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• "Casse-toi riche con" — 700.000 € de pertes pour Libé ? [2026-04-18]
  "Quelques annonceurs n'ont pas aimé la couverture de "Libération" sur Bernard Arnault, à tel point que certaines ont annulé des campagnes. Ces défections pourraient coûter 700.000 euros au quotidien dirigé par Nicolas Demorand." Un joli example de pourquoi un média se doit d'être financé par son lectorat (et donc indépendant).
• 🚨🚨 That's a lot of YAML 🚨🚨 [2026-04-18]
  "A silly emotional rant about the state of devops tooling/the infrastructure sector in 2018. #noyaml.com"
• 148624 - Tooltips persist in foreground when Firefox is in background [2026-04-18]
  2023-10-08 — Finally closed after 21 years
• 24 % des ménages détiennent 68 % des logements possédés par des particuliers — France, portrait social | INSEE [2026-04-18]
  Une petite note — L'article parle de possession quand il s'agit de titres de propriété (et non de possession pour parler de propriété d'usage comme la location).
• A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say [2026-04-18]
  TL;DR — "In sum, one theory is that ChatGPT, which was trained on huge amounts of text sourced online, digested large amounts of SCP fiction during its creation and is now parroting it back to Lewis in a way that has led him to a dark place."
• Adequacy decisions [2026-04-18]
  "How the EU determines if a non-EU country has an adequate level of data protection." Which includes a list of the countries recognised so far.
• AI and Esoteric Fascism - Baldur Bjarnason [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs [2026-04-18]
  Wherein humans are consistently worse at solving captchas than machine-learning bots
• AniDB [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Apocalypse 5 - Larry Wall [2026-04-18]
  "This is the Apocalypse on Pattern Matching, generally having to do with what we call “regular expressions”, which are only marginally related to real regular expressions." […] "Regex culture has gone wrong in a variety of ways[…]"
• Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously. | vellumatlanta [2026-04-18]
  Freelance composer gets their WAVs deleted and replaced by MP3/AAC files by Apple iTunes.
• Association des Professeurs de Mathématiques de l’Enseignement Public [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Baka-Updates Manga / MangaUpdates [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable [2026-04-18]
  It removes ads, videos, and suggested content, leaving you with a clean page that doesn't slow down your device or use up your data.
• British Post Office scandal - Wikipedia [2026-04-18]
  "The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office."
• Camarades Patrons! - Journal Fakir [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Code examples that accompany various MDN DOM and Web API documentation pages [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Compiler Explorer [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Computers are an inherently oppressive technology [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• DeepL Translate [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community [2026-04-18]
  Spoiler — Windows users fail at reporting bugs
• Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) [2026-04-18]
  Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
• Doctor Who Wiki [2026-04-18]
  fan-wiki for the beloved BBC action-adventure and science-fantasy franchise Doctor Who... alongside spin-offs like Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class, and so many others.
• DRM-Free Guide [2026-04-18]
  This guide lists any suppliers of digital media provide files free of DRM and do not require the use of proprietary software.
• Dumb Password Rules [2026-04-18]
  A compilation of 285+ sites with dumb password rules
• Electronics Simulator [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• EvaWiki - An Evangelion Wiki - EvaGeeks.org [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Fédération FDN [2026-04-18]
  Federation of Non-Profit Internet Service Providers
• Folklore — -2000 Lines Of Code [2026-04-18]
  It's hard to measure progress by lines of code
• Folklore — Do It [2026-04-18]
  User testing sometimes has surprising results
• Free as in Freedom - Chapter 6 — The Emacs Commune [2026-04-18]
  "In their eagerness to embrace the new full-screen capabilities, hackers had customized their versions of TECO to the point where a hacker sitting down at another hacker's terminal usually had to spend the first hour just figuring out what macro commands did what."
• Free Mobile — bloquer tous les démarcheurs [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Gemini is Useless [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Hololive Fan Wiki [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• I am not a supplier [2026-04-18]
  "For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point."
• Initialiser une Kobo sans compte [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• js/ui — Subscribe touchpad gesture handlers to only touchpad events [performance] [2026-04-18]
  Well known as "Moving the mouse no longer involves JavaScript"
• Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge [2026-04-18]
  Aka post-2000 kids have become so dependent on search features and smartphones, they can't use an actual computer with a tree-based filesystem
• Les gamins ne savent pas utiliser les ordinateurs… Voici pourquoi ça devrait vous inquiéter. [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Let's Package jQuery — A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• LinguaCelta — Working in the Nazi Bar [2026-04-18]
  On how linked to missionary christianism SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) is.
• List of public invidious instances [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Listings - Indie Wiki Buddy [2026-04-18]
  List of all wiki redirects available in the Indie Wiki Buddy extension, allowing to avoid ads-infected sites like fandom.com
• LitePub [2026-04-18]
  Profile of ActivityPub used by Pleroma et al.
• Matrix Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS [2026-04-18]
  Article explaining how you could still improve source-map@0.6.0 very signicantly even compared to right after it's usage of Rust
• Most UI Applications are Broken Real-time Applications [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• MPlayer samples collection [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• My $500M Mars Rover Mistake — A Failure Story — Chris Lewicki [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth [2026-04-18]
  Where they changed Voyager 1 memory layout to account for a portion of memory being corrupted
• Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Nous n'avons pas numérisé. [2026-04-18]
  "Nous, qui faisons des solutions numériques, nous n'avons pas compris que parfois, le papier fonctionne mieux que le numérique."
• On Human Bots [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• One Piece — How a cartoon skull became a symbol of defiance in Indonesia | BBC [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• openings.moe [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• OpenUsenet — home of Diablo NNTP server [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Pickup Artist [2026-04-18]
  Wherein someone gets roasted for negging (manipulation technique).
• Piet Beertema's website [2026-04-18]
  Includes testimony of early European internet (EUnet)
• Post-It Fix-Up assemblers. [2026-04-18]
  "an assembler according to a new principle" most notably ability to re-assemble from disassembler output including on x86
• Postgres EXPLAIN Visulizer (pev) [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Qu'est-ce qu'un riche? | Grise Bouille [2026-04-18]
  Chacun aura sans doute sa définition, mais je vous propose la mienne — un riche, c’est quelqu’un qui n’a pas besoin de travailler pour vivre
• Rails' remote code execution vulnerability explained | Code Climate [2026-04-18]
  (Article from 2013) Wherein automatic decoding of HTTP request bodies combined with YAML full-automatic footgun of representing native objects allowed to get full code execution in Rails applications.
• Railway Routing [2026-04-18]
  Données horaires SNCF/SNCB/DELFI/Caltrain/BART/ÖBB, affichages des horaires arrivées/départs dans une gare par jour, et horaires de numéros de train
• Re — [PATCH 0/4 gnumach] Working SMP 64b [2026-04-18]
  "I used Claude Code extensively to develop an initial draft of this patchset."
• RegisterProtocolHandler Enhancing the Federated Web | Mozilla Web Development [2026-04-18]
  Wherein Mozilla knew what they should have done for the Fediverse back in 2010 but only did something so half-assed that it's unusable in practice.
• Romanian orphans [2026-04-18]
  In October 1966, Ceaușescu banned abortion and contraception and brought in one of the world's harshest anti-abortion laws, leading to a large spike in the number of Romanian infants abandoned to the country's orphanages.
• Screenshots from developers — 2002 vs. 2015 [2026-04-18]
  "In 2002 I asked a number of developers/Unix people for screenshots of their desktops. I recently republished them, and, seeing the interest this generated, I thought it’d be fun to ask the same people* again 13 years later. To my delight I managed to reach many of them."
• Semantic satiation [2026-04-18]
  psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener
• Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them | Wired [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups, which is shutting down [2026-04-18]
  This is 100 percent true, but don’t be worried — they use the group as an email list
• Some reasons for Go to not make system calls through the standard C library [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• State of the UBports installer, or command line [2026-04-18]
  For the Fairphone 2 but probably useful for others
• Stop Killing Games [2026-04-18]
  "Dedicated to real-world action on ending the practice of publishers destroying videogames they have sold to customers" notably The Crew from Ubisoft
• Subtitles - download movie and TV Series subtitles [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Systems Languages Should Support Zero Is Initialization [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance [2026-04-18]
  For context — This domain was registered for fun
• The CADT Model [2026-04-18]
  The "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model, or "CADT" for short
• The GUI should be better. A lot better. — Ross Scott [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• The Illusion of Thinking — Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• The Missing GitHub Status Page [2026-04-18]
  Which might as well be dubbed "The 9's fell off"
• The Stallman Report [2026-04-18]
  Comprehensive report detailing Richard Stallman's political program in defense of sexual violence, allegations of misconduct, and the misconduct of the Free Software Foundation
• The Unix C library API can only be reliably used from C [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• The XY Problem (Asking Y instead of X) [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again. [2026-04-18]
  Poul-Henning Kamp, of FreeBSD and Varnish, explaining how binary-heaps do not work well on modern machines with Virtual Memory, and describing how to do it better with B-heaps
• Thoughts on AI and AI-veganism [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Transfert.net [2026-04-18]
  «Transfert fut, [de 1999] jusqu’en mai 2002, l’un des principaux médias francophones consacrés à l’impact des nouvelles technologies.»
• Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Project [2026-04-18]
  The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages, with the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available.
• User Activity | Firefox Public Data Report [2026-04-18]
  Essentially a graph of the amount of Firefox users
• User Generated Content and the Fediverse — A Legal Primer [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Vous arrive-t-il d'infliger de l'aide ？ - Julie Quillé - MiXiT 2018 [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Waze App — Netherlands Is The Best Country to Drive in [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Web-based cryptography is always snake oil [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• WebRTC Test Landing Page [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• why not matrix? [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Why you can’t trust CPUID - Chips and Cheese [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Wikipédia:Pastiches [2026-04-18]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents [2026-04-18]
  Where in 2015 it was discovered that Xerox WorkCentre photocopiers were replacing numbers in documents due to lossy pattern-based image compression.
• You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers' Turf Now [2026-04-18]
  "77% of all code in the total codebase originated from open-source" combined with "60% of maintainers describe themselves as unpaid hobbyists"
• Yr [2026-04-18]
  Weather forecast website which works in all browsers and with a public API, hosted by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and NRK.