This post was also sent to /r/keyboards if you're interested in the discussion. Link.

Like a lot of people, I had to put together a small office at home come March 2020. While I'm quite comfortable now, my main issue is that my keyboard is a regular one, a …

I've just bought a Keychron keyboard. The move from a classical membrane keyboard to a mechanical one is not being as straightforward as I thought, but I like that I don't have a numerical keypad anymore, which was taking up precious space on my desktop. I also think it makes …

English is my second language, which will be obvious to readers of this page because sometimes I screw up. It is what it is.

There are people out there that think that the cryptospace is something completely useless, but I must thank it publicly for teaching me things about English …

The entire plot is generated by an R script that you can found here. Any suggestions (you can find my e-mail address on the "about" page) are welcome.

There's a secondary plot here that displays the raw number of postings (total and remote).

Caveats, and why this is just an …

(This article is in part a copy & paste of the same question I asked in a couple of forums (1, 2), along with the solution and some additional observations.)

Original question

I have a Dell Vostro 15 3000 running (X)Ubuntu 18.04. It's been working well, but yesterday I …

Internet content (be it a news article, a song, a thirty-second clip, etc) is mostly paid for by advertising. While subscription models do indeed exist and there is a gradation to them¹, they are still a minority. Terms like surveillance capitalism should surprise absolutely no one at this point …

The other day, I posted this on a subreddit I frequent and I thought I might as well publish it here. The context is some CRA accounts (the Canadian tax agency) being breached using password stuffing. Password reuse is a bad thing; site A gets breached and then someone has …

I've been working quite a lot with Cassandra lately and for some analysis I have to do I've been trying to find the way to connect to it using R. My searches have pointed me to articles such as this one that work for older versions of Cassandra. However, when …

Just a few notes I might need some day.

(Lightly edited version of an e-mail sent to RISKS and published on Volume 31, Issue 48.)

My landlady send me the other day this news article:

From encrypted passwords to padlocked doors, Canadians will go to extreme lengths to avoid scammers.

Now it may not be safe to pick up …