It’s okay if you’re fully in control and it’s built with redundancy.

I trust the French government more than I trust Google.

I don’t.

You can self-host it: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Nice!

I wasn’t aware. Thank you for the precision.

I would be more comfortable if this Google Docs alternative wasn’t hosted on a French government server.

Depends on where you live.

Where I live, people bring their cart back whether there’s a coin in it or not. But the one thing you can count on is that few people carry coins around anymore. Therefore the locks are more of an inconvenience to everybody than a genuine help for the stores to keep their parking lots tidy.

In fact, the store are totally aware of this: I live way up north, and when it gets really cold, the stores unlock all the carts themselves and keep them loose so people don’t have to take their gloves off and manipulate freezing cold metallic disks, so they can grab a cart and get inside as fast as possible.

Where I live, they only give tokens at the customer helpdesk.

Yeah but you have to go inside, wait in line and ask for a token - if then even have tokens left.

Here’s a better idea: draw the outline of half a 2-euro coin, add a “lollipop stick”, cut that shape out of 2mm aluminum from the hardware store, and you’ll never need a shopping cart token ever again: stick the half-coin into the cart’s lock, unlock, twist sideways and retrieve your little tool.

If you’re a nice person, unlock 10, 15 or the whole stack of carts for the next shoppers who need a cart and don’t have a coin.

It will work if you print it out of PLA, but it won’t be as durable and you can break it inside the lock.

I’m quite certain all USB sticks made anywhere in the world are made in China. But you can feel better giving your money to a European importer, for sure.

Cloud, silver lining and all that…

Actually you didn’t quite capture the genius of Trump. It goes like this:

US dismantles CDC ▶ Bird flu kills all birds ▶ No more eggs ▶ No more price of eggs

I can totally see how European military expenditures are going to lower the price of eggs.

After Andy Yen’s endorsement of the orange utan, I would seriously reconsider using any Proton product.

Yen tried to backpedal meekly several times since then, to get out of the pickle he got himself into with his definitely-not-impressed customers, but it’s a bit late for that: either he’s pro-Trump or he’s naive. Either way, he makes Proton sketchy.

I am doubly pissed off:

• Mozilla opts me into an analytics scheme without requiring my permission. That’s bad.
• Mozilla partners with fucking FACEBOOK to spring this shit on me? Now THAT takes the cake!

But… I would be pissed off if I used straight Firefox, and I don’t: I use LibreWolf, and I have no doubt they’ll strip this latest round of Mozilla nonsense from the LibreWolf browser.

I don’t know… I have a love/hate relationship with Mozilla: on the one hand, they’re pretty much the only thing that stands between the final overrun of the web by the Google monoculture and still having some kind of a choice what you use to hit the internet, and they make one of the only email clients worth its salt in Linux. On the other hand, every time they decide to do something, it’s always a screw-up, and it’s been like that for decades. Surely in their position, they should know what not to do to piss off everybody all the time, and yet… What a weird bunch.