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Wivik

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🇫🇷, I like things and other stuff. Post mainly in English, French's possible too. I've a passion for #writing #scifi stories and you can discover my work on my website. So I'm a #selfpublished writer.

Curious and enthusiast about federated softwares and #FLOSS. #Coffee addict. Adept about #Privacy protection and IT-related legal topics. Also amateur #photograph

Working as a Solutions Architect. #DevOps culture and #Freeculture enthusiast.

#nobots for whatever it means.

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Wivik, to books
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I've finished Alfie, a French novel about the of an home automation system.

https://zedas.fr/posts/alfie/

@bookstodon @scifi

mike, to random
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Our corporate password policy just updated requiring our passwords to be minimum 15 characters long. Yea, this is going to end well.

Wivik,
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@mike That's why I love seeking at post-it on screens in stores of various offices. You always find some good informations.

It's incredible to see how much the construction <companyName>!<year+month> and some variants are common.

Wivik, to scifi
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"Les murmures de la montagne de métal (Partie 1)", or "Echoes of the Metal Mountain (Part 1)", is now available in both original French and English translation. A story where history encounter legends.

https://seb-astien.fr/fr/books/les-murmures-de-la-montagne-de-metal-1/

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Wivik, to books
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Who Goes There ? A bad thing !

I've read Campbell's novella which inspired Carpenter's 1982 movie "The Thing". A classic and a founding story for a genre IMHO.

https://zedas.fr/posts/who-goes-there/

@bookstodon @horrorbooks @scifi

Wivik, to books
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I've finished Arthur C. Clarke's Space Trilogy, a series composed of three republished early works of the author.

https://zedas.fr/posts/the-space-trilogy/

@bookstodon @scifi

Wivik, to sciencefiction
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Avis à la communauté /

indépendant auto-publié, je suis toujours à la recherche de retours pour m'améliorer. Si d'aventure vous tenez une chronique lecture, seriez-vous intéressé(e) pour faire une d'un de mes écrits ? Si oui vous pouvez me contacter en DM ou sur mon site web.

(English is possible too)

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Wivik, to scifi
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It is my pleasure to announce the upcoming release of my new #scifi #novel : "Echoes of the Metal Mountain". It will be available on April 30th both in French and English.

https://blog.zedas.fr/posts/les-murmures-de-la-montagne-de-metal/

@bookstodon @scifi #books #ebook #amwriting #SelfPublishing #WritersOfMastodon #sciencefiction #auteur #livre #ecriture #roman

Wivik, to writing
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Here is an update of my recent activities.

  • Some of my works are published on
  • New announcement, a dedicated post will be made once released

https://blog.zedas.fr/posts/writing-activities-update-april-2024/

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kev, to random
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Have you ever thought about blogging anonymously? I blog under my real name, but wonder if that could have held me back...

https://kevquirk.com/what-about-anonymous-blogging

Wivik,
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@kev I've always blogged under a pseudonym (not anonymous, it doesn't exist on internet).

My main reason is because I like separate things. Personal, online, work life.

Wivik, to bookstodon
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A little announcement for / Petite annonce pour les personnes amatrices de

J'ai commencé à publier certains de mes sur . Avec un chapitrage adapté à la plateforme.

English versions will come later.

https://fr.neovel.io/user/109551/seb-astien

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Wivik, to books
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While starting to publish it at , I've made some corrections to my previous "The Patient Daniel" (typo / phrasing issues mostly).

Original French version : https://seb-astien.fr/fr/books/le-patient-daniel/

English translation : https://seb-astien.fr/en/books/le-patient-daniel/

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kev, to random
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    Wivik,
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    @kev Right after I implemented it and was happy to have stolen your idea 🤣

    Anyway, that's logical to stop a subscription you would pay for nothing.

    kev, (edited ) to random
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    A couple days ago, I wrote about how my beautiful fire eel, Eric, managed to jump out of his tank. Here's an update...
    https://kevquirk.com/update-on-eric-the-eel

    Wivik,
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    @kev Sad news. I've lost my four corydoras during the previous months, with the last one recently. Don't really know the origin, it was quite sudden.

    It's always sad to lose those little guys.

    joel, to CSS
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    is insanely fun. I just modified my , my , my and some other sections thanks to it.

    Once I understood it, my eyes were opened!

    What do you guys think? :blobcatderpy:

    A flexbox container featuring my 5 latest blogposts
    A flexbox container featuring 3 blogs per row, in my blogroll

    Wivik,
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    @joel @Amerey At my knowledge, grids are better for fixed layouts meanwhile flex is preferable for dynamic.

    kev, to random
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    I recently bought my first electric vehicle (EV). It has been an interesting
    adjustment, but am I glad I switched from diesel?
    https://kevquirk.com/my-first-month-with-an-ev

    Wivik, (edited )
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    @kev I have an EV since 2 years now, and I won't return back to petrol car. Like I've wrote on my blog at this moment : yes I regret my previous Honda Civic, but no I don't regret this one (Cupra Born).

    But recently, it's more my need for a car that is put into question. I'm seriously thinking about switching to an electric moto instead of a car.

    kev, to random
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    Always hated dark mode on my site. It was a compromise and it looked shit. So I removed it.

    Wivik,
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    @kev @joel @rridley Darkreader is my friend :blobfoxdealwithitfingerguns:

    kev, (edited ) to random
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    I love . My RSS feed reader is the page I visit most on web, I think. So it's very frustrating when folks update their site, but don't redirect their RSS feed - please remember to do it, people.
    https://kevquirk.com/dont-change-your-rss-url

    Wivik,
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    @kev How to know if the RSS feed maintainer updated it : my RSS reader spontaneously pop 30 articles for the feed. :blobfoxlaugh:

    Wivik, to random
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    During last month, I've made a website for a friend who's also a

    And after doing this site, I could say that my homepage actually sucks :blobfoxsipterrified:

    So we've decided to publish the theme. It's available on GitHub. I've added some color schemes based on

    https://github.com/Wivik/am-writing-hugo-theme

    And I've used it to recreate a dedicated website for me too : https://books.zedas.fr/

    Wivik, to writing
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    I needed something to estimate my page count and total words for the file. Because I'm not with a word processor but with a editor.

    So I've made this : https://github.com/Wivik/epub-metadata-exporter

    A small script that will return basic informations of the epub : title, author, license, description, isbn, word count, page count, using text/json/yaml output format.

    joel, to random
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    Just had my interview for the position I wanted to try. A friend of mine in HR told me I'm pretty much the only decent option they have atm.

    If all goes well, I might have a proper job now. 🙏

    Wivik,
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    @joel That's a good news, congrats and I hope you'll get it.

    joel, to random
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    What VPS do you use? shared hosting please, I kinda wanna get one for myself!

    I've heard of Hetzner, DO and Linode but idk, looking for others to consider...

    Wivik,
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    @joel My VPS was at OVH

    https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/

    governa, to logitech
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    Unplugging USB Receivers Has Been Causing The Kernel To Crash

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Logitech-USB-Unplug-Linux-Crash

    Wivik,
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    @governa It reminds be the issue I've had with a logitech mouse's scrollwheel that froze the entire system when using it.

    It took my half and hour to understand the issue :blobfoxlurkglare:

    Wivik, to reddit
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    announced users would no longer be able to opt-out from personalised ads. gamble ?

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894023/reddit-opt-out-personalized-ads-privacy-update

    Wivik,
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    @mike My case : I've never been user of these kind of platform. And I've never regretted it.

    kev, to random
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    "Thing" really is the worst word in the English language.

    https://kevquirk.com/thing-is-the-worst-word-in-the-english-language

    Wivik, (edited )
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    @joel @kev

    > "Give me the that which is over that other that under that that over there"

    French version (with some liberties) : "Passe moi le truc qui est sur le machin, près de l'autre bidule, le trucmuche là que tartempion m'a filé l'autre fois"

    "truc", "machin", "bidule", "trucmuche", "tartempion" (for people), so much words for undefined things :blobfoxbongo:

    And everybody understand what you mean, that's awesome.

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