I’m Ploum, a writer alternating between a bépo keyboard and old mechanical typewriters on which I imagine our futures. My latest novel, Bikepunk, is available in every good (French-speaking) book store. Without a keyboard, you can find me underwater or on a bike.
As « Lionel Dricot », I pretend to be respectable to teach software freedom at École Polytechnique de Louvain.
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=> 2024-12-23 : My colleague Julius | 2024-12-16 : 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 2) | 2024-10-20 : 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 1) | 2024-07-01 : On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons | 2024-04-08 : About Freedom and Power | 2024-03-18 : A Society That Lost Focus
=> 2023-11-25 : Announcing Offpunk 2.0 | 2023-11-10 : The gift of time | 2023-10-01 : The future of Offpunk: UNIX command-line heaven and packaging hell | 2023-08-01 : Splitting the Web | 2023-07-06 : Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed | 2023-06-23 : How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) | 2023-06-19 : We need more of Richard Stallman, not less | 2023-03-09 : Losing Signal | 2023-03-03 : About Bluesky and Decentralisation | 2023-02-22 : We need to talk about your Github addiction | 2023-02-15 : Modern AI and the end of privacy | 2023-02-11 : On Humans and Machines
=> 2022-12-05 : Drowning in AI Generated Garbage : the silent war we are fighting | 2022-12-03 : Reinventing How We Use Computers | 2022-11-15 : Offpunk 1.7 : Offpunk and Sourcehut | 2022-11-09 : Evolution of the Web. | 2022-11-07 : Our responsibility as software engineers | 2022-11-06 : Thank you rawtext.club (and the whole Gemini sphere)! | 2022-10-21 : How to manage a mailing list? | 2022-10-10 : Be angry against institutions, be nice to people | 2022-10-07 : A Technological Analogy | 2022-10-06 : RE: Archiving the smallnet & fantasizing about a free mesh based internet | 2022-10-05 : There Is No Content on Gemini | 2022-09-29 : My Chrissy Teigen Moment | 2022-09-28 : Creating Against Consuming | 2022-09-20 : MAGMA Monopolies | 2022-08-04 : Offpunk 1.5 : A Huge Thank You to Packagers | 2022-06-22 : Removing the "packaging cruft" from the web. Or buying without packaging with Gemini. | 2022-04-25 : Why Gemini Is Essential | 2022-04-05 : The Theological Problem Behind Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 | 2022-04-02 : Offpunk 1.3 : Making it Easy and Useful | 2022-04-01 : Small OpenBSD and FreeBSD Experiment | 2022-03-29 : A Call to Packagers | 2022-03-25 : Where To Live? | 2022-03-24 : Rendering the Web with Pictures in Your Terminal : more than you would like to know about HTML, ANSI and the philosophy of communication. | 2022-03-14 : Offpunk and Cyberpunk : Text and Voice | 2022-03-05 : This is Madness! No, This is Offpunk 0.9! | 2022-02-21 : Offpunk 0.4 - RSS Reading and Knowledge Management | 2022-02-11 : Offpunk 0.3 : Gopher, Pictures and Feeds | 2022-01-31 : Announcing Offpunk 0.2 : What is Offline? | 2022-01-18 : RE: Design vs Evolution | 2022-01-13 : How I Dropped Pocket to Go Offline | 2022-01-11 : Implementing a web browser in a weekend (and in Offpunk) | 2022-01-07 : Adventures With Less | 2022-01-06 : 2022-01-06 : Discussing about Gemini on Gemini ? | 2022-01-04 : Aborting Instead of Getting Stuck | 2022-01-03 : Announcing Offpunk 0.1 and a year offline
=> 2021-12-24 : New features for AV-98-offline | 2021-12-17 : Browsing Gemini Offline | 2021-12-10 : Need help: Offline and sync-only modes for AV-98 | 2021-12-07 : Frustration is the best teacher, choosing tools to focus on | 2021-12-06 : Offline support in AV-98 | 2021-11-19 : Start:ing my offline-tools… | 2021-11-09 : Teaching Gemini at university, dreaming of moving out of Wordpress, simplifying my tools and thinking about learning emacs | 2021-10-28 : RE: Reading "The Mysteries of Udolpho" | 2021-10-25 : Offmini (part 2): Designing a Simple Offline and Decentralised Mail and Web | 2021-10-20 : The Monstrosity Email Has Become | 2021-10-10 : Offmini, My Dream of Making Gemini Offline and Distributed | 2021-10-07 : Astrohaus Freewrite vs reMarkable | 2021-09-30 : Is Fairphone repairability just marketing ? | 2021-09-24 : Looking for offline-first tools | 2021-09-20 : Back to paper (and typewriters) | 2021-02-04 : The computer built to last 50 years | 2021-01-22 : I don’t smoke Gemini | 2021-01-12 : Offline-First, Typewriters, Emails and Gemini | 2021-01-10 : The Offline-First Quest
=> 2020-07-07 : The Story Behind an Open Source Software Un-Maintenance | 2020-02-24 : Despair and Hope: From the Stupidity of Academic Bureaucracy to the Poetry of Bitcoin
=> 2019-09-17 : How I learn to stop worrying and love the decentralized future
=> 2017-11-12 : An “Open Pay Wall”, has Medium lost its mind?
=> 2016-09-01 : Sunrise, the calendar of the future | 2016-04-13 : Dreaming of subscript.io
=> 2014-11-12 : Dear 2002’s self, | 2014-06-18 : Flattr: Decentralized Payments Paving A Roadless Web | 2014-06-04 : The Blogger from Tomorrow (Part II) | 2014-01-08 : My 2014 Terra Incognita
=> 2013-11-22 : Louis Michel Affair: Lobbies Switch From Influencing To Directly Writing European Laws | 2013-10-24 : Tintin And The Copyright Sharks | 2013-10-05 : The Blogger from Tomorrow (Part I) | 2013-08-28 : The First Global Civil War | 2013-08-19 : Open Letter to Flight Attendants | 2013-08-06 : Exploring Artistic Business Models in the 21st Century | 2013-07-23 : The Last GUADEC? | 2013-06-24 : Flattr’s biggest problem | 2013-05-30 : I don’t want to post on Medium… | 2013-05-27 : Become a Patron of Arts and Letters | 2013-05-22 : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web | 2013-05-17 : The Fight for E-Clothing | 2013-05-08 : The Cost of Being Convinced | 2013-03-28 : The Disruptive Free Price | 2013-03-24 : The Death of My Best Enemy | 2013-03-22 : The Day I saved A Life | 2013-03-14 : Feel free to tip free content | 2013-02-26 : Ripple, making Bitcoin easier (or obsolete) | 2013-02-22 : Why you are probably not at inbox 0 (but should be) | 2013-02-13 : The Publisher’s Dilemma | 2013-02-07 : The Morality of Filesharing and the Thought Police | 2013-02-05 : Meet John Doe, founder of Blackma.il | 2013-02-04 : The Winmail.dat Syndrome | 2013-01-27 : Paying for the web? | 2013-01-18 : An Open Letter To Pirated Artists | 2013-01-10 : I don’t care about your business model | 2013-01-06 : The Ghost Web | 2013-01-03 : Stay on top of your inbox in 2013
=> 2012-12-29 : The future of book publishing | 2012-12-21 : In the year 292,277,026,596 | 2012-12-19 : Changing the world, one task at a time | 2012-12-11 : A Google’s world | 2012-12-05 : Murder is a terrible thing… | 2012-11-26 : XKCD’s law | 2012-11-16 : On usability, free software and perfection | 2012-11-08 : Liblarch, a python library to handle trees and acyclic graphs | 2012-10-15 : For a fistfull of votes | 2012-09-27 : When technical experts do the job of politicians | 2012-08-30 : Writing on a smartphone: review of 8pen and MessagEase | 2012-08-07 : A freasy future for GNOME | 2012-05-24 : France gives 700,000 blank votes to one private company | 2012-04-19 : Being selected as a Summer of Code student | 2012-03-19 : What if Ubuntu were right? | 2012-03-12 : My experience working with patents | 2012-03-09 : The Quest for the Best GNOME 3 distribution | 2012-02-15 : The Backyard Digging (and filling it back afterwards) Point | 2012-02-13 : Getting Thing GNOME is alive (and released)! | 2012-01-27 : FlattrStat, a small statistic tool for Flattr | 2012-01-18 : Why I’m a Pirate! | 2012-01-17 : The End of the Revolution
=> 2011-11-21 : Crosscompiling LibreOffice for Windows on Linux | 2011-11-06 : What happened during GSoC 2011? | 2011-11-05 : The aristocratic desktop (part 4) : Kill The Double Click | 2011-10-22 : So long Ubuntu, and thanks for all the fish | 2011-10-19 : One year of LibreOffice | 2011-06-29 : Proposal for a decentralized and open online payment protocol | 2011-05-30 : Elections 2011: fostering the GNOME commercial ecosystem | 2011-05-18 : Open Discussion Day 2011 : Why Decentralization Matters | 2011-05-17 : Emacs Intosh | 2011-04-27 : The Bitcoin Bubble | 2011-04-15 : Visionary | 2011-04-06 : Cricket, cows and GNOME 3 | 2011-03-16 : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Shell | 2011-02-07 : The Official European Joke | 2011-02-02 : Building your web identity
=> 2010-12-02 : Joining Lanedo | 2010-10-24 : Migrating an existing LDAP database to a new computer
=> 2009-12-12 : Getting GTG 0.2 released – Done ! | 2009-10-24 : In bed with Ryan Lortie | 2009-10-13 : Gpager 0.3 « Scenes From a Memory – Finally Free » | 2009-09-23 : Why I don’t contribute to Wikipedia anymore | 2009-08-26 : How to be a lazy but successful Google SoC mentor | 2009-08-25 : Board of columns of keys | 2009-08-05 : The aristocratic desktop (part 3) : There’s no tray icon in GNOME! | 2009-03-11 : Modify your application to use XDG folders | 2009-03-07 : Getting Things Gnome! 0.1 – « Just 5 minutes more » | 2009-02-26 : Alone | 2009-02-04 : Upgrading an existing Ubuntu : the kill-your-desktop machine ! | 2009-01-31 : The signals and threads flying circus | 2009-01-05 : The aristocratic desktop (part 2) : Home is Desktop
=> 2008-12-23 : Happy Newtonmas 2142 ! | 2008-08-31 : The aristocratic desktop (part 1) | 2008-07-30 : Hardy is a hard time… | 2008-04-08 : I’m not a virgin anymore/there’s always a first time | 2008-02-28 : Very simple video editing/DVD burning in Ubuntu | 2008-02-24 : Cleaning user preferences, keeping user data | 2008-01-30 : Somewhere in the 21st century : a little Bongo history
=> 2007-05-24 : Ubuntu Live … without me | 2007-05-18 : Open Discussion Day this Saturday May 19th – Just take off ! | 2007-05-10 : The Invisible Captcha Mechanism (ICM) against Form Spam | 2007-05-08 : 2nd Open Discussion Day this May 19th | 2007-05-02 : Do I have to protect my content with DRM ? (The DRM equation) | 2007-04-24 : FLISOL 2007 in Guadalajara | 2007-04-19 : Ubuntu Feisty, where things starts + Party in Guadalajara | 2007-03-29 : Conseil 0.2 « Zapopan » | 2007-03-11 : Conferences, life, ties, stuffs like that… | 2007-02-07 : Moving to Guadalajara… | 2007-01-31 : Putting the keyboard to rest…
=> 2006-07-15 : Conseil 0.1 « Grand Canal » | 2006-07-07 : Conseil 0.0.1 « In The Middle of The Boxes » | 2006-06-20 : Les spammeurs vont se faire bayeser ! | 2006-06-01 : The Long Term Support Flying Car | 2006-05-17 : The captive clown | 2006-04-06 : May 19th – The Open Discussion Day – 19 mai | 2006-04-01 : Official Ubuntu ID cards announced | 2006-03-15 : Why you should try Epiphany as your default browser with GNOME 2.14 | 2006-03-01 : It’s a long way to the top… | 2006-02-23 : Say hello to your planet ! | 2006-01-11 : The Ploum’s Ultimate Anti-Spam Solution
=> 2005-10-04 : A brief « Linux on the desktop » retrospective | 2005-08-30 : The bulb and the flower… | 2005-05-31 : [Oneliner 13] | 2005-02-03 : [Oneliner 9]
=> 2004-11-29 : Do you want to come for a dinner tomorrow ? | 2004-11-21 : [Oneliner 6] | 2004-11-09 : Don’t be fooled ! Keep Internet Explorer at all cost ! | 2004-11-05 : [Oneliner 4] | 2004-11-02 : [Oneliner 2] | 2004-10-31 : Too early in Sweden | 2004-10-25 : I don’t want people to use Gnome applications anymore…
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