2021 Podcasts Recommendations

People often ask me for podcasts recommendations, so I thought writing a post about it would make it easier to share. Here are the podcasts that I (regularly) listen to. I will try to keep it updated as much as I can. Business The Twenty...

25 Aug 2021

Get your Raindrop.io bookmarks into Obsidian using Pandoc

It’s no secret I’ve been a fan of Obsidian and Zettelkasten for a little while. In the spirit of Personal Knowledge Management, I’m trying to centralize all my notes and knowledge into something cohesive. This is how I came up with the idea of importing...

30 Apr 2021

The brand new 2020 Aspiring Nerd blog has arrived!

A couple of years ago, I started The Aspiring Nerd as a newsletter (a format that suited me better). Instead of in-depth articles that would take ages to research and write, I started assembling weekly wrap-ups with my commentary and analysis. Unfortunately, I couldn’t keep...

06 Feb 2020

Net Neutrality is dead, cryptojacking keeps spreading & the Mirai Botnet isn’t what you think

Goodbye, net neutrality — Ajit Pai’s FCC votes to allow blocking and throttling By far the biggest news of the last weeks is the FCC killing Net Neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission voted today to deregulate the broadband industry and eliminate net neutrality rules that prohibit Internet...

27 Dec 2017

Parts of the US Internet broke down, a poor guy stole and lost $300m in cryptocurrency by accident

How Level 3’s Tiny Error Shut Off the Internet for Parts of the US A simple misconfiguration caused massive outages for internet service providers and large internet platforms around the US. This is a good reminder that our infrastructures remain very vulnerable. In a “route leak,”...

15 Nov 2017

WiFi is broken, Big Brother lives in China and robots are coming for Wall Street!

Serious flaw in WPA2 protocol lets attackers intercept passwords and much more Unless you live on another planet, you’ll have heard about last week’s bad news: WiFi is broken and your network is most likely insecure now. Researchers have disclosed a serious weakness in the WPA2...

23 Oct 2017
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