Dissident doesn’t want to be just another platform. We see ourselves as an antidote to a world exclusively designed for and by the Big Tech. A slower, deeper, and healthier alternative for our personal, social and public content. — After two years of development and private testing, we are happy to announce the grand opening of the Dissident platform and our 3 products: Desktop, Dashboard, and Library.

Most of you have probably never heard about Desktop. It was never really intended to become a public product. …

8 years ago, a team without any hardware experience built and launched the Jolibook, the first and last independent computer designed for the cloud, two years before the Google Chromebook. Here is our untold story. “Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it…

…and on Sunday I will vote twice for Macron (I have a procuration) — This morning I read this incredibly important article about the new economic divide in the US. It inspired me theses thoughts about what is going on in France. I wanted to share them with you. Currently roughly the country is divided in 4. We have two poor classes one dominated…

This text is an extract from my new website tariqkrim.io and was written after an interview with my team and edited by my friend Lex Paulson. I’ve republished it here on my medium. In 1984, Tariq wrote his first article for the high-school newspaper, in which he strongly criticized the…

I wrote this article a few weeks ago as a note on facebook here , but a friend convinced me yesterday that I should post it again on Medium. I wrote a follow up post that you can read here. As some of my friends have noticed, over the last…

Soutien aux Familles des Victimes des Attentats de Paris / Support to Families of Victims of Paris Attacks — Nov 2015 (updated 23 Nov) Voici les cagnottes de soutien aux familles des victimes que nous avons pu identifier. Si vous en connaissez d’autres, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter. Here are…

I saw my first computer when I was 5 years old. I finally owned one when I was 10. But two year later something magical happened. I built my first online server. It changed everything. This is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. …

La nomination récente d’un Administrateur général des données enterre-t-elle définitivement l’idée d’un CTO pour la France ? — Person of Interest La récente création d’un poste d’Administrateur général des données en France a été à l’origine de plusieurs articles de presse me citant comme l’un des promoteurs de cette fonction. . Ces articles faisaient le rapprochement entre cette annonce et la proposition dans mon rapport sur les développeurs…