> FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
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March 2025 in review / Récap de mars 2025
I am now 31 years old, and the proud owner of a gravel bike and of more equipment than my fitness levels justify. Life is good.
What I've read / Texte
Books / Livres
(Only the ones I liked, as usual.)
In English
Fiction
The Books of Ambha, Tasha Suri, Mughal empire-inspired fantasy with blood magic and, of course, genocide.
1984 − Ju
https://alexsirac.com/march-2025-in-review-recap-de-mars-2025/
Partial Solar Eclipse 2025-03-29 https://photo.m-j-s.net/blog/2025/03/partial-solar-eclipse-2025-03-29/
I really enjoy reading comments on my favorite podcast episodes in Patreon. Problem is, I don’t listen to my podcasts in Patreon, I use Pocket Casts.
I can’t wait for the day when more creators move to open, federated platforms to host their podcasts, so we can all participate in the discussion in one place, the Fediverse. Are there any popular tools like that? I only know of WordPress right now, and while it works it’s not necessarily known for podcasting. I think Castopod does this maybe?
@voxpelli @tchambers Since both WordPress and Ghost sites support RSS out of the box, I don’t think you need an indicator. 
Now, should we add the tag to long-form content only, or to any posts published via Ghost or WordPress (like this one)?
> Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 - Ars Technica
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I’d love to get a list of old school bloggers who are still at it. How would you go about that?
@davew After all these years, I think « webrings » and « blogrolls » is still the right answer to that question. Bloggers manually curating lists of other bloggers still feels like the most trustworthy source of inspiration for me.
Just like jumping from one Wikipedia article to another to learn new things can be fun, jumping from one site to another in a webring can be just as fun I think!
As an alternative, Kagi also recently created a « Small Web » list of active bloggers and content creators. I’ve been pretty happy with it. You can browse it here, and access the full list via RSS or an OPML file here.
Likes https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/. I really, really want to do …
Likes https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/.
I really, really want to do this for Grenoble some day. It's so cool!
See also:
Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984, by Sandra Newman
Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It's 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose lea
https://alexsirac.com/julia-a-retelling-of-george-orwells-1984-by-sandra-newman/
overinformation cleanup
I have been overwhelmed recently, so I followed some of Tracy's practices:
Removed my RSS Reader from my phone's home screen (but not from the app menu, for now)
Unsubscribed from all large news sources and signed up for their weekly newsletter instead (wherever possible, I will receive the newsletter in my RSS Reader). That's L'Équipe, Les Jours, Le Monde and Libération
TIL about CryptPad, a Google Docs alternative. Somehow this is the first time I hear about it! The project seems pretty cool. @Em0nM4stodon wrote an extensive guide about it:
If you have been looking for a privacy-respectful replacement to Google Docs, now is the time to move!
@cryptpad offers a full office suite that is completely end-to-end encrypted and built from the ground up with data minimization in mind.
And it’s free!
Why stay with Google when there is a much better option literally right there
I’m thinking I may give it a try locally, although I will keep an eye on the GitHub repo before I set up an instance for my family. I’m not seeing a ton of activity in the past month, but it could just be temporary. I do see that they have secured some EU funding, they already make money through their hosted instance, they make supporting them easy via OpenCollective, and they’re open about their financial status, so that’s all promising signs in my book!
February 2025 in review / Récap de février 2025
It's been a nice month, with everything going well, and I'm in a good mood!
What I've read / Texte
Books / Livres
In English
Fiction
The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy was high-quality fantasy, in which a teenager decides to take her best friend's place and become a witch. The problem is, she's a boy − and the government wou
https://alexsirac.com/february-2025-in-review-recap-de-fevrier-2025/
my religion
My religion, should anyone be interested, can be reduced to a simple question: What is the most generous thing one can do in this case? If that question doesn’t apply, I have another: What would my grandfather think about this? None of which relieves me of the compulsion to cross myself in my hour of need.− Isabel Allende, My invented country
Evil Author Day : mes brouillons abandonnés, my abandoned drafts
Sara a parlé d'Evil Author Day l'an dernier et je me suis gardé l'idée bien au chaud depuis.
Le concept : le 15 février, on balance nos idées et brouillons en public sans la moindre intention de les finir. Si quelqu'un veut reprendre les infos et idées, n'hésitez surtout pas : de mon côté, si c'est
https://alexsirac.com/evil-author-day-mes-brouillons-abandonnes-my-abandoned-drafts/
WikiTok
a fun website with a tiktok-like interface, but for wikipedia!
Likes WikiTok.
so you fucked up
made this for myself today to stick on my office wall since i tend to spiral over easily fixable mistakes. thought someone else might need to see this too! :)
January 2025 in review / Récap de janvier 2025
January 2025 includes a big win, which is that since Zuckerberg's a little shit and US big tech is somehow worse than before, I've managed to onboard three people I care about very much to Signal.
It also comes with less-enthusiastic news about my knee, as in, no news. It's not better. It's not worse. It's just painful. At least, I'm getting
https://alexsirac.com/january-2025-in-review-recap-de-janvier-2025/
that bob dylan biopic
i was kinda excited about a biopic on bob dylan until i realized timothée chalamet is playing him. i don't think i can stand the guy anymore − he did nothing wrong, he's just everywhere.
