Notes
Short thoughts, updates, and quick posts. (1621 total)
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The true test of a constitution is not how it functions when everyone plays by the rules. It is how it performs when those in power decide to break them.
If a constitution cannot stop democratic backsliding, cannot protect journalists, cannot safeguard minorities, cannot prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a leader willing to exploit every loophole, then it has failed its most important purpose.
A document is not great because it is old. It is not great because generations have mythologized it. It is great only if it can protect freedom when freedom is under attack.
A constitution that survives only on paper while democracy erodes in practice is not the best constitution on Earth. It is a warning.
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Reading… “This is not a company. It’s a megawatt-acquisition vehicle wearing a chatbot.”
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Test new layout
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petite mise à jours de mon poc #Vyshyvanka https://vyshyvanka.rmendes.net/#m=panel&r=borshchiv&c=4&vy=25&st=sq&seed=vfpou3q&res=fhd&lay=fabric&bg=linen&sc=medium&sh=rushnyk&tr=81&sym=d4&vox=23.65&voy=25.59&voz=6.134
Faut explorer la barre latérale de contrôle, wallpaper et Explore surtout et les autres onglets verticaux, il y a beaucoup d’options pour contrôler le résultat, ya sûrement encore des bugs aussi…si vous en trouvez faite signe !
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Working on making my #indiekit fork cloudron/docker deployment multi-site, the idea is that I want anyone to deploy it and have a fully working setup in one shot, for that I created a plugin registry that act as “source of truth” for which plugin exist or is enabled per site and which version to deploy.
This also allow me to test end to end the deployment of a new site using my fork, literally putting myself in the shoes of anyone doing it.
The result is that I had to refactor quite a few parts to make site-configuration driven by data rather than env files.
This allow me to configure any parts of the theme/site without touching code. well “any” is still a long shot ahead but I got branding, identity, h-card, homepage, blog sidebars fully data driven, if I change an option, its going to rebuild Eleventy and present me the changes in near real time, one rebuild away.
I’m also using this opportunity to migrate my wordpress based chardonsbleus site to indiekit and since chardonsbleus.org is not a blog and more a typical website I’ve had to make quite some modifications to let users decide how they want each page or post to behave, allowing them to choose widgets to display, sections to display for the homepage, without touching code.
its still a work in progress, but I’m getting there !
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The idea that you can “reset your algorithm” by doing X or Y on corporate platforms is absolutely ridiculous.
At most you can influence just a bit the way you are impacted by feeding it dislike or not interested actions but ultimately the corporations that own the algorithm enforce whatever it wants to every users.
You can’t “reset your algorithm” by watching 2 min shorts of nature or music or whatever. It’s an urban myth.
You can’t pray the algorithm to obtain a change, it’s a delusion.
The idea that if you land on a short is in itself a rare privilege encouraging you to like, comment or share the video is just another mechanism to manipulate the user, it has no impact whatsoever besides provoking a waterfall of similar content to keep you hooked.
In the same way, replacing words such as S*x or whatever words to avoid hurting one’s account against the algorithm is ridiculous.
People are self-censoring by pretending that masquerading keywords will avoid the algorithmic reranking of one’s post is another collective delusion. It’s like people adopt censorship thinking they can bypass algorithms or make their content surface better because it has S*x instead of Sex is beyond ridiculous.
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Just for the fun : a local browser only #vyshyvanka generator inspired by Ukrainian traditions.
Now with better mobile support and better UI
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TLDR : A reflection on why simple stories of kindness, compassion, and humanity can evoke such powerful emotions, even in an age of algorithms and viral content.
Sometimes I think it’s ridiculous how my mind reacts to a simple video, or even just a short piece of text telling a story about compassion, goodwill, humanity, or empathy.
Our social media feeds are filled with these stories. Some—maybe many—are probably made up, carefully designed to create engagement and go viral. Others are manufactured from the start as beautiful but fictional narratives. Those aren’t the ones I’m talking about.
I mean the simple posts that are often nothing more than a box of text. You actually have to stop and read them to grasp the story. Some of those are probably fictional too.
It’s also likely that the Algorithm ©®™ has noticed how much I enjoy this type of content and keeps serving me more of it, or stories that follow the same pattern. But that’s not really the point.
What I find interesting is how my brain can experience genuine emotions from such simple stories.
A person helping someone else without expecting anything in return. A father struggling to feed his children being helped by a stranger. A truck driver stopping to help a struggling single mother. The examples could go on indefinitely.
What amazes me is how powerfully humans respond to stories. Whether they come through books, movies, TV series, or a single social media slide, stories have a unique ability to move us. Sometimes just one paragraph is enough. A few lines of text can spark beautiful emotions because something in the story resonates with something within us.
And sometimes those emotions bring tears. Not tears of sadness, but something harder to describe. It’s a strange mixture of gratitude, hope, tenderness, and awe. A story touches a nerve, and a wave of feeling rises from somewhere deep inside. It swells quietly and then crashes onto the shore of the mind, like the sea.
It fascinates me that even when I know some of these stories may be exaggerated or entirely fictional, the emotional response can still be real. The facts matter, of course, but there is also something deeper at work. Perhaps it is the reminder that kindness exists, that people are capable of helping one another, and that goodness still has the power to surprise us. Maybe that is why these stories linger long after I’ve finished reading them.
Perhaps stories is why humanity is still around.
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This is going to facilitate my daily job at work, I want to hack it so that I remove all conflicts with default Windows commands, hence giving coreutils priority !
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En réponse à ceci
Deuxième étape pour la France… Donner la même importance et la même visibilité à toutes les victimes plutôt que de favoriser les victimes de chanteurs, d’auteurs, de personnalités connues. La Justice française dort et ne se réveille que quand ses stars sont touchées.
Faut-il être victime d’une personnalité connue ou être d’une famille importante pour avoir le droit à la justice?
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Chaque fois qu’éclate une affaire de viol en France, j’ai la même réflexion : et si c’était un viol d’un inconnu contre une inconnue, la Justice et la société et les Médias donneraient ils la même importance qu’à Patrick Bruel par exemple?
Faut-il être un criminel avec un nom et une classe sociale différente pour qu’un viol soit considéré grave et important?
C’est tout ce que la France donne en guise de réponse par l’exercice de la pratique.
Que ce soit dans les médias ou la Justice.
La Justice de classe, elle est organisée et mise en place par les institutions, par l’État et son inertie chronique.
Elle profite directement les prédateurs au détriment des victimes.
Pendant que la presse mange des popcorns sur les décombres de vies brisées, pendant que nos sociétés sont plus intéressées par la révélation que par la souffrance des victimes, pendant que nos sociétés continuent d’asseoir les processus judiciaire sur des lois conçues pour protéger les prédateurs, des millions de cas de viols, d’abus sur des femmes et des enfants continuent.
En toute impunité
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Odd situation with buzzworkers LetsEncrypt certificate was not renewing properly, changed gandi API LiveDNS (deprecated) to PAT and forced cloudron to renew the certificate. Problem solved but in more than a decade its the first time a LE certificate does not renew properly on its own.
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Hmm have to investigate why Bluesky sidebar widget is not updating anymore…
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This is a test from my new Chrome/Firefox #micropub extension
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So I wanted to have a simple way to quickly find previous Claude Code sessions across different environments, in my case, two WSL instances, so I vibe coded this nice little TUI tool.
my itch was that I run claude sessions from different directories and I never remember exactly where, I didn’t wanted to change my work habit (always start claude from the same path) and I didn’t want to search which claude session have the right context, I also wanted to have my sessions properly named so that I could find ongoing sessions with ease, I wanted to be able to preview the sessions and I wanted to be able to backfill all my previous sessions so that I could list them with an easy way to get back into them with ease.
Well, https://github.com/rmdes/claude-recent is what I came up with. its probably similar to what other approach to solve this problem already do but I wanted to control exactly what the tool is doing.
Now it’s helping me on my day to day work and offload to a simple tool a problem that was creating cognitive load, sometimes loss due to fragmentation.
I’m pretty happy with the result even tho the tool is pretty rough.
feedback welcome if you end up using it !
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Avec mon café du matin, je scroll 2 minutes la ligne du temps de ces dernières 48h et je constate que la dissonance cognitive c’est aussi aller au taf et s’occuper de sa vie comme si de rien n’était alors que le monde brûle et se consume dans d’incessantes révulsions qui me dépassent et pourtant… tout vas bien ! Bon Lundi, Bonne Semaine !
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