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2024

Why I should be running Debian unstable right now
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Playing with fonts again
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Tor migrates from Gitolite/GitWeb to GitLab
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router archeology: the Soekris net5001
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Last year on this blog
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2023

(Re)introducing screentest
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How big is Debian?
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OpenPGP key transition
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Using signal-cli to cancel your Signal account
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A terrible Pixel Tablet
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Framework 12th gen laptop review
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how to audit for open services with iproute2
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Picking a USB-C dock and charger
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Major outage with Oricom uplink
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Mastodon comments in ikiwiki
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20 years blogging
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2022

Wayland: i3 to Sway migration
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A ZFS migration
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Using the bell as modern notification
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A typical yak shaving session
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Debating VPN options
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Detecting manual (and optimizing large) package installs in Puppet
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Evaluating suspend battery use with systemd
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Pourquoi nationaliser Internet au Québec
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Looking at Wayland terminal emulators
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CRTC Complaint about Fido and Canada's phone cartel
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Deleted GitLab forks from my account
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How to nationalize the internet in Canada
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One dead Purism laptop
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Alternative MPD clients to GMPC
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Relaying mail through debian.org
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Matrix notes
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NVMe/SSD disk failure
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BTRFS notes
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Wallabako 1.4.0 released
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Using LSP in Emacs and Debian
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building Debian packages under qemu with sbuild
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Tuning my wifi radios
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Salvaged my first Debian package
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What is going on with web servers
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20+ years of Emacs
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procmail considered harmful
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Mpow M12 Bluetooth ear buds reset procedures
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My visitors in 2021
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Switching from OpenNTPd to Chrony
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2021

L'Internet néo-colonial
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mbsync vs OfflineIMAP
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The last syncmaildir crash
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A Python contextmanager gotcha
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The Neo-Colonial Internet
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Automating major Debian upgrades
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Hacking my Kobo Clara HD
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Another syncmaildir crash
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Leaving Freenode
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Building a status page service with Hugo
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Lost article ideas
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A dead game clock
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Major email crash with syncmaildir
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Securing my IRC (irssi, screen) session with dtach and systemd
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New phone: Pixel 4a
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2020

SSH 2FA with Google Authenticator and Yubikey
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CDPATH replacements
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Presentation tools
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PSA: Mailman used to harrass people
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Goatcounter analytics in ikiwiki
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Not recommending Purism
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On contact tracing apps
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CVE-2020-13777 GnuTLS audit: be scared
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Replacing Smokeping with Prometheus
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Upgrading my home server uplink
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Drowned my camera: dealing with liquid spills in electronics
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OpenDKIM configuration to send debian.org email
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Mumble dreams
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How can I trust this git repository?
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Remote presence tools for social distancing
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Font changes
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Moving dconf entries to git
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The CLA Denial-Of-Service attack
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20 most significant programming languages in history
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2019

Blockchain et biométrie: un mélange dangereux
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Évitez le fournisseur Fizz
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a quick review of file watchers
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Theory: average bus factor = 1
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Tip of the day: batch PDF conversion with LibreOffice
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This is why native apps matter
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Calibre replacement considerations
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FSF resignations
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KNOB attack: Is my Bluetooth device insecure?
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OpenPGP flooding attack mitigations
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rsync oneliner: a study of a complex commandline
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Réellement compléter la révolution tranquille
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On free speech at Puri.sm and Mastodon
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Securing registration email
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February 2019 report: LTS, HTML mail, new phone and new job
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Hands on with the Fairphone 2
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New large hard drive and 8-year old server anniversary
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January 2019 report: LTS, Mailman 3, Vero 4k, Kubernetes, Undertime, Monkeysign, oh my!
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Debian build helpers: dh dominates
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2018

December 2018 report: archiving Brazil, calendar and LTS
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Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex
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October 2018 report: LTS, Monkeysphere, Flatpak, Kubernetes, CD archival and calendar project
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Archived a part of my CD collection
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September 2018 report: LTS, Mastodon, Firefox privacy, etc
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Archiving web sites
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August 2018 report: LTS, Debian, Upgrades
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Sharing and archiving data sets with Dat
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Concerns with Signal receipt notifications
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My free software activities, July 2018
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My free software activities, June 2018
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Historical inventory of collaborative editors
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Diversity, education, privilege and ethics in technology
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Easier container security with entitlements
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Securing the container image supply chain
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Updates in container isolation
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Autoscaling for Kubernetes workloads
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A look at terminal emulators, part 2
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Death of a Thinkpad x120e laptop
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A look at terminal emulators, part 1
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Easy photo galleries with Sigal
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February 2018 report: LTS, ...
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The cost of hosting in the cloud
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January 2018 report: LTS
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4TB+ large disk price review
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A summary of my 2017 work
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Changes in Prometheus 2.0
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Monitoring with Prometheus 2.0
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2017

Demystifying container runtimes
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Containers without Docker at Red Hat
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An overview of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
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November 2017 report: LTS, standard disclosure, Monkeysphere in Python, flash fraud and Goodbye Drupal
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ROCA: Return Of the Coppersmith Attack
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October 2017 report: LTS, feed2exec beta, pandoc filters, git mediawiki
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A comparison of cryptographic keycards
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My free software activities, September 2017
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Strategies for offline PGP key storage
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My free software activities, August 2017
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The supposed decline of copyleft
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My free software activities, July 2017
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My free software activities, June 2017
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Alioth moving toward pagure
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My free software activities, April 2017
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The rise of Linux-based networking hardware
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Montreal Bug Squashing Party report
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New approaches to network fast paths
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A report from Netconf: Day 1
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A report from Netconf: Day 2
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Contribute your skills to Debian in Montreal, April 14 2017
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My free software activities, February and March 2017
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An update to GitHub's terms of service
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A short history of password hashers
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The case against password hashers
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A look at password managers
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Reliably generating good passwords
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Testing new hardware with Stressant
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My free software activities, January 2017
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2016

My free software activities, November and December 2016
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Debian considering automated upgrades
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Django debates privacy concern
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The Turris Omnia router: help for the IoT mess?
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My free software activities, October 2016
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Managing good bug reports
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(Still) working too much on the computer
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My free software activities, May 2016
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Long delays posting Debian Planet Venus
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Notmuch, offlineimap and Sieve setup
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Quick Debian development guide
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My free software activities, April 2016
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My free software activities, march 2016
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State of Mapping on the Debian Desktop
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Trying out Keybase
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My free software activities, february 2016
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My free software activities, January 2016
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Internet in Cuba
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The Downloadable Internet
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My free software activities in December 2015
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2015

Bridging Ikiwiki and Twitter with Python and feed2tweet
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Using a Yubikey NEO for SSH and OpenPGP on Debian jessie
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Proprietary VDSL2 Linux routers adventures
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Finding Debian release history with etckeeper
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Fun experiments with laptop battery
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Switched to bootstrap theme
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Is it safe to use open wireless access points?
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anarc.at back online, again
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anarc.at back online
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anarc.at network down
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How to subscribe to the INBOX folder
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Revue de la nouvelle législation du droit d'auteur fédéral
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Migrating from Drupal to Ikiwiki
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2014

bup vs attic silly benchmark
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Vie privée et compteurs intelligents: dangers niés par Hydro
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Upgrading Debian from 32-bit to 64-bit - AKA 'crossgrading from i386 to amd64'
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2013

Password reset of Speedstream 5200 modems
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Announcing a prettier noping
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Drupalcon Prague 2013 report back
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Que se passe-t-il avec l'internet de nos jours?
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Debian Wheezy et Debian Québec ce samedi!
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New Debian release: my contributions to the #newinwheezy game
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Internet 101: anatomie d'un site web
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Why I don't like Pulseaudio
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Live radio streaming with MPD, part 2: multicast RTP
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Live radio streaming with MPD, part 1: basic setup
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2012

retour à la photo: nouvelle galerie
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Converting my old content to markdown
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First stable release of the Drupal OpenID Provider
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My short computing history
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Improvements to spam filtering after a year of tests
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Getting rid of deb-multimedia and other non-official packages
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conversion rtorrent vers transmission
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Comment l'oligopole a pris le contrôle de l'internet et une solution: Réseau-Québec
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La grève étudiante: n'oublions pas l'histoire
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La censure sur internet: notre antidote
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2011

Bell arrêtera le throttling... mais restent des voleurs
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The great Debian/Ubuntu Wine packaging fork
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Diaspora et les réseaux sociaux ouverts
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Overall analysis of BEAST
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Fighting spam on your Drupal site - inventory and evaluation of solutions
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De retour de vacances, changements au CAPTCHA
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Heading for a long vacation, Drupalcon and the Chaos Computing Camp
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(A) productive Drush sprint(s)
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Fantastique image de la station et navette spatiale
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Construire une antenne quad en ville
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Sauté au légumes et sauce aux arachides
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Interviews sur Radio-cadenas, CBC et Le Devoir
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Comment contourner la censure en Tunisie
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Playing around with library software
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Mes lecteurs l'an dernier
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2010

Wikileaks en profondeur
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WikiLeaks: le soulèvement des hackers
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Quand l'asie s'embrase
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Prankdial et l'écoute électronique
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Working too much on the computer
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HP Mini 10': the netbook of doom
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Firebug UI failure
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Typical day at $HOME
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Upgraded to drupal 7 yet?
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Changement de look
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Do hash secrets (but also use HMAC)
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Bridging Diigo and Identi.ca
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2009

Lois C46 et C47: Vers la fin de la vie privée au Canada
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La SAAQ, le muslman, le juif et le chrétien
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About the CRTC decision on network neutrality
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De retour à vélo: -12°
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On ne gagne pas une guerre
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Vidéotron engage la guerre envers les internautes, à quand la riposte?
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2008

Blog now running under Hostmaster/Aegir
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J'ai détruit mon compte last.fm
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A cool chess clock
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Opening up wifi in airports
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Le dernier espoir
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NYC
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Un jeu GPS éventuel avec le nouveau OpenMoko
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Besoin de ram
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My version of libnotify-irssi
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L'UQAM fait interdire les manifestations près de l'université
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DrupalCon update
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Blogging time
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Des exemples des négociations de couloirs
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L'économie, la politique, ou la révolution pure et simple?
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Je fais quoi chez Koumbit?
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Un peu de temps pour blogguer... manifestement
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Coupures réseau majeures en orient: un complot?
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Fini les vacances!
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2007

Recette de pesto
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La préparation du dhal
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Photos en ligne
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Au sujet de la traduction automatique
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Installation du module antispam
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De retour de vacances
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Mes vacances à venir
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La résolution et les laptops
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Déjà Rococo vendredi! (et les DVDs sous linux)
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Mon serveur est mort, besoin de dons?
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Trying out simpy
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Re-début du vélo dans le froid et les combats mécaniques
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Élections, pièges à cons
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Landing in California, the Non-profit Developper Summit
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Changement de look
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Calculer son augmentation de loyer
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La menace de l'internet à deux vitesses
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Net neutrality panel in Ottawa
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Mise à jour vers 5.0
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2006

Is the beast back? AT&T re-merges
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Pour ce qui est du passage par le nord...
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Trop de logements sociaux
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J'ai un nouvel emploi!
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Nouvelles pleines d'air relax
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Oh yeah, hum... i'm back
Posted
Pour un cessez-le-feu et un accueil des réfugiés
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À la recherche d'un nouveau xterm
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Rappel: blog ailleurs
Posted
À la recherche d'un nouveau window manager
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Vol et ralentissement de ce blog
Posted
Nouveau lecteur MP3/OGG, plus ou moins supporté
Posted
En course vers la France
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Sécurité, sécuritaire, vous êtes tous surveillés
Posted
Des nouvelles de votre gouvernement
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Entrée sur le CA de FACIL
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Le parti libéral ré-écrit l'histoire
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Upgrade problems on Debian Etch
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De retour à vélo
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L'insignifiance du présent projet souverainiste
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Tests du Thunkpad T22 sur Linux
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Portable: en livraison, mais oups...
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Le nouveau portable approche
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Les mensonges du SPM relayés par la société d'état
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La 10ème manif contre la brutalité policière se termine dans la violence
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Debian considère la GFDL comme libre
Posted
La grippe aviaire: on va tous MOURRIR!
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La vente à la pièce du Mont Orford
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Victoire sur Loto-Québec! Pas de casino à Pointe St-Charles!
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Ski de fond au Lac Beauport
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Les premiers pas de Harper
Posted
The OpenBSD installer
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Je suis vivant et à Montréal
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Raté notre vol
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La souveraineté canadienne et l'arctique
Posted
Bientôt en voyage sur la côte ouest pour une conférence Wiki
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Introduction générale au logiciel libre
Posted
Revenu de Boston
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Eben Moglen and the Free Software Foundation
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Mt. Legault et Boston
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Qui lit ceci?
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De retour de vacances
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2005

En vacances pour deux semaines
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Dernière randonnée de vélo: ma roue arrière vient d'exploser.
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Des vacances, enfin!
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Pas encore sorti du bois
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Tremblant et fin de semaine
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La morue en voie de disparition... scientifiquement ou: combien vaut une espèce vivante?
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Mt. St-Hilaire, encore
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-7 et toujours en vélo, petit mode d'emploi
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Une marche dans la neige et essayer flickr
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Comment la Tunisie censure l'internet
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Owl's Head en neige
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C'est comme de la pluie, mais en plus frette
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Encore une crevaison!
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Saint-Grégoire
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Élections, pièges à con, la suite!
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La Semaine Québécoise de l'Informatique Libre commence samedi!
Posted
Newsflash: armes de destructions massives en Irak
Posted
Élections, pièges à con
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Les coureurs des bois
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Ré-ouverture du chemin Clark/St-Urbain
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De la neige!
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Grosse randonnée hier
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Une journée comme ça
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Pour votre sécurité, nous avons éteint les lumières, barré les portes et emprisonné votre esprit
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Orford dans la pluie, le brouillard et la bouette
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et hop, magie, c'est revenu...
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destruction momentanée de quantitées massives de données
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le smog et la guerre pour l'éternité?
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let's go to work!
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une petite grippe avec ça?
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débarquer de l'ordinateur et reconstruire une nouvelle vie
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Holà Chavez!
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Vraiment décalisser les logiciels propriétaires
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Vraiment boycotter les logiciels propriétaires
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déménagement, katrina et la job
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ma victoire contre la machine
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Canada-va-t-en guerre
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petite mise à jour...
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ca pue, un carnet tout seul
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recycler mes vieux ordis
Posted
hunt for a new laptop
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L'éolienne et l'Hydro en privatisation subtile
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crise de charlotte
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de retour
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Première plongée en mer
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1381e km: Percé
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Petit update de voyage 'Live'
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Camping du Mt. Albert #52
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En route pour la gaspésie
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remis d'une violente attaque de smog et de chaleur
Posted
classer les nouvelles dans Drupal
Posted
Épelez avec Flickr!
Posted
Tous unis contre Wal-Marde!
Posted
Alternative libre à Xephem?
Posted
Kruger ordonné de cesser les coupes sur l'Île René-Levasseur
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Ben oui, un autre foutu blog
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