Aux USA, changer les plaquettes de frein d'une IONIQ 5 requiert une certification particulière: a “Diagnostic Professional or Vehicle Security Professional credential from NASTF.”

https://www.thedrive.com/news/replacing-brake-pads-on-a-hyundai-ioniq-5-n-requires-a-professional-mechanics-login

#right2repair #Hyundai #ioniq5

IA au SPVM : la technologie intrusive au service d’une surveillance policière illimitée

« Chaque fois que la société civile veut en savoir plus, on la traite comme un témoin gênant qu’il faut tenir à distance. »

Alexandre Popovic
https://pivot.quebec/2025/12/08/ia-au-spvm-la-technologie-intrusive-au-service-dune-surveillance-policiere-illimitee/?mfid=aHR0cHM6Ly9waXZvdC5xdWViZWMvP3A9MjcwNzE%3D

📢🕯️ #WHO said Monday that 114 people, including 63 children, were killed in “senseless” strikes on a hospital and kindergarten in Sudan’s South Kordofan state last week

🔹 WHO chief Ghebreyesus: "Disturbingly, paramedics and responders came under attack as they tried to move the injured from the kindergarten to the hospital”

#news #africa #sudan

#ihl #emergencyresponse

📰 Report AL24 DEC-08

https://al24news.dz/en/who-says-over-100-killed-in-attacks-on-sudan-kindergarten-and-hospital/

I sat down with the folks from the UK's @NovaraMedia to talk Enshittification last week. It was a great convo - here it is: https://youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY

@umzidiu et à la conf Bandung du Nord 2024 cet automne, vous y étiez? Je cherche sur Google et cet évènement semble avoir été superbement ignoré par les media mainstream (sinon peut-être pour relayer la sempiternelle accusation d'antisémitisme).

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

How to become a smart person:

Step one: recognize how stupid everyone else is.
Step two: recognize how stupid you are.
Step three, and this is the real clincher: actually read some fucking books once in a while.

@umzidiu merci pour ces quelques lumières. Je perçois confusément que ce sont des questions très importantes mais c'est un monde à des lieux du mien, celui terre à terre des scienceux geek qui s'amusent avec des bidules électroniques, je m'y égare facilement.

@umzidiu 🤣 heureusement que tu n'as pas le temps de développer... et j'ose pas poser de question pour des éclaircissement et j'ai pas le temps d'aller lire Foucault 😜 une toute petite tout de même: PH c'est pour Paroles d'Honneur? Et, sinon, Bouteldja, elle est s'a track ou dans l'champ et indique la bonne heure 2 fois par jour?

India drops its plan to require phones to preload the Sanchar Saathi app, easing concerns over device access and user privacy 📱

Confusion remains as makers await formal withdrawal, and critics warn that data-sharing APIs and IMEI checks still expand state visibility 🔍
Some see progress, but caution persists ⚖️

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/after-intense-backlash-india-pulls-mandate-to-pre-install-government-app-on-smartphones/

#TechNews #Privacy #Security #DataProtection #DigitalRights #Policy #Technology #Smartphones #India #Regulation #UserRights #Cybersecurity #OpenData #Antitrust

#ai

The President promised prices would go back down. In a healthy economy, they almost never do. The normal pattern is: prices jump, then over time your paycheck catches up. The pain comes when wages don't follow—then it's not “inflation” so much as an affordability crisis.

a fed up entrepreneur, Canadian EV trucks, "enshittification" mentionned, Rockies, nice editing... Electric guitar riff in intro, What's not to like?

Bonus point: he finally says the word. Capitalism.

#Canada #BC #right2repair #rightToOwn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S45rLuY48w4

à ça:

#Reaper #davinciResolve #videoediting #atomicsynchronator

pour terminer sur une note positive, j'ai réussi à débuguer mon code qui ne fonctionnait plus avec des ripple cuts, maintenant, oui... je passe donc de ça:

TABARNAK, c'est quoi? Un rituel de passage?

Une communauté impliquée et dynamique ne remplacera jamais une doc bien rédigée et des APIs bien conçues, pas rajoutées ad-hoc sur une base de code hermétique.

#codingStruggles

À quel moment les verrues d'un langage de programmation + API deviennent des fucking BUGS? Je viens de passer une journée entière pour finalement réaliser

#1 que

reaper.GetTrack(0, index)

est numéroté zero-based mais que la réciproque:

reaper.GetMediaTrackInfo_Value(track, "IP_TRACKNUMBER")

est ONE-BASED NUMBERED!!! (oui c'est indiqué dans la doc, sans insister)

#2 que

reaper.BR_SetItemEdges(media_item, startTime, endTime)

affecte TOUT LES ITEMS, pas seulement l'item passé en argument!

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

The next time someone says "Privacy doesn't matter to me, I've got nothing to hide", show them this video.

I took that '14 Not Forgotten' photograph two days ago, on the UBC campus. I've talked about the Ecole Polytechnique killings many times over the years, mostly with my US colleagues and students, and most of them were learning of it for the first time, from me. However sad and difficult, I'm glad that remembering the event and understanding its impact has become part of the engineering student experience in Canada.