Opera had useful data saving features and an efficient compression, which is also why Opera Mini (with the old engine Presto) was very popular on mobile for a long time. I used it on Symbian...
> Wine to kids at school lunch.
Never heard that one. My father's friends in boarding schools in the 1960s would have a glass of wine or apple wine (cidre) on sunday, but that was as wild as it got. But maybe it was a regional thing.
> En 1956, le gouvernement s'empare de la question de l'alcool dans les cantines scolaires. Pour la première fois, une mesure significative est adoptée. Désormais, aucun enfant de moins de 14 ans n'est autorisé à boire du vin à table
To add to this, my father started (France, in the 1990s) allowing my brothers and sisters to drink alcohol from our 12th anniversary on, some beer or wine. He'd stave curiosity, monitor and teach about the effects and there wouldn't be much in the house anyway. No one batted an eye. Same for the cigarette. You want to try? Here, this is the poor people's stuff (awful awful cheap tobacco...) and now let me tell you about how much it costs every week and what we can't afford because I can't stop, and now let's talk compound interest and cancer and teeth, and... there was no mystery or edginess in all this. The price of modern life, he would call it.
There is a cultural change and people drink much less wine at work during lunch breaks. But it's still served in a lot of work cafeterias.
Maybe work has become mless wine-compatible?
But long lunch breaks are still there.
My boss sometimes outright despises people in our company who take sandwiches "as if they couldn't spare 45 minutes to eat". Here, a 2-hour-long lunch break is a lot, but nothing that would get you strange looks if it doesn't happen everyday.
Of course, a good lot of employees (30% I'd say) are following the French law-mandated 151,67 hours of work per month (a little more for us because of special dispositions), so it doesn't really apply for them and they "only" get one hour of lunch break.
"Cadres" (theoretically managers, but practically what's in your contract) have more autonomy and work hours are not recorded.
Yeah, Cassation Court is a sort of sub-Supreme Court.
It has the ability to break rulings (French casser, hence the name) if the law wasn't well done, or if the wrong law was applied to the case, or if some judicial norms (laws, basic rights, jurisprudence) were not balanced correctly in a ruling ; It does not rule on the facts of the case, only on the way it was judged.
Rulings of the Cassation court are usually applicable as case law, which is much less common in continental legal systems than it is in Common Law legal systems.
By the way, the French legal system has two main circuits ("orders") : the judiciary order (penal and civil) and the administrative law order, which handles disputes and trials between government entities (local, regional, or national), and between government entities and private entities (in most cases). The equivalent of the Cassation court in the administrative order is the Conseil d'Etat.
I'm just psyched to learn it has multiple separate subject-matter segregated appeals courts. Always looked like a saner approach than geographically separating circuit courts. Get judges with more specialized expertise in various areas.
There are benefits but also drawback to such system. The benefit is as you say that judges have more specialized expertise, which also mean that other judges don't need to dive deep into expert areas outside of their own. The drawback however tend to be a much higher risk of regulative capture, especially in areas of patent and copyright. A general judge might have a easier time creating a balance decision than a judge who been previous been working as a expert lawyer for large companies for several decades.
The above events illustrate this a bit by how they lost on first instance because the system assumed that cases are about commercial entities which has contractual obligation between them. It took the supreme-like court that is specialized on legal procedures, rather than a court specialized on contract, to see the issue in the correct context.
I use such lists on my server's router and Firewall to block incoming connections from those IPs and bad ASNs, including with geographic blocking. Less traffic, smaller attack surface, less trouble.
As others implied, it doesn't make much sense to be afraid from port scans from the Kiwi Farms servers (maybe if you host ActivityPub services and want to block any Mastodon servers associated with them, or something like that). A lot of threats come from the big cloud providers networks, which are not so good at keeping out threat actors.
As with DShield (a similar collection by SANS Internet Storm Center), I have a problem with the TOR Exit Node category. It seems rather like 'every IP that has ever used TOR'.
Quora has managed to successfully leverage AI industrialize the process. I won't miss them as much as Yahho Answers (which already isn't much).