Colas Nahaboo

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Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jul 7

The Belgian Manneken-pis with a the national football shirt providing gladly Trump with a Golden Shower (his favorites!)

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jul 5

... and they all await the speech of their president!

The poster for the movie "Week end at Bernie's" with JD Vance and Pete Hegseth propping up Donald Trump corpse.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jun 28

Hey, Donald, Wasssup?

View upon leaving the Versailles palace to access the gardens – Photo: Takashi Images/Shutterstock

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jun 27

«For the Sotos, this “material support” included owning a “printing press” used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn.» 2/2

The Emma Goldman book club

The Sotos’ crimes largely stem from a “printing press” that the FBI noticed during the initial raid of their home: a standard office printer, a paper cutter and a book binder. During the raid, one of the Sotos’ children told Elizabeth’s attorney that police put a bag over their head and brought them in for an interrogation; another child was interrogated in the home. Elizabeth only found out about their child being taken for interrogation from an article published by the anarchist collective Crimethinc that was later made into a zine. The justice department did not return the Guardian’s request for comment on the raid of the Sotos’ house, its attacks against the first amendment or its unusual use of counterterrorism law.

The federal prosecution argued the Sotos used the printing press to produce anti-government zines for a book club they and some of the other defendants were part of, named for the celebrated 20th-century anarchist Emma Goldman, who 99 years ago this month was arrested on conspiracy charges for organizing against the first world war draft.

At the book club, the group read political zines on subjects like “a journal of materialist feminism” and “a call for the eradication of artificial intelligence from the face of the earth” – perhaps niche, but nothing illegal, an FBI agent testified in court. Still, the FBI seized these zines, along with the printing press and a collection of poetry about losing a sibling to cancer.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jun 23

«I went to dip my hand in the reflepstein pool, and all I got was a fine and this lousy T-shirt»

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jun 20

I guess the Qatari will now wear a T-Shirt «I bribed Trump with a Jumbo Jet and I all got was this lousy T-Shirt for which I had to give 300 billions of dollars to my mortal enemy»

a T-Shirt «I bribed Trump with a Jumbo Jet and I all got was this lousy $300B T-Shirt»

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jun 20

Instantanément dans mon cerveau:

Image icônique des "Deschiens" avec Olivier Broche en petit "Lou ravi" au milieu de Philippe Duquesn et Olivier Saladin.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jun 8

Well, he aptly describes himself as a "Basement Loner", so... it checks. Plus he has a X Blue Checkmark, the official certified digital neon sign of stupidity.

His handle on Twitter: Dr. Mike Libby MD. Esq.
@BasementLoner

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Jun 1

... ce qui arrive dans plein de pays aussi d'ailleurs: notamment aussi à groscons-land:

A California fire department recently sent a message to drivers who park in front of fire hydrants: don’t do it. You might not only get a ticket and towed, but your windows might get broken, too.

"Ever wonder what happens when a car is parked in front of a fire hydrant and a fire breaks out?" Anaheim Fire and Rescue wrote on Twitter on Feb. 26. "Is a closer parking spot worth the broken windows and the citation and towing fees... Please do not park in fire lanes."

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 27

+1 Je rajoute celui-là qui est une réinterprétation par ‪HappyToast‬ @happytoast.co.uk‬ d'un fameux Gary Larson, suite à ses nombreuses visites "de contrôle" au Walter Reed Hospital...

The Far Side Midvale school for the gifted cartoon, but with Trump pushing on the door

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 25

Gemini fait un bon résumé de pourquoi c'est une folie:

A fuel cell has no mechanism to strip hydrogen atoms from long-chain hydrocarbons like oil or gasoline. Attempting to feed raw oil into a fuel cell would immediately contaminate the platinum catalysts inside, effectively "poisoning" the cell and destroying it within seconds.2. The Extraction Process (Reforming)To get hydrogen from hydrocarbons (like oil, natural gas, or gasoline), you need a totally different piece of hardware called a Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) or a Fuel Processor.This process involves:High Heat: Temperatures ranging from 700°C to 1,100°C.Catalysts: Specialized materials to break the carbon-hydrogen bonds.Separation: Removing the resulting Carbon Dioxide ($CO_2$) and Carbon Monoxide ($CO$).This is an industrial-scale chemical plant process. It is heavy, complex, and requires a constant supply of water and significant external energy. It is physically impossible to pack this level of refinery infrastructure into the compact, delicate stacks of a hydrogen fuel cell.3. Why Oil is a Poor Hydrogen SourceEven if you could build a portable refinery to extract hydrogen from oil, it would defeat the primary purpose of hydrogen technology:Carbon Footprint: The extraction process would release massive amounts of $CO_2$.Complexity: If you are burning external fuel to create heat to extract hydrogen, you are essentially creating a complicated combustion engine that is significantly less efficient than just burning the fuel directly.In short, hydrogen fuel cells require high-purity hydrogen gas as their fuel. They are clean-energy engines, not fuel-processing plants.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 25

Cool news, I loved the book. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_B...

Movie Poster for "The Sheep Detectives".

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 23

"Star" cependant peut être aussi utilisé pour qualifier la quintessence du mal... Mais 20 minutes aurait plutôt dû titrer « La nouvelle étoile noire de l’extrême droite israélienne »

Image de l'étoile noire dans "La guerre des étoiles".

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 15

An exchange on Twitter:

Jesse Kelly:
"This is exactly why I need an AR-15. If the government ever tries to stop me from taking my critically ill son to Italy for treatment, I'm going to need it. #AlfieEvans"

Jules Suzdaltsev (replying):
"This is honestly my favorite interpretation of gun ownership. 'I need an AR-15 to hijack a plane to take my son to a country with socialized medicine.'"

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 11

Well, it is better for them than the traditional candle, I guess...

The famous Gotlib & Max Cabanes: "Perv Gramps by Candlelight"

Cover of "Fluide Glacial" #32, Feb 1979

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 9

Mais qui du coup doivent inventer des protocoles et APIs non-standard, fragmentant l'écosystème que les applis devraient supporter explicitement. Démarches que refusent donc donc beaucoup d'autres compositeurs. Tout ça après 15 ans de dev, en être encore là... pitoyable. 2/n

I know Wayland has some advantages over X, but in my opinion they really blew it by keeping it so minimal. Granted, the Wayland protocol could have remained a simple core for a proper, feature-rich and modern library that allows the simple implementation of compositors, but what we have now seemingly stems from the fear of the Wayland developers to define anything.

Instead, what we got was a multitude of proprietary (in terms of specific to popular compositors) extensions, requiring thousands of LOCs of boilerplate to get it all right. To name a particular aspect, color management, Wayland could have been the chance for the Linux desktop to finally be on par with the exquisite color management (to the core!) that macOS offers. Instead, it's just yet another set of extensions that barely works consistently.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 9

Toutes, justement!!! Toutes les applis savent où étaient leurs fenêtres, infos en plus interdites de communiquer au compositeurs. Le souci c'est que écrire un compositeur sous Wayland est une monstrueuse usine à gaz monolithique. Il y a des efforts pour le remédier comme River 1/n

Sur la page de River:

The river-window-management-v1 protocol and other river protocol extensions are stable. We do not break window managers.
Motivation

Why split the window manager to a separate process?

Significantly lower the barrier to entry for writing a Wayland window manager.
Allow implementing Wayland window managers in high-level garbage collected languages without impacting compositor performance and latency.
Allow hot-swapping between window managers without restarting the compositor and all Wayland programs.
Promote diversity and experimentation in window manager design.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 7

Actually, reading on a phone is just like reading a newspaper column. (pic as an example). I never heard anybody complain that newspapers were impossible to read... PS: Been reading only ebooks for 30 years now (started on my Psion3).

A sample of the NYT front page to show the narrowness of columns, similar to, and even narrower, than a smartphone screen.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 6

Mon fil Bluesky a fait preuve d'ironie... (morbide)

Sur mon fil Bluesky, le post de Boulet est précédé immédiatement d'un post disant que les Ricains sont tellement cons que ils font mourir leur nouveau-nés en refusant l'injection habituelle de vitamine K, croyant sûrement que c'est un vaccin.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· May 1

Marrant, dans mon flux Bluesky, juste avant ce post j'avais eu celui-ci: Un signe?

Un vendeur de Guillotines à la criée, avec la légende "1er Mai: Le Muguet, c'est fini"

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Apr 25

Also, I would encourage people to avoid Instagram, and Meta their security is joke. I just created 2 days ago a new IG test account "colas.insta" to debug some tools, and got this email... They just gave me the account of another user! No verification, nothing!

Email from Instagram:

You can use colas.insta again
Hi colas.insta,

Thanks for taking the time to request a review. We reviewed your account and found that the activity on it does follow our Community Standards, so you can use Instagram again.

We're sorry we got this wrong and that you weren't able to use Instagram, for a while. Sometimes we need to take action to help keep our community safe.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Apr 22

Well done summary of the threats of the insane 200% Nazi Palantir company. Transcript at: files.nahaboo.net/_/~BS/vFIn4U... By Cody Dahler. Source at his instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DXbegaAja9M/

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Apr 15

+1 for Starter Villain. Just the cover is awesome :-) Also by John Scalzi, "Fuzzy Nation", on: "what if we found a cat-like alien species and tried to determine if they are conscious"

"Starter Villain" cover: a cat in a suit, with the caption: "Meet the new boss".

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Apr 13

Small tip: Use "Copy Clean Link", not "Copy Link"

A screenshot of the right-click menu with the "Copy Clean Link" item.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Apr 6

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Mar 27

Bruce Lindner:
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I just sat through an hour and a half of what had to be the most absolutely BONKERS Cabinet meeting / dog & pony show of all time.
It began as they all do, with his sycophants slathering him with faux praise. Then they took turns taking pot-shots at all of his enemies, Joe Biden of course, Jerome Powell, Kamala Harris, etc. Trump finished it up by saying Barack Obama, contrary to his reputation, “isn’t a smart person.” Then he went into his shtick about acing the cognitive test at Walter Reed three times. “It’s a very hard test. The doctors told me no one has ever aced it before.”
On the topic of Iran, he said “They really want to make a deal, because they’ve been beat to shit.”
By the way, he revealed what the “present” was that the Iranians offered him. It was 10 Pakistani flagged tankers “full of oil” being given safe passage through the strait. No idea how that benefits us, but that’s what he said.
Someone, I think Rubio, suggested Venezuela might put up a statue of Trump in gratitude to him. Trump of course glommed onto that and wouldn’t let it go. “I want to hear more about the statue.”
One very interesting part; Trump mentioned the 25th Amendment, and he wondered why Biden’s Cabinet never enacted it during his term. Lots of nervous eyes darted around the table. 👀
There were two or three periods where some of the banter struck me as familiar. Trump, Hegseth, et al, look as if they were cosplaying the conference scene in the Godfather, with Trump as a decidedly-less distinguished looking Vito Corleone, with Straci, Tatalia, Barzini, Cuneo, all sitting around, nervously listening to this “don.” It was BIZARRE! And in the annals of American history, historically so.
After sitting through all that, I think I deserve a gold medal myself. 🥇

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Mar 25

Well... he is gone.

Final scene of Brazil, where the protagonist has had a mental collapse and is forever lost into his imaginary world where everything plays out as he wished.

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Mar 24

A press article with at the end the famous AI question: "Do you want me to also.."

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Mar 24

Il y aurait des sites web complètement automatisés par l'IA, sans aucun humain pour vérifier? Mais comment les reconnaître? Capture d'écran de "guide tiret nutrition point fr"...

Un article titré "Quelle quantité de lentilles par personne ? Tableaux, menus et recettes pour 1–6 personnes" avec une illustration où des personnes examinent un champ où pousse des lentilles... optiques de téléobjectifs!

Colas Nahaboo@colas· Mar 22

Touché.