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Wivik

@Wivik@fosstodon.org

🇫🇷, 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.

#fedi22

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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 books
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I've finished #reading Alfie, a French #scifi #thriller novel about the #ai of an home automation system.

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

#books @bookstodon #readings @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

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.

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.

    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.

    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, to ai
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    A nice balanced generative #ai consideration from #creativecommons

    https://creativecommons.org/2023/09/15/generative-ai-and-creativity-new-considerations-emerge-at-cc-convenings/

    Wivik, to ai
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    I've added on #kofi some commissions for people who would like to have #ai generated images using #stablediffusion and #sdxl

    Despite my 1080 GTX being entry level for these usages, the outputs can be very good. You can see some results here : https://ko-fi.com/wivik/gallery

    Wivik, to random
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    I've passed a new certification today. And I've wanted to share what was my actual feeling.

    Wivik, to random
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    Customer review: this umbrella.
    It was raining this morning and I ended up needing an umbrella.
    Since I've bought it, not a drop of rain.

    Pretty effective !

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    Wivik, to random
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    I'm filling my #vinylrecords collection website and discovered that I've never noticed the label of the Ghost in the Shell movie soundtrack.

    :ablobcateyesflip:

    Wivik, to Amazon
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    A wonderful parody of #Amazon and its over growing expansion. The home assistant "listening and watching you continuously and privacy respectful" named Invasa was just great.

    #futurama

    Wivik, to ChatGPT
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    Damned, #chatgpt browse beta feature got temporary disabled.

    That's one of the most interesting feature of this tool IMHO.

    https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8077698-how-do-i-use-chatgpt-browse-with-bing-to-search-the-web

    Wivik, to random
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    My vision of the #web evolution for a little more than 20 years.

    It's a little cynical, but that what I feel.

    Wivik, to random
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    Recently I've had a weird issue with 37 where the system completely freeze while using the scrolling wheel of my logitech M560 mouse.

    And I have reproduced the issue on another laptop with the same mouse. Nothing in system logs.

    I've switched to an older logitech mouse, no issue. Seems to be very specific to this model.

    Wivik, to ai
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    Europe's #AI Act draft defines AI as "‘a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, generate outputs such as predictions, recommendations, or decisions that influence physical or virtual environments.". It seems pretty wide to me.

    The text intends to forbids usages such as systematic face recognition, predictive police, manipulating and deceiving content generation...
    https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COMMITTEES/CJ40/DV/2023/05-11/ConsolidatedCA_IMCOLIBE_AI_ACT_EN.pdf

    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/

    @bookstodon

    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/

    @bookstodon

    Wivik, to scifi
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    It is my pleasure to announce the upcoming release of my new : "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

    Wivik, to sciencefiction
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    Avis à la communauté #lecture / #ecriture

    #auteur 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 #revue d'un de mes écrits ? Si oui vous pouvez me contacter en DM ou sur mon site web.

    (English is possible too)

    #livre #livres #MastoLivre #ecrivain #sciencefiction #scifi #WritersOfMastodon @bookstodon #bookstodon #books #books

    Wivik, to bookstodon
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    A little announcement for #french #readers / Petite annonce pour les personnes amatrices de #lecture #francais

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

    English versions will come later.

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

    #ebook #SelfPublishing #amwriting @bookstodon #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #writer #webnovel

    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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    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/

    @bookstodon

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