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Time to cleanup my online data. Let's start with Twitter. Because, why not. It should be easy for me to delete my old tweets, because I am control, right? Of course not. (…)

All I wanted was to fix vulnerabilities reported by GitHub Dependabot, like a do twice a month or so. Which is already maddening. But instead, npm just erased itself. (…)

Une page bloquée par Facebook et finalement rétablie, sans explication. C'est un désormais classique de la censure. "Votre publication ne respecte pas les règles de la communauté". Pour rappel, Facebook n'est pas formé par une "communauté" qui aurait édicté elle-même ses règles de manière transparente. Facebook est une société commerciale qui propose un réseau publicitaire communément appelé "réseau social" et qui impose des conditions d'utilisation unilatérales. (…)

The Court of Justice invalidates the EU-US Data Protection Shield. Standard contractual clauses (SCC) are still valid. A small bomb was just dropped in the GDPR landscape. (…)

I received an email from haveibeenpawned. You're one of 268,765,495 people pwned in the Wattpad data breach. 268,765,495. My head spins. What was leaked this time? (…)

A long read, well worth your time, of an untold story. From black hat to white hat, designing malware then later stopping the infamous Wannacry attack, before his past caught up with him. Lots of nuance in this portrait. (…)

New Unreal Engine version 5 demo. It is impressive. Real time movie-like scene rendering. (…)

I wrote a simple script to migrate a JBake blog to Hugo. (…)

This blog is statically generated for markdown files. It makes things convenient, not only when I write, but for deployment to the internets as well. I just switched to Hugo. It is easy to install, slightly daunting to configure, and blazing fast. (…)

A guide to turn disable built-in ads in Windows 10. Might be relevant to ditch the OS altogether. (…)