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The rumors are confirmed, Microsoft will buy GitHub. And now people are fleeing from GitHub to GitLab. Why ?

There's the obvious, Microsoft is evil, and that's a very justifiable opinion based on facts. So true, yet I'm ...

I've been complaining about search engines trashing my search queries for a while now. I type in words that I'm looking for and they just return whatever they feel like. Even DuckDuckGo, which I've been using as my main search engine, for years, almost a decade !

Here's a concrete examp...

Just a few images from the anti-nuclear protest in Flamanville on October 1st 2016.

I'm ready to buy a phone, I just figured out that I almost need one. After years of living like a caveman (i.e. a free person), I decided I'm ready to spend more of my life looking at a screen.

As a person who avoids non-free software like most people avoid ebola, I figured I should see...

Citizenfour is available on digital download on "all digital media". I was very excited to watch it, but then I realised there was a minor issue and that I am going to be that guy again. (my previous post on ...

I noticed a few too many 404 hits while doing some spring cleaning. Those hits were mostly caused by Bing's Bingbot.

As often, I started to question everything I've ever done. Do I have broken links somewhere ? Is the sitemap broken ? What about the RSS feed ? I'm sure I...

Yay, CitizenFour is finally released outside of the theatres. That's great because where I currently am there's no theatre that will play this film. What's not so great is that it is currently released exclusively for platforms that are known to be compromised.

This film that tells the ...

The short version is that Gawker Tweeted Mein Kampf.

The less short version is that Gawker "tricked" Coke's Twitter bot into retweeting their own tweets of Mein Kampf.

The slightly less short version is the above plus disturbing claims by Max Read who tries to believe that Cok...

A while back Ubuntu introduced a method of getting users' personal data by hijacking local search queries directly from the desktop search function.

It made quite a bit of noise, so to help those who insist on using ...

Lately in the news, some mayor smoked crack, the scandal lasted months with the Bob first denying and then admitting his acts.

The part I think blows is the part where the media focuses so much on this relatively insignificant story when there are so many other things to report. Even on...

This should probably be a series. How many times have you read an article written by a "specialist" in some domain that you happen to know a bit about, only to realise that it's crap ? Crap that many people will read and believe.

Today I was sent this post titled "

After the clear explanations of how various governments are spying on everyone using mostly popular web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Hotmail, Skype, etc etc, it's almost a surprise that nothing has changed. Half of the web still uses Google Analytics and an array of interactiv...

The other day I was on the JFK Airtrain. While at Jamaica Station I pulled out my camera to take a photo, immediately the train operator told me (his exact words): You can't take photos because 9/11. I asked what was the...

Today I was doing some tests with someone's iPhone, I used various browsers to access this website using HTTPS. One of the tests I did was with Opera Mini. What shocked me was that with Opera Mini there were no certificate warnings at all. That's odd as my certificate is self signed.

A ...

British ministers are considering a campaign to discourage certain EU citizens from migrating to their island. After spending so much on the Olympics to make the UK look good (and pushi...

It appears that it is becoming impossible for search queries to not have results. I regularly search for specific terms, I use quotes and plus signs, I always get results. However the results don't necessarily correspond to the search query I did, indeed plenty of the results will be without the ...

How malicious is your ISP ?

If they practice DNS hijacking then it's pretty damn messed up and should obviously be illegal. Yet for some reason there are ISPs that do this and have been getting away with this for years. Even stra...

I finally got some time to read through this interview of Linus Torvalds today. He's known to have an aggressive sense of humor, sometimes funny, sometimes stupid and gratuitous, he's aware of that...

Today I wanted to copy paste something from a PDF file, because you know, technology and all that. To my surprise the option to copy as replaced with Copy forbidden by DRM message.

I found that Okular's obedience to DRM is an option tha...

I found out today (via TechDirt via

Today the Diaspora Project launches a new service called Makr. On Diaspora's latest blog post they explain Makr using 6 paragraphs and an extra 3 FAQs. They managed to publish many ...

Today I heard about Zurker, it's a social networking site that aims to be better because.. Because that's what Nick Oba told Wired:

Last week this post on Reddit showed that Microsoft Reputation Service considers donate.fsf.org as a gambling site. This may look like a human error...