Martin Quinson ⏚

@emptty
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Eco-anxieux, climato-réactionnaire et féministe.

#teamESR: Enseigne la prog, réseau, OS + méthodo recherche et pédago. Cherche en systèmes distribués, méthodes formelles, OS. Co-auteur de SimGrid

Sympatisant #Debian, @Framasoft et @LaQuadrature.

Webpagehttps://people.irisa.fr/Martin.Quinson/
Codehttps://framagit.org/mquinson
BookWyrmhttps://bw.heraut.eu/user/emptty
Matrix@emptty:matrix.org

*On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech*:

https://archive.org/details/doctorow-39c3

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

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To start the new year, I wrote a summary of what I did as a researcher in computer science and professor in 2025. FWIW.

https://people.irisa.fr/Martin.Quinson/blog/251231/Status_update:_2025

I speak of #SimGrid, software model-checking and exhaustive testing of digital infrastructures, #csUnplugged, #SmolPhone, #FrugalComputing and #DeuxFleurs among other things.

Status update: 2025

> En #Allemagne, des hackers lancent une campagne pour réduire l’emprise technologique américaine

> [Ils] organiseront ce dimanche 4 #janvier et durant l’année #2026 des « journées de l’indépendance numérique », destinées à encourager les utilisateurs à réduire leur dépendance aux #plateformes technologiques américaines.¹

@LaQuadrature @Framasoft join us!

👉 https://di.day
#DiDay
#DigitalIndependenceDay
#JournéesDeLIndépendanceNumérique
#JDLIN

¹ Dec 30 2025: https://euractiv.fr/news/en-allemagne-des-hackers-lancent-une-campagne-pour-reduire-lemprise-technologique-americaine/

Digital Independence Day

Digital Independence Day

“A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet“ – Brilliant in mood, vision, and clarity by @pluralistic.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...

media.ccc.de
@neauoire I was reading your devlog, where you say "I am not convinced that computers solve any real problems either", pointing to a text by @akkartik Maybe reading this great text from @stph may change your mind (if you happen to read French) https://aswemay.fr/co/think.html Computers change the way we think (cf. Vannevar Bush etc), trough abstraction, addressing, connection, duplication, transformation and universality. #uxn is a great computing facility. Maybe it could evolve to a litteracy facility?
Think [As we may...]

RE: https://mediapart.social/@mediapart/115779773446903149

J'aime beaucoup les travaux de Geneviève Pruvost. Comme quoi, pas forcément besoin d'idée grandiose pour créer de l'espoir <3

Bonjour tout le monde!

Aujourd'hui, nous publions la #v4 de notre projet d'#is03, #Ensemblée ! vous pourrez la retrouver https://lownum.scenari-community.org/projets/is03-25a/ensemblee/co/0-presentation.html

Tout d'abord, l'analyse est complètement terminée, avec l'ajout du dernier produit, la méta-communauté noscommunautes.org !
On a aussi avancé sur l'évaluation, avec l'outil Empreinte Fantôme.
Enfin, on a finalisé la phase Publication, en mettant l'affiche à jour, et en publiant une vidéo de présentation de 3 minutes.

On vous laisse aller regarder tout ça, n'hésitez pas si vous avez des questions !

Bonne lecture!
@stph @emptty #lownum

Présentation

Ensemblée

Ensemblée · un outil collaboratif de gestion des connaissances

https://aperi.tube/w/b9T7DFhpVNhPx78m2yuKjH

Ensemblée · un outil collaboratif de gestion des connaissances

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@hare : is there any news from the work on the 32-bit ARM support to QBE and Hare, please? It's an exciting project, thanks for undertaking it!

https://nlnet.nl/project/QBE-32-bit-ARM-support/

NLnet; Adding 32-bit ARM support to QBE and Hare

Scarry video, by a (usually) moderate presenter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAh-xEteBz4

(redacted) excerpts:
The US sees it as a strategic priority that MAGA movements come to power in Europe. They intend to use all their means to support such movements.
Trump administration considers Western Europe within their sphere of influence, and believe it's their role to oversee European politics and to correct the course if the Europeans get out of line.

Source: US National Security Strategy document.

😱 brace!

New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe

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