@paul_denton C’est ça de se laisser embobiner par Mc Kinsey & Cie. et de filer les marchés publics à nos grosses SSII préférées (oui, le changement de sigle est une escroquerie destinée à masquer la réputation de boites à viandes de l’ancien, donc je garde l’ancien :D).
C’est laquelle des 3 grosses boites à powerpoints qui à planté ce projet qu’on rigole, encore 😭

@paul_denton Les Gendarmes utilisent Genbuntu depuis des années (une version de Ubuntu à la sauce maison) qui est gratuite, libre et souveraine...
Apparemment ça a été proposé et refusé par la famille poulaga.

@paul_denton c'est un peu normal que ce soit coûteux, il n'y plus grand monde qui sait encore développer en Cobol pour les minitels des commissariats.

@paul_denton
Et pour ceusses qui se tapent un #paywall

https://archive.is/qfhjF

@paul_denton j'ai pas accès à l'article complet mais j'imagine que les 17 click c'est pas juste pour sauvegarder, si?
J'imagine pas le raccourci clavier sinon.

@paul_denton il y a les boites qui savent népondre aux appels d'offre et les boites qui savent faire. C'est con, c'est rarement les mêmes.

@paul_denton Je vais essayer de défendre cet investissement choquant de la Police !😁

L’argent est sale, il finance la fin du monde, le gaspiller dans des projets abandonnés avant d’être trop destructeurs est peut être mieux que de l’utiliser pour financer l’industrie ?🌱

« À la fin du 1er trimestre 2025, la dette publique s'établit à 3 345,8 milliards d'euros, soit 114 % du PIB », 200 millions… pas grand chose pour innover dans la Police face à des mafia suréquipées ?🙈

Innover = risque ?😶‍🌫️🌡️🙉

@paul_denton
Il va rejoindre Louvois, Géode, Sirhen et quelques autres sur l'étagère des gouffres d'argent public

@paul_denton C'est du n'importe quoi... C'est un stagiaire qui a fait ça ?

@paul_denton
257 M€ ? Ahaha les petits joueurs...

https://www.lesechos.fr/politique-societe/societe/comment-leducation-nationale-a-perdu-400-millions-deuros-avec-son-logiciel-de-paie-1174783

@paul_denton
On dirait Pronote pour lire une simple notif 😆

@oldsysops tiens, bonne idée, où vais-je dormir ☺️

Your proposal: How we survived a DDOS (ddosia/noname57) with ony Haproxy and a bare metal server

@carlchenet j'ai ma théorie à deux balles sur les offres d'emploi :

si ils ne pourraient pas dire le contraire, alors la phrase n'a aucune valeur

personne ne va écrire dans une offre d'emploi : "on veut des gens médiocres", donc dire "on veut les meilleurs" n'a aucune valeur et doit simplement être compris comme "on veut les moins nuls qui accepterons nos conditions", ce qui est évident dans le cadre d'une offre d'emploi, donc la phrase n'apporte aucune info utile, c'est de la langue de bois

@fipaddict mais j'ai déjà fait des sauvegardes l'an dernier 😮‍💨, ou alors c'était l'année d'avant, mais on avait dit que c'était réglé st'affaire 😩

@fipaddict Moi c'est le soir à 20h43

@fipaddict "Une sauvegarde par semaine, c'est s'autoriser à perdre une semaine de travail. Le peux-tu?" => Merci pour le rappel!

@fipaddict C'est bon 😁

Alt…

Graph showing two backup up and running for 99% of the time (on 180days)

@fipaddict
Et les restaurations. C'est bête d'être capable de sauvegarder, mais pas de restaurer le jour J.

Si si ! Je vous jure !

@fipaddict C'est bon, mes disquettes sont toujours dans mon tiroir avec ma collec' de magnets. 👍

@fipaddict J'ai un complément : pensez aussi à supprimer les sauvegardes les plus anciennes, sinon vous manquerez d'espace disque.

Et de sauvegardes car les nouvelles ne pourront plus se faire.

Me demandez pas comment j'ai trouvé cette idée révolutionnaire.

@fipaddict
rsync et crontab...

@fipaddict Bisous du vendredi mon Fip 😘😘😘😘

@carlton I really want to joke “is there a betting pool how long retirement will last this time” but they feel kind of inappropriate. So I’ll go with the regular - thank you for all the work you’ve put in all these years :)

@carlton ❤️

@carlton Thanks for all your amazing work 💚 I'm glad you're stopping the Forum moderation, but thanks for that, too! I'm also a bid surprised you were doing that TBH? Are we too bad at task delegation? Does too much work fall on too few people?

I like the Unix principle but for humans... do one thing and do it well 😎 ..not that anyone does a bad job if they do many things, but we just tend to be human and get overloaded from our passions.

@carlton The end of an era 💔 Look forward to seeing what's next!

@carlton I still remember thinking "that was retirement?" when you came out of it 😁

Thank you for sharing and for your efforts (past, current and future)!

@vkc I answered no, but... because I use the phone as a portable device. Not many people I talk on the phone with.
But I would go with no phone at all, and computer at home for communications

@vkc No, the main use for my phone is for payments and various apps I need for authentication and public services.

@vkc I would consider using one, if there would be the need to travel to a country where something on your phone could be used against you ... or where you have the risk that your phone's security might be compromised at a border control check

@vkc No but purely because I'm old enough to have used PDAs and that role got absorbed by smartphones organically.

It's less that I want my phone to do a lot of extra shit, and more that I don't want to stop using a PDA for my calendar, mail, notes etc

In fact if my PDA could stop being a phone, that'd also be acceptable

@vkc Definitely not. I rarely use my phone to actually call people.

I check my emails, book train tickets, take photos, manage my shopping list, listen to music/podcasts/audio books and play puzzle games while sitting on the toilet or waiting for trains.

I guess I'm more in the market for a device that does everything *but* act as a dumb phone.

@vkc If Google successfully block installation of apps other than by the Play store, I'd very much like to switch to a Nokia brick with no features beyond call, SMS, and phone book, and some kind of Linux tablet or netbook with integrated 4g/5g modem

@vkc no, I couldn't. Too many services today require a smartphone. I couldn't even buy tickets for public transport without a smart phone. Banking also requires a smart phone for 2fa. If that all wouldn't be required, I'd prefer a dumb phone.

@vkc I want to say yes, but I said no because I have a lot of health tracking apps that I rely on. I've considered switching to a simple phone and keeping a stripped down smart phone for those apps, but... Not much point having them separated if I'd always have to have the smart one on me.

@vkc

I use a dumbphone now. :D

For me the big blocker is MFA. Even though I'm usually on my desktop when I need it a few services require propriatary apps and don't allow generic OTP.

@vkc I would if I had a small digital camera, a good camera is the main reason I use a smartphone

@vkc

There are a couple of features I use on my Pixel: the camera, and putting up a wifi hotspot. Oh, and Tusky of course.

@vkc I don't even have a mobile, just a landline and an answering machine. I am considering a dumb phone though, but leaning against it. I kinda like being out-of-reach when I'm out.

I know where most of the old remaining payphones are in my city, lol!

@vkc

and what would you do with that? call people? why?

@vkc as long as I could get around the stupid “app” problem with businesses who sell, businesses who use things like “Homebase” for clocking hours at a job, for schools that use a stupid “authenticator” app so you can see your emails and class work, banks who don’t allow you to just use email but need an “app” to access your account, hospitals who use “my chart” apps that put all of your info online… it’s really annoying to do anything anymore without an app 😾

@vkc I would love to be able to get away with a dumb phone, but there's too many apps I need on a day to day basis for work.

Saying that, I did get a dedicated e-reader to get away from the phone while reading. Less likely to absently check out another app if I have to get the phone out of my pocket or from across the room!

@vkc This year i finally upgraded my Samsung S9 to a S25 and overall i really like it even though i'm not really a 'phone person'. It is useful, i use it to pay many places, use the banking apps when out and need them, also like being able to yell across my room to have it set alarms without getting up.

My vision isn't as great as it used to be though so that's a pain, i prefer my desktop and monitor.

So i would be no, but i am considering getting a dumb mp3/flac player for music vs phone.

@vkc I went with "no" because I hardly ever use my phone for making calls. Such a device would be rather useless for me. Modern smartphones are really just small computers that happen to make phone calls.

@vkc No because "Dumb phones" can't do encrypted messaging and calls. Privacy and security is WORSE on a feature phone. I really can't understand the appeal of feature phones when you can just customize Android to remove features that you don't want or use anyways. You can't customize a feature phone to do that.

@vkc I voted "yes". I did use a flip phone recently for a couple of years. Then my wife accidentally bumped me off of "unlimited hotspot" (the phone had a Wifi hotspot gateway in it, but no apps) on her phone plan and I switched myself to a provider that charges next to nothing instead. And the flip phone was incompatible.

I used a Unihertz Titan Pocket not-Blackberry phone until I bricked it, and now I'm on my second GrapheneOS Pixel and I'm fairly happy.

Dumb flip phone was nice though.

@vkc
I use dumb phone everyday to accept sms and accept calls.
It causes problems only if I have to send a geolocation link to a delivery courier.
For some stuff which not doable with PC or barely doable with PC due mobile-first policy of functionality vendor I use a few years old smartphone.

@vkc Missing poll option: I already have a dump phone (Siemens C55).

@vkc

If my employer hadn't recently discontinued SMS as an option for two factor in favor of an app, I wouldn't absolutely *need* a smart phone for anything.

And honestly? With manufactures stuffing AI into everything and then practically daring you to figure out how to disable it this time, the value of the "smart" phone is fading fast for me on a personal level. So, if I *could* trade out to a dumb phone, sure, I would.

@vkc I use it for everything except calling, which I hate.

@vkc I set up my dumbphone, keep it aside, comes to masto and here is a poll :-O

I answered "yes" because my smartphone has been a problem for me. Having ADHD and a device with constant access to information in my pocket is a bad combination. I can't go through 5 minutes without checking on it and getting distracted. I feel it makes me dumber.

But after reading the other replies I realized a smartphone is more than convenience. It is important for my personal security. Being able tho instantly record a video and report something/someone is crucial. I can't give that away.

@vkc

The primary thing I would miss is Google maps. I am still trying OSM based maps and, so far, they are not enough.

I am open to suggestions.

@vkc I mean, putting aside that I *can't* since work requires a smart phone for MFA ... I'm actually pretty good at ignoring the distractions on my smartphone. The only social media I have on there is open tabs in firefox for mastodon and an old school forum.

Mostly I use my smartphone for app-based mutli-factor auth, weather, google translate, sat nav and duolingo.

@vkc I used to carry a dumb phone plus an iPod or later a smartphone that had no service. It's getting to the point where the idea of a disposable but also indestructible dumbphone plus some kind of smart device that I have 100% control over is appealing.

@vkc i do use a dumb phone for banking stuff

@vkc I'm using one currently.

@vkc I almost never use the phone app on my phone, so no.

@vkc I'd definitely be happy to have finally gotten rid of all the notifications and distractions. I'd definitely be worried because of missing encryption in communications.

@vkc I replied in both places.

@vkc I want the opposite!

Literally have looked into having a phone with only a data plan and no actual phone service. Last I checked though nobody would sell a data-only package as a primary line...you had to have actual phone service first, then you could add data-only "lines" to add a tablet or something...

@vkc fwiw I picked "no" because if I were to decide I didn't want a smart phone anymore I'd just not have a phone at all anymore.

I have no use at all for what an old phone used to do, I don't do phone calls ...

I am vaguely considering what it would mean if I removed all programs but a browser from my phone. (I mean, by way of a custom rom, just a browser 0 other things)

Is that a smart phone? Dumb phone? N900 internet tablet? 😄

I happily use a dumb phone.

* Separate phone number to give to recruiters during job search, and eventually end up with the employer as my contact number. And turn it off when I'm outside work hours, as permitted by law in my country.

* Oh, it turns out I can't install any of your so-called convenient apps. Figure out how to provide your service (which in no way requires a proprietary app) to me anyway.

* Battery life is shockingly long.

@vkc

@vkc No, I would not use ANY phone. This technology is obsolete

@vkc I don't really ever make phonecalls, so what would be the point?

@vkc I'd like one for the same reason I don't want a slick screen for a car's control center. The ability to manipulate stuff without looking at it is underestimated

@vkc
My second phone runs linux (Sailfish OS) without the ability to run modern Android apps so that gets pretty close to a "dumb phone" but with the benefits of being able to look stuff up or ssh into a server on the go if the need should arise.

@vkc I used a dumb phone for the longest time, up until 5 years ago. But it's very difficult to live without a smartphone in Sweden. We have an electronic ID (BankID) that's used for everything. You can use its desktop client on Windows and macOS, but not Linux.

@vkc i used one for a few weeks just last month, i really tried, but not yet for me, and i hate that. i do however only use the functionality i _need_, no mass social media, and only a handful of notifications per day.

I did actually use one for a while, and I loved it! But I do need things like access to WhatsApp (through a Matrix bridge for me!) in my country unfortunately. I've decided having a smartphone with not much on it is a good compromise

I actually do use one, with a caveat. Every weekend that I can, I turn my smartphone off and switch to a dumbphone.

I’d do it full time, but my job wouldn’t be compatible with it. The joy of fully disconnecting is real, though.

@vkc I hate what Google is doing to Android, and I just wish we had a libre smartphone that is affordable and available worldwide.

@vkc I don’t understand how anyone would use a dumb phone. Making calls is the feature I could do best without. 🤷

A *pager* on the other hand seems quite nice… I get a message, but no one expects me to reply. Perfection. 🤌

@vkc Hmm complicated. I'm using functionally a dumbphone. (it's so old it can't really do anything other than whatsapp. But not by choice. My smarthpone spontaneously died and I can't afford to replace it yet.

Very annoyed because I loved my Pixel 6 Pro but the touch just died. I have to use a mouse plugged in to do anything on it.

I’d use a basic phone. I know many of them have personal hotspot capabilities now, although I think that is only the ones that have some version of Android on them, which would defeat the point. I have seriously considered switching to one, recently. I am tired of apps and carrying around so much with me every day. Almost no one needs to be that connected, in my opinion.