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Show threadtnt24m ago
@nblr What software are you using btw ?
Show threadtnt1d ago
@stefanlindbohm My first question is : What happens if one leg is late ? Is there a guarantee of carriage for the whole journey, across operators ?
Show threadtnt2d ago
@nblr I usually put their own phone number in there.
tnt2d ago
Mike RobertsJun 16

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-migration-faq.md - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)

Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?

The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.

community/communication/slack-migration-faq.md at master · kubernetes/community

Kubernetes community content. Contribute to kubernetes/community development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
tnt2d ago
sonja dolinsekMay 6

The Berlin city library is exhibiting books that are being prohibited in libraries across the US. It's the week of free speech. Thanks. #uspol #libraries #bookburning @zlb_berlin

https://openbiblio.social/@zlb_berlin/114461510981301725

ZLB (@zlb_berlin@openbiblio.social)

Attached: 4 images In USA existieren lange Listen von Büchern, die in Bibliotheken verboten werden. Macht Euch ein eigenes Bild! Zur Woche der Meinungsfreiheit findet Ihr ab heute in der AGB im Eingangsregal Bücher, die in einem oder mehreren Staaten in den USA aus (Schul-)Bibliotheken entfernt wurden. Viele Titel sind für Kinder und Jugendliche geschrieben und haben Themen wie Sexualität, Identität, Rassismus oder psychische Krankheiten als Thema. #meinungsfreiheit #empfehlung #bücherliebe #usa

OpenBiblio.Social
tnt2d ago
TFW when you filmed something where you want to do camera tracking ... and you forgot to put tracking markers on the "ground" to get a good reference ....
tnt3d ago
How much should we change earth orbit, making it wider, moving away from the sun, to combate climate change ?
Show threadtnt4d ago

@emeb I think they're trying lately to not do that.

Except for the .kicad_prl file which is explicitely the "local file" and should not be in revision control. ( It contains only local info, you can delete it and not loose any of the design info )

tnt5d ago
nixCraft 🐧5d ago

France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1lfxdsd/france_quietly_deployed_100000_linux_machines_in/

Well done. Let us get free from Microsoft spyware OS. They are not trustworthy vendors, and all taxpayers' money should go to fund open-source apps/software and not to Bill Gates' fortune.

#linux #OpenSource

Show threadtnt5d ago

Of course seem _several_ things are broken :

- Updating spirv-llvm-translator without recompiling the intel-graphics-compiler seem to break result

- Somehow the 'image' function of the CL stack are broken, not sure why/by what

- Updating to Mesa 25.1.x they changed some stuff in the way LLVM is linked which might bring conflicts with the way LLVM is used in intel CL stack

😩

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nixCraft 🐧5d ago

France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1lfxdsd/france_quietly_deployed_100000_linux_machines_in/

Well done. Let us get free from Microsoft spyware OS. They are not trustworthy vendors, and all taxpayers' money should go to fund open-source apps/software and not to Bill Gates' fortune.

#linux #OpenSource

Show threadPeter Jakobs ⛵5d ago
@nixCraft GendBuntu? :D
I wonder if they use the xFlice desktop
Show threadmikeTesteLinuxQlub5d ago
@pjakobs @nixCraft Its base on ubuntu (Gend = Gendarmerie, it's a term use for police in France), they probably simply use a contraction of both word 🤣
Show threadmorgunkorn5d ago
@mikeTesteLinuxQlub @pjakobs @nixCraft correct, "Police" (police municipale) is the local law enforcement in France, and "Gendarmerie" (gendarmerie nationale) is equivalent to the federal police in the US, working on the whole territory of the country.
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg5d ago

@mikeTesteLinuxQlub You may say "les flics" for both. 🤫

@pjakobs @nixCraft

Show threadmikeTesteLinuxQlub5d ago
@NatureMC @pjakobs @nixCraft Or " les poulets" There's many so many variations 😆
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg5d ago
@mikeTesteLinuxQlub 👍 😂 @pjakobs @nixCraft
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂5d ago
@nixCraft they also moved all the communications of their civil servants (hundreds of thousands) to Matrix
Show threadpatpro5d ago

@_elena @nixCraft not true either (unfortunately).
The DINUM opened a chat/call plateform based on Matrix (Tchap), but it’s far from mainstream. Teams, Zoom and others are way ahead in term of usage numbers.

But Tchap is definitively a step in the right direction 👍

Show threadglitchim5d ago
@nixCraft we have 2 different police force in France, only one of them (the one affiliated with the Army) the "Gendarmes" has switched to Linux years ago. The "regular" police force if bound to MS and paying a lot each year to use their service :(
Show threadglitchim5d ago
@nixCraft they plan to throw away 25 000 computers (out of 100 000) because of Win11 next year. Cost 15 millions euros. They (we) also pay 7 millions/year to MS.
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg5d ago
@bsod exactly. @nixCraft
Show threadScotsBear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿5d ago
@nixCraft I think with Europe now actively looking to break Microsoft's dominance over their IT affairs, we might see a lot more of this in the next few years.
Show threadNux5d ago
@Uraael @nixCraft Won't be holding my breath. The French Gendarmerie's efforts started more than a decade ago if I remember correctly. It's an isolated effort alas..
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg5d ago

@Nux Yes, the French did it in 2013-14 with their Gendarmerie.
Denmark is another example, and the German Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-german-state-schleswig-holstein-uninstalls-windows/ also here: @landesregierung

@Uraael @nixCraft

Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why

This state made the open-source shift, and chances are it won't be the last.

ZDNET
Show threadVicomte Folmer af Helvede4d ago

@NatureMC @Nux @landesregierung @Uraael @nixCraft

Unfortunately Denmark isn't really a good example.

It's 40 people (half of the digitalisation ministry) trying out Collabora (LibreOffice) as a replacement for Microsoft Office, but only as a trial.

Source in Danish from the Ministry website:
https://www.digmin.dk/digitalisering/nyheder/nyhedsarkiv/2025/jun/digitaliseringsministeriet-saetter-gang-i-pilotprojekt-om-digital-suveraenitet

Digitaliseringsministeriet sætter gang i pilotprojekt om digital suverænitet

Danmark skal være mindre afhængig af de store tech-giganter, når det gælder de digitale løsninger i den offentlige sektor. Derfor går Digitaliseringsministeriet nu i gang med at teste ny open source-løsning.

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg4d ago

@folfdk Thanks for the facts! Most foreign media articles praise it as a sensation ...

@Nux @landesregierung @Uraael @nixCraft

Show threadVicomte Folmer af Helvede4d ago

@NatureMC

Between 7-10 days ago I also had the impression from the Danish news papers/websites that it was going to be on Linux.

But this was apparently not accurate. (Or the scope changed 🫤)

Show threadpatpro5d ago

@nixCraft This is not true.
The police is still on Microsoft, and the 15 millions € migration cost to Win11 has made the headline 1 or 2 weeks ago.

The Gendarmerie Nationale is an army corp, not police. And they switched to linux a long time ago. It was not easy (as I’ve learned during a training at ANSSI) high rank officers have received threats when the project of migration to Linux started.

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg5d ago
@patpro Exactly, the project is old: https://www.lemagit.fr/actualites/2240206478/La-Gendarmerie-devrait-avoir-migre-72-000-postes-vers-Ubuntu-a-lete-2014 (Reddit is not the best source for news) @nixCraft
La Gendarmerie : 72 000 postes Ubuntu à l’été 2014

Le plus gros projet de migration de postes de travail vers Linux dans l’administration en France devrait être finalisé à l’été 2014, avec la bascule de quelque 72 000 postes sur Ubuntu.

LeMagIT.fr
Show threadAtropine4d ago

@NatureMC @patpro @nixCraft
the news is factually right.
It say that is concerning Gendarme (a police force) and the project started long time ago (in 2005 with the end of XP support)

It's not something that started with a finger snap. It take 2 decade and now with a great part of their infrastructure migrated they can say confidently it's a success and there's no reason that they will go back

For this kind of thing, it's hard to say when it's a success. There's no clear point of when

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg4d ago

@Atropine Original post: "France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force": no, it was not quiet but in all the media (above one example). And "fast forward to 2024": no, it's a very old story, not news. The testing was earlier, too.
News is that the French police (not the gendarmerie) sticks with Windows and was in the media because they produce e-waste with the update to Win11.
Don't explain me French police differences, I live in France. 😜

@patpro @nixCraft

Show threadAtropine4d ago

@NatureMC @patpro @nixCraft
police force =/= Police

Gendarmes (like french Fireworkers) are military but they are assigned to civilian policing (police force)
And like an other person said, the Gendarmerie is attached to the Interior Minister (since 2009)
The main difference between Police and Gendarmerie is the area where they work on (and also Police was created by Pétain)

If you prefer, we can say that it's a military police force (as opposed to civilian police force for Police Nationale)

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg4d ago

@Atropine ▶️ https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/114715632353336120

@patpro @nixCraft

Show threadSobex5d ago

@patpro @nixCraft Actual threats ?

Was this not prosecuted ? Or were those over the internet and couldn't be tied to the culprits ?

The Gendarmery status I would not described as an Army Corps. They are an interior security force, fulfilling police missions, and under the authority of the interior ministry*.

The Gendarmes have a military status, and it is worth pointing out the split is mostly rural / urban in area of responsibility. But you don't want to confuse the Gendarmes with the actual armed forces. (The Army would be undertood as Armée de Terre).

And I second the fact that the Gendbuntu migration is quite old at this point. It is frustrating that it hasn't been taken as an example elsewhere. (I heard some feedback of that deployment over 5 years ago)

(* Some small specific units are placed under the control of various other entities, typically those forces ensuring the safety of various military sites).

Show threadpatpro5d ago
@Sobex @nixCraft no prosecution that I know of, but it was just mentioned once in front of me (by a high rank officer), with no details about the nature of the threats.
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg5d ago

@nixCraft Sorry to destroy you the pseudo-sensation, but the gendarmerie in France works with GendBuntu since 2014! (The police just migrated to Win 11!)
https://www.lemagit.fr/actualites/2240206478/La-Gendarmerie-devrait-avoir-migre-72-000-postes-vers-Ubuntu-a-lete-2014
They adopted OpenOffice already in 2004, changed more software to open systems in these years, and began the migration to GendBuntu in 2008.
Greetings from France!

#Linux #France

La Gendarmerie : 72 000 postes Ubuntu à l’été 2014

Le plus gros projet de migration de postes de travail vers Linux dans l’administration en France devrait être finalisé à l’été 2014, avec la bascule de quelque 72 000 postes sur Ubuntu.

LeMagIT.fr
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg5d ago

@nixCraft BTW, the main advantages were a reduction in maintenance teams (as a result of centralisation) and the reduction in on-site technical interventions (plus les costs).

Gendarmerie is something else than police in France, even if the work is often quite similar (pdf) https://www.rightofassembly.info/assets/downloads/2014_Code_of_ethics_of_the_police_and_the_gendarmerie_in_France.pdf

Show threadZii04d ago
@NatureMC @nixCraft the article you linked says it started in 2008 and not in 2013
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg4d ago
@zii_0 Thank you, yes! I corrected the number. @nixCraft
Show threadNini5d ago
@nixCraft That's the issue, isn't it? Not many big institutions willing to actually put their licensing budget behind funding the FOSS stuff they use.
Show threadSobex5d ago

@nixCraft Note, that deployment is super old (>10 years), and that's only one of the two interior security forces in France.

The Gendarmerie (under military status) and the Police National (civilian), are both answerable to the interior ministry and fulfil the same missions, with a mostly rural / urban area of responsibility split.

Only the Gendarmerie migrated, and it was recently published that the Police National are going to spend millions due to the Win11 migration.

Show threadHouse Panther 5d ago
@nixCraft While I am pleased at the decision to ditch Microsoft, I would’ve been happier had they chosen to use something like AlmaLinux instead. I’m not a Ubuntu fan at all.
Show threadV'ger5d ago
@housepanther @nixCraft I'm with you on that. But any Linux is better than no Linux.
Show threadHouse Panther 5d ago
@vger @nixCraft True!
Show threadLeszek5d ago
@nixCraft the source could be added instead of Reddit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
GendBuntu - Wikipedia

Show threadNoahLewis5d ago
@nixCraft microsoft is kind of cancer
Show threadÁine4d ago
@nixCraft surely someone sees the irony in talking about spyware and security whilst patting a police force on the back
Show threadRené4d ago
@nixCraft Well, Bill Gates is no #ceo anymore of #microsoft Also he gives money through his foundation to the community. Tax free so it benefits himself to. The ceo from #apple paid #trump one million dollar of his own money. Also tax affordable.
Show threadAlgoCompSynth by znmeb 🇺🇦4d ago
@nixCraft I am probably a week or two away from converting my four year old Alienware Aurora from Windows 11 to Universal Blue Bazzite or Bluefin.
Show threadOvertonDoors4d ago

I share your disgust for the Spycrosoft ecosystem and all their corporate ass kissing of 47 @nixCraft

Bill Gates on the other hand, he might just be the exception to the rule when it comes to rich Silicon Valley guys:

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/next-chapter

Wealth hoarding is the destruction of any fruits that may be reaped from productive labor. It's seriously one of the sickest things humans do and I unreservedly hate the people who practice it. Bill ain't one of them however.

My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth

During the first 25 years of the Gates Foundation, we gave away more than $100 billion. Over the next two decades, we will double our giving.

Gates Foundation
Show threadZło To4d ago
@nixCraft they have their GendBuntu, German cities have their distros, China had RedStar Linux (or something like that).
Hope people don't think you can only use linux if you're a large organisation able maintain your own distro...
Show threadJan Henkins4d ago
@nixCraft Amazing! It's the year of the Linux Desktop after all, however strange the reasons and circumstances seems to be.
Show threadSouthFresh4d ago
@nixCraft Microsoft directly being the cause for the actual year of Linux was not on my bingo card.
Show threadAl & Val's Modern Homesteading4d ago
@nixCraft Ahh, the French and their revolutions!
Show threadJan Penfrat4d ago
@nixCraft and the city of Munich is like "mimimimi Linux does not work" 🤭
Show threadCuprohastes4d ago
@nixCraft
Linux and open source have been rolled out many times. The measure of success sis not whether Linux got handed out, the measure is if it's still deployed after a year and not rolled back for compatibility reasons, which is what normally happens.
Show threadChoobs4d ago
@nixCraft I’m not sure I’d put much more trust in Canonical, with their aggressively-pushed proprietary App Store.
Show threadzoe4d ago
@nixCraft worst way linux has ever been used
Show threadhnapel4d ago

@nixCraft

OMG now COPBuntu is a good thing.

Show threadFrançois @Prague4d ago

@nixCraft

I'd would have called it CruchO.S

Show threadRowan4d ago
@nixCraft I want that in Canada, badly.
Show threadChupacabra won't comply4d ago
@nixCraft We finally win.
Show threadEveryday Freethought4d ago

@nixCraft

I wish more people in corporate America wanted to be free from MS spyware. A lot of people think they have to use MS because it's all they know.

Show threadLaust4d ago
@nixCraft meanwhile Denmark is having a half of a small Ministry (so 40 people) switch to Linux and LibreOffice as a pilot. I'm hoping that it is a real attempt and not just a way to make the switch fail. Most digitalized country indeed (we are, just the wrong way).
Show threadbenny4d ago
@nixCraft vive la France!
Show threadOMG 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 4d ago

@nixCraft
Very good news.

And germany still starting to raise up Microsoft encapsulation.
Our paid big tech pioneers from Bavaria not just only collect all their headquarters n munich, they just integrate it in their public government DNA.

Again a good time to relocate inside EU.

Show threadDźwiedziu1d ago

@nixCraft
I hope the cops will enjoy their freedoms so much, that they'll change their evil ways.

…who am I kidding, ACAB.