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Definitely. France is a country where everything is heavily taxed. I don’t remember the percentage but, approximately, when I earn 3k, my employer must pay 3k in taxes on top of it.

The best salary I’ve ever seen for a developer was 70k a year, but it is restricted to companies like Microsoft or IBM.

It’s very easy to compare. In France the average salary for a dev would be 50k. I don’t think my healthcare and retirement costs 100k. The highest you could reach if you’re lucky would be 70/80k but it’s for very specific companies.

Cookie AutoDelete can do that for specific web sites that you choose in a white/black list. I always allow PieFed even when I restart, Google is in the default black list.

The geographical data was always good, and you can use it without an account. The algorithm itself has improved a lot. It used to be very bad in the past though, it would switch the route every five minute to gain a few seconds towards the destination, but they stopped doing that.

CoMaps looks great, but it’s still buggy and I don’t know how to have some traffic data.

Cookie AutoDelete is good on the desktop. It can delete cookies when you quit Firefox, when you switch to another domain, when you close a tab… It’s fun.

Noooooo. Nothing is wrong with Tuta, they are awesome. The compromise is that PayPal knows that I subscribe to Tuta and BitWarden.

As for Waze, it has been bought by Google a long time ago. If you have Android, you can restrict the location to “when the application is running,” but it’s still Google behind.

Reward programs can link purchases to you through 2 different means:

• if you give your name and phone number to the smartphone application
• if the supermarket links the purchase to the actual bill sent to the bank account

You cannot technically avoid the second one but I know that most stores don’t do that because their systems are separated: one system for the inventory, one system for sending transactions to the banks. I’m telling this because, while they can link your debit/credit card to your purchase, it never happens because it’s a major PITA for them and it’s a manual process. But it can happen…

• Waze . They know my location when I drive, and there are no alternatives (AFAIK) for traffic jam. I don’t use an account though, it’s not tied to Google or anything.
• Kagi because all the others are worse. I may try SearX again to see if it’s good now.
• PayPal sucks but it’s good for subscriptions.
• Tuta and Bitwarden . They have a link to PayPal but the data is E2E encrypted.

Most of the time, I don’t mind a compromise as long as I can keep the data to myself and encrypted, or if the smartphone application can run without any permission.

The biggest threats for me in the above list are PayPal (they know what I buy), and Kagi (they know what I’m looking for). I could find a way to remove Kagi though…

There are no serious pen testers working for free on LinkedIn. Only people who sell themselves.

Professionals would work for free and get nothing out of it. You’d rather post your challenge in a Russian forum instead of bragging about… something.

Here is some advice from an old fart: if you reach v1.0 with ONLY one merge request, something is deeply wrong with your development process.

Also, you don’t push to main, ever.

God no, that’s insulting.

Vibe coded? I see that in the contribution file:

enforcement at [YOUR-EMAIL@HERE.COM].

If it’s not a cooldown period as that other guy said, you may contact the scammer new owner, he will ask for a billion dollars and it’s up to you whether that domain was important enough. Consider finding a new one right now if you can.

Try to buy it to see who is holding it to scam people.

AI said:

To run AI models locally, you’ll need a computer with a capable CPU, sufficient RAM, and a powerful GPU

While it’s possible to run some AI models on a laptop, a dedicated desktop setup with a powerful GPU will generally offer better performance. The cost of building a dedicated AI PC can range from around $800 for a budget build to $2,500 for a performance-oriented system

Hope that helps /s