Bonjour !

Je rassemble ici des liens vers des sites web que j'apprécie et souhaite partager : articles, documentaires, jeux, sites de référence...
Shaarli est un logiciel libre & open-source qui peut servir d'alternative décentralisée à Facebook / Twitter.
Il me sert aussi à retrouver facilement des liens à partir de tags thématiques.
Songez à laisser un commentaire pour échanger sur des sujets qui vous intéressent !

-Lucas - (blog ludochaordic)

Hi !

Here I collect links to websites I like and want to share : articles, documentaries, games, reference websites...
Shaarli is a free & open-source software that can serve as a decentralized alternative to Facebook / Twitter.
It also helps me to easily retrieve links based on tags.
Think about leaving a comment on links you would like to exchange about !

-Lucas - (blog ludochaordic)

In the end, we found that the maximum connections concept was too imprecise to provide the complete answer to the puzzle. In this article, we’ll describe other approaches such as load shedding that we found worked well.

A woman living in Kenya’s Dadaab, which is among the world’s largest refugee camps, wanders across the vast, dusty site to a central hut lined with computers. [...] A day’s work might include labelling videos, transcribing audio, or showing algorithms how to identify various photos of cats.

CLI to analyze IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm, ARM Templates and Serverless framework

More details from a former Site Reliability Engineer at Facebook: https://twitter.com/RenaudGuerin/status/1445114486457880582

Cela signifie que vous devez comprendre ce qui est meilleur pour l’intrigue dans son ensemble, parce que nous donnons tous un spectacle les uns pour les autres, que nous le voulions ou non.

nous jouons des personnages sur scène, et nous les jouons bien – ce sont les marionnettes – mais nous devons nous souvenir que la scène doit mener quelque part, doit soulever des questions intéressantes et peut-être y répondre – et ça, c’est le domaine du marionnettiste

J'ai récidivé : ayant déjà traduit plusieurs courts jeux de rôle de M. Grant Howitt, je viens de publier une traduction gratuite, avec l'accord de Rowan, Rook and Decard, de son fantastique jeu Havoc Brigade.

Incarnez la Brigade du Chaos, une escouade d'orcs chahuteurs …

1. The Mechanics

   The player should not have to figure "what to do"
   just "how to do it".

2. The Catch

   Logical contradiction where 2 things are seemingly
   in conflict with one another.

3. The Revelation

   Think outside the box, about how the game works
   This discovery becomes part of your toolbox going on

4. The Assumption

   Lure the player that he knows how to beat the puzzle.
   Why?

   1. Gives the player a starting point
   2. Help to build a mental model of the puzzle
   3. Ensure the player fails the puzzle the 1st time
   4. Focus the player on the puzzle Catch

5. The Presentation

   Pretty minimalist, with few moving parts,
   giving the feeling that it shouldn't be hard to beat
   Also: provide clear feedback

6. The Curve

   No puzzle is given to the player in isolation
   Criteria to judge a puzzle difficulty:

   1. Number of possible solutions
   2. Number of steps required
   3. Number of options a player can choose at each moment
   4. Number of mechanics the player needs to be familiar with

• Culture: mutual trust, willingness to learn and continuous improvement, constant flow of information, open-mindedness to changes and experimentation
• Automation: deployment pipelines (CI/CD), comprehensive test automation
• Lean: minimize WIP state, shorten and amplify feedback loops, look for opportunities to remove waste, fix errors as they are discovered
• Measurement: monitoring, system metrics, KPIs
• Sharing: sharing knowledge & practices, including successes & failures, learn from each other's experiences, proactively communicate, shadowing & pairing on tasks

Article passionnant décrivant un mode de jeu en campagne de JdR très séduisant !

Les joueurs envoient des messages au groupe en indiquant quand ils veulent jouer et ce qu’ils veulent faire. Un message du type « J’aimerais jouer mardi. Je veux retourner chercher ce monastère en ruine dont on a entendu parler après les Collines-Dorées. Je sais que Camille veut jouer, mais nous pourrions avoir l’usage de quelques bras supplémentaires. Qui est intéressé ? » Les joueurs intéressés interviennent et une négociation s’ensuit. Les joueurs peuvent proposer d’autres dates, d’autres endroits à explorer (« Je suis allé au monastère et c’est trop dangereux. »), peu importe – c’est un processus chaotique et les détails s’arrangent d’eux-mêmes. En théorie, cela reflète ce qui se passe dans la taverne dans le monde du jeu : les aventuriers parlent de leurs plans, trouvent des camarades pour les rejoindre, partagent des informations, etc.

Kanboard focuses on simplicity and minimalism

Can connect to your LDAP/Active Directory server or use any OAuth2 provider (Google, GitHub, GitLab...).

With traffic profiles where requests arrive in at periodic intervals, and a low total amount of requests, serverless architecture seems to be a great architecture in terms of cost, speed of delivery and effort. Thus, Lambda is probably the way to go if our application has sufficiently large periods of inactivity. Once the break-even point is reached, when EC2 is more cost-effective than Lambda, the cost difference grows rapidly, making Lambda less and less attractive in terms of cost. Thus, it is of great importance to know if the expected amount of traffic will be around the break-even point. Be aware of the CPU throttling you will get with the smaller memory flavors of Lambda. If your code is CPU-bound, choosing the smaller memory flavors might not be an option, since execution times, and thus latency, might grow beyond your requirements. On the other hand, if your code is I/O bound, the CPU throttling might not affect you significantly. Break-even point (if there is one, that is) strongly depends on the application itself. Without measuring the target application code, knowing the intended usage of the service, the SLA and the capabilities of the team in charge of building the application it is almost impossible to know for sure which service, Lambda or EC2, is more convenient.

Source: http://taint.org/2021/08/10/235801a.html

Learning the best way of combining your love for math and programming

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim

Examples: https://docs.manim.community/en/latest/examples.html

The other day, while watching La Carte aux trésors at my elderly neighbor's house, I casually played peg solitaire on a board she has.

After many failures at trying to get rid of all pawns but one, I started to wonder about the mathematics & algorithmics behind that game...

Back home …

cf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier_de_test_Eicar

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

FROM: https://sebsauvage.net/links/?0rGdAQ

Pour vous amuser à en créer en Python, avec fpdf2:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# REQUIRE: pip install fpdf2 pdf417 qrcode
import fpdf, pdf417, qrcode
EICAR = 'X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*'
pdf = fpdf.FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font("Helvetica", size=30)
pdf.text(90, 20, "EICAR")
pdf.text(10, 60, "PDF-417:")
pdf.image(pdf417.render_image(pdf417.encode(EICAR)), x=10, y=60)
pdf.text(10, 140, "QRCode:")
pdf.image(qrcode.make(EICAR).get_image(), x=35, y=145)
pdf.output("eicar.pdf")

J'ai testé cette fonctionnalité et ça fonctionne en effet très bien si vous avez un numéro de portable Free !

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