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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...