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Telegram temporary blocked in France

The 13th of May, Telegram, a popular messaging application, got blocked by the French Government under the child abuse and terrorism fighting enforcement laws. Following their procedure, the Police requested the French ISP to block some URLs tagged as “child porn” as the law requires it. The procedure is : the Police asks the hosting provider to remove the contents. If the hosting does not comply under a legal delay, the URL is blocked.

May 14, 2023 - 3 minutes read time

 

Guys, it's OK to be on social medias

There’s a behavior I’ve often observed during a discussion about the major social medias. Some people are trying to justify why they’re using them as it would be a problem to use them. – “I’m just using them to keep contact with people I know” – “I don’t use them a lot” – “I just have a read profile to follow some people” – “I just use them for the games”

May 13, 2023 - 3 minutes read time

 

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed

Future Redeemed is the extension of the game Xenoblade Chronicles 3, released as a DLC for Nintendo Switch on late April 2023. Like Torna : The Golden Country for Xenoblade 2, this extension was last part of the additional content of the game, split into four parts. The two previous one added new heroes, and this one is an entire new chapter. However, until today, Future Redeemed is still a DLC for the main game and no physical release like Torna has been announced yet.

May 8, 2023 - 6 minutes read time

 

Final Fantasy VII Remake (Intergrade)

Final Fantasy VII Remake is the long time fans-awaited remake/remaster of the 1997 Playstation game, Final Fantasy VII. Released in 2020 by Square Enix exclusively for Playstation 4, the publisher produced in 2021 the Intergrade enhanced version for Playstation 5 and Microsoft Windows. Final Fantasy VII Remake has been one of the fastest selling game of the Playstation 4 with 3.5 millions copies sold in three days. Remake has been announced as a multiple parts episodic game, covering the first section of the original game in Midgard.

April 24, 2023 - 8 minutes read time

 

Ghostbusters : The Video Game

Ghostbusters : The video game is a … video game initially released in 2009 by Terminal Reality and published by Atari on Microsoft Windows, Playstation 3 and XBox 360. The game even had a Playstation 2 and Nintendo Wii port. Ten years later, in 2019, the game has been released in a “remastered” version for Windows, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 and Xbox One by Saber Interactive. This action-adventure game’s scenario is based on a story written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis that develop various unexplored parts of the first two movies.

March 28, 2023 - 7 minutes read time

 

Use a CI/CD workflow to maintain a book content

This may sound a little incongruous if for you the Continous Integration / Continuous Delivery patterns are for software development, but yes, you can maintain a book with the same principles. Recently, I’ve compiled the Linux Explained articles into an e-book. The idea was germinating in my head while writing the articles and I was wondering if I could maintaining the text using the CI/CD patterns. Actually : yes, it’s possible.

March 19, 2023 - 9 minutes read time

 

Oops, I think I've wrote a book

Lastly, this blog has been filled by a series of articles named Linux Explained. Since a long time, I’ve wanted to share some knowledge about Linux and try to explain it to people in simple and accessible terms. But, the more the articles were spawning, the more an idea was germinating in my head … Why not compiling these articles into a book ? In the 8th part of the Linux Explained series, I’ve said I could have talked about several more topic regarding Linux and I’ve had an idea regarding this.

March 8, 2023 - 2 minutes read time

 

Linux Explained part 8 : Remote access with SSH

For the last entry of the Linux Explained series, we will explore the remote access and administration of a Linux machine using SSH. From RSH to SSH The Remote Shell, or rsh, is a command line computer program created in 1983 as a part of the Berkeley “r-commands” - r for remote -, released for the first time in 1981, made to enable the users of an Unix computer to connect to another one using the network.

March 7, 2023 - 18 minutes read time

 

Linux Explained part 7 : The memory management

For this next entry in the Linux Explained series, we’re going to explore one of the Linux Kernel crucial functionality, the memory management. What is the memory for an operating system The memory management is a critical aspect of an operating system. It’s goal is to provide a dynamic way to allocate the portions of the system’s memory when a process request it and free it when its task is over and reuse it for new tasks.

March 2, 2023 - 13 minutes read time

 

Mobile Suit Gundam : The Witch From Mercury

Mobile Suit Gundam : The Witch from Mercury is the latest entry in the long-running Gundam Saga. It’s been a while since Gundam has produced a “classic” TV-show, seven years actually, since the last series were Gunpla-based stories (like the Gundam Build series) and the rest of the productions were movies/OVA. The Witch from Mercury is quite an innovative series for the franchise because it’s the first TV series to feature a female protagonist (but not the first Gundam show to do it).

February 26, 2023 - 7 minutes read time