My profession photo taken several years ago. I'm wearing a light sweater there, I'm slightly smiling.

André Polykanine

@menelion@caneandable.social · Joined ⁨Aug⁩ ⁨2026⁩

A married and happy geek from Strasbourg, France.
Backend software engineer and accessibility specialist with 20 years of experience.
I live with my wife and our two cats, and I believe cats are the cutest, yet the most independent companions.
Pagan, worshiper of Scandinavian gods.
This account is multilingual, posts may contain strong language.
No alt text, no boost.
AI is our assistant, not our replacement, not our enemy.
Pro-European, pro-American, leaning to the right.
Opinions are my own.

Spoken languages
English, Français, Українська, Русский, Deutsch

Replying to @⁨Fragglemuppet@fandom.ink⁩

@Fragglemuppet That's what I do every day. I'm Pagan, but I love listening to christian masses and liturgies (Catholic, orthodox, Armenian, mostly Catholic though, especially Latin), Judaist chants and songs, especially Hassidic nigunim (absolutely fabulous for work and leisure alike), Hinduist, Sikhist and Buddhist mantras (also for hard work and meditation) and lots of other things. Great music is great music, and if people pray their god or gods, what is bad about it?

Open source, politics

Recently I've read that the open source movement is political by definition. So to put it boldly, if you develop something open source, you are a communist, marxist, anarchist and whoever else.
Hell no.
I personally know at least one maintainer of a significant number of popular open source projects who is, to say the least, very far from those ideas politically (it's not me, I'm not so much in the open source recently, because lack of time).
So again: hell no.
#OpenSource #Politics

Replying to @⁨Flaming_Water24@mastodon.stickbear.me⁩

@Flaming_Water24 @serge I'm absolutely with Serge here. I still didn't hear any arguments why smart glasses are bad and smartphone cameras are good. they are so good that in Japan there used to be a law that prevented from turning off camera shutter sound, and Nokia used to release Japanese firmware separately in the days of yore. but it was in the days when video was a rare beast, nowadays anyone can use their smartphone, or a tripod, or whatever.

Replying to @⁨Flaming_Water24@mastodon.stickbear.me⁩

@Flaming_Water24 @serge No, it can't. It's even more surprising to me since you're blind yourself. Take the cane in one hand, the shopping cart in the other, and try to do something with a smartphone (whose touch screen requires two hands and a significant amount of dexterity, and you need also to hear everything TTS speaks). I mean, I lack for words, if I explained that to a sighted person, I would have no questions.