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We often see privacy as a topic for academic debates and activists’ demonstrations. We shouldn’t. Having a grasp over the concept — in short, telling Privacy from Not Privacy — helps in many ways. (more…)

I don’t like:

• official loudspeaker announcements;
• promises;
• the saying “it’s a small world”;
• guitar slapping;
• when things are sorted alphabetically;

I like:

• beginning a long driving trip;
• treasuring an object that only has value to me;
• summer storms;
• font names;
• finding out I have changed my mind;
• back-light;
• French words in English sentences;
• listing likes and dislikes spontaneously (also for no reason).

My talk at the Parisian Hacker Space Festival went well. The little event was popping with good ideas but seemed to obstinately refuse to make an impression. As if some hacker Freudian über-Ich kept the organizers from indulging into anything ‘ordinary’ —a coat of paint, untangled cabling, a working toilet— for fear that it might diminish their technology-fiddling identity. An amusing lot.

I am indebted to one person who lent me his laptop for the presentation and to whom I did not have the opportunity to talk to afterwards — thank you very much.

Due to the disparity of sources and room for misinterpretation, I only share my slides privately; but a package of source files is available (sorted by copyright license). A video is also provided, self-compiled from a multitude of proprietary bits¹. Caution though: contrary to other times, I wasn’t aiming for a wide diffusion. What you have here is an overly enthusiastic aerodynamicist talking to a group of geeks, with imperfect slides featuring a koala. You have been warned.

1. A proprietary flash plugin is required to download them from an external website. How convincing are you as a self-proclaimed free-culture-and-technology group, when you hand over your voice (proprietary storage, protocol and software) to a couple of corporations? Not very. [↩]