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There is (or was) a pretty smart reverse graffiti in a tunnel of Brussels, Belgium.

The tunnel's walls are covered in white tiles, but are all black because of the cars' pollution. The graffiti goes in two parts (written in French), facing each other:

  * "LE MAL PROPRE" - meaning "the shoddy" has been written by cleaning the tiles composing the letters, hence white letters over a black background.
  * "LE BIEN SALE" - meaning "the pretty dirty" uses the opposite technique: the tiles outside the shape of the letters have been cleaned - black letters over white background.
The graffiti really plays around the concept of mirroring:

  * by the way how the words are revealed: cleaning the letters or their surrounding
  * by the play on words in the two commonly used expressions: "mal" - badly - being the opposite of "bien" - well -, and "propre" - clean - being the opposite of "sale" - dirty:
    * "mal" has a negative connotation and is used with "propre" which has a positive one.
    * "bien" has a positive connotation and is used with "sale" which has a negative one.
I only found one photo of half of it online: https://www.brusselseyes.com/le-mal-propre-2014/


I think an english interpretation which retains the original spirit would be something like: "the poorly cleaned" / "the well soiled"


I'd translate to "the clean evil"/"the dirty good" Edit: but I think I've missed the point that there are multiple understanding so multiple translations and probably a pun on "malpropre"


Here are some Safari-specific issues I have met when developing a website in the past two years:

  * font being displayed way bigger than in the other browsers - had to add normalization rules specific of Safari
  * Parsing dates in the format "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS" not working, had to convert to ISO-8601 using a regex (the dates in original format were received from a third-party website).
  * Interactions in maps not working using leaflet library (version 1.7 at the time). Fixed by switching to maplibre, which turned out to be a great move for other reasons.
  * HTML in SVGs (via ForeignObject) are always displayed on top of the SVG content, making it impossible to annotate HTML with SVG markup (arrows, circling stuff).
Plus some issues with `backdrop-filter:blur`, although this CSS is also problematic elsewhere.

All in all, it felt like having to deal with Internet Explorer 10+ years ago: the other browsers work well out of the box, and tricks and workarounds need to be identified for the bad browser.


> maplibre, which turned out to be a great move for other reasons

Would you care to elaborate a little?


Finding maplibre 'better' was more valid at the time than today, and is also subjective. The creators and maintainers of both libraries have done some great work (and are still doing so).

Back in January 2022, the stable version of leaflet, v1.7.1, was from September 2020, and was affected by some small bugs degrading the user experience. Although the release of following version seemed close, there was no clear schedule for it, and I had concerns about how maintained the library would remain.

As of today, the bug from 2015 where there is some white space between map tiles on fractional zoom levels [0] is still open.

Also, leaflet was a pain to integrate in Svelte Kit framework, because it depended on `window` and-or `document`, not available at server side.

Maplibre, on the other hands, with a feature set roughly equivalent to Leaflet, benefited from much more frequent releases, and seemed more stable across browsers and devices. It was also easier to make it work in Svelte kit.

[0]: https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/issues/3575


Thanks. For my usecase leaflet is great, but was wondering if I was missing something.

I use some intermediate stuff (vue2leaflet) that is starting to rot a bit but that's less of a concern than the map lib itself.


There was a BSD devroom track in the past years, e.g. https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/bsd/

I don't see anything in this year's schedule either, and fosdem-bsd-devroom's recent tweets don't talk about it (I didn't scroll very long, there might be an announcement somewhere) https://twitter.com/fosdembsd


Impressive.

Would you mind giving an overview of the marketing activities you perform?


I learned most of what I know from the 30x500 course by Amy Hoy/Alex Hillman, but the gist of it is reading and participating in forums, providing valuable advice, and writing articles that spread that advice further.


I liked it too.

Two somewhat similar games which make me feel like I'm learning something:

  * Worldle - focused on geography https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
  * Tradle - with a touch of macroeconomics https://oec.world/en/tradle/


The self-hosted pricing depends on the number of vCPUs used.

Does this mean that Windmill installation pings back home with info about clients?


So that is the self hosted enterprise version. You can selfhost for free. It does not ping back home. But if you download all the resource types from the windmill hub you will send a http request to them.

I do not believe the EE version pings back either as of now. But I think the plan is to report back with usage. Or i need to report it manually.


Story: Back in 2012, writing a program to extract obfuscated email addresses out of text corpuses was the homework of the first class of Stanford University's Natural Language Processing online course at Coursera. No AI or LLM involved.

[1]: https://www.classcentral.com/course/nlp-836


One of the releases from a few years (or months) back had this issue of slow startup whenever a certain number of files was opened. I experienced this a few months ago while installing the version included in Debian stable.

Following Geany updates fixed the issue, as far as I remember.


Accessing the website from an EU location, the small text in the sign-up form says:

> You will receive emails about Microsoft Rewards, which include offers about Microsoft and partner products. You will also receive notifications about Bing Image Creator. By continuing, you agree to the Rewards Terms and Image Creator Terms below.

How can this be seen as compliant with GDPR?


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