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alx

261 karma · joined October 15, 2007

meet.hn/city/th-Baan-Lamai

Socials: - github.com/alx

Interests: DevOps, Hacking, Open Source, UI/UX Design, Web Development

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/alxgirard; my proof: https://keybase.io/alxgirard/sigs/rJ-UNXE-uPoX6UndzkQj35_xe_O3usuiX6oNnLZc8qs ]

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alx··on Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong
http://fr24.com/AFL213
alx··on Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012
This Machine Kills Secrets - Andy Greenberg - http://www.thismachinekillssecrets.com/

Cypherpunks - Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann - http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/

alx··on Syrian Internet Is Off The Air
https://twitter.com/akamai_soti/status/274163048263057408/ph... Akamai traffic for Syria
alx··on DeadDrops - anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing
Here is Moustreet keys, located in Toulouse, France: http://blog.lamoustacherie.fr/?page_id=3981

The advantage they have is a female plug, you can't physically break it like standard usb key (most of these keys are broken after a year).

But they're disappearing too, people tend to paint walls :)

alx··on Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
Current thread on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/curiosityrover/comments/13i2z4/it_is...
alx··on 29C3 presale has started
Flora Power is made in Hamburg, during your visit you can go visit Ludger and Hans-Werner at http://www.reineckes.com/ they are really welcoming people :)
alx··on Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands
thanks, that's the one :)
alx··on Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands
Can someone remember this presentation about a social network event going horribly wrong?
alx··on Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today
You'd get neither when you could have both. A bit far fetched : "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
alx··on Vimwiki
can you explain your flow?
alx··on OVH's Maintenance SSH Keys compromised
False alert:

The information is wrong, and OVH was right. I hereby apology for the mistake. See this for more details. FS#7060 — Debian: log d'authentification SSH incorrect. http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=7060&edit=yep

alx··on CSS3 meets AMC's Breaking Bad
"I won"
alx··on Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers
Could you manage post backups using git in a local folder? I'm adding it to your issues :)

edit: finally I wouldn't like to break your minimalistic idea down

alx··on [dead]
Could you give us some use-cases where it's not suitable? Thanks :)
alx··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Remote/France

JS/Ruby/Wordpress/Dataviz

Portfolio/Contact : http://www.alexgirard.com

alx··on Minitel, France's precursor to the Web, to go dark 30/6/12
There're still fun hacks to do with minitel, like this webcam extension for example: http://tetalab.org/blog/update-webcam-pour-minitel-%C3%A7a-m...
alx··on Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web
Webcam for minitel: http://tetalab.org/blog/update-webcam-pour-minitel-%C3%A7a-m...
alx··on Solve 50 problems in 50 days
interesting map dataviz
alx··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance

Ruby/Javascript - 3d-printing/dataviz/opensource

http://alexgirard.com

alx··on Weekly Vim Focus
noremap <Up> <nop>

noremap <Down> <nop>

noremap <Left> <nop>

noremap <Right> <nop>

alx··on Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
if you look for something similar and opensource, you should have a look at etherpad-lite: https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite
alx··on Poll: What keyboard layout do you use?
qwerty with spanish layout, because I'm french and really need all the accent chars (spanish qwerty is a perfect mix).
alx··on My 3 hour weekend project: Fix My Movie Subtitles
could you add some screenshots to explain the process?

I'll test it on my next subtitle issue :)

alx··on The new Alan Turing docudrama is available for streaming
Available on torrent: http://torrentz.eu/d92cb0d2e9339e83996b970205d91e350e7c31da
alx··on France's Minitel service in 1983: online banking, eshopping, and B2B
I'm from Tetalab, a hackerspace in Toulouse, France, and we still use the minitel for some hacks with arduino:

http://www.tetalab.org/images/tetalab/MSM.jpg

It's a neat interface, everybody here in France remember it from the 80's, and it quite easy to hack it.

We should soon release an arduino lib for eveybody to hack it, but it'll be quite hard to find a minitel if you're not in France (nobody use it anymore, it's quite easy to find second-hand, but surely heavy to ship...)

alx··on Show HN: Accept Bitcoins on your site
That's really great!

Some feedback:

- "This may take up to 5 minutes." < you might have to explain why - "What is BitWillet?" open a new tab instead of opening inside the popup

alx··on Show HN: Invite to try fiesta.cc - effortless mailing lists
Thanks for this, we used librelist.com to create our ML last months, but it was too opened (archives on google, anyone could join) for some people.

https://fiesta.cc/about do you use mongodb in the backend?

If so, could you give us more technical details about how you connect your mail server to the DB?

alx··on WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy
From a comment on reddit:

Complete docs are not up yet ... The full schedule is as follows:

The first batch of documents that will be in part released Sunday night and the rest Monday will include "lively commentaries" by American diplomats on, among others, Nelson Mandela, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Af...ghan President Hamid Karzai, and Libya's Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

On Tuesday, documents will be released relating to Guantanamo and North and South Korea.

Wednesday will be Pakistan's turn.

Thursday will be dedicated to Canadians and their "inferiority complex".

Claims of corruption in Afghanistan will be aired Friday. Saturday will be about Yemen, and Sunday, China.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ecxhp/the_guardi...

alx··on Two Italian radio hackers vs. The Soviet Union's space program
There was an excellent presentation at the 26C3 last winter about these records:

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/speakers/2755.e...

Unfortunatly, I can't find a link to the presentation record.

alx··on Ask HN: whither Billmonk?
Thanks for splitmybill.ie link, I hope they'll release some export method, otherwise we've just long a year long debt list with my flatmates :/

Funny how this kind of website is really useful.

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