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Table of Contents §

Autism §

ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network)
So, About Autism and Sensory Overload… | Kelci Crawford
7 Reasons To Not Support Autism Speaks
Sophie Robert : La psychanalyse doit débattre de l'autisme

Archives §

wikibooks
ibiblio.org
framabook.org
OpenEdition
Internet Archive: Web/Audio/Video/Software/Books/… archive
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Digitization of books in libre formats
The Eye
non-profit, community archiving of all data (websites, books, games, software, audio, video, audio, obscure/ideas, …)
The Unix Heritage Society
Archival of source code and documentation (wiki) of old Unixes (AT&T, early BSD, …)
WinWorld
online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software
Software Heritage
Collection of software source code (automatic copies of github)

Hardware §

Mostly open-hardware, or failing that with enough open-documentation for multiple supporting sofware to exist

MNT Research GmbH
Open-hardware laptop and accessories which are open-hardware/specification enough to have been adopted by 9front, as well as Amiga-related addon cards.
The Single Board Computer Database
Olimex
Mostly ARM hardware but also a 6502 board, vast majority is Open-Hardware
Pine64
devboards, laptop/tablet, phone, soldering iron, …
GLI
ARM routers & Boards/Modules
MIAOW GPU
Experiment to create an open-source GPU
Adafruit

Cryptography §

DNSSEC and Certificates
Creating Certificate Authorities and self-signed SSL certificates
Qualys SSL Labs
Generating TLSA Records With OpenSSL - TykBlog
Pretty Bad {Protocol,People}, Patterns in the Void by isis agora lovecruft

privacy §

Publications » Privatics
Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising
Wherein Mozilla works hands-in-hands with bloody Facebook/Meta to track people Google FLoC-style around the web so Manipulators for Hire (Advertisers) can still have their metrics.
Oracle’s $115 million privacy settlement could change industry data collection methods
"In addition to the payment, Oracle has agreed to stop tracking users in various ways. Privacy advocates applauded the settlement."

security §

https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Category:Security
Tails kernel hardening
Tails Design
Why it is important to check what the malloc function returned
PyPI is not trustworthy: zaitcev
Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals!
"TL;DR: After noticing an annoying warning, I went on an absurd yak shave, and discovered that because of a tiny handful of Python packages built with an appealing-sounding but dangerous compiler option, more than 2,500 Python packages—some with more than a million downloads per month—could end up causing any program that uses them to compute incorrect numerical results." But also "Unbeknownst to me, even with --dry-run pip will execute arbitrary code found in the package's setup.py. In fact, merely asking pip to download a package can execute arbitrary code (see pip issues 7325 and 1884 for more details)!"
Disallow execution of setup.py when "pip download --no-deps someproject" · Issue #7325 · pypa/pip · GitHub
Avoid generating metadata in `pip download --no-deps ...` · Issue #1884 · pypa/pip · GitHub
ASLR⊕Cache (AnC)
Demonstration of a cache-based attack of ASLR, browser JavaScript and Native Code
Kernel page-table isolation
Linux kernel feature that mitigates the Meltdown security vulnerability (affecting mainly Intel's x86 CPUs)[4] and improves kernel hardening against attempts to bypass kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR).
28C3: The Science of Insecurity
nsss: the problem with nsswitch
Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco
One Supply Chain Attack to Rule Them All – Poisoning GitHub’s Runner Images
Remote User Impersonation and Takeover via Cache Poisoning
Writeup by the security issue finder on CVE-2024-23832 fixed in Mastodon 4.2.5 (2024-02-01)
Remote user impersonation and takeover
Technical explainations on CVE-2024-23832 fixed in Mastodon 4.2.5 (2024-02-01), TL;DR: There was no Containment of the provided URL serving as an "id" against the message own "id", Mastodon would just trust whatever was in the message.
How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted, from RISKS
"On 5 Nov 2003, an attempt to insert a very cleverly crafted backdoor into Linux was averted."
oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
Where tukaani's xz/lzma-utils 5.6.0/5.6.1 got a backdoor added by the author in the signed tarballs. Own note: And there is an example of why as package maintainers we should diff the tarballs they're vouching to users rather than rely entirely on git, although in that one it's at the end of ./configure which is nearly unreadable m4/autotools soup.
Your API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
surprising behavior in gnu tar
TL;DR: GNU tar tries to resolve + call rsh(1) when a colon is present in a path
Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them
The Octopus Scanner Malware
Infection via Netbeans project files
Lion Internet Worm Analysis
Analysis of the Lion Worm from 2001
Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken - Jan Wildeboer’s Blog
TL;DR: Certain companies recruit app developers to create botnets by injecting “network sharing” SDKs into their apps. These botnets then use the network bandwidth of unsuspecting users of said apps to crawl the web, brute-force mail servers and other nasty things.

OpenPGP §

The PGP Problem
What’s the matter with PGP?
I'm giving up on PGP
Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels
[tor-talk] Why the Web of Trust Sucks
SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

onion §

Cyber-home of lanodan
Blog Stéphane Bortzmeyer
DuckDuckGo Lite
The Hidden Wiki
list of onion services run by the Tor project.
list of onion services run by the Debian project.
Mediapart - Actualité, enquêtes et dossiers d’investigation en toute indépendance
Le Club de Mediapart

feminisme §

Coming-out vidéo pour Femme trans, par Yuffy
Coming-out vidéo pour Non-Binaire, par H Paradoxæ
Coming-out vidéo pour Mec Trans, par Guynotaguy
L'humour est une chose trop sérieuse... - Une heure de peine...

activism §

Agenda du Libre
Médias Libres : Presse Indépendante
The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds: Interactive Demo about how to spread positive values in crowds
Médias français : qui possède quoi ? - Acrimed | Action Critique Médias

lojban §

The Complete Lojban Language (aka. CLL)
Lojban miltu-lingual dictionary
tiki.lojban.org (the old lojban wiki)
github.com/lojban
How to substantially simplify the Lojban connective system
Parser/syntax-viewer small webapp

japanese §

kitsunekko.net - Japanese and English anime subtitles
Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary

webcomics §

XKCD
Explain XKCD: It's 'cause you're dumb.
Rain
Slice-of-life about Rain, a high-school transgirl and her friends
Rain, la traduction française
Validation
comic about a comic-artist transgirl
El Goonish Shive
Comic about magic (surpernatural, myths, transformations/identity, …)
Stand Still Stay Silent
Nordic Historical webcomic
What QQ
Webcomic about a non-binary deafie
Chronically Silent
Comic strips about deaf-life including sign language and silly adventures
Goodbye to Halos
Magic webcomic?
Questionable Content
slice-of-life webcomic with adults and sentient robots
The Legend of Jamie Roberts
Pirate Adventure webcomic, same author as Validation, non-binary main character
Setz comics
Comics of setz, has two comics about Finland in World War II in a mostly peaceful slice-of-life storytelling.
Cheshire Crossing
Crossover of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Peter-pan, Marry Poppins. Re-illustrated by Sarah Andersen
Pepper & Carrot
High-Quality Open-Source WebComic about a young witch in a fantasy world
analognowhere
surrealist post-apocaliptic cyberpunk webcomic inspired by OpenBSD, 9Front, Linux, …
analognowhere techno-mage
somewhat serialized short stories from analognowhere

ebooks §

Digital Book stores. All of them DRM-Free.

J-Novel Club
Digital and Physical releases of Japanese Mangas and Novels translated into English
Idori Comics
Translatetd self-published(Doujinshi) Japanese Manga, mostly erotica but an all-ages section is available. With English, Français, Español, ภาษาไทย sections
Idori Aqua
All-ages section of Idori Comics
DENPA
Digital (DRM-Free) manga releases in high-quality PDF and CBZ format.
Comic Cavalcade
Digital (DRM-Free) and Physical releases, founded in 1989.

music §

All of them are DRM-Free, some are under a Libre License, some allow/require to pay the artists.

Dogmazic.net: Libre Music (French Website)
scene.org: Demoscene Archive
Nectarine: Demoscene webradio
scenesat: Demoscene video stream
Ektoplazm.com: free and legal psytrance, techno, and downtempo music
Jamendo: Free Streaming&Download of independent music
Warning (2022-12-20): Proprietary web frontend that includes tracking (Google Tag Manager and HotJar), use third-party software like youtube-dlp
emusic
7Digital Music Store
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
incompetech — Music and also Graph Paper
Royalty-Free (CC-BY-3.0) Music by Kevin MacLeod
Jonathan Coulton
Mass Productions
Punk artisan label created in 1995
OTOTOY
Japanese (DRM-Free) digital music store and online magazine
Denpa Song English Guide
Website providing information around denpa (litt. psycho-electric) music
jessienab's Awesome List Of Music Retailers
collection-in-progress of online stores offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats
Ni Dieu Ni Maître, lucrative galaxie du prêt-à-porter déguisée en réseau militant
Parle aussi de Resistance.tk/Pirate-Punk/… ainsi que InfoLibertaire

movies §

All of them are DRM-Free

CinéMutins
VOD en location (streaming) et achat (téléchargement) de films par la coopérative Les Mutins de Pangée

shows §

All of them DRM-Free, AFAIK none are under a Libre-License yet.

RoosterTeeth's RWBY
Future-fantasy world in which you follow huntresses and hunters protecting the world from Monsters. It's quite inspired by anime and games.
RoosterTeeth's gen:LOCK
Le Visiteur du Futur (web-série, 2009-2014)
Noob (web-série)
【3Dアニメ】厳選ホロぐら【3D-animation】
Holo No Graffiti: Short comedy shows featuring hololive members (japanese audio, english subs)
Donjon de Naheulbeuk
Saga audio en mode jeu de role, avec des chansons

webrings §

And other collections of links/websites (quite like this document)

XXIIVV's WebRing
Homebrew Computers Website
"The Homebrew Computers Website is open to any computer project featuring a home-built CPU."

Standards §

ISO/IEC 9899 - Revision of the C standard
Open Group Base Specifications issue 8 (POSIX.1-2024)
Open Group Base Specifications issue 7 (POSIX.1-2018, SUSv4)
Open Group Base Specifications issue 7 (POSIX.1-2016, SUSv4)
Open Group Base Specifications issue 7 (POSIX.1-2013, SUSv4)
Open Group Base Specifications issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008, SUSv4)
Open Group Base Specifications issue 6 (POSIX.1-2004, SUSv3)
Single Unix Specification 1997 (SUSv2, UNIX98)
HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
HTML 4.01 Specification
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
CSS Standard
Scalable Vector Graphics
RFC 5023: The Atom Publishing Protocol
Activity Streams 1.0
JSON Activity Streams 1.0 + Atom Activity Streams 1.0
Activity Streams 2.0
Activity Vocabulary
ActivityPub
Wayland
RFC 4408 - Sender Policy Framework, 9.2. Mailing Lists
Kronos EGL Registry
The XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL)
XSL Transformations (XSLT)
STD90: The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format
IANA — Protocol Registries
IP Version Numbers
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Schemes
Link Relation Types
Project Gemini - Speculative specification
On Consensus and Humming in the IETF
microformats
HTML conventions so machines can extract data from regular markup, effectively adding more semantics
rel=vcs-* microformat
The rel=vcs-* microformat allows a page to indicate the location of a Version Control System repository related to that page.

Documentation §

Portability of tar features, Michał Górny, 2018-11-25
Installation et configuration de INN; les autres pages sont aussi à suivres pour mettre en place INN
ActivityPub Dev Library
Archive of content related to ActivityPub
WikiChip
computer architectures and semiconductor logic engineering, covering historical and contemporary electronic systems, technologies, and related topics
ThinkWiki - Linux ThinkPad Wiki
Mirrorboard: A one-handed keyboard layout
alpine-baselayout shouldn't export PS1
mirabilos' comment to alpine on how to manage PS1 in distributions while keeping compatibility
MirBSD: Frequently Asked Question for The MirBSD Korn Shell
ICANNWiki: ICANN-independent wiki about ICANN and internet governance
PowerVR SGX code leaked. - LIBV Intentionally Breaks Videodrivers
STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO LOOK AT PROPRIETARY CODE.
Multimedia.cx
"A domain devoted (primarily) to multimedia technology" Their wiki contains a lot of detailed information about codecs
délégation de préfixe IPv6 sur OpenWrt depuis une Freebox
Wayland Book
Book on how to use Wayland by Drew (sircmpwn) DeVault, author of wlroots and Sway
Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ: Troubleshooting and Repair of Consumer Electronics Equipment
The Jargon File
Dynamic Periodic Table
The byte order fallacy
A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
Licenses & Standards | Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Definition | Open Source Initiative
Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project
Repair Wiki
"[…] repository of information for repairing devices with common problems and solutions."
Handbook of hardware schemes, cables layouts and connectors pinouts
List of file signatures - Wikipedia
Let's Solve the File Format Problem!
Free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles
Linux-Sunxi
Open-Source community dedicated to providing support for Allwinner-based devices
Embedded Linux Wiki
uops.info
latency, throughput, and port usage data for most instructions on many recent x86 microarchitectures
Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources
Node.js standard library documentation
ECMAScript® Language Specification (multipage)
The archive for man pages
Manned.org aims to index all manual pages from a variety of systems, both old and new, and provides a convenient interface for looking up and viewing the various versions of each man page.
How to Read Yakuza's Zero Perplexing Pager Codes
Pre-defined C/C++ Compiler Macros
15 Tips for Debugging Issues in the AMD Display Kernel Driver
live-bootstrap/parts.rst
Documentation of each step taken by live-bootstrap to build a system like GNU Guix from only source code
24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed
Explains at length both sampling rate (nyquist-shannon) and bit depth (dynamic range).
Implementing Regular Expressions
"This page collects resources about implementing regular expression search efficiently." Most notably the article series on how RE2 was implemented and how Google CodeSearch works.
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures, NIST

Operating Systems §

Tails
portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship
9Front
Fork of Plan 9, a Unix successor by Bell Labs
Haiku
Binary-compatible libre reimplementation of BeOS, the operating system for the NeXT workstations
ToaruOS
From-scratch small but quite featureful Operating System
AbyssOS
LLVM+musl small Linux-based Operating System
Gentoo Linux
Archlinux
Debian Linux
Debian CD/DVD/BR/... images
Alpine Linux
postmarketOS // real Linux distribution for phones
Void Linux
Slackware Linux
NetBSD
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
MirBSD
Sortix
OSDev Wiki
Operating System Development Wiki, mostly x86-PC based
SailfishOS community ports
armbian
Debian/Ubuntu images for ARM computers
The Ares Operating System
Libre Microkernel-based Operating System, inspired by (SE)L4 and written mostly in Hare
The makedeb Package Repository
Community maintained repository for Ubuntu/Debian based on the makedeb (Arch makepkg-like) tool
FiwixOS
A minimalist OS, written in ANSI C and mostly Linux 2.0 ABI compatible. Used by live-bootstrap as it's first actual kernel.
asmc, a bootstrapping OS with minimal binary seed
6KB of binary seed, plus custom programming language able to bootstrap TCC (aka TinyCC)

Sign Language §

British Sign Language
Elix LSF
Dictionnaire de Langue des Signes Française / French Sign Language dictionary
Why Sign-Language Gloves Don't Help Deaf People
Own summary: Huge techno-solutionism happens and proves to be braindead by not even learning/studying how sign language works in the first place and do the equivalent of speech recognition that works against spelling rather than actual words.
Japanese Sign Language
Urgence 114 | Appel d'urgence pour sourds et malentendants
German Sign Language dictionary

Fun §

Gentoo is Rice
The case of the 500-mile email
Cats on Routers
Unix Recovery Legend
The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
The Tao of Programming
Modern Software Development Summarized
The Magic Switch
More details and explainations about the legendary "more magic" switch
Dan Weinreb’s blog » Blog Archive » Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and LMI
Note: Check the comments, there's followups inside them as well as interesting comments from other people like David A. Moon.
RFC 439 - PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR
The Laws of Anime
Hodie Natus Est Radici Frater
Latin error message given after bootup on a MULTICS machine
The Best Debugging Story I’ve Ever Heard
aka Floor tiles vs. Mainframe
Botnet takes over Twitch Installs Linux, partially installs Gentoo
Kisaragi Station - vgperson's Posts
A 2ch story from 2004, posted in the middle of a thread called "Post About Strange Occurrences Around You: Thread 26." The poster was anonymous at first, but started attaching their name later.
Pirate Bay Founder Builds The Ultimate Piracy Machine * TorrentFreak
Npm Install Everything, and the Complete and Utter Chaos That Follows
Or how creating an NPM package depending on everything gets you in trouble from both NPM and for some reason GitHub (don't rely on NPM and GitHub, reason n+1)
WINDOWS93
(JavaScript required) In-browser parody of Windows 9x with a collection of fun utilities and easter eggs
You can trust us
(JavaScript required, requires autoplay for sound effects) "Windows Crazy Error but without touhou" or "Windows93.net but it's only errors"
Unusual Forms of ESD and Their Effects
As niconiconi put it "Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard? But sometimes the problem is the chair."
Real gaming router | Kitten Labs
Running GTA: Vice City on a TP-Link TL-WDR4900 wireless router
Circular dependencies vendoring in chromium source code
How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
Booting Linux off of Google Drive | Ersei 'n Stuff
RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header
Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- Perl in Latin
The Lingua::Romana::Perligata makes it makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin.
8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1
Demo of a program that displays fairly decent full-motion video on a 1981 IBM PC (4.77 Mhz, CGA), including audio

Games §

Video games, mostly Libre/Open-Source or DRM-Free

LibreGameWiki
FreeGameDev.net
Free / Libre games forum and chat community
Open Source Game Clones
./play.it
Package recipes for proprietary DRM-Free games based on your system package manager (apt/dpkg, AUR, …)
The Visual Novel Database
Tetris.wiki
Touhou Wiki

France §

Gouvernement et Ministères, Services publiques, …

L’Annuaire des Entreprises
Vérifiez les informations légales publiques des entreprises, associations et services publics en France
Le plan de numérotation | Arcep
Inclut les numéros d'urgence (samu, pompiers, sourd·e·s/malentendant·e·s, …)
Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique
OpenData de l'Afnic (.fr, .re, .pm, .tf, .wf, .yt, …)
Fournit notamment la liste des noms de domaines en .fr et les nouveaux enregistrements des derniers jours
1.2.Train - Billets de train SNCF
Site simple et rapide uniquement dédié à l'achat de billets de train (TER, TGV, …).

patents §

Basically innovation theft and monopoly reinforcements via State-provided violence.

Startup Mycroft AI declares it will fight 'patent troll' tooth and nail after its Linux voice-assistant attracts lawsuit
Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death • The Register
GNOME patent troll stripped of patent rights
Microsoft's patent FUD
56 percent of all patent lawsuits are made by patent trolls | ZDNET

DMCA §

Warner Bros. Flags Its Own Website as a Piracy Portal
When Bots go Bad: Automated DMCA Takedown Problems
Within a few days we heard back from the (understandably unhappy) site owner, who explained that they were in fact the copyright holder. The takedown notification was issued by an agency working on his behalf, and their bot had mistakenly targeted the original author’s site.
Star Trek Fan Blog Triggers New Entry in Automattic’s DMCA “Hall of Shame”

Gentoo §

Gentoo Python Guide

Misc §

Association des Professeurs de Mathématiques de l’Enseignement Public
Postgres EXPLAIN Visulizer (pev)
OpenUsenet: home of Diablo NNTP server
State of the UBports installer, or command line
For the Fairphone 2 but probably useful for others
The GUI should be better. A lot better. — Ross Scott
The XY Problem (Asking Y instead of X)
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
LitePub
Profile of ActivityPub used by Pleroma et al.
openings.moe
AniDB
Baka-Updates Manga / MangaUpdates
DeepL Translate
Fédération FDN
Federation of Non-Profit Internet Service Providers
The CADT Model
The "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model, or "CADT" for short
Some reasons for Go to not make system calls through the standard C library
The Unix C library API can only be reliably used from C
MPlayer samples collection
Gemini is Useless
Electronics Simulator
js/ui: Subscribe touchpad gesture handlers to only touchpad events [performance]
Well known as "Moving the mouse no longer involves JavaScript"
Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever
Subtitles - download movie and TV Series subtitles
Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you
Les gamins ne savent pas utiliser les ordinateurs… Voici pourquoi ça devrait vous inquiéter.
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge
Aka post-2000 kids have become so dependent on search features and smartphones, they can't use an actual computer with a tree-based filesystem
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
DRM-Free Guide
This guide lists any suppliers of digital media provide files free of DRM and do not require the use of proprietary software.
Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
Adequacy decisions
"How the EU determines if a non-EU country has an adequate level of data protection." Which includes a list of the countries recognised so far.
What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub
Code examples that accompany various MDN DOM and Web API documentation pages
WebRTC Test Landing Page
Transfert.net
«Transfert fut, [de 1999] jusqu’en mai 2002, l’un des principaux médias francophones consacrés à l’impact des nouvelles technologies.»
Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella
User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer
Hololive Fan Wiki
EvaWiki - An Evangelion Wiki - EvaGeeks.org
Compiler Explorer
Dumb Password Rules
A compilation of 285+ sites with dumb password rules
Wikipédia:Pastiches
Romanian orphans
In October 1966, Ceaușescu banned abortion and contraception and brought in one of the world's harshest anti-abortion laws, leading to a large spike in the number of Romanian infants abandoned to the country's orphanages.
Folklore: Do It
User testing sometimes has surprising results
overpass turbo
Allows to filter OpenStreetMap data via the Overpass Query Language, including a wizard for simpler usage. Source Code at https://github.com/tyrasd/overpass-turbo
Railway Routing
Open Infrastructure Map
Vous arrive-t-il d'infliger de l'aide ？ - Julie Quillé - MiXiT 2018
List of public invidious instances
RegisterProtocolHandler Enhancing the Federated Web | Mozilla Web Development
Wherein Mozilla knew what they should have done for the Fediverse back in 2010 but only did something so half-assed that it's unusable in practice.
Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015
"In 2002 I asked a number of developers/Unix people for screenshots of their desktops. I recently republished them, and, seeing the interest this generated, I thought it’d be fun to ask the same people* again 13 years later. To my delight I managed to reach many of them."
Initialiser une Kobo sans compte
Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Project
The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages, with the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available.
Qu'est-ce qu'un riche? | Grise Bouille
Chacun aura sans doute sa définition, mais je vous propose la mienne : un riche, c’est quelqu’un qui n’a pas besoin de travailler pour vivre
Camarades Patrons! - Journal Fakir
Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them | Wired
An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs
Wherein humans are consistently worse at solving captchas than machine-learning bots
why not matrix?
Computers are an inherently oppressive technology
Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS
Article explaining how you could still improve source-map@0.6.0 very signicantly even compared to right after it's usage of Rust
🚨🚨 That's a lot of YAML 🚨🚨
"A silly emotional rant about the state of devops tooling/the infrastructure sector in 2018. #noyaml.com"
Rails' remote code execution vulnerability explained | Code Climate
(Article from 2013) Wherein automatic decoding of HTTP request bodies combined with YAML full-automatic footgun of representing native objects allowed to get full code execution in Rails applications.
Most UI Applications are Broken Real-time Applications
148624 - Tooltips persist in foreground when Firefox is in background
2023-10-08: Finally closed after 21 years
Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community
Spoiler: Windows users fail at reporting bugs
BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
It removes ads, videos, and suggested content, leaving you with a clean page that doesn't slow down your device or use up your data.
Matrix Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective
My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story — Chris Lewicki
Waze App: Netherlands Is The Best Country to Drive in
Semantic satiation
psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
Where in 2015 it was discovered that Xerox WorkCentre photocopiers were replacing numbers in documents due to lossy pattern-based image compression.
Why you can’t trust CPUID - Chips and Cheese
Judge dismisses Vizio's call for summary judgment
The Order echoes SFC arguments in court that the claim is not preempted by copyright law and that consumers like SFC have standing to enforce the GPL as third-party beneficiaries to the GPL — without any action by copyright holders of copylefted code.
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance
For context: This domain was registered for fun
Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups, which is shutting down
This is 100 percent true, but don’t be worried: they use the group as an email list
Pickup Artist
Wherein someone gets roasted for negging (manipulation technique).
Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake
Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
Poul-Henning Kamp, of FreeBSD and Varnish, explaining how binary-heaps do not work well on modern machines with Virtual Memory, and describing how to do it better with B-heaps
24 % des ménages détiennent 68 % des logements possédés par des particuliers — France, portrait social | INSEE
Une petite note: L'article parle de possession quand il s'agit de titres de propriété (et non de possession pour parler de propriété d'usage comme la location).
Stop Killing Games
"Dedicated to real-world action on ending the practice of publishers destroying videogames they have sold to customers" notably The Crew from Ubisoft
Nous n'avons pas numérisé.
"Nous, qui faisons des solutions numériques, nous n'avons pas compris que parfois, le papier fonctionne mieux que le numérique."
List of formerly open-source or free software - Wikipedia
Very much a list of shame, except for the continuation forks
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
Where they changed Voyager 1 memory layout to account for a portion of memory being corrupted
On Human Bots
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC
Post-It Fix-Up assemblers.
"an assembler according to a new principle" most notably ability to re-assemble from disassembler output including on x86
Yr
Weather forecast website which works in all browsers and with a public API, hosted by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and NRK.
User Activity | Firefox Public Data Report
Essentially a graph of the amount of Firefox users
The Stallman Report
Comprehensive report detailing Richard Stallman's political program in defense of sexual violence, allegations of misconduct, and the misconduct of the Free Software Foundation
Apocalypse 5 - Larry Wall
"This is the Apocalypse on Pattern Matching, generally having to do with what we call “regular expressions”, which are only marginally related to real regular expressions." […] "Regex culture has gone wrong in a variety of ways[…]"
"Casse-toi riche con" : 700.000 € de pertes pour Libé ?
"Quelques annonceurs n'ont pas aimé la couverture de "Libération" sur Bernard Arnault, à tel point que certaines ont annulé des campagnes. Ces défections pourraient coûter 700.000 euros au quotidien dirigé par Nicolas Demorand." Un joli example de pourquoi un média se doit d'être financé par son lectorat (et donc indépendant).
Free Mobile : bloquer tous les démarcheurs
Piet Beertema's website
Includes testimony of early European internet (EUnet)