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2026 259

  1. OK, so maybe the AI crash is here: now what?
  2. Reuters doesn’t understand AI, China, markets, and bubbles
  3. 🤖 „Profesorul Rughiniș iarăși se întoarce din nou încă o dată”
  4. The Big Font Mystery—Solved?
  5. Taxa radio-TV: sunt cehii nebuni? Scurtă discuție cu Gemini Argon
  6. Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!
  7. Radio player—refactored & reborn!
  8. When Pro is not quite Pro—farewell, Claude in Antigravity!
  9. I survived the PHP2Shell apocalypse! But I am outraged!
  10. America doesn’t even know what to ban from China!
  11. Why must Debian be the only distro that works?
  12. It’s time we forgot that France exists—even our entire civilization
  13. While I was looking away, Italy became fascist
  14. The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!
  15. Pangram: The Atlantic’s Vauhini Vara is a complete retard
  16. Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!
  17. La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas
  18. China, China, China! Including Taiwan…
  19. Welcome to post-literacy!
  20. Someone is using Claude to kill software development
  21. Claude Haiku 5.5: a diligent, dumb workhorse?
  22. Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?
  23. Now I am even more perplexed!
  24. Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me
  25. ComicStripBrowser 3.1.1: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!
  26. From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries
  27. Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?
  28. LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?
  29. Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript)
  30. Windows and Firefox colluded to wreck my download speed!
  31. Woes with Bluetooth and the audio jack in Windows
  32. The democratic setup that will never be
  33. Quick Luddite Notes at 70 notes!
  34. Trust AI-generated code. Not.
  35. Changes to Qwen I failed to notice
  36. How I rejected UniGetUI in 15 minutes
  37. The fake Luis Burgado piano player and violinist
  38. Rughiniș nu crede în apocalipsa AI
  39. Linux is still booting up in 1980
  40. ✍️ LanguageTool alternatives: season finale
  41. Did AI kill us yet?
  42. The AP Stylebook is divisive, not helpful
  43. Clem is undoubtedly certifiable
  44. Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux
  45. An exercise in futility
  46. Iar e pe ulei Gemini
  47. Sunt sătul de atâta propagandă optimistă de război!
  48. Bypass Paywalls Clean, revisited
  49. A question of time in XFCE
  50. I’m afraid of Gemini 3.8 Flash!
  51. Gemini and Qwen explained IMAX to me!
  52. Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?
  53. ComicStripBrowser 3 is here!
  54. An experiment in antiquated blogging
  55. ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?
  56. Dear Alice, why is macOS designed so stupidly?
  57. attirant, attrayant, attractif: ghid pentru românii ca mine
  58. 8 reads on AI and Linux on the Small and Mainstream Web
  59. Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡
  60. The miracle of the French subjunctive
  61. Lumo 2.0 is still Chinese, and Euria is even dumber
  62. I stopped believing in Ukraine, whatever that means
  63. Siemens: the One Flop or the One Hope for Europe?
  64. Securitatea Wi-Fi-ului public: mituri vs. realitate
  65. Amendamentele Grădinaru și Fritz în deciziile CCR: Gemini
  66. Random new and old Linux news
  67. A shorter visit to the Small Web
  68. From whisper to whisper.cpp
  69. The NYT is as reliable as Pangram (meaning it ain’t)
  70. Odyssey Linux—not quite for me
  71. Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review
  72. Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all
  73. Is there an ePub apocalypse? A case study and beyond it
  74. KDE Bug 342056: Thunar is still a great file manager
  75. One more visit to the Small Web
  76. Il ne valait mieux pas que je comprenne le français 🙄
  77. AI and Linux: a bit of ranting
  78. Future Euro banknotes: a flop?
  79. From Win11 IoT 24H2 to Win10 IoT 21H2 + KB5099539: Mais quelle horreur !
  80. Eu tot mai cred că CJUE este mai nașpa și decât Lia
  81. IONOS: One more time, I survived
  82. Românii sunt handicapați și sugeraniști în masă
  83. Camomile for your Windows laptop (if you really must)
  84. The CCPA and the GDPR will eventually kill Linux
  85. File Explorer: less annoying sans Automatic Folder Type Discovery
  86. Is Ubuntu LTS a bad choice?
  87. OpenAI’s Playground vs. ChatGPT
  88. Procuratura RSR contra lui Raed Arafat
  89. Nu mă omor cu Bolojan, dar Justiția suge toate cele
  90. Chat Control 1.0 is back on!
  91. 250 years of hypocrisy and lies
  92. Despre cazul „Dumbrava”
  93. Perspectiva narativă pizdodiegetică
  94. Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux
  95. Când Justiția poate suspenda tot ce vrea ea: cazul ROMATSA ● Acum și Justiția belgiană!
  96. Too many ways to install shit in world’s #1 desktop OS
  97. De nouveaux bogues pour le français
  98. În care discut cu Gemini ciudățeniile conjunctivului în franceză și italiană
  99. This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique
  100. Furious German YouTuber Packs His Bags: to Japan! ● Updated!
  101. I’m so tired of all these “tech” news reports!
  102. Limba română de la Humanitas la Veștea (și nu numai)
  103. I tried and tried and couldn’t write on politics
  104. One can’t ask Chinese chatbots literally anything about China!
  105. Google’s AI Mode vs. double jeopardy in Savannah
  106. Microsoft and Mozilla: examples of a higher intelligence
  107. Not the smartest piece Euronews could have published
  108. Vibe-solving the Erdős 1196 problem
  109. Ideile fasciste poloneze cu privire la garanția „za butelki”
  110. Christopher Barnatt is sometimes useful
  111. Erik Dubois is still on steroids
  112. Fighting over semantics is what I often do
  113. A few notes about Antigravity CLI and non-alternatives
  114. How do you recognize a failed country, a cardboard alliance, and a civilization in decline?
  115. A cursory look at WPS Office
  116. An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty
  117. Gemini: De ce Europa federală nu poate fi dorită de Germania
  118. Palme d’Or for Mungiu’s Fjord: Cannes conned by a wily movie!
  119. GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows
  120. Dogville (2003)
  121. Bucureșteanul și intersecțiile
  122. The umpteenth AI compromise
  123. Did Gemini Pro really get that worse? 4 threads to test it!
  124. Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch
  125. Some changes in Gemini AI
  126. What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
  127. Fedora Linux just rejected the idea of an LTS kernel!
  128. Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian
  129. Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?
  130. Is Debian the Answer?
  131. Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies
  132. My Lenovo’s resume-after-sleep bug fixed in one minute
  133. I never saw anything as stupid as Git (and GitHub)
  134. I’m with stupid technology
  135. Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!
  136. On using ffmpeg with Intel GPU
  137. Why your next budget laptop should be a 14-inch one
  138. The golden age of free LLM chatbots might soon end + BONUS
  139. Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE
  140. Why are people using Brave Search?
  141. Exposing AI, one scam at a time: today, NOLO (Updated!)
  142. Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce
  143. ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!
  144. Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile
  145. Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?
  146. Zău că Andrei Caramitru e mai retardat decât Călin Georgescu
  147. Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang
  148. On April 6, 1992, Microsoft released Windows 3.1. Now, we have GNOME 50.
  149. The Claude Apocalypse has been averted—Dario Amodei is a nice guy, just like Donald Trump
  150. Ar trebui scrisă o carte de nedumeriri privitoare la engleză
  151. Today, I visited China (online)
  152. Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees)
  153. What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain
  154. Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică
  155. Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱
  156. On public demand: quick RAM figures
  157. La musique n’existe plus. L’IA l’a tuée !
  158. Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?
  159. The day GoComics went bad
  160. The Reg’s sinophobia is pathetic
  161. Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu
  162. Kiro seems to have gone amok
  163. Apple is still the worst of all
  164. Why do they still not explain AI properly?
  165. Windows users and “experts” are dumb as shit and lazy
  166. Has Trump invaded yet?
  167. IONOS and the non-existent Deutsche Qualität
  168. How I chose to become Dumbo
  169. Random shitheads who use AI to monetize shit
  170. Privacy aside, LLMs don’t learn when they could (and should)
  171. Băi, chiar nu-i mai suport pe români (preluări de pe FB)
  172. Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!
  173. George Yeo and Shaun Rein talking about China and the US
  174. Guess which of Copilot and DeepSeek is censoring critical thought about this war
  175. Colecționarul de Căcat
  176. Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?
  177. Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?
  178. No luck, plenty of fun, and you’ll definitely die! (You, not them.)
  179. How acidic is your coffee?
  180. Even the algorithm wants peace!
  181. Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma
  182. LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE vs. Markdown: FAIL!
  183. AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain
  184. N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă
  185. AI Quickie: How strict are Arab countries compared to Iran?
  186. AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE
  187. AI Quickie: The drone question
  188. I might not be human, after all
  189. Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!
  190. Curiouser and curiouser…
  191. Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!
  192. Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?
  193. În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul
  194. Today, I cannot take sides
  195. Sam Altman in India, and other AI news
  196. Doi fazani despre apocalipsa binomului AI + rețele sociale
  197. Grok m-a lămurit cum funcționează de fapt frigiderele
  198. Gemini vs. Fran Blanche + BONUS: crazy units
  199. Arguing with Grok 4.20 (Beta) about Fedora
  200. SJVN and the fragile bazaar
  201. One year later, DWW is run by the same shitheads
  202. I needed to vent about Calibre
  203. Să-l sărbătorim pe Grok 4.20, care se descurcă și la limbi!
  204. SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?)
  205. The law says you’re responsible for the snow on sidewalks. Why?
  206. Am discutat scurt cu Gemini despre ninsoarea din București
  207. Chatbots are mostly clueless regarding the game of GO
  208. AI and more on the Japanese note.com
  209. Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI
  210. Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!
  211. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux
  212. SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too
  213. Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs
  214. Bolojan și oferta lui de nerefuzat
  215. A Big Beautiful Bullshit List
  216. I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?
  217. A paper about the Boltzmann brain paradox, vulgarized by AI
  218. The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM
  219. On browser wars and stupid people
  220. Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!
  221. Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend
  222. Iar îmi desființez contul eMag
  223. The usual mental retard in Linux
  224. Flopzilla is retarded
  225. The magic of Fedora Linux
  226. He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either
  227. Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups
  228. Neamul românesc suge pula
  229. I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE
  230. Spusele și nespusele lui Rughiniș cu privire la AI
  231. I asked a few chatbots about a possible nightmare scenario
  232. Nicușor Dan și rezolvarea din 2020 a problemei din 1988
  233. The Braver and Braver New World
  234. Românii habar n-au cum vine gazul pe fir
  235. Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!
  236. The American Dream: being one crisis away from poverty
  237. Which one comes first, Greenland or Iran?
  238. Quick reads—7 links exactly
  239. I don’t believe in Iran’s future
  240. AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026
  241. Am încercat să înțeleg acordul UE-MERCOSUR folosind boți
  242. We shouldn’t have forgotten Guantánamo
  243. Fun and pain with a teardown—analogic radios are defunct
  244. Happy Trump’s Kampf
  245. Stephan Pastis on a difference between AmE and BrE
  246. Dedoimedo honored me!
  247. The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world
  248. Nuanțat, despre Venezuela și America Latină
  249. Operation ‘Emperor of the World’
  250. Wanderings around Debian
  251. More AI hysteria (and some tips)
  252. A premonition that aged very well: this is not about drugs!
  253. Beware of what you do: you can be tried in the US even if you never set foot there!
  254. Plans for US Imperialism 2.0 predate Trump 2.0
  255. Grok: Kidnapping by a state is lawful everywhere
  256. Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI
  257. I’m literally sick of this much AI
  258. „Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian
  259. As a New Year’s gift, Facebook decided I don’t exist

2025 195

  1. Upscaler: upscaling the easy way
  2. De ce nu am votat Constituția din 2003
  3. Se întâmplă ceva… dar oare va avea vreo finalitate pozitivă?
  4. Adieu à l’ombre de BB
  5. România, Europa și lumea în 3 scurtissime idei
  6. Post-Christmas depression
  7. Linux system cleaners, you said? Yeah, not a big fan of them
  8. The most retarded AI failure is LanguageTool, not the chatbots
  9. SJVN and his dogs got soft-headed
  10. Cenzura, o extremă urgență în România (ca să parafrazez)
  11. Bad news in Ubuntu land, Nemo was retarded, and more
  12. Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall
  13. SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian
  14. Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!
  15. A blast from the past: how AI failed me
  16. The EU and Romania compete in dissing China
  17. Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake
  18. RECORDER, Justiția, prescripția și cazul Vanghelie
  19. One more retarded Swiss chatbot: Euria
  20. Șase scurte note despre AI
  21. Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea
  22. I tried Inbox Comics, and I liked what I saw
  23. Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!
  24. Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100
  25. Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?
  26. SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!
  27. Microsoft’s lawsuits alone should have made us ditch them
  28. Cum „vorbesc” boții prostănaci limba română + English update
  29. Comics Kingdom Easy Browser
  30. Comic Strip Browser in your browser!
  31. Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.3: new strips!
  32. ChatGPT și CCR: Deci așa, cam în vreo 15 ani…
  33. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will make snaps unavoidable
  34. eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!
  35. Ce-i în Gulă și-n căpulă: nasoale
  36. On the AI Apocalypse: ARTE documentaries & NYT interviews
  37. Cum să ieși din pușcărie înainte de termen în România: e simplu!
  38. A €20 Linux tax: cui et quantum prodest?
  39. 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…
  40. Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.1: new features and new bugs!
  41. Bluesabre is pathetic, and “the Xubuntu project” is retarded
  42. Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke
  43. Trump’s Gaza success eclipses his China chaos
  44. One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton
  45. So You Know Why People Vote for Extremists in Europe
  46. E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents
  47. A society by robots, for robots: very quick thoughts
  48. namesake vs. homonym vs. eponym vs. Romance languages
  49. Un comentariu la Eugen Rădulescu (preluare de pe FB)
  50. Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished
  51. The next level of AI crap: lab robots
  52. Lumo is beyond stupid. Don’t use it!
  53. Minor updates in Copilot and Grok
  54. I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
  55. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is here!
  56. Ascultați Radio Moldova online!
  57. The Brian Crane Interview
  58. Kimi’s useless “OK Computer” agent
  59. When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year
  60. A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?
  61. 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
  62. They cancelled Sabine H. for calling the emperor naked!
  63. My chatbot use in the last week
  64. Some new AI shit: bric-à-brac
  65. Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
  66. How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
  67. Claude’s new policies: a tempest in a teapot
  68. Sabine being Sabine, and the entanglement not being Einstein’s spooky action…
  69. Google’s “nano-banana” & some Nvidia shit
  70. Frustrated, Exasperated, Done — Farewell to Linux Underway
  71. A chat about stablecoins, and pessimism regarding AI
  72. O ciudățenie a limbilor franceză și spaniolă
  73. Reforma Pilonilor II-III-IV: un furt marca Bolojan, nu OECD
  74. Dan, căpitan de plai: președintele „umpic” simpatizant legionar
  75. Don’t blame Microsoft for your suicidal SSD!
  76. Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI
  77. La dispariția unui spectru
  78. It ain’t no freedom, and it’ll be even less of it
  79. Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!
  80. Limbistul Mircea Badea e un bou
  81. Insights into the AI madness — with studies, tips (UPDATED)
  82. Alibaba outsmarts DeepSeek in AI offerings
  83. The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!
  84. The AI doom is nigh
  85. Alte preluări de pe Facebook: Ceaușescu și David
  86. Chatboții sunt „camere de ecou”
  87. Xi on AI and EVs, as interpreted by Bloomberg and Claude
  88. Žižek, l’inutile, contre l’IA, l’inutile
  89. Understand your future master: Xi, father and son
  90. Psihologie socială și suveranisme — preluări de pe FB
  91. Venice, Wyoming—home of the AI
  92. So-called neuroscientist: we don’t have visual memories but reconstruct them à la ChatGPT
  93. The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
  94. There is still hope in England
  95. Scientists can be smart and stupid at the same time
  96. 🤖 Gemini CLI is a hit-and-miss
  97. A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones
  98. Comentarii grafomaniace pe alt blog
  99. Understanding Israel, Trump, and the “negotiations with Iran”
  100. Thoughts about BRICS+, China, and Europe—and the US
  101. Bibi + Donald + Iran = 💣
  102. Copilot, Mistral, Gpt4All: more AI letdowns. Back to Claude?
  103. Israel is the land of love
  104. Grim book 1 — a review like no other!
  105. I asked AI how to fix America’s “undocumented” millions
  106. Un nou geniu al Carpaților: moi-même
  107. The zombified Claude Explains, and more Anthropic shit
  108. Trying to understand the stupid Chinese AI censorship
  109. Cât de inutil poate fi AI
  110. Meet the retarded prophet of the AI Apocalypse
  111. Student, dar nu absolvent? Să înțelegem CV-ul lui Nicușor
  112. Claude’s dirty secrets and… Grok would kill for money!
  113. Curtea Constituțională a legalizat corupția în România
  114. 🤩 Claude can now search the Web for everybody!
  115. The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim
  116. The questionable industry of online AI training gig jobs
  117. It’s not the liberal order that we’re losing, and the decline didn’t start with Trump
  118. Vibe coding just got cheaper
  119. The Three Shitheads (and us)
  120. Claude 4 is here!
  121. I quickly tested Manus AI: I guess it has potential
  122. There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions
  123. Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory
  124. AI is already vibe enslaving us
  125. You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!
  126. Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 2018
  127. Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui
  128. The one big mistake Xi is making right now
  129. Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!
  130. China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…
  131. Those analysts still don’t get it
  132. This is how stupid Microsoft is
  133. AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news
  134. Justiția pulii și pula justiției
  135. Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu
  136. Bypassing GoComics’ paywall
  137. Azure AI: I’m too old for this shit, but Whisper works—locally
  138. 🎞️ 3 x Žižek with no comments
  139. I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”
  140. Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump
  141. Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US
  142. Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense
  143. Le Chat Mistral: Se iau 2-3 mazări mari, se taie în felii subțiri…
  144. When a WP plugin update screws it
  145. Computerul zice da. Oamenii zic nu.
  146. Învățăturile lui Nea Guță Basarab către părinții de adolescenți
  147. Europe 3.0: Sabin Gherman crede în Zâna Măseluță!
  148. Not everyone is dumb regarding AI. But many are.
  149. Viitor de aur țara noastră are! La fel și lumea…
  150. Încă un mic eșec al agenților AI
  151. Nu am cu cine să votez! Voi aveți?
  152. Saponins from Edible Legumes, Grok, and You
  153. Slobozul LLM de pe tavan
  154. Dr. Martin Jan Stránský, D-zeu, AI și apocalipsa
  155. The Network State + Freedom Cities: mai rău decât Novorusia!
  156. Goșu despre războiul ce va să vie
  157. Varoufakis believes in the Tooth Fairy, and in Putin’s word
  158. The Suwałki Gap, aka the Suwałki corridor, is no corridor at all!
  159. Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs
  160. Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?
  161. Democrația ucisă „în numele legii”
  162. War in Europe, Peace in Heaven?
  163. The Orange Apocalypse and the EU + 5 Updates!
  164. The United States of Ruzzia + links
  165. Quickest quickie: Claude 3.7 is here
  166. Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing
  167. Führer’s Grok 3 is promising―and expensive if you need more of it 🥴
  168. It’s the automotive industry that might kill the BRD ➕ wahl.chat
  169. The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup
  170. 🤖 Mistral is a bad French “citizen”
  171. How does a LLM work? These videos won’t help that much ➕ Microsoft hallucinates!
  172. SEO: Is Claude on my side, or it’s parroting me?
  173. You Don’t Fool Me
  174. The Führer’s minions have restored my account
  175. I tried to understand “no contest” without consulting Wikipedia
  176. DistroWatch Weekly strikes again!
  177. Et tu, Claude? Having fun with AI
  178. Swimming upstream against the AI current—updated!
  179. Was I wrong in my take on packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps? Updated!
  180. 🤖 How to properly use AI as a software developer: through its API
  181. 🤖 The biggest European IA conference nobody cares about
  182. 🤖 A curt explanation on my latest choice of AI systems
  183. 🤖 AI: from LLMs to Enslavement ● ChatGPT lies about its Search!
  184. Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself
  185. The CPU Apocalypse: Yet Another Effect of Greed
  186. Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?
  187. One more time about Red Hat
  188. King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag
  189. One more reason to use Ubuntu LTS (regardless of flavor)
  190. Cui îi e teamă de normalitate?
  191. News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic
  192. From column to nushell: not what I expected
  193. DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)
  194. Când credeam că le-am văzut pe toate…
  195. Now I really developed a fear of flying!

2024 84

  1. Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux
  2. Magdeshit: Germany is a failure
  3. Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări)
  4. I might have discovered what ahedonia means
  5. Este Cîcîrostanul o cîcîrocrație, sau o cîcîrotatură?
  6. elementary OS, an OS for suckers
  7. Țara tâmpiților (care suntem)
  8. Yes, you can be both anti-Putin and anti-Israel!
  9. WordPress 6.7: idiots keep being idiots!
  10. The suicide of the car industry
  11. Luddism #2: From snaps to immutable and back
  12. Luddism #1: From passwords to passkeys
  13. Economie și finanțe: Un contabil bun poate fi pe alocuri și prost
  14. Scattered thoughts about Russia and the world
  15. Searching with or without AI’s aid?
  16. Christian Godard (1932–2024)
  17. Cuza asasinul și medicina legală geto-dacă de la 1862 toamna
  18. De ce nu e bine să permitem tuturor proștilor cu diplomă să dea sfaturi
  19. Les jeux sont faits, rien ne va plus
  20. Trump vs. Dems vs. Israel: not taking sides, just quoting
  21. La peor gota fría (DANA) del siglo, y la mayor incompetencia
  22. A small collection of Romanian idioms, explained
  23. AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples)
  24. Nerușinarea farmaciștilor nu are limite (și nici cea a autorităților)
  25. Devrais-je boycotter Carrefour Roumanie ?
  26. Les squatteurs et la loi qui les protège
  27. May Mozilla’s UX/UI designers all die of colon cancer!
  28. Moldova și UE: un Zugzwang de mai mare plânsul (cu un adaos)
  29. I usually don’t make predictions, but the worst is going to happen
  30. Educația în România post-istorică
  31. Is Linux so “fragile”? A strange experience with USB hubs
  32. The tiniest Windows bug I’ve ever encountered
  33. De data asta, numai o lovitură de stat ne mai poate salva de CCR!
  34. From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journey
  35. Porsche and the “Six-Stroke Engine Patent”
  36. Is this the CUPS hell? Maybe not for everyone, methinks
  37. Dolphin on non-KDE distros with a dark theme: the horror
  38. RetardGPT stopped working in Firefox ESR 115: what to do
  39. Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (II): America
  40. Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (I): Israel
  41. Is this neuroscientist stupid? Now with a language connection!
  42. ADHD insights for ADHD people
  43. Quick weather update
  44. I wish I weren’t born in Europe
  45. Nu, Nicușor Dan nu a rezolvat problema de clasa a patra! Actualizare: ba da!
  46. It’s time I said something against Ukraine (another long read)
  47. Pavel Durov: criminal, martyr, or double agent?
  48. UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage
  49. Is it IONOS, is it InnoDB, or is it me?
  50. Bypass Paywalls will never die
  51. The HARM mobile architecture
  52. Le dernier des grands
  53. How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel
  54. Glorifying the uselessness: Oreon
  55. The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose)
  56. Security is a joke. Networking is a joke. Experts are a joke.
  57. How to lose even when you’re right
  58. What you need to know when using my custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE ISO
  59. A random discovery about zypper, thanks to rpm and a deb package
  60. Microsoft + CloudStrike = Death
  61. Is openSUSE at crossroads?
  62. One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1
  63. The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!
  64. I’d kill the entire Linux kernel team!
  65. SJVN made my day!
  66. The shortest distro bashing and appraisal in a long while—now with added Dedoimedo!
  67. Is systemd cancer? A reignited debate
  68. KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other rants
  69. SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
  70. Michiel Schrijver & Mark Beck: Painting styles
  71. Custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE Live ISO
  72. On the European subordination to the American liquefied natural gas
  73. Norm Finkelstein, the reasonable Jew
  74. Yanis and the “Zionism Über Alles” Germany
  75. Open-source software: the road to hell?
  76. Et tu, KDE? Vulnerable by design?
  77. Answering to anti-establishment people on Ukraine
  78. This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis
  79. Idei pe marginea cumpărării unei mașini: aspecte financiare
  80. Jessie Inchauspé, the self-made wannabe goddess
  81. I decided to ignore the upcoming Apocalypse—life is too short as it is
  82. Il gattopardo azzurro: How I discovered Evgeni Gordiets
  83. Yoga, 4-6, 4-7-8 and 4-8 Breathing, and the retarded Dr. Weil
  84. Israel’s Defense at the International Court of Justice is Disgusting

2023 33

  1. No kernel update is safe in Linux, not even an LTS one
  2. Is an armistice in Ukraine still possible?
  3. How to stop the blurring of KDE’s logout/shutdown and lock screens
  4. Introducing an installable custom KDE Live ISO based on AlmaLinux 9.3 with kernel 6.1 from ELRepo
  5. The Human Shield mantra about Gaza
  6. Încă un fals martir (și sfânt!) al neamului românesc!
  7. Les Français et les Suisses, parmi les plus débiles Européens
  8. Some more thoughts about Palestine
  9. I can hear the sound of money
  10. Ce nu știați despre aparatele digitale de măsurat tensiunea (și nici despre Huawei)
  11. For the last time, this is not about Hamas!
  12. Corupția structurală regionalizată a Uniunii Europene
  13. Falșii martiri ai neamului românesc
  14. De la Aquafresh în 3 culori, la Colgate cu șmirghel eficient
  15. Comment devient-on un tout petit peu pro-palestinien ?
  16. This is really starting to piss me off
  17. Yanis and the Enchanted Cloud
  18. I’m not sure I believe in the two-state solution
  19. The YouTube Apocalypse (RE-UPDATED)
  20. Middle East’s Borders Led to Wars
  21. Hamas is Not Palestine
  22. Gaza is Hamas
  23. Chess and Go channels on YouTube
  24. Istorii vechi din istorie veche
  25. Forget about the EVs, here’s how the EU will save the whales
  26. The Blue That Is Green (And More)
  27. WordPress 6.3 broke my site and theme. Again!
  28. Întâmpinând cu tristețe Festivalul Internațional de Benzi Desenate Istorice Brașov
  29. Vremea laptop-urilor și upgrade-urilor ieftine
  30. France is a woke dictatorship, and Twitter is its lackey
  31. Pisa (2008-2023)
  32. Relevanssi is the worst famous WordPress plugin in existence!
  33. WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shite

2022 17

  1. Cybersecurity, VPN myths, and the GDPR idiocy
  2. Language Learning Apps and YT Channels: Season 3
  3. Online learning with Udemy and Domestika, but also on YouTube!
  4. Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți
  5. Cum se răspândesc zvonurile în retardata Românie
  6. O tâmpenie românească de București
  7. Hibernation in Manjaro—For the Lucky Ones
  8. 5 months into Manjaro: harmless yet unacceptable breakage
  9. Scrisoare împotriva OUG 27/2022
  10. Questions on the delusion of losing weight
  11. De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): panseuri
  12. 42: Swimming into brainwashing and burnout
  13. PUTIN MUST DIE!
  14. The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle
  15. The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUS
  16. The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin
  17. Mon Gaston Berger de 2017

2021 98

  1. Don’t Look Up—This movie is meant to scare you
  2. Me désenchanter, c’est ma vocation éternelle
  3. The Holo-Crypto-Meta-Virtual-Scam-Mafia
  4. Soviet Winter Nostalgia
  5. Îmi cam ajunge. Ce fascism ar fi fost necesar.
  6. CURIA (CJUE) vs. CCR: românii sunt pesemne prea imbecili pentru a pricepe
  7. Facebook Is Death!
  8. Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  9. Caffeine is what kills in those energy drinks
  10. I’ll be back (soon?) with another cartoon (or whatever)
  11. No more quality for the peripherals Made in China
  12. Why Tim Cook Should Be Sodomized 24/7
  13. Philippe Charles Jacquet: The Better Maestro of Solitude
  14. At least, we have the masks
  15. The Apple Music Awards: See Why the World Is So Fucked-Up
  16. The Electric (and Autonomous) Frenzy—CNN Videos
  17. When the UNESCO creates malware: the Cookie Factory
  18. The Anti-Elon Musk YouTube Hero
  19. Are you old enough to remember Professor Balthazar?
  20. I just discovered the junk of the Japanese junk food; it’s tasty!
  21. Linux Apps: The failure of Foliate
  22. Linux Apps: There is Everything in Linux! (It’s called FSearch…)
  23. Firefox Destupidification, Take #1
  24. The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE
  25. The dumbification of package management in Linux
  26. On Twitter, one must be woke, internationalist and obedient—or suspended!
  27. Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux
  28. COVID-19 Report #29: The Sonderbehandlung that won’t be (or will it?)
  29. Brave: the browser loved by idiots, morons, and cryptofuckers
  30. COVID-19 Report #28: The Average IQ Keeps Falling
  31. The Ongoing Cyberwar Nobody Talks About
  32. Hating Wes Anderson with gusto
  33. Adventures in Linux Ep. 8: Lubuntu, Fedora 35, and more
  34. Trying to understand the bullshit
  35. COVID-19 Report #27: Tot în România
  36. COVID-19 Report #26: The Covidiots are still strong
  37. Instead of a smartwatch
  38. Do they want me to stop using computers altogether?
  39. Biserica, românul, vaccinul: sutana sub care s-a ascuns diavolul
  40. Referendum: un fiasco al TVR
  41. Românii vs. COVID-19: note de front inutile
  42. SPECIAL: You Don’t Even Know How Terrible Your Linux Distro Is!
  43. Evil Twitter, Stupid Twitter
  44. The extra information meant he didn’t know she didn’t know…
  45. I just discovered a really smart ordinary guy… on Amazon!
  46. România, plaiul legilor din pix (sau din pixeli)
  47. We Want COVID! (Re-Updated)
  48. Status mundi in tempore coronavirus
  49. I revealed a state secret about Jack Fartsey!
  50. Ce este azi România? O hazna, un exemplu tragic de retard mental absolut
  51. The Climate Apocalypse 2021
  52. “You can call me Scarlett”—and other idiots; plus Q&A with Professor Ludditus, and more
  53. Cuba, mi amor (now in turmoil)
  54. Adventures in Linux Ep. 7: Just some thoughts…
  55. No, the label Champagne hasn’t been confiscated by Russia!
  56. The Little Country That Could
  57. China Strikes Back!
  58. CA, ÎCCJ, CCR: Acronimele mafiei române
  59. Patents Kill Patients (But Stupidity Kills Too)
  60. Linus 1, Anti-Vaxxers 0
  61. Adventures in Linux Ep. 6: The death of the scrollbar
  62. Everyone nowadays seems to be a fake expert
  63. Adventures in Linux Ep. 5: The gaiety of having the choice
  64. Adventures in Linux Ep. 4: NOT trying Rocky Linux, after all
  65. The Alphabet of Our Death
  66. Adventures in Linux Ep. 3: The Mint 20.2 Beta Triptych
  67. Half-Truths, Lies, Incompetence and Idiocy Continue to Prevent a True Debate on Vaccines
  68. Adventures in Linux Ep. 2: Subpixel idiocy
  69. Adventures in Linux Ep. 1: Et tu, Fedora?
  70. Bitcoin’s evilness is more than Ransomware
  71. Linux philosophy: Twitter humour
  72. Bing, He Loves Me
  73. Will we finally have the right to talk about hydroxychloroquine in good faith?
  74. Fedora 34 XFCE: Are miracles still possible?
  75. The Freedom to Blame China
  76. From Memory’s Vault: My Times With Fedora, as Béranger
  77. Why Linux on the Desktop is Irrelevant in the Long Run
  78. Here’s how Plasma screwed my system: like a Windows virus!
  79. I had forgotten why I shouldn’t trust Ubuntu… but neither many other distros!
  80. Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?
  81. A Community Experiment in Two Linux Distros
  82. How the Internet Age Has Bent Some People’s Minds
  83. Try not to get depressed these days!
  84. Is there a midway between Long-Time Support and quicksand?
  85. Quick Experiment in “Improving” Linux Lite
  86. Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTube
  87. The VPN Myth
  88. The Never-Ending Story Goes On!
  89. A Glimpse from the Past
  90. What Reddit has taught me about Arch Linux
  91. I Wish Me Luck
  92. The Mental Retard In Linux Is Real
  93. I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?
  94. Theming my Salient OS
  95. Looking for purity in Arch Linux
  96. The Long Road to Linux-Only (Not Excluding a Bit of WINE)
  97. COVID-19: Winning the War, but Losing All the Battles
  98. Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links

2020 20

  1. How to download full-size scans from Gallica.BnF.fr
  2. The Last Sleep of the Civilization Part II
  3. The Last Sleep of the Civilization Part I
  4. The Sorry State… and the Quick Fix
  5. Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From You
  6. Le Twitter des cons
  7. When Italian Design rhymes with kitsch
  8. Don’t trust the magazines on choosing an OCR
  9. 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather Depressingly
  10. KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?
  11. Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is Worse
  12. In omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)
  13. Mon héros, le Pr Didier Raoult
  14. End of World Diary N°4: Le monde est tellement con, yet the future is interesting
  15. Back to China
  16. End of World Diary N°3: China Just Won
  17. I really don’t have what to do at home #lockdown
  18. Beyond the Point of No Return: We’re Losing the Battle
  19. 2020: The Year The World Ended
  20. Internet Radio, Mon Amour

2019 9

  1. 24-Hour Shifts: A Planet of Fools
  2. What divides the Internet is not math
  3. Choosing the right poison
  4. 24 h with Huorong, a week with Comodo 12, a year with Bitdefender 2019 (or not)
  5. Living Dangerously: CCAV 2.0 Beta
  6. The day the Chinese puzzles took over
  7. Should you live with no sense of smell…
  8. Carracci—what else?
  9. Nostalgia & Fun With Calculators

2018 1

  1. Until further notice…

2017 10

  1. Crypto-mining is the new adware, only worse
  2. Learning a language in 200 hours?
  3. Guessing the weather forecast
  4. Finding happiness in simple gizmos
  5. The coffee saga goes on—Summer Edition
  6. Kaspersky is one more time a valid choice
  7. How I Came to Hate Nova Launcher
  8. Going into Nougat and Motorola–rather unexpectedly
  9. Panda, mon amour–true advanced security for 19.99 €/yr
  10. Android Apps: What I Use

2016 22

  1. The End of My Search for What Can’t Be Found
  2. Inissia Kapselmaschine, was sonst?
  3. The myth of the well-administered German city
  4. 4G is meant to kill the last trace of common sense in communications
  5. The most annoying bug in Outlook 2016
  6. Why Telekom.de mobile phone contracts should be forbidden by law
  7. The Verdict on Wiko Robby—Weeks Later
  8. The Hyperloop is snake oil
  9. Low-RAM Marshmallow—One Week Later
  10. Marshmallow with 1 GB of RAM—Yes, You Can!
  11. Nolite mittere high-tech ante porcos
  12. Microsoft, the keyboard repeat rate and sleeping: how to work around their idiocy
  13. On smartphone sensors
  14. The world is swarming with incompetents…
  15. Debunking some myths about SSDs
  16. “A” for “Acer TravelMate P6”
  17. I’m set for ESET
  18. I’m sorry you had to use TeamViewer
  19. It’s still a long, long road…
  20. Hopefully, Ransomware will reach everyone
  21. Let’s get going again!
  22. Just saying…