J'espère au moins que la #France ne sera sacrifiée ni à l'extrême gauche, ni à l'extrême droite, ça serait une catastrophe. Mais surtout l'extrême gauche dans ces temps-ci.
Je viens d'écouter un podcast sur FranceInfo sur le mouvement « Au cash, citoyens ». Je ne comprends absolument pas ces gens, qu'est-ce qu'ils foutent ? Ils espèrent faire s'écrouler les banques, comme si c'était quelque chose de bon ! Oké, disons, vous avez réussi à anéantir, par exemple, La Banque Populaire. Et quoi ? Qui en bénéficie ? Pas de salaires, des petits entrepreneurs ferment leurs entreprises, les magasins aussi… chaos absolu. #France
Quelles sont les conséquences sociales, familiales, sécuritaires pour les musulmans qui décident un jour de quitter l'Islam ? Et les retombées que subissent ...
Pornhub is making bullshit claims regarding the privacy issues of the French gov age verification requirements. There are very real and significant problems with the French gov approach, but Pornhub's approach is significantly worse.
Pornhub wants to put the burden of age verification and enforcement on user devices. They even name the actors that should have to bear that burden: Google, Apple and Microsoft.
First off, this creates an artificial monopoly: three American companies being the judge on who can watch what. Worldwide. I can't wait to have Trump's administration (or whatever jackass the American elect) censoring everything I watch.
Also, Linux users are prayed to go fuck themselves instead of watching porn. Get the real stuff, Linux users (lol).
There is also the issue of the age verification procedure: how do you verify the user's age? Biometrics is the obvious answer on mobile phone, but would there be alternatives? Probably not.
Too bad for people whose face does not match the AI training. Too bad for people not wanting their biometrics verified/leaked to a provider of the operating system vendor choosing. If you are using a workstation, please get a webcam if you want to jerk off.
But let's say that you passed the age verification procedure: how do you transfer that knowledge to the website?
A HTTP header could be faked so this is not an option.
A remote assessment using a TPM (a chip on your device that monitors that your system wasn't altered) ? => You can no longer install an alternate operating system and watch porn. Once again an artificial monopoly.
DRM would be probably the preferred solution: let anyone download the porn file, but only display it on devices with the appropriate DRM reader if the age verification test is passed. Once again an artificial monopoly. And this puts an end to piracy in the process. Nobody would ever think about abusing this for other content, right Google WEI?
Once again, the French gov tech and requirements are bullshit. I am not here to defend them, but Pornhub statement is just full of shit.
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Registration and the Call for Proposals are now open for DebConf25. This year's event will be held in Brest, back in France its place of origin, and will offer talks, hacking sessions, activities and discussions. We are looking forward to a Cheese & Wine party in the right country this year , and an additional Crêpes and Cider evening, a tribute to Brittany debconf25.debconf.org/news/202… #debian #debconf25 #brest #france
Left-wing coalition wins French elections so King Macron forms right-wing government.
Such democracy.
(In case you needed yet another reminder that fucking neoliberals will always choose fascism over social justice when they feel their wallets are threatened.)
A tense alliance between France’s centrist and leftist parties has kept the far-right National Rally party at bay, according to exit polls, with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal set to resign.
French police use aggressive techniques to stop migrants from crossing English Channel
> Officially, police are strictly forbidden from intercepting migrant boats at sea as they attempt to cross the #EnglishChannel. But, after months of investigation, Le Monde and its partners, Lighthouse Reports, the Observer and Der Spiegel, have documented many situations in which officers attempted to destabilize, or even sink, the small boats. lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2… #France #migration #immigration
Mozilla: "In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. It would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments"
Article 3 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.
This article was written on the basis of information relating to the so-called "8 December" caseFor a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in this Revue Z article, this Lundi matin article, the following su…
Staying in the spirit of ticket machines accessibility, France is doing it right, at least in the city of Metz, not sure about other places. Have a recording of a ticket machine that speaks three languages: French, English and German. Upon pressing a dedicated button above the card read we activate the speech component. Everything that is displayed on screen is read back to us. On starting, the machine greets us in the language of our choice, tells us to insert our travel pass if we have one and reads the minimum and maximum amounts for card and cash payments. The upper part of the touchscreen acts as a navi pad with the left corner taking us to the previous option and the right one to the next. In the lower part, the left corner is "Cancel", while the right is "Confirm". This way we can choose our desired ticket, the preferred payment method and complete our transaction. The recording is a montage of different clips from the machine indicating a chosen ticket in English, through its welcome message in French and German with the latter going through some ticket options, coming back to the full welcome message in English. The recording is peppered with occasional Polish from me as it was originally recorded for our Polish podcast. It was taken using the built-in mikes of my Motorola One smartphone. Now that I listen back, it sounds kinda condensed. #Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Metz #PublicTransport #Audio #recording #FieldRecording
Since some time I have been drawn to research Minitel, a French Videotex-based system for accessing information that predates the Internet. It was a revolution in terms of digitalization which made activities such as buying train and plane tickets, signing up for classes and reading newspapers digitalized as early as the 80's. You can read more about it in the following Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel There were many devices invented to make Minitel accessible to the blind, although the system itself wasn't designed with this target group in mind. Mostly, they were external speech synthesizers like in the case of Lectel: lemonde.fr/archives/article/19… or the Valentine text-to-speech card for the Apple II: blog.atalan.fr/valentine-carte… The history of the Eurobraille company, the makers of the popular Esys, Esytime and B.Note Braille displays, starts also with a speech synthesizer for the Minitel terminals. eurobraille.fr/notre-histoire/ As I found out, however, most of France's blind community at that time did not have access to this kind of technology and Minitel only became accessible on a global scale in the 90's when regular PC's did but then it was almost the time of the Internet so it never gained the same momentum as it did with the society at large. Pity as this could have been an opportunity to push the inclusion of blind and partially sighted people to whole new levels. Always design with accessibility from the start! #Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Internet #Minitel #Videotex #RetroTech
The 6th of December is traditionally the day when Santa comes and brings small gifts to children in Poland and several other countries (not to be confused with the 24th of December which is also when gifts, bigger ones, are distributed). Obviously somebody's got to pay for all these nice things so how to do it in an accessible way? I thought of including Handsome, a French fintech dedicated to serving customers with visual impairments, as a part of this calendar, as it offers an accessible voice payment card; a dedicated concierge service, insurance in case of damage to assistive devices or stranding with no immediate mobility options. They can be found at: howtobehandsome.fr/ Imagine my shock this morning when I discovered that through cooperation with the Tales Group, Handsome's voice card has become global so it's a matter of time before banks start introducing it. The card is equipped with a Bluetooth LE chip, connects to the customer's smartphone either through their banking app or a specially designed one; then, once its inserted into the terminal, it delivers all of the status messages to the app E.G. the amount to be paid or the current state of the payment process. This way it is possible to avoid being scammed on the amount and we can make sure all is well with our transaction. I'm curious if any banks are going to introduce this any time soon. thalesgroup.com/en/markets/dig… #Accessibility #Blind #France #Banking #AdventCalendar
In France, TIER Mobility is piloting wheelchair-accessible electric scooters in partnership with Omni, a French startup that has developed an electric scooter attachment compatible with most wheelchairs.
TIER has joined forces with Omni, a French startup, to provide wheelchair-compatible e-scooter rentals in France, with plans to expand to other countries soon.
, and an additional Crêpes and Cider evening, a tribute to Brittany debconf25.debconf.org/news/202… #debian #debconf25 #brest #france
