Hi there,
My name is Olivier Falcoz. I am a random French-speaking bloke who goes by the online persona of 9x0rg. You may have met me under the nicknames elpanzer or panz’ in the past.
I’m a Infosec & risk management professional at day, formerly based in the Asia-Pacific region and now impatriated in Provence.
During my years in Asia, I’ve been one of the maintainers of two MTB-related websites; KLMBH an association that preserves the tradition of the running Hash1 but on a mountain bike and TRAKS, a trail conservancy NGO of Malaysia. So you will probably find a lot of cross-posts here from these two groups of fine folks.
I ride mountain bikes. Specifically, a big, rugged enduro mountain bike. Don’t expect to see me on a roadie thinguy but rather on a (too steep) a slope trying to follow my front wheel at (too high) speed2.
Incidentally, in 2013 I co-organized the first Enduro Asia MTB race in Malaysia, supported by Red Bull, with the proud ambition of launching afterwards the Asian (Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia) chapter of the Enduro World Series, no less. It didn’t happen. I guess we were a bit ahead of ourselves. Nice experience though.
Purpose
This blog is a loose collection (en vrac in French) of posts, started sometime around 2008 that I am still in the process of migrating from another platform.
I use it myself to bookmark events of interest and sometimes to express my own opinions or ideas and a few rants of course, about infosec & data privacy, tech, mountain biking, All Things Asian including politics and #TGIF for anything else that doesn’t fit anywhere else..
Most of the content is published in what can probably be described as half-baked English language or sometimes in French. Feel free to browse through the posts by categories which I just try to organize in relevant topics or use the archives or the search feature.
Tech
My first PC as a kid was a Commodore I think, quickly followed by an Apple IIe. This, I believe makes me an honorary member of the #TeamOld.
Data Privacy advocate and strong supporter of free and open-source software3 I use Linux on all computers since 2006. All things Microsoft are forbidden in the house.
Arch Linux has been my daily driver since 2015 and the couple of servers I maintain with the help of Yunohost run Debian. Oh, my phone is obviously ungoogled.
This site has been hosted on various domain names over the years, first on WordPress, then on Tumblr when it was cool. I somehow abandoned it from 2018 onwards and only recently decided to revive it.
This website is now static, contains no tracker, no cookies and runs on Hugo. The Wondermod theme is provided by the fine folks at WonderFall.
Contact
Fediverse
Find me on Mastodon at @9x0rg@mamot.fr
olivier |at| 9x0rg d0t com
I’m done with PGP encrypted emails. The PGP key ed25519/0xCAAD364477DA43C8/ 26BC C458 2D54 0A23 FE24 0C27 CAAD 3644 77DA 43C8 is now revoked. Drop me a line and I’ll give you my Signal username.
Matrix
Contact me through Matrix4 at @olivier:envs.net.
The privacy policy for the envs.net homeserver is available at this page.
XMPP/Jabber
xmpp:oyapok@chapril.org
OMEMO5 fingerprints
D20AE21A 2177C81F 3C41C939 14F4CDCA
13627D12 F6AB1529 B4C998B8 3D8AE92A
79F16DEE D10D88D1 07E1FE92 7C636485
7096955F FE03EDA9 F3822A4A 15F9F94C
Git forge
The Hash House Harriers (Wikipedia) ↩︎
No trees were injured ever in the making of these countless stunts on two wheels. ↩︎
See Free and open-source software (Wikipedia) ↩︎
Matrix is a networking protocol for real-time communication ↩︎