liotier

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Information systems project manager for most of the French ISP and telecommunications operators since 1997. Arguably one of the worst PHP, Bash and Perl script authors in the world.

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Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz missileer.watch

203 liotier 7 days ago 137 comments

Comment · 26 days ago

I'll splurge for the boxed set - with hardcopy manual, and community support included !

Comment · 1 month ago

Electronic toys that are not mass produced are always too expensive for the mass market. Chompi is awfully cute though.

Comment · 1 month ago

You need to go out and socialize with a few satisfied McDonald's customers.

Comment · 1 month ago

Any opening of proprietary chat to useful tools will be used for spam too. It is a curse.

Comment · 2 months ago

I second that remark about Kdenlive having stabilized most impressively.

Comment · 2 months ago

Indeed, Ikea nowadays caters to a range of quality/price optima. Kitchen door finishes make a world of difference in durability and prices. Bedside tables exist with wood-on-plastic-slides drawers - and other models with ball bearing drawers.

Comment · 2 months ago

The existence of "XEP-0365: Server to Server communication over STANAG 5066 ARQ" suggests military usage. Isode advertises XMPP as "The NATO Standard for instant messaging" (https://www.isode.com/secure-xmpp/) and it is one of their core offerings. I remember seeing NATO command posts using IRC long ago - makes sense because it is ultra light, and therefore usable on extremely low bitrate degraded links... XMPP seems to be the successor for that purpose.

https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/XMPP_trials says "On shortwave, you can see the military use this protocol. They are known for using MIL 188-110A Serial HF waveform (fixed 600bps/S) and 6-bit code clear text with dual bursts of STANAG 4539 and STANAG-5066 as for XMPP Multi-User Chat (MUC) messages, over a bandwidth of 34 kHz. Multi-User Chat (MUC) is a central service for military communication. [..] XMPP is widely used for military deployments, where operation over constrained and degraded networks is often essential, particularly for tactical operation"

Comment · 2 months ago

At this point, self-hosting email is as much a practical convenience as it is a political statement. Or maybe I'm just stubborn.

Comment · 2 months ago

Remember December 2025, when Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move ?

Comment · 2 months ago

GPON sniffing made easy, but that is only the first step: nowhere does this project mention AES, churning keys, or any decryption routine. Nowadays most GPON traffic is encrypted (ITU-T G.984.3/G.987.3).