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quantified-self is passé, let me introduce the brand new linked-self

When I think about all the quantified-self stuff, I can't help but recall this xkcd strip. Quantified self, lifelogging, IoT, are all "blockier" samples of the real world as well. But

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digital identity

what Pirandello, Rifkin and Pandora have to do with digital identity

In his 1926 novel one, no one and one hundred thousand, Pirandello talks about the struggle between our perceived identity and the masks that society force us to wear every day. It's a

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digital

are we building a new kind of tradition?

Since our days at school, we have all been taught about oral traditions and how they were marginalized by the advent of the written ones. A great portion of our cultures just faded

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MacOS

it's cold and dark outside your beloved ssh servers after MacOS Sierra upgrade

If like me you own very old ssh keys, chances are that are a weak dsa ones. Unfortunately for us lazy admins, the latest release of MacOS seems to be compliant with the

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ruby

backup vmware esxi with a rake (script)

Recently we built a small VMware ESXi cluster (3 nodes) for testing and developing purpose. After playing with it for a while (and spinning up a few dozen vms), we started looking around

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qlikview

... a little rspec(t) for Qlikview

In the past I've been asked to test a complex Qlikview Project with lots of variables, events and macros. Manual testing was becoming too complex and boring, so I helped adding a bit

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