https://mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:16:31 -0700https://mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me/we-must-reclaim-ai-not-reject-it.html<p>The past decade has been catastrophic in many aspects, our society is in shambles, the tech industry has fallen into the clutches of a handful of mega corporations and our political landscape falls into fascism deeper every day. During Trump's first term, many of us chose to laugh at the …</p>Mathieu Matilda McBirney~ComandonMon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0700tag:mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me,2026-09-21:/we-must-reclaim-ai-not-reject-it.htmlArticlesAIpoliticshttps://mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me/renaissance.html<p><strong>Disclaimer: This mentions substance use, and should not be considered as a guide or a how-to. Everyone is different and we all react differently to chemicals. Before doing any kind of experimentation on yourself, know the substances, know yourself and be in a calm mindset and environment. For severe traumas …</strong></p>Mathieu Matilda McBirney~ComandonMon, 22 Jun 2026 23:28:25 -0700tag:mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me,2026-06-22:/renaissance.htmlArticleshttps://mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me/email-to-1997.html<p><code>From: mathieu@comandon.org</code></p> <p><code>To: comandon@avo.net</code></p> <p><code>X-TimeMail-When: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:00:00 -0800 (PST)</code></p> <p><code>Subject: I'm you from the future! You've got to read this!!</code></p> <p>First of all, if you're reading this, awesome! This means someone was able to figure out how to send emails back …</p>Mathieu Matilda McBirney~ComandonSun, 25 Aug 2024 16:46:48 -0700tag:mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me,2024-08-25:/email-to-1997.htmlArticleshttps://mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me/not-on-the-same-page.html<p>The past 15 years have been a big journey… from really getting into Linux to learning the technological landscape, building skills, getting jobs… and also of course making Lutris! Since I made my full switch to Linux in 2005, I’ve had this ever growing dedication for the platform and …</p>Mathieu Matilda McBirney~ComandonSun, 25 Aug 2024 16:46:48 -0700tag:mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me,2024-08-25:/not-on-the-same-page.htmlArticleshttps://mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me/pc-no-more.html<p>There are small acts that can seem insignificant at first but can snowball into something much bigger. In this case, that act was taking the graphics cards of both my main workstation and my living room PC and swap them. The less powerful GPU, a Radeon RX580 goes in my …</p>Mathieu Matilda McBirney~ComandonSun, 25 Aug 2024 16:46:48 -0700tag:mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me,2024-08-25:/pc-no-more.htmlArticleshttps://mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me/reset.html<p>I load up an old MySQL backup on an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine to check and see when was the last time I published something on one of my blogs. I find that the most recent post is on my french blog, in 2011. It was about the absurdity …</p>Mathieu Matilda McBirney~ComandonSun, 25 Aug 2024 16:46:48 -0700tag:mathieu.matilda.mcbirney.me,2024-08-25:/reset.htmlArticles