As I understand it, most French-looking names in English originate either from the Norman invasion (typically aristocrats) or the Huguenot immigration of the 17th century. It’s possible that a random German immigrant would Frenchify their name to sound posher but doesn’t seem like the most obvious explanation.

Utile. Sinon, ce hara-kiri américain est vraiment une occasion en or pour faire avancer le projet politique européen. Sauf que oui, même maintenant alors que tout est aligné, ça semble toujours relever du rêve… Bon.

A spicier take still: I personally have found DDG’s AI summaries useful even without further clicking. When one’s query is purely technical (vs politics or whatever), I don’t see any need to click dutifully.

Voilà ce qui arrive quand on promeut un animateur de variétés en chef d’Etat. Personnellement les autres explications me paraissent bien trop compliquées.

Translated it into… French. Hmm.

Compare with Eliminate Sparrows campaign, where there was no “cobra effect”, but:

The campaign led to surging insect populations and poor harvests, and was one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine

This is what RSS was invented for. Sigh.

PS: https://rssbox.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/

Another example of Wikipedia’s “2010 bias”.

Watch. The blurb talks of “episode”

A TLDW would be useful.

A German origin would make the Norman-French particle “Le” even more mysterious than it already is.

Yeah, thanks, been to all these places already,sleep included (except setsid in Wayland but I doubt that’s the crucial issue). And yes it does work, sort of - the problem is that the apps exit spontaneously at some point later - sometimes hours, sometimes days - which absolutely does not happen when I launch them in whatever “official” way. In the end I just gave up. Needing a sleep hack is a bit of a red flag after all.

And we were told cancel culture had peaked.

Tangential. I tried everything to replicate the basic function of an app launcher in a terminal - i.e. launch a GUI app while leaving the terminal unaffected and have the app survive without spontaneous combustion at some random point later - before finally giving up. Yes, background process. Yes, disown. Yes, redirect all output to null. Yes, nohup. Yes, every combination of the above. Nothing really worked. So I now have a mystical reverence for the people who write app launchers.

Finally, a YSK which is actually a YSK.

Without actually clicking (coz video), I’m guessing Karlsruhe to Baden Baden.

This kind of comment is why social media has such a deservedly bad reputation.

Nobody will buy these “cars”, what’s wrong with a horse and buggy? History can support either side of this debate.

this place is never going to be good for any discussions where people disagree strongly.

Most users downvote what they dont agree with. Its a circle jerk echo chamber where we all agree or get downvoted.

So true, and so sad. This has been such a disappointment to me, and even a bit of a surprise. I just didn’t realize how badly most people respond to seeing viewpoints they don’t fully share. Personally I don’t get the point of discussion where everyone agrees, but apparently that is quite a rare attitude. So I share your pessimism, but with one glimmer of hope. There is at least one forum which has cracked this problem: Hacker News. The issue being that it’s frequented by exactly the kind of techie Spock-like personalities that aren’t representative of the general population.

Completely agree. The telemetry is opt-in (personally I opt in as a matter of principle). As for the coming AI features, whether we like it or not these are soon going to be non-optional in any browser which wants to be used by non-techies. Without the normie users, and without the work done by the Mozilla security team, there is no Firefox. I get why people want to use the downstream forks, but we need to get serious. For Waterfox and Librefox to exist, Firefox needs to survive and thrive.