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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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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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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…
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Why you should refuses Premiums
What is the net neutrality? If you’re not comfortable about the Net Neutrality, it is the defining concept of the internet. Simply put, it can be summed by this sentence: Each packet is created equal in right and duty. This is it. A packet is an atomic part of a communication between computers, it is…
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Hackers and Politics
Context It’s always important to have context. And the why I wrote things is probably more important than what I wrote. So, here is the context. Frédéric Bardeau, founder of an ethic communication agency directed to NGO (Agence Limite) is gravitating around the problematics of collaboration between Hackers and NGO and he gave an interview…
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Discrimination and gaming
Context For two or three days there is quite some agitation around a video about the ordinary sexism. The video has been made for national Belgium news report and is then in French, but you’re favorite translators tool will give you some help to translate it. So, since I have a lot of sociopaths, feminists…
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The pirate Part and I
Once upon a time in the web I was gonna write a disclaimer about me not being objective about the Pirate Party, and them who will probably jump on me because I’m saying shit. But, well, fuck objectivity. I am nothing like objective and you probably know that. And if you take this too seriously,then,…