Too many ways to install shit in world’s #1 desktop OS
I thought Linux package management was broken, but then a small annoyance I experienced in Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC made me reconsider. To put this in context, it happened…
De nouveaux bogues pour le français
Le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (TLFi) est en principe disponible sur atilf.atilf.fr, mais la consultation est beaucoup plus facile sur le portail lexical du site du Centre national…
În care discut cu Gemini ciudățeniile conjunctivului în franceză și italiană
Nu voiam să discut gramatică în acest moment, dar o mică îndoială cu privire la alegerea unui verb m-a făcut să discut cu Gemini aspecte ale conjunctivului în câteva limbi…
This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique
The other day, I said I should give Basalt Linux a quick spin. To quote myself: Basalt Linux (SourceForge) is an XFCE distro based on Debian 13 that, apparently, is…
Furious German YouTuber Packs His Bags: to Japan! ● Updated!
RadicalLiving, a YouTuber with 780 videos over 13 years, is a libertarian-leaning entrepreneur who hit his limit with Germany's rigid, high-tax bureaucracy and its failure to adapt to modern challenges:…
I’m so tired of all these “tech” news reports!
It’s been weeks since I last wrote something remotely related to technology, and there are several reasons for that. One of them is that I’ve been rather busy; another one…
Limba română de la Humanitas la Veștea (și nu numai)
Pentru că toată lumea a făcut mișto de Veștea cu privire la „aportul adus”, unii au rămas cu această sensibilitate, astfel încât cetățeanca Alina-Ioana Vasiliu a postat pe Facebook un…
I tried and tried and couldn’t write on politics
I spent (read: wasted) an entire week pondering how to write a mega-post on international politics, only to abandon it in the last minute, deleting everything that I managed to…
One can’t ask Chinese chatbots literally anything about China!
Post-output self-censorship is a well-known “feature” of all Chinese chatbots, but today I encountered it in a double way, so to speak. I came across this article on Al Jazeera:…
Google’s AI Mode vs. double jeopardy in Savannah
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), with John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, and Lady Chablis, and directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, has many differences compared…
Microsoft and Mozilla: examples of a higher intelligence
What follows is a set of two minor annoyances that, nonetheless, prove that the software issued by some of the most popular companies is ridden with stupidity. In both cases,…
Not the smartest piece Euronews could have published
Claus Strunz, CEO and editorial director of Euronews, produced an opinion piece that, coming from such a position, is actually an editorial. While several assertions are most likely true, the…
Vibe-solving the Erdős 1196 problem
Ludditus: That news about how ChatGPT solved the Erdős 1196 problem in 80 minutes doesn't say how the hell someone managed to get it to think for 80 minutes. Either…
Ideile fasciste poloneze cu privire la garanția „za butelki”
Eu când spun că polonezii sunt fasciști, nu mă crede nimeni. Atât polonezii, cât și ucrainenii, sunt oameni hotărâți, patrioți, naționaliști, dar și cu instincte naziste. Iată un exemplu dintr-un…
Christopher Barnatt is sometimes useful
I once wanted to write a post about the SMR (Shielded Magnetic Recording), which is one of the worst possible ideas of the 21st century! Some retarded, accountant-minded CEO considered…
Erik Dubois is still on steroids
Does anyone remember ArcoLinux, a distro now discontinued? I do. It was quite famous, much more than EndeavourOS is today, because it offered a bunch of different ISOs, each with…
Fighting over semantics is what I often do
I’m constantly fighting over words, especially those in languages other than my mother tongue. I also fight people when they have an opinion about words of their mother tongue that…
A few notes about Antigravity CLI and non-alternatives
Exactly one week ago, I had to release the bug-fix version 2.5.1 of ComicStripBrowser because Marmaduke was broken. The culprit was a typo that actually meant I inadvertently pasted a…
How do you recognize a failed country, a cardboard alliance, and a civilization in decline?
This is an English adaptation of a text posted in Romanian on Facebook. The translation was fully made by Gemini, with minimal adjustments. In the context of the Galați drone,…
A cursory look at WPS Office
Years ago, I quite liked Kingsoft Office. I remember I have used it under Win7 and Android. Since the suite became WPS Office (from Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheets, not from “Wonderfully…