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La Chine de 2012
Suite à GNOME.asia à Hong Kong, une brève visite à Shenzhen et quelques emmerdes de visas plus tard, je suis allé rejoindre deux comparses en Chine continentale à Guangzhou, avant de continuer notre...
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Le filet de badminton
Je me suis dit que ça serait bien de tendre une corde entre les escaliers et un des arbres du jardin, histoire de balancer des serviettes dessus et de s’en servir pour jouer quelques parties amicales...
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La carte Opus et les points de service qui n’en sont pas vraiment
Il se trouve que les cartes Opus expirent (simplement parce qu’ils ont décidé que ça serait cool que ça expire, même si c’est une carte anonyme à tarif régulier). Chez moi, la pharmacie du coin a...
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DIY sound suppressor for the Unicomp / model M keyboard
When you spend the vast majority of your spare time working on open-source software like Pitivi, sometimes you feel like hacking on hardware made of dead trees for a change. Dead trees have very few...
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Surprises dans les conduits d’aération, prise deux
Il y a deux mois, alors que l’hiver tirait à sa fin, j’ai décidé de réinvestiguer le problème d’odeur émanant sporadiquement d’un des conduits d’aération de la maison. Mes fans invétérés se...
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Privacy does not exist — it never did
Warning: this is certainly a depressing post. The NSA/PRISM/big brother scandal of late didn’t surprise nor shock me. The discovery that “the NSA probably silently circumvents/broke all our crypto and...
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Pitivi 0.92 and the wandering opensourcerer
The past few weeks have been pretty crazy. At the last minute, I ended up going to the GStreamer Conference in Edinburgh, thanks to the GStreamer project sponsoring my attendance. As always, it was a...
View ArticleEscape from Stockholm — getting to Arlanda with night bus 592 or 593
Rule number one: trust Google Maps. Rule number two: do not believe the locals’ knowledge of their own transportation system. Stockholm is this big city that prides itself on having a great public...
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Le chiffrement des partitions Linux d’un ordinateur de bureau est-il utile?
Pendant des années, j’ai eu un item sur ma liste de choses à faire: chiffrer (encrypter) le disque dur de données de mon ordinateur de bureau personnel. Parce que… que se passerait-il si je me faisais...
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Le problème fondamental de notre système électoral
Permettez-moi de résumer le problème fondamental de notre système électoral (le scrutin uninominal majoritaire à 1 tour) avec un simple diagramme que j’ai créé à partir des résultats de l’élection...
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Se libérer de Bell et Vidéotron: passez Go et réclamez 1000$ par année
Ceci est un guide, basé sur mon expérience, pour vous libérer de l’hégémonie de fournisseurs tels que Bell et Vidéotron tout en augmentant votre connaissance de la technologie. Notons que ce guide est...
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MyPaint + Wacom screen tablet + GNOME3 = ♥
A little-known fact about me is that I can draw better than your average cat. It is a hobby of mine that became dormant with my pretty challenging professional and Free Software activities in the past...
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An update from the Pitivi 2014 summer battlefront
Hello gentle readers! You may have been wondering what has been going on since the 0.93 release and the Pitivi fundraising campaign. There are a few reasons why we’ve been quiet on the blogging side...
View Article2014 in review
I haven’t blogged much in recent months, so this will be a pretty short and boring post, it’s meant as a pulse check anyway. All in all, 2014 has been a pretty intense year: Re-started my company Got...
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GUADEC 2015, surviving a fire and plane accident, etc.
So I went to GUADEC, as a community member and one of the directors of the GNOME Foundation. Thanks to the Foundation for covering my travel and accomodation—it makes all the difference! It was a...
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Inking an old friend
When I was young, I read a lot of comic books. One of my favorite séries was Cubitus: Over fifteen years ago, Michel Grant, a local comic book artist passionate about teaching, made a quick sketch of...
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Nostalgia for the sunlight
One of my best remedies against gloominess is sunlight. I have a fairly luminous apartment in theory: a big window, lightly-colored floors and white walls. Therefore, when strong direct sunlight hits...
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“SmartEco” or “Extreme Eco” projector lamp power saving modes are a trap
Here are some findings I’ve been meaning to post for a while. A bit over a year ago, I fulfilled a decade-long dream of owning a good projector for movies, instead of some silly monitor with a diagonal...
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GUADEC 2016, laptops and tablets made to run GNOME, surprise Pitivi meeting
I went there for the 2016 edition of GUADEC: I arrived a couple of days early to attend my last GNOME Foundation board meeting, in one of the KIT’s libraries. The building’s uncanny brutalist...
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Pour en finir avec la congestion nasale: comment effectuer le rinçage nasal...
Ce billet pourrait aussi s’intituler “Comment en finir avec les allergies et court-circuiter le rhume, la grippe ou la sinusite”, car selon mon expérience la congestion nasale est un symptôme qui...
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