La polémique dépasse les frontières françaises. Le rappeur Médine, que le Bataclan a programmé en octobre prochain, est sous le feu des critiques. Le Devoir analyse les tentatives de censure d’un genre volontairement sulfureux.

Classé en danger critique d’extinction, le vison d’Europe ne se trouve plus que dans le sud-ouest de la France et dans quelques zones de Roumanie et d’Ukraine. Un programme européen débute pour tenter de sauver les derniers individus.

Une vague de manifestations, un événement rare au Vietnam, témoigne de l’ire de nombre de Vietnamiens au sujet des nouvelles zones économiques spéciales et d’une loi renforçant le contrôle des réseaux sociaux.

La filière laitière française met en garde les consommateurs sur les dangers d'une confusion entre le lait et les jus végétaux de soja, d'amande ou d'avoine, non adaptés à la croissance des nourrissons, comme le confirment des données scientifiques.

We first heard of Chrome OS gaining Linux app support back in February. Google officially confirmed during Google I/O 2018 that the Pixelbook would be the first Chromebook with Linux app support, but since then the Samsung Chromebook Plus has joined in on the fun. Tonight, a device that we expected to eventually gain Linux app support finally got support for it: the HP Chromebook X2.

Linux app support is primarily for developers to encourage them to transition over to a Chromebook. GPU acceleration isn’t yet available until later this year, so don’t expect to be running Steam games anytime soon. To get started with Linux app support on your HP Chromebook X2, you’ll need to enable Developer Mode and then switch to the Canary channel. Once you’ve updated to the latest nightly build, you can enable Linux apps by going to Settings. After you’ve enabled the Linux Terminal, check out the wiki on Reddit’s /r/Crostini subreddit for some great guides on software you can set up.

The HP Chromebook X2 has the honor of being the first detachable Chromebook. It attaches to a keyboard base and detaches to act as a tablet. While it’s not the first device that acts as a tablet to run Chrome OS, it did beat the Acer Chromebook Tab 10 to market (seriously when is that thing becoming available, Acer?) Unfortunately, only the 4GB RAM/32GB storage/Intel Core m3-7Y30 model is available for purchase right now, so Linux app support won’t be too useful for those of you who are looking to use it as a machine for development. The Google Pixelbook is better suited for that task, and it’s poised to get even better thanks to native support for dual-booting Windows 10. There’s evidence that the upcoming Acer Chromebook 13 and Acer Chromebook Spin 13 will support Linux apps, too, if you’re looking for a high-end alternative to the Pixelbook.

If you would rather not buy a new Chromebook, Linux app support may come to older Chrome OS devices if the Chromium developers opt to backport some of the required kernel modules. The necessary kernel module, vsock, is present in Linux kernel 4.4, which is why we’ve seen all devices that so far support Project Crostini (Google’s codename for Linux app support on Chrome OS) run that kernel version. Linux app support is very much a work-in-progress, though. Expect lots to change in the coming weeks. We’ve already caught wind of Google’s plans to revamp the Files app to accommodate Linux files, and there’s bound to be more changes made to Chrome OS that we have yet to discover. Stay tuned for more of our coverage on Linux apps running on Chromebooks!

Le président français a fustigé l’attitude de l’Italie qui, pour forcer l’Europe à prendre sa part dans la crise migratoire, a décidé de fermer ses ports. Qu’elle soutienne ou non la politique du gouvernement, la presse italienne tire à boulets rouges sur le président français et ses leçons malvenues.

According to estimates from media agency Zenith, next year, for the first time, people will spend more time using the internet than watching TV. People will spend an average of 170.6 minutes a day, or nearly three hours, using the internet in 2019. That's a tad more than the 170.3 minutes they're expected to spend watching TV. Quartz reports: Zenith measured media by how they are transmitted or distributed, such as broadcasts via TV signals and newspapers in print. Watching videos on the web through platforms like Netflix and YouTube, or reading a newspaper's website, counted as internet consumption. Nearly one-quarter of all media consumption across the globe will be through mobile this year, up from 5% in 2011. The average person will spend a total of about eight hours per day consuming media in its many forms this year, Zenith forecasts. In some parts of the world, TV will remain on top -- for now. Zenith forecasted media consumption through 2020 and did not expect the internet to overtake TV in Europe, Latin America, and the whole of North America in that time. In the U.S., it was projected to surpass TV in the U.S. in two years.

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Le youtubeur Primum Non Nocere a réalisé une vidéo assez longue mais passionnante si vous vous intéressez un peu aux sciences et à la médecine.

Il a pris comme point de départ le sujet « chaud » de la vaccination obligatoire, pour faire un rappel nécessaire sur les maladies contre lesquelles ces vaccins protègent.

C’est bien expliqué, et bien illustré avec des photos et des vidéos bien hardcore qui pourraient choquer certaines personnes. 
Donc âmes sensibles et hypocondriaques s’abstenir.

Si vous voulez en savoir plus sans voir les images des malades, vous pouvez écouter simplement le son, ce sera tout aussi bien.

REVUE DE PRESSE ASIE. Également au sommaire de cette semaine : quelques explications sur la pénurie de bébés au Japon ; le déminage au Cambodge se poursuit ; des chasseurs de météorites en Chine...

Shorter stays for those in some fields adds to concerns about free flow of knowledge

EqualCitizens.US reports on growing opposition to the CLASSICS Act proposed by the U.S. Congress, which grants blanket copyright protection to all audio works created before 1972, leaving some of them copyrighted until 2067. Importantly, the Act doesn't require artists or the rights holder to register for the copyright. Rather, any and all pre-1972 sound recordings would be copyrighted, greatly limiting the public's access to these works. Various organizations and scholars have responded. Equal Citizens along with a coalition of internet freedom and democracy reform organizations, is sending this letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee to urge its members to reject this Act in its entirety, or at a minimum, at least require registration of pre-1972 works. Otherwise, if the Act passes as is, famous artists and wealthy corporations will benefit greatly while the public will get absolutely nothing in return, as Professor Lawrence Lessig notes in Wired.... This act will limit access to past works and stifle creativity for new works. It would effectively remove many existing works, including some popular documentaries, podcasts, etc., from the public arena. The Coalition recommends adding a registration requirement to secure the extended copyright term, such that works that nobody claimed could be allowed to enter the public domain. As this TechCrunch report on the coalition letter explains: By having artists and rights owners register, it solves the problem for everyone. Anyone who wants to have their pre-1972 works brought into the new scheme can easily achieve that, but orphan works will enter the public domain as they ought to. "Either way," Lessig writes, "it is finally clear that the Supreme Court's prediction that the copyright owners would be satisfied with the copyright protection provided by the Sonny Bono Act turns out not to be true."

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This is not the first time an image of German Chancellor Angela Merkel literally talking down to an American president has made the rounds online.

Recall back in 2015, almost three years ago to the day, when Merkel, with outstretched arms, stood before President Obama, seated on a bench at that year’s Group of 7 summit.

The picture went viral, but appeared to draw more chatter about looking like a scene from “The Sound of Music” than about actual relations between the two friends.

Fast forward to June 9, the second day of this year’s G-7 summit in Canada, when a photographer captured a striking image of President Trump surrounded by a host of world leaders.

Let’s start with Merkel. With both hands down on the table in front of her, she’s leaning in during what appears to be a tense discussion, staring straight at her American counterpart and cast in a light that presents her as the central figure, the power. Jesco Denzel, an official German government photographer at the summit, did his job here: the image was released by the Germans with a caption that referred to the scene as a “spontaneous meeting between two working sessions.”

Also pictured are Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with arms crossed and an uncertain look on his face; John Bolton, the U.S. National Security Adviser, staring blankly; British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is identifiable here only by her hair; and French President Emmanuel Macron, with one hand on the table. (A day earlier, a different image involving Trump and Macron picked up steam: one that showed Trump’s hand, squeezed so hard by Macron that one of his finger’s left an imprint.)

And then there is Trump, who has locked eyes with the trio of American allies who, on the second day of this summit, are not pleased with his presence and performance, past and present.

He arrived to the gathering with the suggestion that Russia should, again, have a seat at the table, following its ouster in 2014 over Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea. Trump, who before and after his election in 2016 faced a wave of allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior, scored no points for a late arrival to a gender equality breakfast. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with whom he was already publicly spatting, had already delivered his opening remarks when Trump made it to his seat, next to a visibly concerned Christine Lagarde.

Trump talked tough on trade upon arrival and left the same way. During a news conference later, he likened the U.S. to “the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing.” He pressed other leaders to eliminate tariffs and dramatically threatened to “stop trading with them” if practices he sees as unfair were not changed to his liking.

He left the summit for Singapore, where he is scheduled to meet with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un on June 12. In the afternoon, Trudeau announced that the leaders had signed a joint statement, and later said he would impose retaliatory measures in July following Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. In two tweets sent from his flight, Trump railed against what he said were “Justin’s false statements,” said he refused to endorse the joint communiqué and called Trudeau “weak.”

It’s easy to cast the president as weak and defensive in this photograph. His arms are crossed and he’s seated when everyone else is standing. He looks like he’s getting grilled, taken to task for not acting like his predecessor.

Merkel’s office wasn’t the only government to release an image from the meeting. Italy’s populist Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, tweeted a version that shows him holding papers with Macron and Merkel. Trump is barely visible, if not for his hair.

Macron shared a version that focuses on himself, gesticulating as he talks to Trump.

And, noting the laughter, here’s what the U.S. distributed:

But for a man who is all about image control, this is his power play. Bolton himself tweeted the Germans’ image with Trump’s “bank” line: “The President made it clear today. No more.”

Trump will see this picture as one that shows him firm and unwilling to budge when it comes to certain issues, even with allies. It’s how he wants to be seen: America against the world, a Trump against the world.

Público s’intéresse à la croisade du président français contre la propagation des “fausses nouvelles”. Le quotidien portugais estime que son projet de loi “est peut-être pavé de bonnes intentions, mais il sent la censure à plein nez”.

Face à la mobilisation de la population, le Premier ministre a démissionné et les autorités ont annoncé le retrait des mesures d’austérité décriées. Mais cela ne suffira pas, prévient ce quotidien jordanien. Car la contestation est plus profonde qu’en 2011, année du Printemps arabe.

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La réunion des ministres européens de l’Intérieur s’est soldée par un échec : impossible de s’accorder sur la réforme du Règlement de Dublin. En refusant le texte, l’Italie s’est rangée du côté du groupe de Visegrád, pays fermement opposés à la redistribution par quotas des demandeurs d’asile, qu’elle appelle pourtant de ses vœux. 

Trente-huit fonctionnaires du ministère japonais des Finances, jugés pour avoir falsifié des documents dans une affaire touchant le Premier ministre, ont été relaxés. Toute la presse japonaise s’insurge contre une décision qui ne dissipe par le scandale.  

Fidèle de Donald Trump, Richard Grenell est dans le collimateur de l’Allemagne pour avoir déclaré dimanche au site américain d’extrême droite Brettât vouloir “soutenir” la droite dure en Europe. Washington a défendu mardi soir sa “liberté d’expression».

Le président ivoirien a déclaré qu’il n’excluait pas de se représenter à nouveau en 2020, alors qu’il n’est pas établi que la constitution l’y autorise. Pour les médias locaux, “ce jeu de devinettes peut avoir des conséquences dramatiques pour le pays”, rapporte RFI dans sa revue de presse Afrique.

Edward Snowden has no regrets five years on from leaking the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history. He is wanted by the US. He is in exile in Russia. But he is satisfied with the way his revelations of mass surveillance have rocked governments, intelligence agencies and major internet companies. From a report Snowden, weighing up the changes, said some privacy campaigners had expressed disappointment with how things have developed, but he did not share it. "People say nothing has changed: that there is still mass surveillance. That is not how you measure change. Look back before 2013 and look at what has happened since. Everything changed." The most important change, he said, was public awareness. "The government and corporate sector preyed on our ignorance. But now we know. People are aware now. People are still powerless to stop it but we are trying. The revelations made the fight more even."

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Téhéran a annoncé qu’il s’apprêtait à informer mardi l’Agence internationale de l’énergie atomique du lancement d’un programme visant à accroître sa capacité de production d’hexafluorure d’uranium. Une annonce qui intervient alors que le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou poursuit mardi à Paris sa tournée européenne visant à créer un front commun contre l’Iran. 

The International Energy Agency (IEA) on May 30 released its newest forecast for global electric vehicle (EV) demand, Global EV […]

What used to be the province of acid-tripping tie-dye wearers has been co-opted by Silicon Valley—and we must be responsible about how we wield this new reality.

Le Parti démocratique slovène (SDS, droite populiste) de Janez Jansa a remporté les élections législatives avec 25 % des voix. Une victoire à la Pyrrhus, car 6 partis sur 9 refusent de faire une coalition avec Jansa.

J’ai écris ce matin un super long article sur le rachat de Github par Microsoft, prenant bien le temps de développer tous mes arguments. Malheureusement, suite à un crash de ma machine + auto-sauvegarde non fonctionnelle (ce que je n’avais pas vu) et bien j’ai tout perdu comme un couillon. Erreur de noob. Ouin.

Donc, comme ça m’a un peu dégouté, mais je vais quand même vous faire un résumé qui sera un peu plus brut de décoffrage, moins bien tourné, moins sourcé et argumenté mais tant pis.

Microsoft rachète Github. Ca fait hurler dans les chaumières parce que c’est « Microsoft ».

Je comprends l’émoi mais il ne faut pas oublier le contexte :

• Que Github est aussi une boite commerciale
• Que Github est centralisé
• Que Microsoft finance très fortement le logiciel open source depuis des années que ça n’a pas l’air de trop stresser la majorité des contributeurs open source
  
• Que les employés de Microsoft sont les plus gros contributeurs sur Github, loin devant Google
• Que Microsoft est avant tout une boite de dev qui conçoit des outils et des services pour les dev. (Azure, Visual Studio, et une tonne de SDK…)
• Que Microsoft aussi publie masse d’outils open source

Alors que va faire Microsoft ?

• Laisser Github en l’état (peu probable) ?
  
• Reproduire le drame Sourceforge avec Github (possible) ?
  
• Intégrer Github (en conservant la marque ou pas) dans son panel de services pour les dev (fort probable) ?
  

Après si quelques développeurs se barrent du service, je pense que ça ne va pas trop inquiéter Microsoft qui de toute façon va pouvoir continuer à adresser un marché de professionnels qui ont des gros besoins techniques pour leurs équipes de devs.

Sur le coup, on peut dire que Microsoft a bien joué car ils récupèrent un outil aux fonctionnalités incontournables pour compléter leur gamme de services, tout en mettant la main sur une communauté ultra riche de développeurs, et une bibliothèque de codes tout aussi riche.

Maintenant les options qu’ont les développeurs qui utilisent Github :

• Ne pas migrer et voir ce qui va se passer. (ce que la majorité va faire je pense)
  
• Migrer sur un autre service commercial comme Gitlab ou équivalent (ce qui est en train de se passer…) mais je trouve ça un peu dommage car c’est tout aussi centralisé. Donc si Gitlab se fait racheter dans 2 mois, rebelote.
• Passer sur un gitlab géré en mode associatif comme Framagit. C’est cool mais ça n’empêchera pas la centralisation.
• S’auto-héberger avec un script open source comme celui de Gitlab, ce qui est cool mais on aura alors de la fragmentation et on perdra ainsi le côté « bibliothèque de codes » de Github

Enfin, la dernière option serait qu’émerge un Mastodon du Git qui offrira à la fois de la décentralisation mais aussi la possibilité de retrouver les contenus via des moteurs de recherches ou des sites. Cela pourrait par exemple se faire sur une base de Mango, un git décentralisé utilisant IPFS…

Ce serait l’idéal, c’est sûr.

Disons donc que les options pour ceux qui veulent fuir Microsoft restent pour le moment assez standards.

Heureusement, la résilience est une chose magnifique et je suis certain que dans quelques mois, tout le monde se sera un peu calmé sur le sujet à part une poignée d’anti-microsoftiens bloqués et en boucle depuis 1998.

Voilà pour le résumé express avec pas mal de listes à la place de jolies phrases et moins de pincettes. Mais globalement, ça résume bien ma pensée sur tout ça. Je comprends parfaitement les inquiétudes de certains utilisateurs de Github mais on reste dans une configuration assez simple d’une boite privée qui achète une autre boite privée.

Heureusement, Internet est grand et chacun trouvera rapidement son bonheur.

En tout cas, j’ai hâte de voir comment tout ceci va évoluer.

Des manifestations contre la politique fiscale du gouvernement ont eu raison du Premier ministre jordanien. Son successeur a déjà été désigné par le roi. Preuve de la résilience de la monarchie ou réminiscence du printemps arabe ? La presse guette l’évolution des événements dans les jours à venir.

Richard Stallman weighed in Friday on what he calls "massive commercial surveillance of individuals," saying that the two camps arguing about it "both miss the point." First there's the trustbusters who want to break Big Tech companies into smaller firms too small to eliminate their competition or exert undue influences on regulators. Then there's those who urge carefully-calibrated regulations to ensure tech companies always act in a way that's good for society. RMS writes: By arguing about whether to divide up the power that this data gives to businesses, or to regulate the use of it (perhaps nationalizing it), they miss the point that both alternatives destroy our privacy and give the state a perfect basis for repression. The danger is to collect that data at all. More generally, I think the idea of taxing companies for the magnitude of harm that they do (regardless of whether they broke any rules to do it) is a good one.

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An anonymous reader quotes an associate technology editor at Fast Company's Co.Design: While the amount of data about me may not have caused harm in my life yet -- as far as I know -- I don't want to be the victim of monopolistic internet oligarchs as they continue to cash in on surveillance-based business models. What's a concerned citizen of the internet to do? Here's one no-brainer: Stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox... [W]hy should I continue to use the company's browser, which acts as literally the window through which I experience much of the internet, when its incentives -- to learn a lot about me so it can sell advertisements -- don't align with mine....? Unlike Chrome, Firefox is run by Mozilla, a nonprofit organization that advocates for a "healthy" internet. Its mission is to help build an internet in an open-source manner that's accessible to everyone -- and where privacy and security are built in. Contrast that to Chrome's privacy policy, which states that it stores your browsing data locally unless you are signed in to your Google account, which enables the browser to send that information back to Google. The policy also states that Chrome allows third-party websites to access your IP address and any information that site has tracked using cookies. If you care about privacy at all, you should ditch the browser that supports a company using data to sell advertisements and enabling other companies to track your online movements for one that does not use your data at all.... Firefox protects you from being tracked by advertising networks across websites, which has the lovely side effect of making sites load faster... Ultimately, Firefox's designers have the leeway to make these privacy-first decisions because Mozilla's motivations are fundamentally different from Google's. Mozilla is a nonprofit with a mission, and Google is a for-profit corporation with an advertising-based business model.. While Firefox and Chrome ultimately perform the same service, the browsers' developers approached their design in a radically different way because one organization has to serve a bottom line, and the other doesn't. The article points out that ironically, Mozilla supports its developers partly with revenue from Google, which (along with other search engines) pays to be listed as one of the search engines available in Firefox's search bar. "But because it relies on these agreements rather than gathering user data so it can sell advertisements, the Mozilla Corporation has a fundamentally different business model than Google."

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An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Atlantic, written by Alexis C. Madrigal: No one picks up the phone anymore. Even many businesses do everything they can to avoid picking up the phone. Of the 50 or so calls I received in the last month, I might have picked up four or five times. The reflex of answering -- built so deeply into people who grew up in 20th-century telephonic culture -- is gone. There are many reasons for the slow erosion of this commons. The most important aspect is structural: There are simply more communication options. Text messaging and its associated multimedia variations are rich and wonderful: words mixed with emoji, Bitmoji, reaction gifs, regular old photos, video, links. Texting is fun, lightly asynchronous, and possible to do with many people simultaneously. It's almost as immediate as a phone call, but not quite. You've got your Twitter, your Facebook, your work Slack, your email, FaceTimes incoming from family members. So many little dings have begun to make the rings obsolete. But in the last couple years, there is a more specific reason for eyeing my phone's ring warily. Perhaps 80 or even 90 percent of the calls coming into my phone are spam of one kind or another. [...] There are unsolicited telemarketing calls. There are straight-up robocalls that merely deliver recorded messages. There are the cyborg telemarketers, who sit in call centers playing prerecorded bits of audio to simulate a conversation. There are the spam phone calls, whose sole purpose seems to be verifying that your phone number is real and working.

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