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Joue de la machine à écrire dans un one-man-band pour défendre la liberté et l’imaginaire.

Write SF books, free software and texts about freedom.

Pédale. Plonge dans l’eau froide.

Also on Gemini: gemini://ploum.net

Blog (FR): https://ploum.net/index_fr.html
Blog (EN): https://ploum.net/index_en.html
Mes bouquins (FR): https://ploum.net/livres.html
À propos/contact (FR+EN): https://ploum.net/about.html

Last Notes

2024-10-12 10:10:36

I believe that my new novel #bikepunk would really please Dutch and Flemish people (like @npub1520…wm9k )
Is there any science-fiction Dutch-speaking publisher that would be interested by a collaboration with @npub1ynh…l5ee my Swiss publisher ?
As a Belgian, I would really love to see a Dutch translation of the book.
Please spread the word ! (publishers in any other languages are, of course, more than welcome. The book is under a Creative Commons By-SA license)
https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/293/901/588/517/814/original/981f3a6ca6816142.jpeg

2024-07-04 12:32:52

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: c’est un langage créé par @npub1d88…57ex et, si j’ai bien suivi, il a même commencé à écrire un kernel avec.

2024-07-04 08:40:33

For more than 20 years, I’ve downloaded files using wget because I could never remember curl options.
It turns out that I was not alone.
@npub19x9…r67d created a simple wrapper around curl called "wcurl". This is brilliant! And, yes, the name is very intuitive. Best of all, it is already in Debian (and on my system) but it should really be part of the official curl distribution (ping @npub1cm0…enqe )
https://samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-wcurl-a-curl-wrapper-to-download-files/
#curl #debian

2024-06-28 19:05:05

I see people losing their minds because Threads has, at least for some time, disconnected itself from mastodon.social.
It looks like it was a mistake.
This time.
If this is a surprise to you, you were not paying attention. I warned you exactly one year ago:
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
This will happen again. This will, at some point, happen definitively.
The question is not "will it?" but "when?".
Small reminder: The Fediverse is more than Mastodon. Mastodon is more than mastodon.social.

2024-06-12 18:21:30

J’ai eu un instant de lucidité en réalisant que ceux qui, comme moi, se souviennent d’avoir hurlé « La jeunesse emmerde le front national » ne font depuis longtemps plus partie de la jeunesse.
Pas grave.
La sénescence emmerde le front national !

2024-06-10 08:18:48

Step to write software by human:
1. Decide what you want your software to do (medium)
2. Decide what you REALLY want your software to do in all the corner cases (very HARD)
3. Write the code (Easy to Medium)
4. Test the code (Medium)
5. Debug the code (hard to very HARD).
Now, thanks to ChatGPT, you could improve this workflow by:
- making step 3, the only easy step, somewhat easier (and thus hiring less competent engineers)
- making step 5 nearly Impossible.

2024-05-30 16:25:37

Leave Google now and help others doing the same by:
1. Switching #Duckduckgo or #Kagi (using !g if Google is really needed)
2. Creating an email account on one of the many ethical alternative while asking gmail to redirect all email received.
3. Trying @npub1t2q…n4vh and adding your business information on OpenStreetMaps (opening hours, etc)
4. Creating a @npub17gp…7p4g account on an instance and uploading your videos there
All those steps can be achieved by yourself, alone!
#degoogle

2024-05-23 08:58:17

The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:
https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/112/489/571/270/664/317/original/9d7e8a349ea776c7.png

2024-05-13 10:58:38

Dear people writing announcements and blog posts about the new version of your product,
You lost me at the "new AI integration".

2024-04-17 07:20:06

Did you know that, when you share your Mastodon profile, people can read your bio and your tooths without a Mastodon account? They don’t need to know what Mastodon is: there’s no restriction.
This is unlike LinkedIn and X that will refuse to show your profile to unlogged people. Facebook and Instagram currently display some limited information.
You thought you were promoting yourself on those platforms? Turns out it is the opposite. Be smart: share your Mastodon profile everywhere!