femtozer (u/femtozer)

femtozer commented on How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

oblio · a month ago

> XXIer century

Sorry, but it's a bit funny. Based on the name I assume you're French (speaking, at least)?

That "XXIer" contraption is really funny to me, I speak a bit of French. In English it's twenty first so XXI or XXIst, in French as far I know it's vingt et unième, so XXI or XXIème.

Is "XXIer" from another French dialect or another language entirely?

femtozer · a month ago

As a french person, it looks weird to me. I would only use it for the very first century: Ier siècle.

femtozer commented on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/phewlink

piyuv · 3 months ago

I’m a paying YouTube premium subscriber. Last weekend, I wanted to download something so I can watch it on my way in the train. The app got stuck at “waiting for download..” on my iPad. Same on iPhone. Restart did not work. I gave up after an hour (30 mins hands on trying stuff, 30 mins waiting for it to fix itself). Downloaded the video using yt-dlp, transferred it to my USB c flash drive, and watched it from that.

Awaiting their “premium cannot be shared with people outside household” policy so I can finally cancel. Family members make good use of ad-free.

femtozer · 3 months ago

I also pay for YouTube Premium, but I still use ReVanced on my smartphone just to disable auto-translation. It’s absolute madness that users can’t configure this in the official app.

femtozer commented on Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive? dodge.trickle.host... · Posted by u/samdychen

mvieira38 · 4 months ago

I saw that one, too. It seems like he was manually removed or something, I don't see it anymore. Wonder what the exploit is

femtozer · 4 months ago

You can just intercept the http request at the end of the game, and set the score you want.

femtozer commented on Litestar is worth a look b-list.org/weblog/2025/au... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

punnerud · 4 months ago

Good to see it using port 8000 as default, and not Flasks 5000 (does not work on Mac anymore)

femtozer · 4 months ago

I wasted a couple of hours recently before realizing that AirPlay was using port 5000...

femtozer commented on France Endorses UN Open Source Principles social.numerique.gouv.fr/... · Posted by u/bzg

bambax · 7 months ago

Most things don't work, and "France Connect" is really bad (it doesn't even accept non-ascii letters for your name or surname! which is insane coming from an official initiative of the French Government; they should at least know how to use the French language). Anything from the department of education is also abysmal, mostly broken, and needlessly convoluted.

The one amazing thing that works is the taxes collection system. The French tax code is incredibly complex with hundred of special cases; yet the online system to declare revenues is perfect: super clear to use with excellent instructions, never broken (even at the end of a period where usage peaks must be insane) and with no errors.

I don't know who constructed this but it's proof that the French gvt can make good software when they really care (ie, when money's at stake).

femtozer · 7 months ago

In the same vein, amendes.gouv.fr is incredibly easy to use for paying fines.

femtozer commented on Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust pyrefly.org/... · Posted by u/muglug

femtozer · 8 months ago

The team behind ruff/uv is working on a similar tool:

https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/1884651482009477368

femtozer commented on Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing? plausible.io/blog/europea... · Posted by u/themeaningist

ETH_start · 9 months ago

This reminds me of Soviet ersatz products.

Like the Soviet Union, the European Union operates at a scale where it can feasibly create a nearly full suite of goods/services in parallel to the market alternative.

femtozer · 9 months ago

Many of these tools could be seen as better than the American alternatives in certain respects (e.g., being more privacy-focused). If any country could be boldly compared to the Soviet Union in terms of protectionism, it’s more likely the United States these days.

femtozer commented on 2FA or Not 2FA mikhailian.mova.org/node/... · Posted by u/sam_lowry_

evolve2k · 9 months ago

> I never spell it out, let alone write it down, but it is in my muscle memory as I haven't changed it for years. There is no way someone on the internet can break into my ssh account or gmail account protected by such a password.

Oh dear. The issue isn’t the brute force, it’s that the online services leak and get cracked. And in an instant a single script takes the newly discovered username password combo and starts hammering it into the top 10000 websites, all within moments of the leak data becoming available.

Your super secret favourite phrase is worth crap once leaked alongside your email address.

Further don’t choose Microsoft for your Auth app, Go with an open source option, maybe one that encrypts and syncs so you have multiple devices just in case.

femtozer · 9 months ago

Not sure I understand — passwords are generally hashed in databases. Even if leaked, an attacker would still need to brute-force the hash to retrieve the actual password, wouldn’t they?