France has the national CB system, independent from American systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Bank_Card_Group

Pretty boy. Looks like his has some fancy cat breed in his genes.

I think a file delete just removing an adress and not the actual data is common to all OSes. That’s why to safely erase data from a disk it is recommended to fully overwrite the disk with random data, potentially multiple times.

They removed the paw, they are worse than Chrome! I’m going to use an alternative version that cannot exist without the main project to teach them a lesson!

Lots of famous historical figures did just that.

Je pense que c’est une référence à la vidéaste scientifique Valentine Delattre qui fait des vidéos déjantées de vulgarisation de la géologie. https://youtube.com/@Sciencedecomptoir Elle a une sidekick qui est sa soeur jumelle morte imaginaire Fiona qui fait des featuring de temps en temps.

As well as unofficial “tourists”.

Je pense qu’il y a des programmes basiques qui fonctionnent en laboratoire. Mais il y a beaucoup de travail pour sortir ça du laboratoire et le rendre économiquement viable. En outre, pour l’instant ce sont des problèmes très spécifiques, principalement lié à l’exploration massivement parallèle d’un grand nombre de combinaisons d’après ce que je comprends. Donc on est aussi loin d’un impact notable pour l’informatique du quotidien.

Ou Fiona ?

Ca me semble plus productif que les LLMs perso. On devrait grandement gagner en efficacité énergétique sur des problèmes sérieux comme la recherche de médicaments ou l’optimisation de chemins grace à l’exploitation de propriétés physique plus fondamentales, plutôt qu’en construisant des centres de données toujours plus titanesques. L’obsolescence du chiffrage classique est une conséquence négative, mais elle a déjà ses solutions comme expliqué dans l’article. Par exemple, mon VPN chez Mullvad supporte déjà le chiffrement post quantique par défaut depuis pas mal de temps.
En outre, l’informatique quantique pourrait aussi améliorer les technologies de protection de la vie privée en permettant de garantir si un message a été intercepté ou non (la moindre observation perturbe un système quantique), par exemple lors de l’échange de clefs de chiffrement.

French Qwant and German Ecosia are building a EU based index together, but it will probably take time to be competitive compared to Google. https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/

Me, a refined person, playing Guild Wars instead.

Agreed, but adding that tech companies often provide the choice between Windows and Mac, both being very locked-down of course. The only place where I was able to work with desktop Linux were research laboratories and early stage startups that are too young to bother with all the IT locking down and would rather give their engineers whatever they prefer, which serves as a cheap benefit compared to big companies.

Une explication c’est qu’on a pas un système de venture capitalists aussi efficace qu’aux États-Unis. Là-bas il y a beaucoup de gens très riches prêt à mettre de l’argent dans 100 jeunes pousses dans l’espoir qu’une d’elles les rendent ultra riche.

The bangs are the addictive feature for me. You start by typing !w lemmy in the URL bar, with DDG already configured as the default search engine, and DDG will directly serve the search result for this term from Wikipedia. There are hundreds of them like !yt for YouTube or !gm for Google Maps, and the acronyms are intuitive. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

I’ve been using it for a couple of year now and I only double check Google maybe 1% of the time. And most of those times, I also can’t find what I am looking for on Google. I also can’t go back after getting used to the ! commands.

They are socially conservative, but they have been fairly consistent at asking people not to kill each other for the past decades.

I would think software is even easier to catch up because you don’t need as much physical investment and experimenting is way cheaper, especially with LLM helping to learn now. I think DeepSeek is an example.
Innovation is difficult, but simply catching up with all the public research and open source solutions, not as much.

/remindme 3 years
They will most likely catch up like they are doing for electric for electric cars now.

Ecosia and Qwant are building an EU based index. Maybe then they will become actually independent alternatives to American giants. It will take a while.