freenas Raid-Proof Your FreeNAS with USBKill By virtue of being a very multi-functional appliance in most settings, a FreeNAS machine has the potential to be a very sensible part of your rack. Even if you don't use jails or VMs to host anything, it's still a fileserver at the bare
All Storj, The “Sharing” Economy and Why It Matters The sharing economy is a buzzword which has gained enormous traction despite the fact that it remains misunderstood, in my opinion. The luddite politicians who have been vocal against it on the grounds that it’s a dishonest loophole for escaping regulatory frameworks have
All In Defense of Political Radicals Sometimes, life imitates shitposting. Under the guise of conducting research, I've come to join and like an absolutely inordinate amount of politically-inclined shitposting groups and pages. It's bad, to the point where normie posts about meals, trips and life achievements have been completely drowned
All Home Network Segmentation, NAT Loopback to VLAN on Ubiquiti Unifi Gear I've been putting off segmenting my network for a while now, but the recent IoT botnet powered DDoS has bumped the task up my list of priorities, and I finally got around to doing it. Generally, if your network is anything other than non-critical
All The Internet of Things Needs Integrators, Not Gadgets Crowd-funding and the sharp drop in development costs for internet connected device has given us both an onslaught of useless gadgets, and the much overused buzzword "Internet of Things", or IoT. The concept has been pushed way past the borders of absurdity,
45enord Les «28 pages» et leurs significations pour les relations américano-saoudiennes Il y a quelques semaines, une mystérieuse portion de la Commission jointe sur les actions de la communauté de renseignement avant et après les attaques terroristes du 11 septembre 2001 (en anglais, Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Actions Before and After the Terrorist Attacks
28 pages THE 28 PAGES & SAUDI-AMERICAN RELATIONS Late last week, a mysterious portion of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Actions Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of the September 11th, 2001, which had been classified since the report’s release, was declassified following a two-year long declassification review. Know colloquially
100 Bypassing Bell Fibe FTTH Hub with Ubiquiti EdgeMAX Equipment Whenever I have to interact with big telcos, I inevitably come to ask myself why they are still in business. It's a wonder that companies that are so big and so dysfunctional on so many levels still have any customers at all. I've recently
All Headless Steam In-Home Streaming, Pt 1: My Experience For almost exactly three years now, I've been using a mid-2013 13.3" Macbook Air as my primary machine. As I explained in a review which has now disappeared with the demise of Epinions, I didn't expect the transition from an expensive gaming
All Free Dakota: A Review Let me start this off by stating that I'm probably not the good person to review fiction. Following my review of The Free Market Existentialist, Dr. Irwin offered to send me a review copy of his recently released Free Dakota, and I gladly accepted
All Brexit is the EU's Ultimate Test I don't like independence referenda, and Brexit was not an exception. As with all things political, they invariably end up being subject to manipulation from every side with skin in the game. Campaigns get real dirty real quick, and why not? In the end,
All Does Realism Need a Saviour? Alexander Kirss' recent article publish on War on the Rocks caused quite the stir in the foreign policy circles in the last days: apart from being a flamboyant example of insubordination from a fellow to it's think thank, it added fuel to the fire
All The Free Market Existentialist: Review and Musings When I first joined the libertarian camp through my membership and subsequent candidacy in Trois-Rivières for the Libertarian Party of Canada, I had low expectations as to quality of the philosophical discourse I would be hearing. In terms of political philosophy, I had read
All The Libertarian Case for Bernier Libertarian discussion groups on Facebook are filled with vitriol, and that's putting it lightly. Our reputation for infighting precedes us, but I believe that the same thing could be said about ideology-based communities; if the Marxist meme pages I following on social media are
Le projet de loi 100 anti-Uber, point par point Le chat est sorti du sac: après plusieurs mois d'inactions, le ministre des transports a enfin déposé à l'assemblée nationale un projet de loi pour clarifier le statut légal des services de transports comme Uber. Sans grande surprise, le projet de loi réitère "
All Note à Legault : La CAQ aliène son publique cible Aux dernières élections provinciales, j'ai voté pour la CAQ pour protester les deux autres partis. Le nationalisme québécois dans sa forme institutionnalisée chez les grands partis me puent au nez, avec leur culture d'État dictée à coup de loi 101. De plus, je suis
air OS X Screen Lock Keyboard Shortcuts with Non-Apple Keyboard For 3 years now, I have been using a base mid-2013 Haswell-powered Macbook Air as my primary machine. At the time, I was just entering university, and I sold my all-custom, high-dollar gaming rig to keep myself away from gaming, and in the hopes
2015 On Electoral Reform Version française à venir! In the halls of the Social Sciences faculties like the one that I am just coming out of, there is lots of recurrent criticisms about the current state of democracy world-wide. Freshly imbued with the theory of how democracy should
2015elections The Ala Buzreba Case: What Future for Millennial Politicians? Another election campaign, another scandal involving young candidates. In the last provincial campagne in Quebec just barely over a year ago, a candidate for the Coalition Avenir Quebec was publicly shamed for pictures posted on Facebook which showed him nude, but which were PG-13
All Uber et le covoiturage: Lettre au Ministre Poëti Uber dérange: il dérange au même titre que le VHS, Napster, le iPod a dérangé. Face aux dérangement, l'État fait la seule chose qu'elle est capable de faire: réprimer les gens et les innovateurs qui brisent le statu quo. Dans la dernière année, les
52b52w 52B/52W, Week 10: Irak La Machine Infernale Irak la machine infernale – Samir al-Khalil Remember Derriennic from my second post? This book is his fault. As a matter of fact, many books I own are his fault: I went absolutely nuts one night with his reading list for his Middle East class,
52b52w 52B/52W, Week 9: Comment mettre la droite K.-O. en 15 arguments Comment mettre la droite K.-O. en 15 arguments - Jean-Francois Lisée I'm back from an almost semester-long hiatus! The reading hasn't stopped... however, most of the reading I have done during this period was school stuff that may or may not have been
52booksin52weeks 52B/52W, Week 8: Simulacre et simulation Simulacres et simulation - Jean Baudrillard I had one more week to read something not related to my university work, and I decided to go hard in the proverbial paint. I've been wanting to read this since I've heard about it on a documentary
52booksin52weeks 52B/52W, Week 7: Ethique à l'usage de mon fils Ethique à l'usage de mon fils - Fernando Savater Another CEGEP read from my flat-mate's bookshelf... the next book to be review is a quite rough read, so I had to read something lighter. While I didn't learn much from this book, I'm still
a history of modern lebanon 52B/52W, Week 6: A History of Modern Lebanon A History of Modern Lebanon - Fawwaz Traboulsi This is a book on historical facts about Lebanon, hence very hard to review since I am far from being an expert on Lebanon. As such, this post will not be a review, but rather a
