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Avec une dernière publication en décembre 2024, oui, il est évident que je n’accorde plus d’attention à ce blog ! La raison est simple : mon activité d’écriture constitue désormais une bonne part de mon temps libre, et j’ai fini par aller blogger sur mon site d’auteur sur cette activité, mais aussi les sujets qui me tiennent à coeur. Ça se passe par là !…
Cela n’aura échappé à personne depuis quelques années, mais l’intelligence artificielle est désormais sur toutes les lèvres et tous les claviers. Ce qu’on appelle communément ainsi en ce moment, ou IA, ce sont avant tout des modèles de machine learning entraînés sur des jeux de données dans le but de répondre à une problématique. De nos jours, c’est surtout l’IA…
The Expanse est une série de livres science fiction écrite par James S.A. Corey, nom de plume utilisé par ses deux auteurs, Daniel Abraham et Ty Franck. La saga a débuté en 2011 et s’est achevée en 2021 avec neuf tomes. Elle fit l’objet d’une adaptation en série télévisée par SyFy qui fut annulée au bout de trois saisons. Les droits de la série furent repris par Amazon qui…
In my precedent article , I’ve proposed a way to subscribe to your favorite Youtube videos with the RSS feed and download them to a Plex media server. But, a possible use-case that came later in my case was : OK, but if I want to fetch a unitary video ? Or if when I receive some friend at home they want to play from their smartphone similar to a Chromecast or equivalent ? I don’t have…
Before the summer, I’ve bought a new NAS, a Synology model to replace the old HP Microserver who served well for years. If you want to go directly to the setup, you may skip cutscene . With this new toy, I wanted to experiment the Plex Media Server , a popular solution for home media server. It took me almost two months, mistreated two AMD Ryzen 7 CPUs, but I’ve ripped my entire DVD…
Way Station , or Au carrefour des étoiles in French, is an American science fiction novel written in 1963 by Clifford D. Simak. Enoch Wallace, veteran who fought during the American Civil War, was born in 1840. His life changed when he got suddenly recruited by an alien he named Ulysses (after the Ulysses S. Grant) - since the extraterrestrial life form himself has no actual name - to maintain and…
Alfie is a science fiction thriller novel written by French author Christopher Bouix, published in 2022. The story is told by Alfie, the artificial intelligence of a powerful home automation system. Alfie is an high-end AI-based home automation system made by AlphaCorp. Implemented and connected to every life aspect of a common family house, Alfie is an helpful assistant providing various useful…
Moving to a new home is always the time when you found out some old crap you’ve stored a long time ago. Let me introduce you one of them : the Motorola M3588. My first mobile phone I’ve had in high school. Why bragging about a having phone in high school ? We all have one ! Well, that was exactly 22 years ago. Fuck. Anyway. Back in these old days, we had public phones. Like this one :…
Who Goes There ? is a 1938 science fiction horror book written by John W. Campbell. This novella got movies adaptation such as the famous John Carpenter’s The Thing in 1982. In French, the novel is entitled La Chose , which is the translation for “The Thing”. The actual title may translated by “Qui va là ?” in French. A group of Americans researchers are living in a…
Following Childhood’s End , my exploration of Arthur C. Clarke books made me read three other works regrouped into a series entitled The Space Trilogy , which are Islands in the Sky , The Sands of Mars , and Earthlight , or Les îles de l’espace , Les sables de Mars , and Lumière cendrée in French. Even if they’re not really related between each others, these novels are early Clarke’s works…
Fallout is a Post-apocalyptic TV show based on the eponymous video games series. Amazon bought on 2020 the rights for the TV adaptation and the series premiered on April 2024 with 8 episodes. The show has been renewed for a second season. The story takes place in 2296, in the aftermath of the Great War of 2077 that triggered a massive apocalyptic nuclear bombing around the world. Among the…
It’s been just a few months following the previous redesign , but I must admit I wasn’t satisfied. So I needed to remodel a little this blog. And another question I’ve asked to myself was : why having a dedicated blog URL actually and a homepage that was just an aggregate ? The basic idea behind the homepage was simple, but I don’t think it actually worked. So I’ve…
Having recently discovered I could use Infomaniak’s newsletter service, as a subscriber of the hosting offer, I’ve first tested it by creating a subscription to my books release . But following that, I wanted to steal inspire myself with Kev Quirk’s idea of using a RSS feed to send new blog articles by email. Kev’s blog uses Buttondown , which allows by design to use a RSS…
Two years ago, I’ve switched to an electric car . So far, I’m still persuaded that I won’t switch back to petrol car. The driving is smooth, also powerful, the silence is enjoyable, and no need to wait at a gaz station regarding my usages. Love it. But last month, I’ve had a misfortune : a flat tire. Shit happens. This lovely thing was on the road, thanks to civil engineering on the way to work.…
Childhood’s End , also known as Les Enfants d’Icare in its French translation, is a 1953 novel written by Arthur C. Clarke. Following 2001 : A Space Odyssey , this book was my number two in my Clarke works discover. And I wasn’t disappointed. The story revolves around a peaceful alien invasion, which is quite unusual regarding to the average stories of the kind. In the late 20th century, the…
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. Good because at the beginning, they’ve been able to construct a consistent service around…
The last time this blog got a new design, it was in October 2021 . Old, based on SimpleCSS with custom parts, having not followed Hugo’s evolution, and my tastes changing, it was time to put some new paint here. The previous theme was mostly an enhancement of the first original one. This one is brand new, started from Hugo’s theme bootstrap (the one you init with hugo new theme mytheme…
2001 : A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke. It is the novelisation of the eponymous movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, also co-written by Clarke, developed concurrently and published after the theatrical release. Despite being written at the same time, the book differs from the theatrical movie because it’s based on early works. Also, the narrative and…
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…
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 : Free as a liberty, like “freedom of speech” Free as a non paying product, like “free…
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…
Following the release on GitHub of a new Hugo template I’ve made , I wanted to explore the opportunity to do something for someone. So, I’ve decided to open some commissions on Ko-fi . So far, three items are available : Make a Hugo template for your website Write a little story, 500 and 1000 words depending of the requested tiers Don’t hesitate !
While I was working on a friend’s website made with Hugo , he asked me if I could integrate his Mastodon profile on the homepage. After a few research, I was surprised to see, or possibly because I couldn’t find it, that it wasn’t possible to create an integration of the user’s feed like you can have with other social media. So far, I could just find a post integration, but…
A couple of time ago I’ve decided to remade my homepage because the previous one was … Let’s be clear, a quick and dirty. A first remade version was published two months ago and received some enhancement on the time. Homepage revamped Still using Hugo , this new version of my personal website was the opportunity to centralize my various activities. So it integrates the list of my…
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2023 animated comedy film based on Nintendo’s Mario franchise. It was released in April 2023 after years of production and encountered a great box office success despite some negative criticism. I haven’t been able to see it in theater, but since it’s now available on the streaming platform I’ve subscribed, I could watch it. The movie starts…
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. After these years using the tool, interacting with people, seeing its usage peaks…
This week, my gaming computer (the only one here running Microsoft Windows mostly because of its sole purpose) ran into an issue. It’s a custom-made build I’ve ordered at my favorite retailer and for this one I’ve tried a water-cooling setup. The machine has been assembled by the retailer, it’s something that don’t really interest me today. If you don’t care…
Let me introduce you my travel computer : an ASUSPRO Zenbook Pro UX550VD-BO098RB, bought in 2018 for work and later replaced by a Tuxedo Aura 15 Gen-1 for this usage. Since the Asus remained a good machine, I’ve used it for various tinkering, mobility requirement, and during travels. It’s also one of the first machine I’ve installed Manjaro Linux on it. Good point, Manjaro worked…
Today, I want to answer to a question nobody asked : why is this site uses zedas.fr for its URL ? Well, there is a small story behind it. No very special, but I wanted to share it. A lot of personal blogs are usually using an URL named after their owner, or a pseudonym they use. Me, I didn’t want, mostly for privacy reasons and also because I didn’t want to see my same in my mail…
Crisis Core : Final Fantasy VII - Reunion is a video game developed and published by Square Enix in 2022. The game is a remaster of Crisis Core : Final Fantasy VII released in 2007 on the Playstation Portable (PSP). It is a prequel to Final Fantasy VII placed seven years before the main game that follows the story of Zack Fair. Back in its time, Crisis Core enjoyed strong sales with 2 millions…
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KeepassXC is a free and open-source password manager (GPLv2), forked from KeePassX, itself a cross-platform fork from KeePass which was developed for Microsoft Windows. KeepassXC is available on Linux, BSD, Windows, and macOS. There also are unofficial ports for Android and iOS on mobile. Keepass is a quite popular password manager based on an offline encrypted database that could be synchronized…
This blog has been created in 2019, with its first post in French published in the end of December. Powered by Plume , a federated blogging tool (that seems to not be active anymore), it was hosted on a dedicated server I was renting at OVHCloud’s low-cost brand, So You Start . Back on this time, this server was a good deal, subscribed during the Black Friday , it was one of the rare actual…
After a first part broadcasted in late 2022, the second part of Mobile Suit Gundam : The Witch from Mercury came out on April 2023. The series continue directly after the end of the previous season, two weeks after the events that concluded it. It ran for 12 episodes and ended on July 2023, making the show 24 episode long. Warning This article will contain spoilers ! Two weeks after the Plant…
As an architect, the main product I deliver is a document named “Technical Architecture Document”. This document is basically a high level specification (not because it’s rocket science, it’s just a detailed global perspective) explaining how a software project will be implemented with the rest of the information system. And in most of the case, the template for this…
In my experience with the software delivery chain, we talk a lot about how the software is produced and delivered, but when it comes to make it live, the topic is less studied. Maybe that’s because the deployment is situated in the “Ops” domain of the DevOps timeline while the software production is on the “Dev” side. And we usually like to focus on Dev and less on…
A few years ago, I’ve tested Infomaniak’s Mail and Drive service. And today that’s my daily driver for these use-cases. However, they’re always been two separated services and since a couple of times, Infomaniak has now joined them into a comprehensive collaboration suite named kSuite. The provider supportes migration to this service for the customers of kDrive and Mail…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Now we have seen plenty of basis about Linux, let’s dig into some nice other features. This one will be about the Shell Streams, or Standard Streams, the basic input and output channels you may interact with. What are the Standard Streams On a Linux text-based shell (and on other systems too), you have the notion of Standard Streams. In the shell, you can interact with commands, files and…
For the fifth entry of the Linux Explained series , we will now see how does Linux manage the users. What is a user and group for Linux ? If you remember the Unix history in the first chapter, one detail about the Multics , then Unix conception was to be multi-users. A multi-user software is a program able to give access to the computing resources by multiple users of the machine. Nowadays it must…