Hervé

@cooldriver
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Web engineer in France. Into video games 🎮, rollercoasters 🎢, movies 🍿, and hiking in the mountains ⛰️. I enjoy tinkering with self-hosting and mostly share things I find interesting.

Migration in progress to @herve

Homepagehttps://herve.alsace
Pronounshe/him
LocationAlsace, France
Beginning the migration process to an alternate smaller instance (@herve). Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly 🤞
Finding out that Ubiquiti supplies the russian military with communications gear and helps them wage an illegal war fills me with absolute disgust. I have been using their equipment for the past six years but now I'm filled with desire to burn it all down.
https://hntrbrk.com/ubiquiti/
Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War

Based on Hunterbrook Media’s reporting, Hunterbrook Capital is short $UI and long a basket of comparable securities at the time of publication. Positions may change at any time. See full disclosures below. Our affiliate Hunterbrook Law is in conversations with litigation firms regarding potential private litigation on behalf of Ukrainians impacted. A Russian soldier climbs a tower, […]

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115974050817264132

This is why I drew a line in the sand.

The industry wants to turn the browser into a concierge between you and the web, interpreting and filtering your reality. They call it delegation - I call it a loss of agency.

A browser should be a tool you wield, not something that makes decisions for you.

@arstechnica maybe worth mentioning us as an alternative ;)

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.

Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren't welcome.

Otherwise you're making it clear we aren't welcome.

It shouldn't just be us doing the work

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silence

#sexism

The silence

Whenever there's fall out in a community or a community space is less diverse, we end up with a postmortem on our community areas. Somet...

cobbles

On my blog — email from family in Minnesota:

https://inessential.com/2026/01/21/email-from-minnesota-family.html

inessential: Email from Family in Minnesota

Tiny Apocalyptic Time Tip 🌐✨

If you too feel uneasy about
the state of the world,
and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,

Know that you can download an
offline copy of Wikipedia!

Here's how 📚👇

1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.

Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right  

3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.

4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 🔍

5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).

Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia

6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 📦

7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!

8. Magic! 📖✨

Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! ⚒️  

#Wikipedia #Kiwix #Offline #KnowledgeIsPower

Kiwix Applications - Access Knowledge Offline on Various Platforms- Kiwix

Discover Kiwix applications that enable offline access to knowledge on different platforms. Explore the convenience of accessing information without an internet connection

Kiwix

Anyway, I finished The Last of Us Part 2.

#QuickReviews

Full review here (⚠️ with spoilers): https://backloggd.com/u/cooldriver/review/3968058/

If there's one thing I'm grateful for with today's gaming machines, it's how they can capture emotions on characters' faces. It adds so much to story-driven games.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it was impossible to tell a gripping story 30 years ago. I shed a tear playing *Link's Awakening* in 160x144 pixels with four shades of gray, after all. But I'm glad I get to experience some of the games coming out nowadays.

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".

I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

#C15 #carBrain #CarDependency #SUV #NoSUV #Pickup_truck