Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall
Last time, I produced yet another Bible-long story of anything and everything, where I ended up stranded in MX for lacking the nerve to start over with Debian XFCE proper.…
SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian
① On Sept. 21, I said that Linux will soon be history for me. ② On Oct. 13, I found more proofs that Linux has become a joke. ③ On…
Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!
Correction: I didn’t even know about Claude Desktop for Windows and macOS! Or, if I knew, I guess I might have believed it was only available for paying customers. While…
A blast from the past: how AI failed me
Here’s the comic strip Blondie, by Dean Young & John Marshall, for the day of December 5, 2025: Doesn’t it remind you of anything? You must be too young then.…
The EU and Romania compete in dissing China
This is not the first adversarial or hostile gesture of the European Commission against China, even if the decision of the Council of the EU doesn't mention China by name,…
Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake
From the December 11, 2025, Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and moderated discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Johann Wadephul in Berlin: And how is…
RECORDER, Justiția, prescripția și cazul Vanghelie
Din numeroasele cazuri discutate în documentarul RECORDER „Justiție capturată” (menționat pe scurt într-un comentariu), aș vrea să discut „cazul Vanghelie”, pentru că se încadrează perfect în modelul discutat în postarea…
One more retarded Swiss chatbot: Euria
That is, even more retarded than Proton’s Lumo, which is opaque as to which LLMs are used, and unbelievably dumb. But the Swiss persevere: Euria: the free, sovereign AI assistant…
Șase scurte note despre AI
Firește, nu este doar impresia mea că LLM-urile astea de uz general devin tot mai stupide. Probabil că sunt mai mulți factori care contribuie la acest fenomen, de la „AI…
Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea
În seara de 1 Decembrie, Mircea Badea a avut pentru prima oară în viața lui mintea pe-acasă, și ne-a povestit romanțat un episod de istorie. Înregistrarea emisiunii a ajuns pe…
I tried Inbox Comics, and I liked what I saw
A reader suggested I try Inbox Comics, a free and ad-free service that would send you daily the comics of your choice from a list of over 400 (currently, 439)…
Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!
I just lost €12.99 because of Google Play Store, despite having in theory many more rights than the Americans, as the responsible entity in my case is Google Commerce Limited,…
Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100
Despite my previous post Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?, in which I established that Win11 would be a better fit for my newer Acer, and…
Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?
As I was scratching my balls, I had this revelation: what if we are fools to want to install Win11 on CPUs that are officially unsupported? Sure, they're not supported…
SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!
In my previous post, I ended a sentence like this: “the first documentary I’m going to suggest you watch.” Later, I suddenly asked myself: why did I use this construct?…
Microsoft’s lawsuits alone should have made us ditch them
Recently, I became aware of some outrageous claims made by Microsoft in a British court. The claims are older, only the judgment is recent. Some short notes on the matter.…
Cum „vorbesc” boții prostănaci limba română + English update
Pentru că am postat pe FB un link la o discuție cu Copilot, iar acea discuție începea cu „Mi se pare mie, sau serialul The Knick a fost uitat destul…
Comics Kingdom Easy Browser
This is the sibling of the web version of the Comic Strip Browser for GoComics, which needed a counterpart for ComicsKingdom.com, which hosts the comics syndicated through King Features Syndicate,…
Comic Strip Browser in your browser!
Even myself, a huge fan of local, standalone apps, I have to admit that nowadays almost everything is a web app. And the Comic Strip Browser app, a PyQt6 software…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.3: new strips!
I released two new versions of my Comic Strip Browser one after another the same day. That's because 1.1.2 added 6 new strips, but 1.1.3 had to remove an older…