Edit: on my computer only as I don't surf the web with my phone (I don't know if there is a mobile version of Waterfox)
Libb
joined 2 years ago
Early 90s. I used to have an email and I also used to connect to some BBS through a 14.4 kbit dialup, I had to pay by the minute of connection and that certainly was not cheap to young me. Then, came the WWW and demise of BBS, and then the marketing money that ruined the everything.
For me, the amount of crap is the real main change, as I'm mostly looking for the same kind of content which is text-based. Sure, since the 06s and YT I've also consumed a lot of videos but as far as I'm concerned this is something I'm getting rid of: back to text and a more humane and less corporate-owned Web.
The second change would the proportion of absolute morons populating the Web. There were always some amazing troll and some clinical case out there but they were amusing events. Now? they're on the verge of becoming the norm and that's as sad as it's terrifying: think Idiocracy but not in a funny movie and with real life consequences.
Speed of connection? Not so much. I remember my 14.4 dial-up modem but my unlimited high speed fiber connection (that cost me nothing) doesn't feel that much speedier. Why? Because all its amazing power is used to load a shit ton of tracking scripts and another shit ton of marketing scripts with almost every single webpage, and then the pages themselves are poorly (if at all) optimized.
Thinking about it, it's almost funny to realize the hardware is so much more powerful nowadays but the content has become so bloated with tracking (spying) and ads that it loads much slower than web pages used to, back then. That's what they call technological progress, and that's something we pay good money for.
Oh yes I have read about them in Polt’s website, but I did not know if they were good,
So far the third volume is the one I appreciate the least but, like I said, I'm also not the best horror stories reader. I'm a fan of real weird stuff, not the usual spooky things ;)
As I know you speak French, did you read the last Ploum’s book
No, I have not. I may have look ;)
A standing desk (coupled with a good floor mat, to help the feet/back), and when I sit it's on a gamer chair whose brand I can't recall that's comfy and that was given to me.
If anyone is wondering, I'm not really a gamer. The chair is just comfy ;)
Thx a lot 8)
BTW, I just posted something in the community. I thought it might be interesting.
Thx a lot for what you're doing :)
Je dirais que toute raison pour ne pas bosser est valide.
Je suis actuellement dans le frigo en train de compter les carottes, je répondrai à votre message dès que la température repassera sous les 6000°.
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Mon clavier est tout mou. Est-ce une raison valide pour pas bosser et aller faire une petite sieste dans le frigo, à côté de la salade et des carottes?
The war in Ukraine revealed our energy dependencies, and now we see there are also digital dependencies."
Better late than never.
Thinking about it, no matter how odd, it looks to me like the EU (and FLOSS) will have to send a warm thank you note to Trump ;)
Like mentioned in another comment there is a difference between patriotism and nationalism.
I would add to that there is a difference between loving one's country and being a fetishist of its flag or its national anthem.
You will find flags in all countries. The question is more what proportion of the population is obsessed with them?
I'm French and I can tell you that beside the far-right, who loves waving flags and singing the first few lines of the Marseillaise (most of them, like the rest of the population probably have never taken the pain to read the entire song, even less so to memorize it, too much of a hassle). For the most part, you will find flags on public buildings and offices. Seldom on private home/office.
Also, it's visible during special celebrations, say, each year for the 14th of July (France's birthday) some streets and stores will be decorated and, at least where I live (Paris), public transit will also have a little flag waving in the wind.
Last but not least, you will mostly see the French flags waved, this time en masse, during sport events. People will also proudly wear french colors on their clothing and on their face, or on their head (I fucking love this stupid hat, but Io don't own one). But then you will also see the other countries flags being waved by their own supporters, and most of the time they don't end-up killing one another ;)
Like I said, people barely know more than the first few lines of our national anthem, kids are not required to swear allegiance to the flag either at school. Some people are discussing about bringing that back but I'd rather see them bring back some traditional reading and math lessons, like in the 'good old days'... when kids actually were taught something useful. Because we've been suffering from the same issue you have with your US school system: it's falling apart, badly. Our kids aren't taught much if anything. More and more of them can barely read or write, and they can't do simple math. Let's not mention getting any notion of civic education, history, philosophy (which would all help make a more informed & better-equipped citizen, which is not that silly in any country that is supposed to be a democracy).
That being said, even without a flag, we're many to love our country, despite all its flaws, even those of us who criticize it vehemently. We just don't need to show that by waving some cheap piece of fabric, or glue a sticker on a some car.
I have bookshelves filled with books on French (and European) politics, history and philosophy. Sure those are not flags I can wave on the street or glue on my car to show what a true patriot I am but, imho, their non flashy content represent France (and the many other EU countries) a little better than any cheap piece of fabric put on a mast.
That being said, I have a pair of socks with a french flag on them. Could that count a patriotism? ;)
Je peux tout regarder, du moment que c’est bien fait (aka, bien éclairé/filmé-scénarisé/joué/monté/sonorisé). Ce qui exclus déjà un paquet de films, mais je veux me fâcher avec personne.
Comme genres favoris ?
SF. Pour moi, 2001 est le film le plus intelligent jamais réalisé (il est aussi plutôt beau), aucun rival ne lui arrive à la cheville et pourtant j'espère toujours en trouver un. Stalker, dans un autre genre, n'est pas mal non plus mais le roman est mieux, comme pour Solaris d’ailleurs (le roman 2001 est moins bien que le film, pour info).
J'aime beaucoup les films historiques et, même pas honte, les histoires d'amours fleur bleues. Sans déconner, je pleure comme un bébé quand je regarde 'Love Story' ou 'Quelque part dans le temps'. Chaque fois. Ou encore 'Forrest Gump' ou bien L’homme bicentenaire, avec Robin Williams. Et oui, c’est souvent niais, j’assume.
Je suis aussi un fan de Westerns, même si ça fait marrer bien du monde... C’est dommage pour eux. Comme pour les romans d’ailleurs : y a des perles qui ne demandent qu’à être vue et lues dans ce genre méprisé.
Après, je suis fan de certains réalisateurs, voir de certains acteurs… et je vais regarder tout ce qu'ils font, même si j'aime pas ou sauf si c'est uniquement streamé vu que j'ai annulé tous mes abonnements et n'ai aucune envie de les renouveller.
Bref, j’aime bien à peu près tout du moment que c’est bien fait, surprenant et pas casse-couilles ou moralisateur—si je veux de la morale qui tienne la route j’ouvre Spinoza ou Aristote, merci.
Mais je préfère quand même les films de martiens, les films avec des bisous et les films de cow-boys :p