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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • French Press. It was my grandmother’s, kept it after she died.

    The brand, Melior, was bought by Bodum in 1991, and all French Press production went under the Bodum brand (the old Melior model became what is now known as the “Chambord” line), so it is at least 35 years old, possibly older.

    I contacted Bodum to know if they could give me an approximate age, but they couldn’t (or didn’t want to bother searching). All I know it is a version with Pyrex glass, which may help a knowledgeable person to more precisely date it, but I kinda put my curiosity on pause for the time being.

    Other than that, some of my grandfather’s vinyls are quite old too (at least one of them is from the 80’s), and I got some 20+ yo cassettes, some old mixtapes (back when mixtapes where actual tapes 😆).

    I have an old Caban which is probably at least 40 years old (was my grandfather’s, once again).

    Oh, and some kitchen tools made in West Germany 😆.



  • Of so, I’d advice you to try to work on how you express yourself.

    Expressed like you did, you sound more like you flatly reject any criticism instead of admiting both are valid notation.

    That’s kinda how you earned that flair from me. I’m not gonna blame you, I have been like that for a long time, and realized how damaging to my relationships it was. Not everyone is ready at all time to change their mind, even when I know I’m right with number to back my argument.
    Gently reminding them they may be wrong instead of antagonizing them often have way better result.
    Got friends out of toxic relationships that way. I don’t like to intervene in other people love life, but when ypu see friends suffer, you sometimes have to act.












  • I think we mostly agree on that.

    Idealy feature or idea shouldn’t be copyrightable, but to acheive that we have to find ways to make sure those who work on those new featurea and idea can live decently.

    If you work for years on something new, to see it immediately copied by someone who drown your product with cheaper copies, that’d kinda be disheartening for anyone.

    What I think would be ideal would be a standard license fee. One cannot prevent other from copying that idea, but one has to pay a reasonable sum to the owner of the idea until the R&D costs are paid (maybe a bit more so it can grow and invest in costlier invention), after which it becomes public domain.

    In all cases, credits are to be given to the inventor, a way or another.


  • I think the question can be summarized as “do companies have an obligation of mean or an obligation of result in searching for similar code.”

    I unless you have a search engine that can search all code across all repository, public or not, it is pretty hard to ask for an obligation of result.

    Moreover, in many countries you cannot copyright the code itself, but you can copyright complete algorithm (RSA would be a good example, but not the code implementation itself), or a specific feature (minigames during loading time).
    Note that I do not say itis right to do so, I’m all for opensource softwares, but I take into account that some people make a living from their inventions, so I’m generally in favor of limited copyright protection (in terms of both duration and scope).

    An invention property, a software engineer code, or anything like that, should be shared by both the inventor (for inventing it in the firstplace), and the one financing it (for paying for it), at least until it pays back the money invested.