Since the beginning of the year, I’ve started a new mission at work, still as a solutions architect. A very interesting context with important stakes : reduce the legacy debt, enhance, and build tomorrow’s service.

The team I’ve integrated had several experiences with their previous architects. Good and bad.

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.

A couple of years ago, I’ve wrote an article about the Free Software licenses. But, since I’ve started to write and sell ebooks online, I’ve noticed something I was already aware of.

There is still a confusion between free and free. In English, free has two meaning :

I’ve joined the Fediverse around four years ago, when I’ve put online the first version of this blog. It was based on Plume, a blogging tool that supported ActivityPub for users interactions and blogs federations until I’ve changed for Hugo (fr). Then, I’ve joined Fosstodon in September 2020.

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.

I’ve joined Fosstodon since a little more than 2 years now. At this moment, I wasn’t into social medias and had none of them. I’ve discovered the power of the Fediverse with my former blog tool : Plume. Seeing some comments coming from Mastodon instances was fun an nice.

Recently in France, the Administrative Tribunal took a decision against the Health Ministry (Ministère des solidarités et de la santé - 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.

In the previous article, I’ve exposed here the concept of a VPN, what’s happening when you using one, and what do the commercial services are offering. Now, I’ll explain why I don’t trust them, and why I won’t use them.

And by extension, why I will never write any “sponsored content” for them.

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.

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.

La CNIL, or Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, 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.

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.

Some months ago, I’ve made a series of articles about the misbrands, a collection of brands logos derivations that put a name onto the logo of a competitor product. They were really fun for me and I’ve put some on my work laptop. Curiously, it took some times to have somebody noticing the wrongness of these pictures.

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.

A la suite de mes interrogations sur la sécurité informatique, je constate quand même au fil du temps que la qualité 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 démarche DevOps et me trouvant donc à mi chemin entre le développement et l’opérationnel (historiquement, je viens de la partie Ops) qu’en tant que client utilisant le produit de services informatique d’entreprise.

Le week-end dernier fut quelque peu agité pour le monde de l’IT avec la publication d’une faille dans la bibliothèque Log4j découverte le 24 novembre dernier et corrigée le 6 décembre. Je ne reviendrai pas dessus, de très nombreux articles ont expliqué la problématique et sa portée, et la page Wikipedia à son sujet est une bonne base d’information. Cet événement me donne surtout envie d’exprimer mon ressenti vis à vis d’un sentiment d’indifférence envers la sécurité informatique dans les entreprises.

Nowadays, a lot a Linux softwares are distributed as AppImage binaries. This way has a lot of advantages either for the user and the developer… But also introduce other issues than can annoy me when they’re occur.

This article will expose my point of view for this distribution method.

De nos jours, pas mal de logiciels sous Linux sont distribués sous la forme de binaires AppImage. C’est un moyen qui dispose de nombreux avantages que ce soit pour l’utilisateur ou le développeur… Mais qui introduit aussi d’autres soucis qui ont tendance à m’irriter lorsque je me retrouve confronté à ceux-ci.

Cela n’a pas échappé au monde du logiciel libre ces dernières semaines, l’annonce de Red Hat arrêtant le développement de CentOS (le repacking gratuit de RHEL) au profit de CentOS Stream (la branche qui se veut upstream de RHEL) a provoqué un raz de marée de réactions plus ou moins virulentes.