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@ Libb @piefed.social

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A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.

  • Is Piefed a #dpga tool ?

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  • I don't know if it (nor what) is a DPGA but it kinda is NPTBIALITS (1).

    1: A Nice Place To Be In, At Least I Think So.

    Imho, you should develop your question a little more if you want to get more constructive comments ;)

  • Calvin & Hobbes 2.0

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  • Nah... I'm waiting for the Freemium 3.0, coupled with its AI powered Hobbes, it will be so much better.

  • A quick shoutout to Mullvad

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  • Mullvad are like a drop of hope in humanity in a sea of shitty and shady business practices.

    Alas, VPNs are quite high on the endangered species. Largely thx to countless clueless, when they're not plain full dishonest and working in their very own interest, representatives doing their best to make our societies a much shittier place for the rest of us.

  • Dads say response to support club in Beeston is 'overwhelming'

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  • A smart idea and a smart attempt at creating something useful, wishing them the best.

  • Today is May Day, for those in the US. If you are in the US, what are you doing, today, right now, to stand up and make your voice heard?

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  • I'm only reacting (which is what commenting is about) to

    expecting crickets or apologies

    I will let anyone decide for themselves how to read that, including the OP.

  • Today is May Day, for those in the US. If you are in the US, what are you doing, today, right now, to stand up and make your voice heard?

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  • Today is May Day, for those in the US.

    ... It is May Day in many countries outside of the US you know

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    expecting crickets or apologies

    And what are _you_doing today? Me? I'm reading about workers right movements history in my country (France). Not a bad pick if I dare say so myself. I'm also editing my comment to your post wondering if it's worth it... but that's just me being pessimistic.

  • EU made email | Soverin

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  • Thx for the links.

    Also, unlike Proton Drive, Infomaniak KDrive works great with GNU/Linux.

  • EU made email | Soverin

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  • I did not know about Soverin. You may want to add Infomaniak to your list of alternatives. It's Swiss-based/hosted (like Proton), offer some kind of encryption (I don't think if it's E2EE but don't quote me on that). One can either get a free email account, with limited storage, or a paid plan for their KSuite that is online office suite + cloud Storage and email, available for both personal use as well as businesses at a reasonable price, imho.

  • What feed and sorting do you browse the most on lemmy/piefed

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  • Subscribed only, sort New.

  • Physicists have measured ‘negative time’ in the lab

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  • Haven't many people experienced that? It's called scrolling on social media, right?

  • What's something cozy you like to watch, listen to, or do to relax?

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    • Read and write.
    • Watch sunrise and sunset
    • Make my spouse and I a cup of fine tea we will slowly appreciate together.
    • Go out for a walk.
    • Watch... birds,and insects. And sketch them, or whatever street scene I may be in.
    • Have a discussion with a person that is not driven by pure and uncontrolled emotions (more often than not, negative emotions).
    • Have a shower. Like, it's silly how much I like that ;)

  • Do you believe in separating the work from the artist?

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  • I do.

    Some of the works I admire the most have been written (or painted, or composed,...) by people I don't like, to say the least.

    Humans are complex beings.Culture, social norms (good vs bad) and historical background (what was considered legal and illegal) are also very complex. And the can be very different from one region to the next, and even in the same region from one time period to the next.

    While, on the other hand, the action of judging someone else (or some past time) is often lazy as fuck, based on nothing but personal emotions (hate, anger, sadness,... or their exact opposite), distaste (I don't like to see/hear/taste this or that) and preconceptions (I think people should (not) be allowed to do this or that).

    You don't believe me? Well, you're absolutely right to not believe anyone, me included, but then just go ask a few racists out there how easy it is to judge (and to hate on) someone based on their race or skin color, or even on their culture and social norms being different from ours... Do we really want to act like racists? I certainly don't, even when it's for other reasons than race, even for 'moral' reasons. Which, btw, is in itself a very changing notion.

    I also think no one, me included, is perfect. So, how come should I be allowed to judge and to condemn anyone based on their own imperfections and faults?

    Judging should be the job of the judges: people that been educated to fairly be judging (aka by accepting as a fact that anyone accused of anything should be considered innocent until proven otherwise) people's actions based on a set of arbitrary rules (that is the law) and when deemed necessary by punishing anyone that has not respected said rules. Judging should not be my job as an individual, filled with my own emotions and personal biases, nor as a citizen with my own set of values, and it is even less so as an amateur of art (no matter how deeply I may (dis)like some artists).

  • I drilled a hole through an old bank vault.

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  • RIP the little that was already left of my brain, after I figured it out :p

  • What book would you recommend to a person in their final days?

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  • Depends what you're interested in?

    Poetry, I would suggest quite a few poets. If I had to pick one it would the French Paul Eluard... which is not even the greatest poet in my opinion, just the one I first fell in love with as a young reader. If not him I would pick Baudelaire (another French poet) or maybe René Char. In English this time, the amazing Emily Dickinson. Those wrote verses I would love to read one last time when time comes.

    Philosophy? Here again it all depends the languages you can read. Spinoza, Nietzsche, Plato, Aristotle. a few selected pages from Marx. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Diderot are way too often not read by too many people that so poorly speak of them and their ideas. Which is kinda sad but also very telling our days. I would consider re-reading Emmanuel Levinas.

    Spirituality? I mean, the New Testament is a great text whether you believe in a god or not. So is Marcus Aurelius, or Saint Augustin.

    Novels? Tolstoy 'War and Peace' and his 'Anna Karenina' (the best novel that was ever written), or my dear Flaubert 'Madame Bovary' (or his "La tentation de Saint Antoine"), Marcel Proust "A la recherche du temps perdu" (but here one would need to die real slow to be able to read it from start to finish ;)

    Plays? The complete work of Molière, which is still the best playwright ever along with Racine, Shakespeare and the Ancient Greeks.

    Or maybe get a taste of the root of all Western literature? Read Homer. Or a personal lifelong companion of mine: Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', a book that quite literally...metamorphosed my life.

    Or maybe some comics? Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" would be my first pick. Then some Asterix (from the time their original creators were both alive, not their modern reboots)

  • My questions regarding many things...

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  • (from France)

    My phone is not rooted. I barely used it, like barely at all (I only have the required apps I need to access to, not a single app more), so I don't need to tweak it in any way.

    I show my ID when I'm required to.

    Sorry I cannot help you more than that.

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    Why do most adults around social media think that you are allergic to wisdom until youre 18?

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  • didnt expect to see “phone bad, book good” on lemmy

    (edit: Your) Expectations do say a lot more about you than they say about me.

    I would suggest you re-read my comment and if you can't find any reason to reformulate your answers by all means feel free to block me. I won't mind at all because it's more than likely that your expectations about my person will not be met. And I would not want for you to be disappointed, obviously.

  • Update community's rules

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  • With the two recent posts and my long day keeping an eye on these, i decided to update the community’s rules.

    I was a bit out of the loop (preparing our move from one apartment to another) but I've noticed a few... angry posts and some comments too.

    We need more nuances.

    This, 100%. Which is closely related to what I've be saying for a while now: we need to be more... open to whatever/whomever we disagree with. That is if we want the fediverse to become... more than a niche thing. We need to be fine with the fediverse not being ours, not being a perfect reflection of whatever our own values and preferences are.

    Thank for reading this long post,

    Thank you for working hard to make this space a better place. Much appreciated :)

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    Why do most adults around social media think that you are allergic to wisdom until youre 18?

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  • because most (or at least too many) people do believe they become wiser getting older. Which is... a bit optimistic, to say the least, and at least as simplistic.

    screen time is just a limit on time to learn if the kid is using it for the right purposes which you should teach them to

    That too is a bit simplistic.

    Screen time is (supposed to be) a teaching/control tool. Like school used to be about teaching kids limits and the value of hard work. Screen time is supposed to help kids learn there is a life outside of that phone... a very worthy motivation that completely fell flat when those kids can see adults around them waste their entire life on said phone, doing more or less stupid things like some junkies do their drug things.

    But no matter how stupid adults can be around kids, the idea of giving kids some help in learning selfcontrol is great...A bit like putting safety wheels on a bike is a great idea when a kid first learn to ride a bike.

    As far as "the right purpose" goes, like we would all agree that learning stuff would be one such right purpose, I would be devastated to see kids only get their knowledge through a phone. Even more so realizing kids can't focus on a single task much anymore. Here in France, the gov recently published a study revealing that something like 40+% (if not 50+, I can't recalll the exact number) kids that are reading books (on their phone or on paper) also use their phone at the same time to do other things (social, or videos like TikTok, or even play games). And then one will wonder why school results are collapsing...

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    The crap you have to do just to install a freaking printer driver

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  • or go to System Settings -> Printer -> Add? I mean, that's all I had to do and not even that as a matter of fac as Linux Mint detected the printer the moment I plugged it into the network (B&W Network/USB laser printer)

  • Jardin @jlai.lu
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    Livres débutant jardinage

  • Journaling Just Works @sh.itjust.works
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    Literary supplement of Le Figaro about writer’s diaries

  • Forum Libre @jlai.lu
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  • Forum Libre @jlai.lu
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    À Roubaix, cette école remet des élèves en difficulté sur pied

  • Forum Libre @jlai.lu
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    Puis-je devenir Canadien, siouplé?

    thefoolwithapen.com /posts/2026/0121-15h09/
  • Casual Conversation @piefed.social
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    Back to textbooks: Denmark rolls back digital learning • FRANCE 24 English

  • Forum Libre @jlai.lu
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    1975: le vieux Paris qui disparaît

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    In a place without access to US apps and online services, how would you use the Internet?

  • Forum Libre @jlai.lu
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    Joyeux...

  • Forum Libre @jlai.lu
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    Une question (peut-être pas complètement) con à propos de postes de radios Internet et/ou Dab

  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    An audit for AI?

  • Pen & Paper @lemmy.world
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    A brief (?) presentation of myself and how I use pen and paper

  • Forum Libre @jlai.lu
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    Umberto Eco : "le monde vit pour aboutir à une émission de télé" | INA Culture

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    Book sharing or maybe just a silly idea? Also, I'm not sure where this belongs, if this belongs anywhere

    social.vivaldi.net /@Lbb89/115644609170370202
  • Journaling Just Works @sh.itjust.works
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    A new privacy-respecting journaling app?

  • Single Purpose Devices @lemmy.world
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    Notebook & pen(cil)