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  • The right was never dominating the polls. They had ~30%. It was always going to play out this way. The doom and gloom was that actual fascists had 30% of the vote.

    It was only individual candidates being encouraged to drop out strategically.

    France has a slightly less shitty electoral system than e.g. UK, US, Canada, so a party with 30% was never going to win absolute power.

    Edit: when I say “it was always going to play out this way” l just mean the right weren’t going to win a majority. The left still seems to have done surprisingly well in the second round.

    Also, it’s still shitty that the fascists won so many seats…



















  • Many of the files have been created by hand with a hex editor, thus there is no better “source code” than the files themselves.

    I don’t buy that. There would have been some rationale behind the contents that could be automated, like “compressed file with bytes 3-7 in the header zeroed”.

    You also probably don’t need these test files to be available in the environment where the library itself is built. There are various ways you could avoid that.

    I do agree about the autotools stuff though.

    Minor differences in those files are perfectly normal as the contents of them are copied in from the shared autoconf-archive project, but every distro ships a different version of that, so what any given thing looks like will depend on the maintainer’s computer.

    This seems avoidable. We shouldn’t be copying code around like that.