I think I was still occasionally using Mac OS in early 1999, but I made the leap sometime that year.

Fatal motor vehicle accidents are just over 865000 times more common than commercial air travel accidents, but until dash cams we never got to see them, so people think it can’t happen to them, when it’s slightly worse than even odds.

If we limited drivers permits to the 8% or so of drivers who are actually competent we’d solve a lot of problems in several domains.

I self-selected as ineligible to drive years ago, and I’ve never regretted it. Of course I had to move away from my home country and learn a new language, but those are the shakes.

Hey. I’m part of the ad hoc team which is assembling to continue development of Mobilizon. So far it’s just a tiny group based out of Lyon France, but we’re growing.

Are you willing to provide us at least some small guarantee of access to Thomas for advice and explanations about the decisions he made about the architecture and what direction it should take? I know that her already answers queries, but I worry that it’s on his own time.

Or CDE

It reminds me of bOS.

People who think the idiom is “how x looks like” rather than “what x looks like”, which is more correct.

You can run it on your laptop. I do.

“Server” in this case refers to client-server architecture.

That said this community is about hosting things on a computer you own which can very much be online. But this one works offline too.

Is there a woosh community?

When I’m speaking English I pronounce it Paris.

Lorsque je parle français je le prononce Paris.

This sounds dangerous.

Why! (CH)

It’s a work thing.

Debian 1.3, Bo - 1997

Her parents are so disappointed.

Oh, I thought you were asking about the “freedom fries” nonsense.

Living in a french-speaking country it’s hard to forget.

The reaction at the time was partly bemusement though. We don’t call them “french” anyway, because they’re from Belgium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries?wprov=sfla1

This take is absolutely correct.

And there’s not much point dumping them into Boston harbour.