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Same data as the previous one, but I got the Pie Chart-ish feeling I was looking for.

Microsoft has launched an attack campaign against Google by launching Scroogled.com. Not to be mistaken with Scroogle which was a search engine that anonymised Google searche...

Too many times lately I've read prejudice criticism about certain groups of people as a whole, like Gypsies, Muslims, Jews, etc... The critiques of these opinions often use the term "Racist". The defenders of these opinions retort that it's not racism if they're not talking about r...

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...

I don't usually post much stuff about what I buy and that sort of crap. One reason might be that I tend to keep the stuff buying to the minimum. I also like to keep stuff as long as I can, like my previous laptop, I used it everyday for over 6 years. It helps to not buy the cheapest thing you can...

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 ...

A friend of mine started this project which consists of printing series of photos, each at 100 copies, in French, 100 exemplaires, hence 100ex.net.

It so happens a photo of mine is

Roundcube is a webmail interface that has gone through a lot lately. It's interface is very clean and they just added a new interface skin which is actually really really nice. There are many 3rd party plugins that can enhance (or break) Roundcube. Just to be clear, MyRoundcube is not Roundcube, ...

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...

About a year and a half ago my bike was stolen. If you know me, you know I loved that bike and still do. It was an old Schwinn, completely custom. Basically stripped down, repainted and rebuilt with parts from a BMX shop (except for the wheels of course). It had a 4 speed Nexus with a coaster bra...

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...

You know how when you search for something within a search engine and the first results are adverts (sponsored links) ?

Now, you can get that feature right in your desktop environment ! Indeed Ubuntu has now added this thing, when you search for a program through the "len...

Hackitat is a film about political hacking that is currently being crowd-funded. Their goal is to raise $80,000 via Indiegogo to produce the film.

Of...

Until about a year ago I was in London, using TFL to get around was always a bit of a nightmare. On top of the rush hour craziness, every weekend there would be planned disruptions, every day there would be non-planned disruptions. And every day the announcements in the tube would end with the us...

One of the nicest human beings I have ever met. I still can't even believe this just happened, I just found out that Dapo Osewa has left us.

update: I found a few other links that I'll gather here.

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 ...

Lately there's been a lot of noise on Secure Boot, AKA Restricted Boot. The short version is that with "Secure Bo...

Since years I had waited and hoped to get a decent computer phone, yet since they have been made widely available I have not obtained one. Actually I have stopped using mobile phones entirely 2 years ago.

There are many reasons for which I did this, one simply being the...

Last year Louis CK bypassed a lot of crap to deliver his show directly to his fans for a 5$ a download, without DRM, istore or any of those useless obstacles. It was a success and now

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...

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: