Garbage Collector


The little space of a writer, tinkerer, and a coffee addict

So, I've opened a small individual business

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Last December, I’ve created a small indvidual enterprise regarding my writing side activities to declare my incomes aside from my main job. It’s a very simple status that does not require too much administrative formalities. Because in France, we love administrative formalities. This status is called “Entrepreneur individuel”, or “Individual business” (I think that’s a good translation), and is regulated by a very simplified accounting rules to facilitate the access to business activities for people. And it’s free of any charges compared to the other companies structures that would ask to pay some fees for the constitution.

Solutions Architect : Should I say or should I do ?

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Today, I would like to share some experience regarding what is my job.

This is a job I do since around five years now, after taking the opportunity of the departure of the previous technical architect our team (a nice guy, I’ve learned nice things with him), and after years as an integration project manager. I’ve been able to put the cap on and grow a new experience. And this is a position I really like because I can do the thing I enjoy : design something from, sometimes, nothing and make it live. But it also have some frustrations too.

Guys, it's OK to be on social medias

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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'm tired of companies thinking we're buddies

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There is a virus in France that infect more and more companies
 Inverting the T-V distinction with their customers.

In French, there are two pronouns for addressing to somebody : tu or vous (based on latin tu and vos). Tu is usually for family, friends, coworkers, classmates, and any kind of close people. Meanwhile vous is for a more respectful approach, talking with a stranger, a boss, or somebody you don’t know.

Something about our languages

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Recently in France, the Administrative Tribunal took a decision against the Health Ministry (MinistĂšre des solidaritĂ©s et de la santĂ© - Link in French) and the French State because of a project named : “Health Data Hub” (sic). Launched in 2019, the Health Data Hub project is a platform administered by the public health ministry for medical research and treatment quality enhancement. But, for some conservative associations, this project had a big problem : its name is in English.

Is being rude in UX design the norm ?

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If I must explain why I enjoy static and simple websites, the main reason would be because they’re not annoying attention-seeking kids yelling at you. The web surfing is a complete mess of distraction and rude behavior with absolutely no respect to the viewer.

Why would I need something else than RSS ?

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Once upon a time, there was a very decentralized Web where each website proposed to subscribe to newsletters or follow their RSS feed to have the last news. We had RSS readers (on web version or on desktop, for instance I was using Opera’s RSS feed reader) which were regularly pooling the feeds and update the new articles. Then, we could sort the feeds and assign them categories and read it according to our time and mood.

I'm getting lazy in video games

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Following my previous post about Tales of Arise, I would like to share a feeling that’s growing with the time. I’m getting lazy in video games.

What does it mean ? Since some years, I always set the difficulty to “Easy” or “Story”. Mostly because I don’t want to struggle or being stressed or pissed off by a too much difficult gameplay or mechanics. And more recently, I usually enjoy when some gameplay parts are fully automated, especially when it’s the most repetitive ones.

Something about commercial VPN services : What is a VPN ?

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Last years, I’ve wrote a vulgarization article about the differences between a VPN and a Proxy (article in French). You may have noticed that the commercial VPN services are a common sponsor for the so-called social medias influencers. I have myself received various offers from various affiliation managers (I’m an influencer, yeay ! \o/) and I never answered them. Mostly because they simply didn’t read my contact page where I say it’s unnecessary to reach me for these kind of proposition. It’s not rudeness, au contraire, I don’t want to waste their time.

The complex case of online age verification against privacy protection laws

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La CNIL, or Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des LibertĂ©s, is the French Administrative Authority competent for the personal data protection under the GDPR and national law perimeter. On July 26th, they published a study (link in French) about the online age verification regarding the adult restricted content on the Web, the existing solutions, their opinion, and their recommendation. As the CNIL article is quite long and in French, I’ll propose you a summary with some opinion about it.

How to fail at your software project

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Instead of buying a market product for its business needs, a company may improvise itself as a software publisher and will develop its own solutions. But they quickly forget that software publisher, software developer, or software project manager are actual professions.

About Twitter Notes feature

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That’s not really a big news as the feature is in development since some times, but you may have heard about “Twitter Notes”. To summarize, this feature will allow its users to write actual blog posts without the well-known 280 characters limitation. I’ve never liked Twitter, and generally the social medias based on the audience, magical algorithms, and immediate reaction generating shitstorms, and also selling their users like a vulgar bag of meat. And I’m not a subscriber of this platform.

Something that made me prefer Final Fantasy XIV after World of Warcraft

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I’ve wrote a little about Final Fantasy XIV on this blog (most of these articles are in French), because that’s a game I really like. Also, it’s the first MMORPG on which I continue playing after being five years on World of Warcraft, that I’ve left on 2009. After WoW, I’ve tried other MMORPGs like Aion and later Guild Wars 2 that was really promising, but I haven’t get that much invested on it (I’ve played a lot on the first Guild Wars). Aion was also nice but too much PVP oriented and its Korean ascendance made it a heavy farming focused game (bashing monsters in a loop is not fun). The MMORPG market was really active and new games were regularly announced and other failed against World of Warcraft.

Is video a good information support ?

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Videos are used since many years on Internet and became a very common information media. However, I’m always wondering about their relevance regarding all of the use cases we can see.

I’m myself a subscriber of various Youtubers and also from other platforms, so I am a video consumer too. But sometimes, I think the video, or audio, format is not necessary in some cases. Most of the Youtubers I follow do a great work with very good and interesting informations (that’s why I follow them, I don’t care about the so-called influencers that are just advertising companies prostitutes). However, sometimes, they have nothing to show, only spoken information. In this case, is a video relevant ? Some of them use the Podcast format for this reason and other will illustrate their video with stock footage.

Les lois françaises sur l'interdiction d'accÚs à la pornographie aux mineurs sont-elles bien écrites ?

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C’est le cheval de bataille des groupes politiques et associatifs depuis toujours et un bon vieux dĂ©mon qu’on aime haĂŻr tout en refusant d’avouer qu’on en a tous consommĂ© : la pornographie. Pourquoi j’en parle en ce dĂ©but d’annĂ©e ? Car depuis quelques mois, des procĂ©dures ont Ă©tĂ© initiĂ©es en France par le Conseil SupĂ©rieur de l’Audiovisuel pour bloquer 5 sites web pornographiques si ceux-ci ne se mettent pas en conformitĂ© avec la loi française. La raison de cette procĂ©dure est simple : ils ne disposent pas d’une vĂ©rification d’Ăąge du visiteur suffisamment robuste.

Le mot 'Qualité' est-il un gros mot dans l'IT ?

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A la suite de mes interrogations sur la sĂ©curitĂ© informatique, je constate quand mĂȘme au fil du temps que la qualitĂ© n’est quasiment jamais au rendez-vous dans le domaine de l’IT.

Ce constat je le fais aussi bien en tant que professionnel du secteur travaillant selon les principes de la dĂ©marche DevOps et me trouvant donc Ă  mi chemin entre le dĂ©veloppement et l’opĂ©rationnel (historiquement, je viens de la partie Ops) qu’en tant que client utilisant le produit de services informatique d’entreprise.

Log4Shell, la sécurité informatique est-elle une option ?

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Le week-end dernier fut quelque peu agitĂ© pour le monde de l’IT avec la publication d’une faille dans la bibliothĂšque Log4j dĂ©couverte le 24 novembre dernier et corrigĂ©e le 6 dĂ©cembre. Je ne reviendrai pas dessus, de trĂšs nombreux articles ont expliquĂ© la problĂ©matique et sa portĂ©e, et la page Wikipedia Ă  son sujet est une bonne base d’information. Cet Ă©vĂ©nement me donne surtout envie d’exprimer mon ressenti vis Ă  vis d’un sentiment d’indiffĂ©rence envers la sĂ©curitĂ© informatique dans les entreprises.

Des alternatives européennes aux Géants du Net

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Introduction

Il y a un mal qui me semble trĂšs français, c’est celui de l’auto flagellation dĂ©faitiste. On se plaint constamment que nous n’avons pas de “insĂ©rez un service Web ici souverain” en opposition aux gĂ©ants du Web qui dominent avec toutes leurs suites logicielles fournies bien souvent gratuitement (en l’Ă©change de toute votre vie).