Open‑source electronic medical records (EMRs) for a healthy digital life TL;DR Free software for electronic medical records (like OSCAR, OpenEMR, DoliMed) offers medical, dental and therapeutic clinics a free, secure and flexible alternative. ✅ Lower cost ✅ Local hosting =...
Digital sovereignty and organisational/national resilience TL;DR: 🛡️ Sovereign hosting means ensuring that your data are hosted in Quebec or Canada by a local company not subject to foreign laws (e.g., the US Cloud Act). ⚖️ Why does it matter? Protect privacy...
Nextcloud Hub : the open source alternative to proprietary clouds Introduction: Taking Back Control of Your Data In a world where data security and privacy have become rare commodities (and sometimes out of reach for ordinary people), more and more individuals and o...
Matrix and Element: a free and sovereign alternative to Slack, Teams and Discord TL;DR 🧩 Matrix: an open, federated messaging protocol (think email, but for chat). 💬 Element: the main, modern and free application, compatible with other clients (Cinny, FluffyChat…). 🔒 Privacy: end‑...
Mastodon: the decentralised social network TL;DR: Mastodon is a decentralised, free and ad‑free social network. It operates as a federation of autonomous instances that communicate with each other, giving control back to communities and the pe...
“I’m sorry, Big Tech suggests that you’re guilty.” TL;DR The Quebec Superior Court is launching an AI pilot in a sandbox hosted in Canada, limited to research and drafting assistance and framed by a governance framework that recalls judicial independe...
Peer-to-Peer File Synchronization: Syncthing, Resilio Sync and Alternatives Synchronisation de fichiers en P2P : Syncthing, Resilio Sync et autres alternatives en entreprise TL;DR En bref Le P2P synchronise des dossiers directement entre appareils, sans serveur central. RĂ©sul...
Replacing Bit.Ly and Similar Services Remplacer Bit.Ly et cie TL;DR L’application Link Tracker d’Odoo Community permet de remplacer des services comme Bitly, T.LY ou Dub.co pour la création et le suivi de liens courts. Fonctionnalités clé...
LibreSign: open electronic signatures serving data sovereignty TL;DR: What it is: An electronic signature app integrated with Nextcloud. Free, self‑hostable, sovereignty‑oriented. Why it’s interesting: Documents never leave your servers. No per‑signature subscrip...
Resisting the “Microsoft tax” in the face of the end of Windows 10 In brief Windows 10 stops receiving free updates on 14 October 2025. Paying for extended updates or having to buy new hardware is seen by many as a “Microsoft tax”. Organisations have launched a mobil...
The role of the OCA (Odoo Community Association) TL;DR The OCA is a non‑profit association created in 2013 and based in Switzerland. It supports collaboration around Odoo Community so that companies can adopt an open, sustainable and high‑quality ER...
Best Hardening Practices for Windows and Linux TL;DR: Windows 11 impose TPM 2.0 et Secure Boot, ce qui pose une base matérielle solide. Sur beaucoup d’appareils récents, la sécurité par virtualisation (VBS) et l’intégrité de mémoire HVCI sont acti...