Yeah, during one of his visits in France, he was jealous of the decorations of the Palais de l'Elysée (1720).

So he "decorated" the White House trying to copy us but in his way: with a total lack of taste.

A bit like his triumph arch and the totally failed military parade.

You buy something or a service and give them the authorization to use your phone number for a later usage.

So the telemarketing will be only with companies you're previously authorized (think contracts renegotiating, new offer proposals, survey, feedback...)

We have thousands of them remaining today. And usually buried in sand or in the ocean. That would be too expensive to remove because it's a blockhaus (quite sturdy) and the sand + salt ruin the tools and engines used to destroy them.

And more importantly: it's part of our history. We still keep our old castles so why not keep that. It's a good reminder too.

Here a map of more than 2000 remaining blockhaus : https://www.cestenfrance.fr/cartographie-du-mur-de-latlantique/

Test your real ping from the modem and from a wired connection directly (no wifi).

That will give you a good reference of what to expect in term of latency and bandwidth. Do the test multiple time at different moment of the day. The best results are usually during the night, after midnight. If you have optic fiber, the difference should not be so big.

If the ping is bad from this point, no materials in the home would fix that unfortunately.

For gaming, it's better to rely on wired connection than wifi. Even more if the wifi is bouncing from wifi relay to the modem.

Same, this cg saved the day by allowing me to create quickly a small linux computer for a big event.

I love this card!

Yes they are expensive but the fact that you have an official (and supported) upgrade path possible for my little printer bought more than a decade ago is really recommendable. And I love mounting it myself. You learn a lot about the product during this process.

ha yes, it's retro in my native tongue but reverse in English. Well, I keep it because i find this mistake funny :)

yeah, a lot of PR effort for Bambu while the reality is slightly different.

An example: they say: we didn't patch the security hole (the user agent "chech") because the user experience would have been affected blablabla...

Well, they introduced this security hole on linux BECAUSE they deployed the new mandatory network "plugin" (that you are forced to use because: it's automatically installed and it's mandatory to print even locally) without providing a working solution for all their linux customers when deploying it.

Yes! They didn't implement a real authentication solution for their own linux implementation AND they didn't answer to their linux customers who had the software broken for MONTHS.

And them providing this user agent hack solution months later allowed anybody to understand how it worked without retro engineering their network plugin (something the article forgot to mention but it was the main attack vector of bambu against the developer threateninghim to go to federal jail, something they also forgot to mention).

Great user experience mindset here. Breaking their printer to introduce a mandatory connectivity plugin (reminder: linux is officially supported on the marketing pages) and threatening those who try to fix it using just what the license allows them to do.

I suspect the DDOS attack they had on their cloud service is more linked to their change of mind regarding this mandatory network plugin.

It could be all the linux client trying to download their network plugin but failing and retrying in loop. That wouldn't surprise me following the user agent choice.

Or people unhappy. After all, they changed the terms of the contract after users bought the printer. Really a Dark Vader style of user experience here!

If you want to avoid this kind of amateurish/parasitic behavior, buy the original: Prusa.

I've one printer from them since many years that I upgrade each few years. Currently, I'm waiting for a sale for the upgrade kit to the Core+

you're not even able to get healthy food on a daily basis anymore.

so yeah, let's also reduce the regulation in favor for these big corporations that... for sure... will be totally reasonable and won't screw up kids with addictive products directly served in schools without parents supervision.

it's really simple: in France you can't publish a media publicly without having the written consent of the people visible in the media. That also includes any object with any personal data (car immatriculation fall into that category).

Unfortunately, lot of people, including tourists, don't respect the French laws when publishing / sharing their photos on media platforms.

Doesn't these tariffs include also car pieces / materials imported to the US before being used / integrated into the car?

Car being composed from thousands of equipments manufactured outside the US, i can't see how they can totally avoid US tariffs.

For example if you delete an aws database, the associated snapshots are also deleted automatically. It's written in the document and you have to tune some parameters to avoid that.

So I assume the AI deleted the database and they tried to restore it... discovering the database associated snapshots weren't there anymore. oops...