Dont worry, France is on fire and a new republic will be announced soon.
Le Macron est le pain toaste, comme ils probablement ne dit pas en la belle France.
il y a une certaine beauté dans l’écriture d’un français exécrable mais c’est un trésor caché à tous sauf aux dadaïstes et aux adeptes de la suspension hydropneumatique
I’ve made a video about Safe using google Bard, Visla, and my own editing and tweaking. Only visible via this link. If any have some suggestions, additions, or fixes if there are errors, then I will update it. When it looks good enough can post it to youtube and share it around.
The white subtitles get lost on some of the earlier slides.
Slightly longer pauses between the audio on each slide - It got a bit continuous stream of computer voice for while.
The "call to action " on the final slide needs more oomph.
Apart from that it was not bad at all verging on the freakin awesome 
Well done.
I can’t change the foreground, but I can swap out the background, so darker backgrounds for the win.
I can’t change the audio timing either. But I’ve noticed that their server glitches a bit and when I download it and play it locally it sounds better.
I’ll look into it. Thanks for the feedback. Just FYI, it took about 30-40 minutes to do the whole thing. This tech is pretty awesome.
fail2ban always worked for me. maybe twitter engineers haven’t heard of it. 
So “they” have an army of scraping bots - surely though they can just create accounts for all of them and then back to the same problem?
This doesn’t make sense to me. If a ddos attack then sure, forcing login to reduce the load they might be causing by not just pinging the site, but also downloading lots of data makes sense. But legit orgs would have no issue going around this - or am I missing something?
I could ask google but I feel a better answer would come from here, why the mayhem in France?
Is this still about raising retirement age?
Seems to be decades of racist policing, so parallels being drawn with US and UK. I guess it is wider than that but that’s the flashpoint.
It doesn’t appear to have a direct connection to welfare changes but that cannot have helped.
And France has a tradition of protests (since the French Revolution). Also look up Banlieue (suburb). Organizing using social media is also easier then in the past.
From five years living there, reading French writers, talking to people out and about, watching debates, documentaries etc, the driving motivation - at least for the radical youth at the forefront of this, as well as other groups - seems to be that people feel the country has been sold to private industry. They feel they are constantly being squeezed harder and harder as the rich continue to get richer. I would add here that they are correct, the numbers bear this out.
The Gilets Jaunes was not really “about” petrol prices rising; the recent retirement age protests were not really “about” the retirement age; and this isn’t really “about” police brutality. It’s about those things inside a much larger story of people feeling like they no longer live in a democracy. Those things are sparks.
The Gilets Jaunes protests were very peaceful at the start, and the government responded by firing chemical weapons and rubber bullets into crowds; many people have been blinded and maimed. I’ve friends who were bludgeoned with truncheons. This led - predictably, sadly, terribly - to some protestors coming to believe they had to resort to violence.
I’m not saying any of this is pleasant or good, or condoning violence on any side. But that’s the larger context, which a lot of French people also go out of their way to avoid.
Fundamentally what people have been protesting for is social equality and more authentic democracy, and the government under Macron has responded in a violent and tyrannical way, and continued to do so for years. Well, under those conditions, some people will start to act as if they’re fighting against a tyrant.
Also many from third world countries who behave barbaric towards people and their surroundings. It’s insane how Europe let people in who have no resoect for our countries or people. Europe was once beautiful but are becoming more and more barbaric. We get similar problems to those in those countries people came from. Import the third world and get third world problems. Would have been much better if the borders were closed to the third world many decades ago.
"Former French intelligence chief Pierre Brochand warns that unless Europe and France radically change their policies on mass immigration, civil war could break out, asserting, “all multicultural societies are doomed.” Brochand, who served as director of the French DGSE from 2002 to 2008, made the comments during an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro. “All ‘multicultural’ societies are doomed to more or less deep rifts,” warned Brochand, adding, “In such a situation, it happens that minorities are violent winners, and majorities placid losers.”
A 17 year old was shot by police after being stopped for a traffic offence. There are a lot of parallels with the London riots of 2011 which were also sparked by the shooting of a young black man after a police stop.
Pretty much the same thing sparking outrage in all “advanced” democracies; France, Britain, USA, etc. - inequality, meaning the enormous share of a country’s resources being enjoyed by the select few. Quick check: Are there any democratically-aligned countries in the world where the populace is not exhibiting this outrage and the share of resources is much more even? Would really like to know so we can all look for clues on how to resolve these simmering problems.
Another remarkably upside down statement. Various European countries - including France, which still boasts 13 overseas territories - engaged in the most cut-throat pirate-esque colonialism for centuries, and just last century had two massive world wars, the worst wars in the history of the human species as far as we know - but noble-minded @tobbetj isn’t duped! Far from it.
Those were the beautiful times, the glory days! And now it’s all ruined by these horrible barbarians.
The very same barbarians who are trying to get out of countries that Europe has been bleeding dry for centuries in the above-mentioned colonial pillaging and murdering.
The pillaged nations of the world - Ireland included - would like you and your kind to know that we’d have been thrilled if you’d have stayed at home and politely minded your own business in the first place? 
It’s like you push someone to the ground, put your boot on their throat, and then when they try to kick at your shins, you say: “Savage! Look what the savage did!”
The problems in those countries started 1000 of years ago, culture and religous problems that have hindered them from developing the last 500 or so years. Shame blaming Europe is not the way, they have got access to loads of medicine, technology and other humantarian aid over decades. They keep expanding populations with no to little growing economy to support their expansion. Western world have helped and saved millions in those regions. They don’t have the right to assaul t europeans. But let’s see how many China and Russia take who now are exploiting example African resources, interesting to see if you try and shame blaming them, good luck.
European countries and the US have donated 1-2% of gdp annually to third world countries, how many % those China and Russia give of their gdp to developing countries every year?
60 years of computer networking!
Last paragraph from the article:-
“It’s really too early to tell how this will all play out, and there is certainly more to the internet than social media platforms, but I do feel a degree of optimism that the pendulum is swinging back towards the decentralized approaches that enabled the internet to grow and flourish over the last sixty years.”
The author of that article in The Reg is Bruce Davie and he’s giving a lecture in Edinburgh on 6th July:-
From @Sonder video:
The time is coming when human beings who want to stay free won’t be asking how much 1 Bitcoin cost in US dollar.
They’ll be asking how they can get their hands on some sats at any price.
This is what Mises called the “crack up boom” and it is the cause of genuine hyperinflation of the particular fiat currency and collapse of the economy. Even switching to sats or eth or safecoin isn’t going to save people though. Most rely on a function economy. We have to go to ground. See the short video I made two days ago for some ideas:
