ploum

Joue de la machine à écrire dans un one-man-band pour défendre la liberté et l’imaginaire. Auteur de #Bikepunk.

Write SF and #cyberpunk books, free software and texts about freedom.

Pédale. Plonge dans l’eau froide.

Also on Gemini: gemini://ploum.net

Blog (FR): https://ploum.net/index_fr.html
Blog (EN): https://ploum.net/index_en.html
BIKEPUNK: https://bikepunk.fr/
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2025-06-16 14:51:12 UTC

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: J’ai l’impression que ça pourrait être un bug du firmware dont le fix n’aurait pas été intégré dans [@e_mydata](https://mastodon.social/@e_mydata )
https://9to5google.com/2024/04/21/second-pixel-april-update/

2025-05-12 21:40:19 UTC

Librewolf is exactly what Firefox should be.
To the point where I find in #Librewolf new features I was explicitly missing in #firefox (like clicking on the lock to enable/disable cookies for a specific website)
And, yet, it works perfectly in #debian thanks to extrepo. But, seriously, it should be considered as the default Debian browser.
Congratulations to the team!
Don’t wait on Mozilla, switch to Librewolf !
https://librewolf.net/
@npub1vpu…608s

2025-03-28 15:39:01 UTC

The candid naivety of geeks
A tale of being surprised by Amazon, Apple, spammers and building the commons
https://ploum.net/2025-03-28-geeks-naivety.html

2025-02-17 07:50:32 UTC

In the movie "Idiocracy" the president Camacho is really trying to do his best for his people, going as far as hiring people who did very good on intelligence tests.
When it appears that Joe Bauers is the smartest man on earth and that he can grow plants, he becomes president without any violence.
From all those aspects, you can tell that "idiocracy" is an utopia and feel-good movie.

2025-01-21 14:15:36 UTC

Currently trying #pixelfed :
It looks like you can follow pixelfed people from Mastodon but the opposite is not entirely true: from what I see, pixelfed users will only see mastodon posts featuring a picture.
This is big disappointment. (not even posts with link preview are displayed)

2025-01-16 18:09:39 UTC

Vous rejoignez le fediverse ? Vous aimez lire mais votre timeline vous semble un peu vide ?
Suivez 29 auteur·e·s de l’imaginaire en un seul clic :
https://fedidevs.com/s/NDU/

2024-12-04 22:27:05 UTC

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: À quoi ça pourrait ressembler ?
@npub1zdf…6u9l a récemment montré ça : https://mementomori.social/@rolle/113554010615976066
Mais en attendant que ça arrive, un truc qui peut aider et qui est tout nouveau, ce sont les Starter Pack développé par @npub15wd…rte4
J’ai par exemple fait un Starter Pack avec les auteurs de @npub1ynh…l5ee : https://fedidevs.com/s/MjM/
Au plus on en crée, au plus on pourra aider les nouveaux à tout de suite trouver des trucs intéressants.
Faut aussi enseigner à suivre les hashtags!

2024-11-30 22:19:01 UTC

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: Mastodon being all about Linux is one of those myths:
https://mamot.fr/@ploum/109321404801794466

2024-10-24 09:28:33 UTC

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: je crois que la bagnole est le symbole ultime de notre décadence et que si, subitiment, on créait un monde sans bagnole, ça réglerait une énorme part de la surconsommation.
C’est une idée à creuser tiens… Juste supprimer les bagnoles et rien d’autre ;-)

2024-10-24 09:14:37 UTC

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: c’était sous-entendu quand même fortement, non ? 😄

2024-10-24 09:11:12 UTC

Vu la critique de @npub1hmx…26mp qui considère que #Bikepunk est quand même très fort un texte militant anti-bagnole, je pense que j’aurais du conserver l’avertissement « Certaines scènes risquent de choquer les automobilistes les plus endurcis »
https://erdorin.org/bikepunk-de-ploum/
(mais à part ça, aucun mastonaute ne semble avoir remarqué le clin d’œil à Mastodon jusqu’à présent)

2024-09-28 21:21:56 UTC

The Fediverse allows you to reach real people who care.
Commercial social network allows you to get (fake) vanity metrics against money.
When a person, an institution or a company tells you that "Mastodon is not working" or "There are not enough people on Mastodon", what they are truly saying is what they are looking for.
And is not to reach real people who care.

2024-09-10 20:07:23 UTC

Do you remember we joked how each year was successively awful with COVID, wars, flood, fires, etc
Well, I’ve just learned that there will be a "This is Spinal Tap II" next year so 2025 will officially be awesome.

2024-08-31 19:34:46 UTC

It’s been years since I deleted all my social accounts beside Mastodon. And decades of using only Linux.
I’m reading in the news that Windows is crashing or forcing ads onto users. That Twitter became X and is a shit show. That millions of Meta accounts have once again been hacked. That people using web service FOO feels cheated since it was bought by BAR.
And it feels like reading about an earthquake in a distant country. Must be terrible for those poor people.
Let’s sip my hot cup of tea.

2024-08-27 12:28:42 UTC

The #Debian of Theseus Time is the number of days needed for a given Debian Sid installation to have each installed package updated at least once. :debian:
Of, course, you can extrapolate the #Arch of Theseus Time and any other rolling-relase #Linux distribution Theseus Time. :archlinux: