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This is what a typical day feels like since a few weeks or days, or months, I don't really know what time means.

Backfire!

Fire-Up is documentary mockumentary that I undertook after watching a pseudo-documentary called Hold-Up. Fire-up is a parodist backfire of the nonsense and Qanon sourced lies that is

In this short video I share a few tips to help cope with the day to day life of our lock-down lifestyles. Tip number two will surprise you!

I already mentioned how I hate RBLs, those lists of "bad servers" can often get a bit crazy. Fabel is one of them.

If you really have to use RBLs, please don't use Fabel. The main issue is that there is no possible way of asking them to unlist your...

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...

As much as I love KDE/Plasma, I have to say it, lately things seems to be getting more and more complicated, overloaded and less flexible, even messy at times. Anyway.

I dislike system sounds, it's a personal thing, and one that used to be very easy to configure. Since the latest KDE/Pl...

In the olden days you could easily restart the network stuffs by using the init scripts, like: /etc/init.d/networking restart That was very useful if you needed to change your IP, add an interface or something.

Unfortunately, in recent versions of Debian, this no long...

The short version is that the W3C approved DRM (Digital Rights/Restrictions Management) and the process was not very open. The inclusion of DRM within the W3C standards has been fought against for years, after an appeal the decision is final: The W3C is no longer for the open and accessib...

When you see the Your connection is not private message in your browser, it's generally because the website uses a certificate that your browser does not approve. It can be because the certificate expired or because it's signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) unknown or not trust...

If unsure then ask yourself, are we the baddies ?

I don't know when, but clearly it's been a while that the News™ has become more of a brand or a word to define events that somehow relate to reality rather than actual news. It's becoming infotainment.

Today I read an "article" which illustrates perfectly where we're at. ...

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

The decline and decline of Reddit

A while back there was a big wave of users that moved from Reddit to Voat, essentially a reddit clone that wants to promote real free speech. This was mostly in response to Reddit's growing censorship.

Reddit used to be a place that respec...

The Streisand Effect strikes again, and again this is the result of censorship and repression. This time it's Erdoğan's turn.

Erdoğan has asked experts to study Tolkien's work to determine whether a comparison with Gollum ...

Saudi Arabia vowed to sue those who compare their country to ISIS, of course the Streisand effect took place and now more wonder, what is the real difference between the two ?

A Reddit user decided to create the SaudiArabiaIsISIS.com (the w...

Who would have thought that peace in the Middle East would start by the Israeli Prime Minister relieving Adolf Hitler for thinking up the Final Solution ? According to Netanyahu,

Like many others, I got an email from Liam Patterson inviting me to join Dizinga. The thing is that I received this email via an alias that I've only ever used with Spreadshirt.

The question is: How did Liam Patterson (Dizinga) obtain my email address ? Has Spreadshirt sold their user's...

We're banning behavior, not ideas.

A truly open, non-censored platform of communication is not sustainable if its...

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...

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...