I’m a Libre Software Craftsman.
My name is Kevin Ottens and I live in France. In general, I love to learn new things regularly which can be technical or about soft skills. Because of that depending who you talk to, you can get a very different picture:
But really even in the different facets above, I always feel like there’s more to learn and more progress to be made. In fact I’m just a mere explorer.
If you want more exhaustive and professional information, you can also download my formal resume.
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-05.
Tags: tech, web, search, microsoft, vendor-lockin
Huh? What’s going on there? I don’t see why they would exclude this domain completely, it makes no sense.
https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, enclosure, vendor-lockin
Interesting point. As we see the collapse of public forums due to the usage of AI chatbots, we’re in fact witnessing a large enclosure movement. And it’ll reinforce itself as the vendors are training on the chat sessions. What used to be in public will be hidden.
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