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I would like to advocate for the implementation of the Hong-Kong transit model (or parts thereof) in Europe and France in particular. 
 In HK, the transport company is also the owner of large residential, retail and office buildings. This allows to really «channel» passengers streams whilst reaping the benefits of the (substantial) investments represented by this infrastructure. 
 Here is…
I am going to tell you about my new job as construction engineer. It is frequent that jobs in Denmark are found or created just by 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
	
	
 	
 	
 	
 


 serendipity 
 and that’s a an even bigger example. It’s so absurd, I would not believe it at first glance.…
Everyone says that by having better social relationships, one greatly improves their life, and I have long been disappointed by that. 
 Around 2019, tired of my slow progress in terms of sociability, I decided to truly determine what would help me be more sociable. 
 And here’s the trick: one must realize that being social is not innate. It may be something we seek, but ultimately,…
In the previous article, I talked about Illium . Here I will talk about the sequel, Olympos. 
 Here many puzzles are solved. The veil is lifted on certain things, but the root of the problem remains obscure! 
 Who or what is this Quiet, this unique god that we can distinguish behind Setebos, Prospero and the post-human Greek gods? What is his
objective ? Why this fantastic display of…
Ilium is the Trojan War. The one counted by Homer. But this war, which took place thousands of years ago on Earth, has a much wider scope: it originated on Mars. The Greek gods have set up camp on Olympus Mons, the highest volcano in the solar system, a royal throne for the god of gods, with his supersize ego, Zeus himself. 
 The gods are super-evolved humans who play, as in chess, and in this…
I began recently backing up my OpenBSD configurations in git repositories. 
 So, why do I do this ? 
 Remember : back up your shit or your shit will get back at you. 
 I think this is a way easier backup system compared to Borg backup for example. 
 This is fully inspired by etckeeper , from the GNU/Linux world, and yet made up to my own sauce to fit better my needs. 
 That…
NB : That article was very difficult to write - it took me 25 days - because I did not want to divide people, commoners vs hackers, Us vs Them. I wanted to share that view, on the edge of both groups, as I feel often like a mediator, also in other opinions and aspects of life. 
 How did it all started ? 
 90 % of what I know about computers, I learned it all by myself. I got some courses…
As the title says, 2022 was really chaotic. But how much chaotic ? Well… 
 I got myself a car, got a new job, lost that job, found plenty of new friends, went ballistic with one of them, half fell in love with one of the girls there (you know who you are 😉 … ), helped her moving in her new flat and learned her language because… 😉 faced a rejection from her,…
When was the last time you paid a compliment, to a man ? I want you to think about it. 
 
 You’re handsome, skilled, nice, smart, or just kind… 
 
 Recently, I was holding an event for women at my archery club. They were having a bachelorette or post-wedding party. 
 I am explaining all those women how to shoot and they are doing great really. Towards the end of…
Last year, I took part in the local election process in Aarhus. 
 Organization 
 Denmark has local elections (municipal and regional) every four years on the 3rd Tuesday of November. Yes, that day. You can already book your day in the calendar if you feel like it. 
 To begin with, each voter receives his electoral card by post. The card would indicate where is your polling station as…
Recently, I saw a french blogger’s video who made my day. 
 
 
 

 He tells about looking at the world with less biais, accepting others’ opinions or more simply, accept facts in a less dogmatic way. 
 When I was 24, I already had a strong social conscience. I was politically very leftish. But also attached to individuality. Something that does not go well to…
This text is a compilation of several dialogues and/or answers to debates concerning French companies. In a moment of great irritation, I decided to put it on my blog so that whenever I need it, I can copy and paste the link. 
 This article will be updated whenever I find something relevant. Stay tuned. 
 A year ago , I began writing the french version of this article. I decided to provide…
Can we setup PeerTube on naked OpenBSD ? 
 Without Nginx actually. 
 NB : this article has been updated to reflect developments. It is useful as an install method, but I do not recommend not using Nginx, explanations later in the text. I will keep the Httpd+Relayd part as reminder. Maybe someone will find it usefull. 
 Why ? 
 Several reasons for this questioning: 
 
 Nginx…
Something I wanted to talk about for a long time. 
 What is it about ? 
 I speak three european languages. Yes they are relatively close and belong to the same cultural space. All I am going to say would be more violent with other languages, like african or asian ones. 
 Anyway, I use those three languages everyday (almost) . 
 I read in French everyday , be it on the internet, in…
PeerTube is technically a node JS process that I have to launch in a very specific way. And I never managed to make it properly, like any other daemon with rcctl. 
 Until recently. 
 So I am now closer to having a full PeerTube instance running on OpenBSD. 
 Today, what’s blocking is more updates and compilations that don’t run as smoothly as I wish. And that makes me run…
If you are using OpenBSD, you probably know of acme-client . It is a simple acme client (Thank you Captain Obvious) designed with OpenBSD guidelines, meaning separation of powers in the process and so on. 
 But at present, this client can only work with one ACME authority : Let’s Encrypt, the original one. And actually it is a trouble because Let’s Encrypt provide TLS certificates…
Inspired by this , I wrote two Munin plugins using OpenBSD Pf monitoring Ipv6/Ipv4 traffic ratio. 
 I am using it on my router and my Peertube instance . 
 You can have a look at the result here. This is the current ratio of ipv6 traffic on my PeerTube instance. 
 
 Here is the traffic, in and out separated in colors. 
 
 Code is available on framagit or in my git…
Janteloven , “the law of Jante” is an important aspect of the Danish culture. It’s one of those things that have two sides. A two edged sword. And as a lot of weapons, it hurts both the one holding it and the one it thrusts. 
 Violent peace 
 I have always seen this law as inherently violent as it repress individuality and expression of talent. Everytime I think of it, I…
Beginning of a new year, I would like, for once, to count, to see what I got through. For once because before was too much chaos. 
 
 Wait, you mean it’s not the case any more ? 
 
 Let’s say chaos level is somewhat manageable. I am ok to talk about it and to say what has to be said. 
 Danish 
 I not only talk but also write way better and more danish. After…
Following the previous PeerTube 1.4.1 on OpenBSD 6.6 and Ledeuns’ work , here is a small update to the tutorial. Once again, comments are very welcome. 
 Snapshot 
 First of all, we need Node 12 because of the infamous Sharp module . Node 12 is not available in -stable but only in -current or Snapshot . So I will use that. 
 And Sharp shall indeed get installed alone, via npm ,…
Update : PeerTube 2.0.0 on OpenBSD 
 I wrote this article after migrating my PeerTube instance from FreeBSD to OpenBSD. Doing so, I hope to inspire other to jump in there. I believe to be the first and only one to have done that yet (unable to check that though). 
 The PeerTube release used is 1.4.1 due to newer releases bugging at install. 
 But I wanted to do it . I wanted to setup…
When I built my OpenBSD router , I separated my wifi and Ethernet networks, because the bridge solution was too slow. 
 I came back to it, because of OpenBSD. Actually, one of my laptops runs OpenBSD isotop , which uses trunk , which is a failover system : if my cable connection fails (which happens quite often with a laptop), the connection passes automatically on wifi. 
 Here is the…
You remember my Openbsd router ? It’s an APU from Pc Engines. When you plug those machines under Linux, you get a connection on /dev/ttyUSB0 . But under OpenBSD ? 
 NB : Yes, not easy to follow. I want to connect to my OpenBSD router from another OpenBSD machine. What’s happening ? 
 Well, you get to connect to /dev/cuaU0 . 
 /etc/remote 
 Actually, you can make your…
Yesterday, I asked someone out. 
She said to be already taken. 
I let sadness pass, 
so comes a feeling of absurd. 
 
 Write about it. 
 
 … says my friend. 
 So, read my thoughts about the absurd clusterfuck of dating, 
as I navigate on my quest for Love. 
 We are said to be the lonely generation, the most single people in History. 
Yet,…
Munich actually looks like a lot Vienna : it is a nice german city, calm, rich and proud of it, even if while walking around, you can see a bit more diversity. 
 Food is close to Vienna’s, with appelstrudel and greasy dishes. In downtown, you will see some buildings from middle-age to modern times. 
 

 

 

 The two first photos : Munich’s townhall.…
Vienna also was huge . Just like Prague actually. This is the stupid thing in Europe : as soon as we are in a big city, there’s too much to see. 
 Wednesday, the 24th of July 
 Hundertwasser Museum 
 Hundertwasser was a very famous architect from Vienna. He was a lot into breaking industrial standards, reintroducing Manking into nature, color, creativity. 
 His walls,…
Prague is huge . You need at least five days to round the whole thing, not forget anything really interesting. As I was there only for two full days, it was already a lost battle. 
 There is : 
 
 the usual national museum 
 the Kafka museum 
 the Kafka exhibition (not the same as above) 
 a KGB museum 
 a museum of communism (different from the previous one again)…
This year I decided to travel by train in Europe. I love train, which I consider much more comfortable than plane, and not less cheap nor any longer. Plus it’s better for the environment. I took a 5-days interrail pass , which so allow for five travel days. 
 I am going, in order : 
 
 to Kiel , Germany. 
 Prague , Czech Republic. 
 Vienna , Austria, 
 and finally…
First step : Kiel, Germany. 
 Thursday, the 18th of June 
 During my first day, I rounded Kiel downtown. There are not so much more of the old town, which is a sad thing. 
 

 Designed glass doors to a church. 
 But I could visit three very interesting museums, two of them for free. The first one was an art museum. Some of its paintings would be to remember tomorrow. 
…
Do you know how many persons around you are depressive ? 
 Sounds weird indeed. Why would you be depressed today ? 
We’re all fine, have roof other the head and food in the fridge. 
 And yet, there are still a lot chances some of your friends are depressive but hiding it. 
 The feeling of not fitting in, not to be accepted, valued, understood, loved… 
 One million…
I read this novel in Danish. It has been written in Swedish originally. 
 This novel is about the murder of Linnea, a quiet little girl in a quiet little village in the quiet Sweden. 
 Or is it so ? 
 Stella and Linnea 
 Thirty years apart, two girls get killed in circumstances so similar that it is troubling. 
 The little village get agitated. Some are looking for quick…
For a few weeks now, I use Hugo as blog generator. Previously, I used Pelican and it was beginning to get on my nerves: it was getting slower and heavier. 
 Maybe related to the 203 articles. I needed a better system. 
 The Plus side ! 
 First of all, it is more powerfull. But not only… 
 Pages entirely translated 
 I could never managed, in Pelican, to translate my…
Since morning, my impatient mind keeps playing over and over, 
A scene worthy of the greatest Hollywood films, 
A scene that only archers can understand, 
Or maybe you too can see it through. 
 Here I am, standing on the border of the world. 
Out there, the target awaits its punishment. 
My bow, a violin of power waiting to be played, 
The string vibrates along with the…
So, Openbsd 6.4 has just been released, so let’s upgrade. 
 I have actually a slightly special upgrade procedure. 
 First and foremost, you have to read the doc (you need to adapt if you upgrade an other release). 
 A few variables to ease automation. 
 export REL=6.4
export R=64
 
 Then I create a directory at the root. 
 doas mkdir /$R
doas chown…
I built a PeerTube instance . To my great joy, it looks like a lot people use it, either by publishing videos on it (that I can see), or watching them (that I cannot follow). 
 As well, this very blog has readers. 
 So I thought about allowing readers, PeerTube users or just friends, to give a few virtual coins. Just because they think my contribution to the web deserve it.
This money…
For a few years now, we see a form of resistance movement against Web-giants. 
 Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft receive a large part of internet traffic and shape internet in their own ways.
And that is something a lot of people don’t like. 
 A bit of activism … 
 So they set up alternative, federated social networks. All these networks share one major…
My danish ISP, Kviknet , provide native ipv6. All is good in this brave new world until you remember I built my own OpenBSD router and really love it. 
So I am not going to use the router they provided me (which we will call CPE , for Customer Premises Equipment , to differentiate from their network routers, which are actually bigger and more powerful). 
 I actually asked to set the CPE on…
I have worked almost a year now in DS-Elcobyg , a firm which produces prefabricated concrete elements for buildings. Time to write and say what it is. 
 A lot of buildings in Denmark are built in precast reinforced concrete elements. Not really strange in the country of Lego. Not really great either because you need a concrete driling machine just to hang a picture of your son on the wall. But…
Guest post 
 Sometimes it makes you feel so good 
And still so bad, 
Sometimes it tastes like honey, 
Sometimes, sour as death, 
It can give you wings to fly, 
But can also let you fall, 
Sometimes it kills you with a “bye” , 
Other times it gives you life with a simple “hi” , 
Sometimes it fools you to taste the poison fruit, 
From…
Who should build future cities, and with which values ? 
 In Vinterakademi 2017 , we, 40 young students and professionals from different professions and backgrounds, tried to answer this question.
In this manifest, we write four questions and four statements to sum up our work. It is a tool, a revelation and a promise to all the actors involved in urban development. It should lead to…
Last year, I participated in a conference about circular economy in building industry.
This year, VinterAkademi was about cities.
How to build them and make them more sustainable, in any senses. 
 Not simple in any way. 
 Year 2016 gave us a lot of ideas and answers, and a path with very few troubles on it. It was about reuse and use again. Use again building structures, or…
Today the 1st of November 2017, my internet domain 22decembre.eu has a new DNSSEC key (keytag 20243) and it begin to be signed with another one (keytag 45395).
It is the result of my project, Ldnscript, which I am going to describe there. 
 stephane@blackblock:/var/ldnscripts ldnscript status 22decembre.eu
### zsk
## generated
creation: Nov 1 05:30:01 2017…
So, to those who have not followed, I now have a skilled job. 
 Recruitment deal 
 There was a job offer for a position as engineer in a prefabricated elements company, which was held through a recruitment company.
I send an application (on tuesday), received a call two days later (on thursday) to fix an interview the day after (friday, the 11th of januar in 2017). 
 The interview…
Release , Stable , Current , What’s that ? What should you use while installing OpenBSD ? 
 Flavors 
 First, you should know the FAQ uses the word flavors . I will use «version». Just less weird. 
 Release is the release published … when it’s time. Roughly every six months, the firsts of may and november (until now). This version is fixed and documented.
It’s the…
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 I am Stéphane. 
 I love cats. 
 I like to read. 
 I am nydansker . 
 I am French. 
 I am engineer . 
 I am a computer nerd . 
 I am an amateur writer. 
 I am an archer . 
 I am an introvert . 
 I am a deep thinker. 
 I like to help opthers. 
 
 NB: Nydansker is a danish word refering to a person living in Denmark but…
Trump, Brexit, more and more people blaming the European Union. Will that stop ? Let’s hope so ! 
 A bit of Europe 
 Some blame Europe. What has done the Union ? 
 Well… The European Union made peace between its members. I wish you to think about it harder: for the very first time in the History of the continent,
none of the main powers had a major conflict (war) on…
NB : this article is focused on the French society, but its remarks are still valid for other countries. 
 
 We cannot do anything. The system is corrupt. We need laws… 
 
 I am getting tired of hearing that. You want to live better in the future ? Do the following : 
 
 Stop using cars, start biking [1] 
 … and move to a medium city. [2] 
 If you need a car, share…
First of all DNS 
 DNS is what allows you to surf the net and know addresses around. These are road maps and telephone books of the internet. 
 This is also where you know where to send mails and many other boring details most people don’t care about but make the internet this incredibly strong and efficient network. 
 DNS is the corner stone of the internet. Each time you open a…
Silkeborg Christmas Tournament in english 
 This Saturday I went to an archery tournament organized by Silkeborg. 
 Woke up 6h30 to take the bus 7h at the bottom of the hill, arrived in Ans (the village in Silkeborg’s commune where the tournament was organized) at 9h20. 
 I met there a part of Aarhus archery club, but also some more confirmed archers, like Erika Anear , who is an…
ULA means Unique Local Addresses . These addresses are used similarly to the IPv4 local addresses ( 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16 ).
They have the ipv6 prefix fd00::/8 and are not routable on the net. 
 Why use these addresses ? 
 Permanent addresses 
 These addresses allow to define a permanent addressing scheme in your network, which can be handy if you want to have/need a weird…