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Cake day: June 18th, 2025

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  • Securing persons (young children, elderly, or disabled people), pets, or critical objects (health related stuff, maybe a box with important papers or family belongings) can require a bit of planning. Also good to know where to head to once you’re out, especially for kids if fire happens when they’re alone. But yeah, for most people, “get out” is probably enough.



  • Merci pour le partage, y’a plein de trucs que je connais pas et que je vais aller creuser.

    Pour Organic Maps, l’appli est effectivement très bien, mais ça pourrait t’intéresser de savoir qu’après une polémique avec la structure juridique que les fondateurs ont construit autour, il y a une fork faite par la communauté qui s’appelle Comaps.

    Pour le jeu sur Linux, effectivement Steam marche très bien de mon expérience. Pour les jeux en dehors de Steam, il y a des logiciels comme Lutris ou Heroic Games, j’ai testé le premier et il marche vraiment bien.

    Pour le RSS sous Thunderbird, est-ce que tu saurais dire ce qui ne donne pas envie de l’utiliser ? Y’aurait ptet moyen de faire un plugin pour améliorer l’utilisation.











  • Récemment placé en détention provisoire à Vendin-le-Vieil, ce détenu kurdophone est poursuivi dans le cadre de deux affaires distinctes, dont l’une pour “aide à l’entrée et au séjour irrégulier en bande organisée”, a précisé à l’AFP son avocat Me Julien Delarue.

    Entre fin juillet et début août, 88 détenus, dont la majorité sont en détention provisoire, ont rejoint le premier quartier de lutte contre la criminalité organisée (QLCO) installé à Vendin, un projet annoncé en mars par le ministre de la Justice Gérald Darmanin.

    C’est terrifiant, j’avais pas suivi le détail de ces centres de détention pour “narcotrafiquants”, mais en fait ça concerne juste la “délinquance” organisée, pas que les trafiquants de drogues, et on peut y mettre des présumé.e.s innocent.e.s, c’est encore pire que ce que j’en savais. Genre on peut imaginer des membres des Soulèvements de la terre ou de la Jeune Garde y être envoyé sans procès.



  • If i’m not mistaken, the very last graph showing posts by month shows a significant decreasing over the summer, or at least specifically july (since august is not over yet). It says June is around 12M posts and July around 9M. August seems already over 9M and we’re only 2/3 in, so maybe there was some drop around July for some reason, which could explain OP’s feeling.

    As for the reason, i’m not sure, maybe a combination of factors like some server blocking access from UK with the latest privacy bullshit, some server having signficant downtime (i think slrpnk.net had a problem with servers locking themselves up while tech admin was abroad), and maybe non-Lemmy factors like holidays (though they don’t seem to impact previous years stats).







  • Pas de soucis ! It was quite a specific experience, so it might be useful to put in some context in here : it was a studio making apps and games, founded a decade ago, always has been a SCOP, they started being 3-4, and when i was here we were between 15 and 20. Also, i was first an intern, and then got a short-term contract : in both cases, i was not offered to participate as a share owner, you have to have a long-term contract for this. I also have a relatively short experience there (10 months).

    One of the pros was there was a lot of discussion about most subjects. The fact it was a relatively small studio helped too, both for the number of people and the methods : open-space, weekly meeting with everyone, shared relaxing time (lunch, afterwork, teambuilding days, etc.). Even as an intern, i got to hear about most subjects, even general ones like financial state of the company or which projects to accept or reject.

    Another one was the company values (not necessarily inherited from the SCOP thing, but when you do a SCOP it’s more likely) : they wanted to do projects with a good social impact, and it was nice working on those. It is relatively limited though : since you have people and taxes to pay, you have to get profitable projects, and most of the time, they’re not the one with the biggest social impact. Doing projects for banks or army led to some debate, and the temporary result was that it was best to work for them and still exist than just close the studio.

    A con i heard from the share owners is how to handle shares when someone leaves the studio. Two options are either everyone buys them (but not everyone may have the money immediatly) or the person keeps them (but then you have someone who owns share and does not work here, so it may counteract the purpose of the SCOP). This question is even harder when the person is a founder and/or when the person has to leave involuntary (sickness or wrongdoing). I guess it’s best to have it planned beforehand, but it would not prevent all the friction anyway.

    Another con was the perception from the non-share owners : there were constantly 2-3 interns, and 1 apprentice. If you consider very low salary, least interesting tasks and no saying in the decision making, it was not that different from a classic studio. And from the owners point of view, it was kinda legitimate : there was not enough money to pay someone 100% for those tasks, they had to be done, and it would be quite weird/complicated to include people staying only 6 months in the decisions making, even worse for the shareholding. Anyway, there was some tension around this, but it’s also due to the number of workers and the field of the company.

    In general, it still is something nice. I’d say the main advantage was communication to my eyes : the more you can communicate about anything in the company, the better it is. It does not prevent some problems like overwork (it can even be worse since most employees feel some kind of responsibility) or toxic management (in the end, it really depends on your direct superior, when there is some hierarchy) : you have to come up with specific methods to counteract those (for overwork, they tried to track time and to make sure everyone was leaving at the end of the day, and for management, they were in the process of splitting it so everyone would have 2 managers to refer to, in case one was bad). But all of this is probably a (maybe not so) distant future if you’re setting one up for two people, so it’s probably not very relevant. Probably worth to discuss it now around a drink though, but not crucial.