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C++ Software Engineer. Big interest in OpenSource Community for years now. 20+ years linux user. Also a fan of Stephen King books.

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  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 14

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  • I'm almost at the end of The Twelves, by Justin Cronin. It's a bit more fast paced than The Passage which is the previous volume of the series that I read just before but a bit less "deep" also. Anyway, this is a very good trilogy so far, really gripping. Of course, once I finish, I will continue with The City of Mirrors.

  • Which Pipes to choose (Newpipe, Pipepipe, Piped Invidious...etc)?

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  • Otherwise there is also litube. It's not the same concept and thus less privacy friendly but it might be useful too. This is a webview customized for YouTube with an ad blocker, player to play in background and many other functionalities.

  • Self hosted book service

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  • Personally, I found Kavita and Grimmory far too complex for my use and also very resources hungry. At the end CWA is just perfect for me. Still have to configure my kobo e-reader to use it directly and this will for sure be a game changer from my current solution which consist in converting epub to kepub with kepubify and then put it on a local webserver that I open through kobo web browser.

    Update: Kobo sync configured and it's just awesome, just adding book to a shelf and sync the reader as usual and hop, everything downloads and progress updated in cwa.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 20

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  • Yeah very good book indeed, read it last year. It's really fascinating throughout the whole story.

    For others that read it, are the sequels worthy reading?

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 20

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  • I finished The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump, by William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina. So, this is my first non-fiction of 2026 and I found it very interesting but also a bit frightening (especially in regards to recent events, this book is from 2020). I think this is a must read to understand many of the geopolitical stakes of today.

    After that, I started (and still reading) The Passage, by Justin Cronin. So far very very good and I'm just at chapter 3.

  • What’s the Best Lemmy Client App or API? Seeking Recommendations!

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  • Returned to Voyager that I prefer but it's just a matter of taste...

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? December 16

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  • I finished What lies between us, by John Marrs. It was a great psychological thriller with some unexpected twists. I enjoyed it very much, a great reading.

    For now I read a book in French, Le manuscrit inachevé, by Franck Thilliez. It's also a great thriller (with a totally different kind), I'm halfway into it.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? October 21

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  • Still reading Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaïkovski. I'm almost halfway in it. For the moment I enjoy it very much. Half being a great sci-fi story, the world is inhabitable, human search for a new planet (not the only book with this plot) but it's brilliantly developed and written. And there is what happens on the terraformed planet, which is interesting as a dive into the development of a civilization. This also, of course, portray the flaws of our current civilizations. If the remaining is as good, in my opinion, it's a great piece of literature on the sci-fi genre.

  • The Offspring - All I Want (1997)

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  • Oh yeah one of my first teenage CD.

  • Working in a large corporation is a place where you get paid for

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  • In our desktop based application this is more changing tooltip text than button color but I think the principle is the same ;)

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? September 16

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  • I just finished my first ever audio book. Always thought this was not for me because I like reading, you know. Then I gave a try, and that's indeed better than I thought. With audio book I can enjoy literacy while doing activities that never would allowed me to do so, like working (for stuff which do not require 100% concentration) or driving (especially in traffic jams). And I really enjoyed having a story told to me, you know a bit like a madeleine de Proust, something bringing you back to childhood.

    So for the first one I choose one in my native language, French. À retardement, by Franck Thilliez. This is a great thriller around topics on psychiatry, psychotic criminals and so on. I thought it was very well written and, knowing a bit of the topic through the stories of my psychologist partner, I think it's very well documented about the illness and management of it in asylums (although there are parts that are pure fictional without any scientific veracity).

    I'm also reading to another French novel, Le signal, by Maxime Chattam. This is an horror story, maybe inspired by what Stephen King could have written (but as far as I'm in not as good as King - but ok it's very difficult to reach). One interesting suggestion, in the introduction of the novel, the author suggests some music to listen while reading (horror movies soundtracks), never done that before and this is a very good idea (I don't have the ability at each reading session but when I did it, indeed I enjoyed more the book).

  • Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

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  • A good old hacking blog post, very nice...

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 05

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  • What a good idea, a classic I never read yet. Will get it next.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 05

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  • I just (30' ago) finished Le tueur intime, by Claire Favan. Since I'm French native speaker (Belgian), read it in French although I mostly read in English (but when the author is French, better to read the original version). My opinion is mixed, on the story itself, I never considered giving up, I wanted to learn what happens next so a good page turner. I, however, had more difficulties with the writing style which I do not enjoyed that much. I also found that there was a bit too much repeated details on the crimes. After finishing it, I thought that the hero found too easily the solution and that some stuff were poorly studied by the author and thus there was a lack of realism.

    What's next, I don't know, maybe I will (as often) find it in this community ;)

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 22

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  • Just finished Trust, by Hernan Diaz. I read it without looking up at summaries or so before and at first I was a bit disappointed by the first part (and even asked myself if it would not be a dnf). But when I discovered there was 4 parts in this book, progressively revealing the facts, I told myself "what a great piece of literature it is". This is just a real performance for the author to write in 4 different style as if the part were written by different people with the key markers of each type of writing.

    Just started The Whisperer, by Donato Carrisi.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 15

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  • Just finished Trust based on this comment advice. I read it without looking up at summaries or so before and at first I was a bit disappointed by the first part (and even asked myself if it would not be a dnf). But when I discovered there was 4 parts in this book, progressively revealing the facts, I told myself "what a great piece of literature it is". This is just a real performance for the author to write in 4 different style as if the part were written by different people with the key markers of each type of writing. Thanks for this advice, my first reading during my vacation and it was a real piece of artwork.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 15

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  • Just finished The midwife of Auschwitz, by Anna Stuart. Very good, very emotional, just loved this book.

    For now, I search for something lighter for the vacation (and not too complex to follow because during vacations, I'm frequently interrupted in the reading). I don't see something in my to read pile, so I'll look in this post or older. But if someone have an advice...

  • Very water-resistant chalk for asphalt?

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  • If it has to be water resistant, why using chalk instead of paint? Real question, not trying to make fun.

  • Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager

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  • Is there a way to access it with Obtainium (e. g. github project releases) or F-droid?

    Thanks this is a great project.