Full Moon

24/12/2025

Long-term cold storage on an SSD could be a risky business. There are better options! ( this warning is also valid for usb storages)

Long-term cold storage on an SSD could be a risky business. There are better options.

23/12/2025

And then there was UNIX…

The distant ancestor of Linux, macOS, and Android was rediscovered in a university storage closet.

05/12/2025

Exactement le contraire de ce que souhaite la politique libertarienne américaine, qui se tire une b***e dans le pied…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has issued a stark warning that the United States could lose the global artificial intelligence race to China unless it gets its regulatory house in order, declaring the current patchwork of state-level rules risks crippling American innovation.

27/11/2025

And then there was…

10/09/2025

Back to the roots…

Today would have been the 84th birthday of Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C and co-creator of Unix.

(Image v/Victoria Will/AP)

14/08/2025

Ça a commencé comme ça….

On August 12, 1981, the great grandfather of the computers we all know today was born: the IBM Personal Computer. While IBM loomed large before the 1980s in business systems, the company's foray into personal computing changed the market forever. The original PC was a beautiful Brave New World's promise... Who, among all the nerds and scientists, excited then, could have thought that over 40 years later the grand-grand-children of the IBM PC, the handheld devices with ifinitely more computing power, will serve humanity mainly to watch p**n, spread political conspiracy theories and insult each other on social media... What a progress!

01/08/2025

Synology is not playing fair : when migrating into one of their most recent systems (DS1525+), it urges you to change any disk that is not Synology source saying that it MUST be replaced IMMEDIATLY : This is pure lie (unless they actively and voluntarily sabotage HDD performance) and absolute anti fair concurrency behaviour. Actually, I don't understand how the HDD suppliers are accepting this, that is putting the doubt on the quality of all their disk indifferently...

11/06/2025

Le premier site internet, toujours en ligne!

27/04/2025

un article intéressant sur la fuite de données concernant X.com (ex Twitter). en gros : 2,8 milliards (!) d'informations de comptes, mais sans votre adresse email, croisé avec un ancien piratage, pour obtenir 200 millions d'adresses emails vraiment utilisées encore aujourd'hui. Donc : au minimum : changer de mot de passe (celui-ci pourrait être connu par son utilisation sur un autre site. Ajouter la double authentification (en fait, à faire sur tous les sites sensibles, cad contenant des données personnelles). Eventuellement changer d'adresse email, mais c'est souvent plus compliqué (un alias constitue souvent une solution dans ces cas-là)

Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, has once again made headlines—for all the wrong reasons. Following reports of xAI’s $33B purchase of X, claims of bad