Author: okhin
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TBS – Distributing Transcoding
The issue at hand Recently I’ve worked a lot on adding content to the TBS by parsing the intertubes auto magically. Fr instance, I have a tumblr and a twitter parser who allows me to gather data (especially in Egypt for instance). Even if those parsers are stupid, they works. Another one I wante dto…
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Internet is like punks, not dead. Yet.
[UPDATE: 2012/08/23 – Barbayellow translates their posts in english] Context Yesterday, I wrote this piece and Barbayellow, friend of mine and who happens to works for Reporters Without Borders, replied with this post Basically he says that internet’s not dead, it’s just the hacktivists who are tired of fighting. I recommend you to read the…
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My lover is dying
My lover is dying In 1997, when I was in high-school, I fell in love, like a lot of people of my age it seems. I fell in love with the internet. At that time, Google didn’t exists and I remember using altavista, coding in HTML and PHP3 (and using torch and diggers on a…
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My nightmare is coming true
Context There’s a lot of heat those day in France about a call for project made by the RATP (the more or less public organism which is in charge of managing all the private and public parts of the Parisian and Île de France commutation system). It’s a simple project that would be used to…
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Building OpenWRT to have PirateBox working on TL-WR703N v1.7
It started with a workshop With some friends, we decided to have a workshop around the [Piratebox][], so we ordered a lot of TP-link WR703n and started to flash them. They are labelled as 1.6 revision, but we discovered it the hard way they’re not (worse, some of them actually are, and we were lucky…
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Bring Moar Fire!!!!
TL;DR Oh,well. Fuck you, you should read and stop being a lazy asshole. Acknowledgement I am privileged. Whatever I can say about the state of the world, I’mborn in the best side of it. I can express myself without risking getting beaten up and torture. I can go in the street to buy my food…
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Instagram and the Commons
First, facts So, Instagram updated their Terms of Services granting themselves the fact that they could sell whatever you posted on their websites: Rights – Art 2: Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business…
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Facebook and Contestation
Where did it starts? This post is the result of a discussion I had with @ElodieChatelais, @jujusete and @oOBaNOo following the publication of an article on indymedia written by NADIR (the piece is here. This article, a bit harsh but hey activists can be harsh, expose the implication of using Facebook to plan the contestation.…
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Yubikey required at boot
Update (02/11/2012) I added the ‘ask a passphrase’ functionnality in the hook. Intro As you might already know, I have a yubikey I use as an authentication token. Without it, I cannot log on my computer as a normal user. But I wanted to do more than that. Like, blocking the boot if the key…
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Syrian Scam
I’ve laughed I was reading through my mail^Wspam today and, I found one that did two things in my mind. First I wad disgusted because, you know, people will exploit everything. But then, after reeading it again and again, I found the fact of me receiving this particular scam, was quite ironic. And, in the…