I could not find a X11 workspace switcher that was convenient. Either they were tiny unreadable icons in a panel, or huge fancy views. I just wanted a readable list of names and an easy way to rename the workspace via the programs that run in them. So I made one. colas.nahaboo.net/code/x-works...

Bien content d'être dans les Landes, quand je vois la différence de comportement de la chefferie des pompiers des Landes, qui s'appuie sur la longue expérience des forestiers, et celle de Gironde, qui veut faire coffrer ces impertinents donneurs de leçons... www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Incendie en Gironde : la gestion des premières heures du feu au cœur des interrogations

Alors que le mégafeu qui a ravagé 42 000 hectares en Gironde est officiellement fixé depuis samedi, les habitants des communes les plus touchées disent leur colère. Ils sont presque 1 000 à souhaiter ...

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The "before you slop" app is an.. AI slop! I tested it by making it search for ideas of software I already published on GitHub (some with 34 stars). Not only it did not found any, but it totally hallucinate ALL its answers, none were even close code-twin-three.vercel.app But, even more evil: 1/2

PDP: Publish, Don't Perish! colas.nahaboo.net/blog/pdp-pub... At 66, this is my web presence strategy, after: POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. PESOS: Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate to Own Site And yours?

I am becoming more and more a fanatic of the single self-contained executable with no runtime dependencies of Go. One binary, forever. To the point that when I find a python/node/java/ruby/php piece of software I would like to install, my first reflex is to just recode the darn thing in Go.

Comme quoi, le "Commandant Sylvestre" des regrettés Guignols était bien en dessous de la réalité du cirque Trump www.thedailybeast.com/little-marco...

Little Marco’s Goons Get Every Single Country Wrong in Map Disaster

There were a few glaring errors in a map the State Department used at a global conference.

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If like me, you bought a Fastmail plan, but for whatever reason, you want to keep using gmail (temporarily?), I have made a small tool to keep replicating labels from gmail to fastmail, github.com/ColasNahaboo... Free (MIT), in Go, so a simple single binary. AI co-written: don't like, don't use.

GitHub - ColasNahaboo/gmail-to-fastmail: A Go program that incrementally syncs Gmail labels to Fastmail using IMAP (Gmail) and JMAP (Fastmail).

A Go program that incrementally syncs Gmail labels to Fastmail using IMAP (Gmail) and JMAP (Fastmail). - ColasNahaboo/gmail-to-fastmail

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My "AI Zen" of the day. I tried a local LLM, and asked: "Design a plan that can be fed to a coding agent to...<long problem description>" What I got after 17.7s, 3 words: ## Plan Design Questions I'm design Made my day!

Félicitations à Hong Wang qui a choisi la France pour ses études à Polytechnique puis ses recherches et sa carrière à l’IHES et qui reçoit la Médaille Fields 2026, plus haute distinction mondiale en mathématiques. Son choix nous honore. Elle sera dans la réédition de la NHF !

Trump pushing the Spanish team from the stage to take their place. In Joel and Ethan Coen version of The Odyssey, 2000.

Quand la réalité atomise la fiction: Elon Musk veut faire faire sa version de l'Odyssée par Uwe Boll. Saluons le courage de La Croûte qui tente quand même de parodier la crétinerie.

Des designs intéressants dans ces finalistes pour les futurs billets en Euros. Pas mal prennent en compte la réalité que les billets sont souvent vus pliés, en 3 ou en 4 selon les propositions. La propal C est cool, mais je n’utilise plus jamais d’espèces... www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...

And it's why protecting biodiversity is so important. Even the humble frog in some pond somewhere... www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose

A naturally occurring bacterium from amphibian intestines completely eliminated colorectal tumors in mice with a single treatment by both attacking cancer cells and activating the immune system. The f...

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NVIDIA a inventé l'eau chaude. Et c'est une vraie révolution! www.engadget.com/2214770/nvid...

NVIDIA data center hardware is being cooled with water 'hotter than a hot tub' - Engadget

It may seem counterintuitive, but 113-degree water is still cool enough to cool NVIDA's latest hardware.

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Une vidéo fascinante sur combien la science, c'est à la fois des doutes, des débats, des expériences, des modèles mathématiques, et que ce n'est pas réductible à des articles à sensation. Et que c'est quand même "vulgarisable" en prenant le temps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CCQ...

L'EUROPE VA PLONGER DANS LE FROID ?! (VRAIMENT ?) - Julie Deshayes

YouTube video by LIMIT

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Je vous recommande ce super documentaire sur les bourdons, étonnants insectes à sang chaud, encore plus indispensables que les abeilles pour toutes les solanacées (patates, tomates, aubergines, piments...), et encore plus menacés par le réchauffement climatique. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFXW...

Comment les bourdons ont conquis le monde [Documentaire]

YouTube video by Science bestiale

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«a campaign graphic featuring an Apache attack helicopter and the words “STOP THE SMOKE.” An attack helicopter. Against smoke. That’s not a policy, that’s a Looney Tunes storyboard.» open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...?

BREAKING: Trump Promises To Tariff Canada, Freeze Canadian Assets, Yank Canadian Visas, For Wildfire Smoke The Same Week A Canadian Died Fighting Wildfires In Colorado

Trump wants to tariff smoke. Bernie Moreno wants to sanction weather. Pete Hoekstra says the bees told him to do it. Grab a mask and a chair — it’s time for the science class these men skipped, every

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Best quote of the day: «A thesis you haven’t tried to strangle in its crib isn’t worth printing» www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/t...

"historical entities appear two times, the first as tragedy, then as farce" — Karl Marx. "three times: the first as tragedy, then as TV show, then as a Trumpian Grandguignolesque carnival of ICE horrors" — South Park. "Volcano", nearly 30 years ago... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaaz...

South Park - It's Coming Right For Us

YouTube video by The Butters Show

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I stumbled on this page, a mandatory read for everyone that write web pages: lyra.horse/blog/2025/08... Found it via the hyper-cool x86 CPU emulator in ... pure CSS! lyra.horse/x86css/

Women code is rated better (70% vs 65%) than men code... but only when the gender is hidden. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...

Gender bias in open-source programming

A study comparing acceptance rates of contributions from men and women in an open-source software community finds that, overall, women&apos;s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men&apos...

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I think that the Unix way of thinking, tackling a problem with a connection — a pipe — of small programs focusing each on one thing, works surprisingly well with the various LLMs free plans, as it reduce a lot the context needed for each component.

Mmm... il semble que, comme beaucoup de choses, le diable vient se loger dans les détails du storytelling... www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio...

ENQUETE. À Saint-Denis, les délicates interventions de Bally Bagayoko en faveur de deux frères condamnés pour trafic de drogue

Entre décembre 2025 et juin 2026, le nouveau maire LFI de Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, est intervenu personnellement à deux reprises en faveur des frères Doumbia, plusieurs fois condamnés pour trafic ...

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Yes! ... but «it’s using the rehired employees — referred to as “gray beard” engineers — to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools.» Akin to asking an electrical engineer to repair the electric chair of his own execution. techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/f...

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short | TechCrunch

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

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L'université de la cote d'azur a découvert une paire de planètes "super-pouffes" www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... (Oui, je sais, c'est pas pouffes, c'est "guimauves", mais c'était juste pour vous faire penser à "pouffe" à chaque fois que vous verrez une info dessus...)

Astronomers found two rare super puff planets lighter than cotton candy

Two newly confirmed &quot;super-puff&quot; planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter. Their rare orbital relationship and enormous, lig...

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Hey, Donald, Wasssup?

Hop, un petit coup de fraîcheur. C'est du placebo, mais ça marche! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMAc...

RAW POV WILD TEAHUPO’O PADDLE SESSION

YouTube video by Nathan Florence

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Walkpadspeed, a simple walking pad or treadmill app: no install, no ads, no accounts. Just your browser. The "app" itself is just a web page walkpad.fr to open in your phone browser supporting Bluetooth (Chrome but not Firefox nor Safari). Doc, source code: github.com/ColasNahaboo... 1/2

Gift article on the algae in the Reflecting Pool, with a bonus comment from my chemist husband (who has worked with algae in biofuel research) "Yeah, it's definitely Scenedesmus, most likely Scenedesmus obliquus (possibly some Scenedesmus quadricauda as well)."  www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Science Has a Name for What’s Plaguing the Reflecting Pool

Testing reveals that efforts to suppress one algal bloom seem to be fueling another.

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