André Polykanine

@menelion@dragonscave.space
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A married and happy geek living in Strasbourg, France. #Backend software engineer, #accessibility specialist.
My main programming languages are #PHP and #CSharp.
Pro-European centrist. Technical progress must not be stoppable.
#AI is our assistant, not our replacement nor our enemy.
Pagan, worshipper of Scandinavian gods.
Pronouns: He/him.
This account is multilingual. Posts may contain strong language, not always behind a content warning, and personal opinions.
No alt text, no boost.
Interests#IT, #SoftwareDevelopment, #AI, #Microsoft, #Windows, #Books, #Languages, #Music, #Ethnography, #ScreenReaders, #Accessibility
Spoken LanguagesEnglish, français, українська, русский, deutsch
GitHubhttps://github.com/Menelion
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On a pas des trackers de torrents francophones communautaires sympa sur le fediverse ?

#torrent
J'ai vraiment vraiment aucune personne sur #tours ? J'avoue que je m'ennuie un peu j'aimerais bien rencontrer de nouvelles personnes en 2026, je me sens assez isolée avec le #handicap même si je suis dans des assos
#associatif #indreetloire #France #MastodonFrance #toursmaville #touraine #valdeloire

I'm not sure I really get the logic behind the antizionists who also want to kick fellow Jewish citizens out of their diaspora countries.

Like... where are they supposed to go specifically?

I'm joking. I totally get the fucking logic.

"A violent #antisemitic incident unfolded Sunday evening in #Istanbul, where a group of #Jews heading to light the eighth and final #Hanukkah candle at the Neve Shalom #synagogue were attacked by #proPalestinian #protesters.

According to footage circulated on social media, the attackers charged at the group while shouting, “These #Zionists should leave this country.” Police intervened and dispersed the demonstrators, who waved #Palestinian flags and attempted to approach the #Jewish group."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/hk00dltrqzl#google_vignette

Jews attacked while heading to light Hanukkah candle in Istanbul

Pro-Palestinian protesters assaulted Jews on their way to a Hanukkah candle lighting near the Neve Shalom synagogue, shouting anti-Zionist slurs as police dispersed the crowd, some of whom waved Palestinian flags

ynetglobal

Do you celebrate #Christmas as...

(RT for funsies etc)

#poll

A religious holiday
A mostly secular holiday
I don't celebrate but enjoy the time off
I'm working on Christmas your insensitive clod!
Poll ends at .
J'ai été voir s'il y avait des commerces ouverts ce jour de Noël. Pour ce je je vois, même les boulangeries habituellement ouvertes le dimanche sont fermées. Les imprévoyants qui n'ont pas fait leurs courses risquent de devoir attendre samedi pour trouver quelque chose à manger.
#Strasbourg

Merry Christmas - I hope you make some good memories 😊🎄🎁

#Christmas

Good grief I wish someone would create a way to do a mass migration from #lemmy to #piefed. Lemmy is by far the most annoying software I have the displeasure of maintaining. In today's adventures, the Lemmy developers finally created a #postgres index in 0.19.15 that I'd created myself ages ago for performance reasons. But the database migration fails if the index already exists. Even if it's the exact index it wants to create, created exactly the way the migration is doing it. And no, you can't skip a database migration, and no, it's not smart enough to check and skip the migration by itself. So you have to log into the database and drop index idx_post_aggregates_creator, and let Lemmy recreate it. Yes, this takes a while, for absolutely no reason. And if you wanted to do it without downtime in an offline copy of the database, I guess you'd have to do a bunch of fiddling to trick Lemmy into thinking the migration happened when you went to upgrade production. There had to be a better way to do that! But it's not documented and I have no idea what it would be.

Can anyone recommend an #Android client which supports #Mastodon's quote posts?
Both reading and sending.

(Looking for 1st hand knowledge, I know how to use a search engine. I want to know if you have actually used something - not what you reckon.)

Friend: I don't know what to do!

Me: (I explain what he needs to do.)

Friend: That sounds like just what I need. I'm going to do that!

(a week later)

Me: How did it go?

Friend: Oh that? I didn't do it.

Me: Why not?

Friend: I don't know. I just didn't.

Me: Okay. Will you try again?

Friend: Probably not.

Me: So you'll just ignore the problem then?

Friend: Oh no. It's still a problem.

Me: But I gave you the solution.

Friend: And a great solution it was.

Me: And yet...

Friend: Exactly

Merry #Christmas to everyone who celebrates! Joyeux #Noël !