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petre commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001

wolvoleo · a day ago

It's fine, we don't need it all tomorrow. There's no credible threat right now, Russia's got their hands full with Ukraine.

petre · 13 hours ago

A BND (German intel) analysis shows otherwise.

"The BND stated that these expenditures are being used not only to sustain the ongoing war in Ukraine but also to expand Russia’s sub-threshold operations against countries on NATO’s eastern flank."

https://defence24.com/armed-forces/half-of-the-defence-budge...

petre commented on U.S. asks American citizens to 'leave Iran now' cnbc.com/2026/02/06/us-as... · Posted by u/mhb

LarsKrimi · 2 days ago

What would targeting NYC help Iran? Aren't there more interesting targets they could go for which would take advantage of the inflamed political situation in the US?

I think it's much more likely that they would strike back at a regional ally if anything. Keeping some of their cards hidden and not risking a unifying shock to the US populace

petre · 2 days ago

> What would targeting NYC help Iran?

Destroy the infidels? Of course it doesn't exactly help anyone, but at least that's what their leadership keeps telling Iranians.

https://nolabels.org/the-latest/irans-leaders-still-hate-ame...

petre commented on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media yle.fi/a/74-20207494... · Posted by u/Teever

digiown · 8 days ago

I'd draw a line using some of these aspects:

- Algorithmic recommendation / "engagement" engineering

- Profit/business model

- Images/Videos

- Real-life identity

petre · 8 days ago

You'll have bots spreading propaganda in notime if it gets succesful even without those. So the 'algorithmic recommendation' (aka ads and propaganda) don't even have to come from the platform operator.

petre commented on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.h... · Posted by u/cbeuw

atheris · 8 days ago

What are the alternative steps that we can take in Android? How to check if it is happening?

petre · 8 days ago

You can probably trivially shield the GPS with an aluminium foil sticker once you know where the antenna is. The GPS sgnal is very weak.

petre commented on OpenStreetMap overwhelmed by bots scraping data twitter.com/openstreetmap... · Posted by u/molly_radstowe

direwolf20 · 12 days ago

More like hammered by Google and Apple so you'll use their apps instead.

petre · 12 days ago

Unlikely. The data is freely available for download from geofabrik and other sources.

petre commented on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. twitter.com/lellouchenico... · Posted by u/bwb

PlatoIsADisease · 13 days ago

>2. EU is the easiest second market, and another step change of hundreds of millions of customers in a somewhat unified market

I was making hardware at one point, and it took less than a day to decide that Europe was not getting our product.

The regulations were insane.

I imagine software is significantly easier, but there is a mountain of difference when it comes to electrical and plumbing.

petre · 13 days ago

We are still making hardware and feel the same way about the US market. The litigation is insane. Meanwhile the Chinese don't give a damn about any of those.

petre commented on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. twitter.com/lellouchenico... · Posted by u/bwb

Yoric · 13 days ago

Seen from Europe, the current US administration doesn't want a Europe, end of story.

Trump 1.0 already tried to convince EU countries to exit the EU.

Trump 2.0 keeps insulting the EU, threatening the EU economically and threatening it militarily. To the point where even most of the far right EU candidates who were betting on being the ${EU COUNTRY} Trump are now doing their best to display how they're very much not Trump.

petre · 13 days ago

Good thing we're not in the US to terrorize us with the ICE.

petre commented on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android androidauthority.com/goog... · Posted by u/_____k

AlotOfReading · 15 days ago

Google's long term strategy with Android is baffling to me. Apple has had better mobile hardware for years. Apple has higher consumer trust. Apple has better app selection (for most people). Apple has been increasingly implementing the core features that differentiate Android devices, like USB-C and RCS. Every Android user lost to the increasing iOS market share is another customer Google has to pay exorbitant fees to a competitor to access.

And Google's strategy is to continue removing differentiating features from Android that also help them mitigate the threat of antitrust? Surely the marginal revenue from the inconsequential number of sideloading users isn't attractive enough to justify that kind of strategic blunder.

petre · 14 days ago

I gave an iPhone a shot fof like a week but had to return it because it didn't have alternatives to the apps I was using on Android. Apps like BitCalculator, Convertbee, Aegis, a decent calculator with sin/cos/log and the ability to write expressions like the default on Android, Wireguard and a decent browser with an ad blocker. No Safari doesn't qualify.