @08:40PM
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Attached to: French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s
Sharing the real name wouldn't be compatible with first principle of GDPR, which is to only collect data necessary for the purpose. The age verification project is based on a digital ID wallet, which contains the real information but only shares the necessary 1/0 bit related to a regulated age. More here: https://ageverification.dev/
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bytest321
2026 @07:45PM
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Attached to: Apple Tells Patreon To Move Creators To In-App Purchase For Subscriptions
Patreon wants to satisfy their customers (content creators) by offering ways to donate that are as easy as possible for their user demographic. Patreon is afraid the customers might decide to move the business to another platform if they feel or even only imagine, that their revenue will be affected if the users (donors) don't have access to an app.
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bytest321
2026 @07:26PM
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Attached to: OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research
I don't consider using but I can see the use case. "Convert this image to drawing commands" could be useful to some. A drawing in a paper won't need code structure or maintenance, so code maintainability is no concern. Also editing tables in latex is tedious and tricky, and is a table at which AI should excel (generating templates, reformatting).
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bytest321
2026 @02:53PM
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Attached to: France To Ditch US Platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom For 'Sovereign Platform' Amid Security Concerns
that will only cost these countries a fortune
TFA says it saves them money. The savings is easy to compute, it's the difference between the old Microsoft Teams subscription and the new Thalès subscription.
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