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Long-form posts and essays. (256 total)

  • My App Defaults

    📬 Mail Client: FairEmail, ProtonMail 📼 Mail Server: Cloudron đŸ—’ïž Notes: Obsidian ✅ To-Do: Nextcloud 🌅 Photo Management: Immich 📆 Calendar: Nextcloud 📩 Cloud File Storage: Nextcloud 📖 RSS: FreshRSS, Indiepass 🌐 Browser: Vivaldi, Firefox đŸ•”đŸ» Se...

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  • Deploy Your Own IndieWeb Site on Cloudron with Indiekit

    What You’ll Build By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have: A personal website at your own domain The ability to post from any Micropub client (Quill, Indiepass, iA Writer) Automatic syndication to Mastodon and Bluesky Webmentions showing likes, repl...

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  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Speech in Davos

    I don’t often or ever share on my blog Political Speeches from anyone but we’re in dark times and there is more darkness ahead so perhaps this lightning of lucidity can help : Here is the full text of that speech. I urge you to read it in its entiret...

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  • Claude Code Journey

    I have been using Claude Code for a few months now, first on small personal code bases that urgently needed refactoring and then professionally on small internal tools then bigger code bases that are actually in production but are legacy code that ha...

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  • Upgrading Funkwhale from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 on Debian

    After running Funkwhale 1.4.0 for a while, I decided to upgrade to the 2.0.0-rc5 release candidate. This post documents the full upgrade process on a Debian 12 (bookworm) server, including the issues I encountered and how to resolve them. What’s New...

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  • Can you even imagine, if #Carlin was still alive, under #Trump ?

    it wouldn’t be roasting, perhaps Trump wouldn’t even be elected in the first place. I feel like even the best comedians, commentators and opinionated individuals out there, all those not losing their north star, would greatly appreciate it if anythin...

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  • [Link] The Chinese Firewall Technology That Every Western Company Now Uses“

    “A senior security engineer at a major European bank recently told me (off the record, obviously) that their “next-generation threat detection system” was producing better results than anything they’d used before. Only later did they discover that th...

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  • Le comble de notre Ă©poque c'est le mirage de l'immigration

    Le comble de notre Ă©poque : aprĂšs des dĂ©cennies de perte de souverainetĂ© Ă©conomique, financiĂšre et technologique, l’Europe, les États-Unis et d’autres puissances prĂ©tendent la « rĂ©cupĂ©rer » en fermant leurs frontiĂšres. Mais pas aux marchandises, pas...

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  • La Belgique doit agir pour ne pas laisser brĂ»ler les droits des femmes

    Aux États-Unis, l’administration Trump a marquĂ© un tournant idĂ©ologique majeur. Sous couvert de rĂ©formes et de moralitĂ©, elle a menĂ© une vĂ©ritable offensive contre l’autonomie des femmes: remise en cause du droit Ă  l’avortement, pressions sur les fin...

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  • From Distrust to Retribution: America’s Escalating Spiral

    The core problem in the đŸ‡ș🇾 right now is trust in information, democracy, institutions. Whatever is put forward, whether a “manifesto,” “killer’s note,” or shooting suspect’s story, no matter what the authorities claim, the public has come to believ...

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  • Face aux horreurs du monde, tenir debout

    Avec toute l’horreur qui se dĂ©roule sous nos yeux Ă©blouis par la lumiĂšre bleue de nos Ă©crans, j’ai parfois l’impression que le 11 septembre n’a plus aucune importance. Comme si, face au gĂ©nocide Ă  Gaza, Ă  la guerre perpĂ©tuelle en Ukraine et aux confl...

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  • Mon essence est façonnĂ©e par la survie, mais aussi par le refus de laisser la survie ĂȘtre la seule histoire

    Si je devais me prĂ©senter sans ces repĂšres familiers, je dirais que ma vie a Ă©tĂ© un long apprentissage de la rĂ©silience. J’ai Ă©tĂ© mis Ă  l’épreuve tĂŽt et souvent, et ce qui demeure en moi, c’est la volontĂ© de continuer Ă  avancer, mĂȘme quand le chemin...

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  • My Oxford Year Quand l’amour, la perte, la poĂ©sie et le pardon se rencontrent

    Je viens de voir My Oxford Year. Un film qui parle de la fragilitĂ© de la vie, de l’amour, du pardon. Beaucoup de scĂšnes m’ont profondĂ©ment Ă©mu. Le pĂšre qui perd un fils. Sa colĂšre quand Jamie refuse les traitements. Et la beautĂ© de leurs retrouvaille...

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  • The Quiet Republic - Secession

    They did not break it with tanks. They did not need to. They used pens. Laws. Procedures. Deadlines. They said it was temporary. They said it was just to restore order. They said it was for the people. The people nodded. They wanted quiet. The Consti...

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  • Six voix pour la vĂ©ritĂ© : une nouvelle Ă©tape dans le combat contre OKC

    Je suis en vacances pour la premiĂšre fois depuis
 2018. Assis Ă  une terrasse, un poulet BBQ encore fumant, une burrata, un plateau de charcuterie locale, un cocktail Ă  la main
 et pourtant, impossible d’éteindre cette sirĂšne intĂ©rieure. Par moments,...

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  • Portugal... Portugal... Saudades

    A Ășltima vez que fui a Portugal foi em 2018. Desta vez, volto com minha filha, para 15 dias de descoberta. Quero que ela sinta este paĂ­s que carrega nas veias, que faz parte das nossas raĂ­zes, das nossas origens. O mais estranho — ou talvez o mais bo...

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  • Why Resistance Lives in the Living Room — And What Comes Next

    In 2025, the strongest front against the Trump administration isn’t in city squares or union halls — it’s late‑night satire, South Park, Bluesky threads, YouTube monologues and shared memes. Street protests have surged, but for many immigrants and co...

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  • L’art de se laisser rejoindre

    C’était pendant le grand silence du COVID. Une amie d’enfance m’a glissĂ© Ă  l’oreille une intuition : et si tu faisais un diagnostic pour le TDAH ? Elle me connaissait depuis toujours, et dans sa voix il y avait Ă  la fois tendresse, luciditĂ©, et une f...

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  • IA, psychĂ©dĂ©liques et la nouvelle illusion de la libĂ©ration

    NĂ© au sein d’un culte de la personnalitĂ© bridĂ©e d’une dĂ©rive sectaire religieuse (OKC, voir le documentaire Bouddhisme la loi du silence), je regarde avec une inquiĂ©tude croissante cette tendance qui mĂȘle intelligence artificielle et psychĂ©dĂ©lisme so...

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  • AI, Psychedelics, and the New Illusion of Liberation

    As someone born into a religious personality cult, I find the growing trend of AI-assisted psychedelic “therapy” deeply unsettling. The idea of surrendering one’s inner world to a chatbot, especially under the influence of powerful hallucinogens, is...

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