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Le frère de ma copine vit à Valence depuis quelques mois, il a rejoint sa copine (américaine) qui y vit depuis un moment.

Leurs parents voulaient passer le weekend de Pâques ensemble là-bas, donc ils ont pris un logement pour 4, et nous voilà.

Et ben c'est looooong.

Jeudi soir et hier ça allait encore, mais depuis hier soir je commence à avoir du mal

Il y a déjà le côté très "main character syndrome" de ma belle-soeur. Elle incarne un peu ce cliché des Americains qui sont souvent dans l'exagération, et ont constamment un avis sur tout, soit pour critiquer ("the worse I've ever seen"), soit pour encenser ("Amazing !"). Ajoutez à ça que mon beau-frère a un peu le syndrome du "siège de devant " de Bref (tirer l'attention sur lui à son détriment à elle).

Ça n'étonnera personne ici, de base je suis quelqu'un de plutôt introverti, sauf quand je suis avec des amis proches. Je sais qu'en plus avec juste ses parents ça peut bien se passer, on a déjà passé une semaine chez eux et je le vivais mieux que maintenant. Là il reste trois jours, ma batterie sociale est quasiment vide, j'ai juste hâte de rentrer chez nous et qu'on soit un peu au calme.

Voilà, j'avais juste envie de partager ça, merci de m'avoir lu 😄

"I will not drink today" is such a powerful ally. Such a small, simple thing to commit to.
There will probably come a day when it becomes a very difficult thing to commit to. But luckily, not today.

Slowly, the realization sets in and things start to feel a bit weird:

• I may never need the corkscrew in my kitchen drawer again.
• My impressive skills in opening beer bottles using any object within arm's reach are now useless.
• Should I throw out the collection of German beer steins already?
• What about the bottle of Gin I distilled myself at a workshop in Patagonia, using local ingredients?
• Or the local bar which is the central meeting spot of my village, where local news are exchanged, networks formed, and where I could often drink for free cause the bartender values my input on new cocktail creations?

Tomorrow I'm invited to a crime dinner where everybody was assigned a role to play during the evening, tailored to their character to make it easy. I'm the cheerful drunk, a man who "always has a double Scotch in hand and a witty toast on his lips". I guess that's how I presented myself to the world. I'll still attend, and bring a Scotch bottle filled with iced tea. The host knows I won't drink.

On Monday we visit my mom. She'll want to drink champagne with us, and take it personally if we say we don't drink, cause she's also addicted to alcohol, but still in denial.

In 2 weeks, my entire office goes to a beer tasting festival, with brewers from all around the world. I was looking forward to it. My boss bought tickets for everyone, which weren't cheap and are non-refundable. Everyone in the office drinks, sometimes at work, too.
Do I go and end my drinking career in style? Probably a very bad idea.
Do I go and only drink alcohol free beer? I don't think I'll have the willpower, and I will get mocked.
Do I cancel and say I don't drink anymore?
Make up another reason? Call in sick? I honestly don't know...

Memories are another thing. So many good memories related to alcohol. So many nights without memories, too... Best not to dwell on it.
On the other hand, so many problems that will just be gone. My beer belly that gets in the way on my road bike. The drunk useless arguments with my wife where we both forget what we're arguing about. The question "can I still drive?". Being completely useless before the afternoon on a Saturday.

Thank you all for the positive feedback on my post yesterday. It really solidified my resolve to make this a long term thing. I will mourn a bit for things that are now in the past. But I will not drink today.

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Published on: 19/04/2025 | 00:00:00

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A close up of the latest abrasion patch on Mars. The diameter of the patch is ~5cm (2 inches). Perseverance rover acquired this image using its SHERLOC WATSON camera, located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm.

This image was acquired on April 18, 2025 (Sol 1479) at the local mean solar time of 12:54:46.

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I run a small community here on db0 where I post images of the AI horde and one of the users I recently banned decided to come back on another account and spam me with hateful messages, saying they think I'm pretending to be trans and that they think I'm a pedophile. They also decided to come back again after getting banned for that and spam posts in every meta community about how they think I'm a pedophile and deserve to be banned. I don't care what your opinions of AI are, that's not acceptable. It's not okay to accuse people of being pedophiles or accuse them of pretending to be trans.

This is one of the worst days ever in a long time. I'm having a drink tonight, screw sobriety, I need it.

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A Russian court handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the conflict in Ukraine.

A Reuters witness in the court on Friday said Kozyreva, 19, was found guilty of repeatedly "discrediting" the Russian army after she put up a poster with lines of Ukrainian verse on a public square and gave an interview to Sever.Realii, a Russian-language service of Radio Free Europe.

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, has just signed an additional deal with Palantir Technologies worth $30m to track immigrants accused of violent crime, but also those who have overstayed their visas, Business Insider reported on Thursday.

Palantir's expanded and refined surveillance tools are also meant to help ICE keep an eye on those who "self-deport", which is something the Department of Homeland Security has been asking certain immigrants to do to avoid being forcibly - and sometimes very publicly - removed.

The new software, dubbed "ImmigrationOS" according to Business Insider's review of the contract, will save "time and resource expenditure" when locating and arresting immigrants, and bring together all the data needed for "end to end immigration lifecycle from identification to removal".

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The justices said no action should be taken to pursue the deportations of any alleged Venezuelan gang members in Texas under the rarely used wartime law.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21033639

The background is here. In short, an SSD with the “Apacer” brand froze itself into read-only mode, presumably due to reaching a point of poor reliability.

The data on the drive is useless. It was part way through installing linux when it happened. I would like to reverse that switch to make one last write operation (to write a live linux distro), which thereafter can be read-only.

I have heard some speculation that the manufacturer uses password to impose read-only mode. If true, then the password would be in the drive’s firmware. Does anyone know what Apacer uses for this password?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21033639

The background is here. In short, an SSD with the “Apacer” brand froze itself into read-only mode, presumably due to reaching a point of poor reliability.

The data on the drive is useless. It was part way through installing linux when it happened. I would like to reverse that switch to make one last write operation (to write a live linux distro), which thereafter can be read-only.

I have heard some speculation that the manufacturer uses password to impose read-only mode. If true, then the password would be in the drive’s firmware. Does anyone know what Apacer uses for this password?

The background is here. In short, an SSD with the “Apacer” brand froze itself into read-only mode, presumably due to reaching a point of poor reliability.

The data on the drive is useless. It was part way through installing linux when it happened. I would like to reverse that switch to make one last write operation (to write a live linux distro), which thereafter can be read-only.

I have heard some speculation that the manufacturer uses password to impose read-only mode. If true, then the password would be in the drive’s firmware. Does anyone know what Apacer uses for this password?

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When I try to download an image, with the new good looking (👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼) popup overlay, I get this error:

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