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There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions

May 20, 2025 There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions2025-05-20T04:47:52+01:00 2 Comments 
In an unexpected post on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, I described two special, yet official editions of Windows that have some…
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Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory

May 16, 2025 Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory2025-05-17T01:00:30+01:00 No Comment 
There was a lot of talk about this shit, and now it went live: Introducing Codex: “A cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered…
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AI is already vibe enslaving us

May 14, 2025 AI is already vibe enslaving us2025-05-16T22:42:33+01:00 2 Comments 
Time and again, we're told that AI hallucinates, that it's unreliable, that it can't write reliable code, nor could it replace meaningful jobs. And yet… Satya Nadella, on April 29,…
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You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!

May 11, 2025 You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!2025-05-12T00:48:37+01:00 5 Comments 
❶ Putin: “We offer Kyiv to resume direct talks without any preconditions starting from May 15 in Istanbul.” ❷ Zelenskyy, take 1: “It is a positive sign that the Russians…
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Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 2018

May 11, 2025 Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 20182025-05-11T17:50:42+01:00 No Comment 
I’m an easy prey for YouTube’s algorithms, and I was just presented with an excerpt from an address by Yanis Varoufakis to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts on May 9,…
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Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui

May 11, 2025 Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui2025-05-20T17:36:52+01:00 10 Comments 
Majoritatea românilor nu sunt conștienți de gravitatea situației și de miza alegerilor din 18 mai. Mai mult de jumătate din populație a votat extremist în primul tur (Simion plus Ponta),…
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The one big mistake Xi is making right now

May 7, 2025 The one big mistake Xi is making right now2025-05-07T19:36:11+01:00 No Comment 
There might be more important things to worry about right now, but I thought of wasting some time with one that bothers me. And yes, it's about comrade Xi. I…
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Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!

May 3, 2025 Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!2025-05-20T17:36:59+01:00 6 Comments 
Aceste două tururi de scrutin vor fi ultimele din viața mea în care voi vota, DACĂ voi vota, și asta nu pentru că mă va călca trenul. Dar m-am săturat…
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China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…

May 2, 2025 China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…2025-05-03T20:50:22+01:00 2 Comments 
There are only a few thoughts that I wanted to express since some time already. Nothing too fancy, just some basic ideas. My recent “love for China” started before the…
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Those analysts still don’t get it

May 1, 2025 Those analysts still don’t get it2025-05-01T11:53:45+01:00 No Comment 
I just happened to read this opinion by Quinn Slobodian in The Guardian: “MAGA’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future.” Yes, it does. Of course…
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This is how stupid Microsoft is

April 27, 2025 This is how stupid Microsoft is2025-04-27T11:12:23+01:00 1 Comment 
At first, after having learned about this, I thought: “This cannot be. It’s impossible for a presence of an empty folder to add any kind of security, unless Microsoft is…
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AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news

April 26, 2025 AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news2025-05-04T15:51:13+01:00 10 Comments 
I'm not genuinely captivated by the AI; quite the opposite is closer to the truth. But given the hundreds of billions invested so far in AI and the hysteria that…
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Justiția pulii și pula justiției

April 25, 2025 Justiția pulii și pula justiției2025-05-20T17:36:41+01:00 2 Comments 
Am scris că suntem tâmpiți când Georgescu a intrat în turul 2. Am zis că trăim în Cîcîrostan când au anulat turul 2. Am opinat că ucidem democrația în numele…
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Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu

April 19, 2025 Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu2025-04-19T19:24:51+01:00 1 Comment 
Domnul profesor nu apare doar în interviuri video sau în presă, mai apare și în podcasturi audio, cum ar fi „Punctul pe știri”, cu Magda Grădinaru, la Rock FM (din…
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Bypassing GoComics’ paywall

April 19, 2025 Bypassing GoComics’ paywall2025-04-19T20:42:22+01:00 No Comment 
Some two weeks ago, I noticed that introduced a paywall, something like this: you display like 14 comics, then you're asked to pay. For fuck’s sake, that’s preposterous! So I…
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Azure AI: I’m too old for this shit, but Whisper works—locally

April 18, 2025 Azure AI: I’m too old for this shit, but Whisper works—locally2025-04-19T03:08:13+01:00 No Comment 
I'm not a fan of “everything in the Cloud” dogma. I prefer local apps, because otherwise why would we need anything else than Chromebooks, if everything is hosted on Azure,…
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🎞️ 3 x Žižek with no comments

April 14, 2025 🎞️ 3 x Žižek with no comments2025-04-14T02:45:32+01:00 No Comment 
I constantly reassert my hatred for YouTube, with its (literally!) billions of videos and too many podcasts that often take 2-3 hours each, because there isn’t enough time to watch…
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I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”

April 11, 2025 I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”2025-04-12T03:03:57+01:00 3 Comments 
I started to write this more than one week ago, but further events made me postpone it. Because of the delay and of the other disturbing international evolutions, I have…
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Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump

April 9, 2025 Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump2025-04-12T12:33:08+01:00 12 Comments 
As he threatened two days ago, Trump has imposed an incredible tariff on China: 50% atop the original 34%. But this 84% additional tariff means that all goods from China…
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Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US

April 7, 2025 Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US2025-04-09T18:03:29+01:00 4 Comments 
It wasn’t enough that Trump wanted to screw the planet with his dumb tariffs. It wasn’t enough that he wanted to screw Ukraine, Europe, and NATO. It wasn’t enough that…
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  • Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Simion a primit ordinul de mobilizare. Pardon, de contestare. Circul Mare din Moscova prezintă spectacolul „CîCîRostanul se întoarce!” Sau nu.…” May 20, 17:34
  • Béranger on There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions: “There are specific distros that don’t boot; they’re very few. There is also a list of compatibility (or even two),…” May 20, 07:31
  • zugu on There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions: “I use a lot of older hardware, and Ventoy sometimes cannot boot certain Linux distros, which boot just fine from…” May 20, 06:26
  • Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “FINALLY, OpenAI plans to combine multiple models into GPT-5, ending the stupid spread into GPT-4o, GPT-4.5, o4-mini, o4-mini-high and all…” May 19, 23:58
  • Béranger on The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup: “I have the confirmation that Epubor Ultimate 3.0.16.x can remove the DRM from any Kindle book downloaded under Windows by…” May 19, 20:33
  • Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Oops, China puts heavy 75% tax on US imports of vital engineering plastic: The levies on polyformaldehyde copolymers were made…” May 19, 10:08
  • Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Bun, apocalipsa se amână. Nu putem spune că „54% din români au votat rațional”. Căci o treime nu au votat…” May 19, 09:12
  • Béranger on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “Russia-Ukraine talks end after less than two hours in Turkey (Reuters): The first direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine…” May 16, 15:01
  • Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Să recunoaștem că democrația nu selectează nici persoanele cele mai competente, nici pe cele mai oneste. David Wengrow, coautor împreună…” May 15, 20:13
  • Béranger on AI is already vibe enslaving us: “Grok3, hallucinating in technicolor: xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa. What’s not to like?” May 15, 19:45
  • HAL on AI is already vibe enslaving us: “The history of “vibe coding” is frightening. As for finding the right Wiki link, we have to admit that it’s…” May 14, 19:36
  • Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Sondajele nu acoperă diaspora. Dar nu au corespuns niciodată realității nici măcar în țară.” May 13, 17:03
  • Béranger on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “Oui. Zelensky l’exigeait.” May 13, 17:01
  • HAL on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “So Putin will not be there, as I already said. Parce que certains pensaient vraiment qu’il serait là ? Bon,…” May 13, 16:59
  • Aldus on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Păi, a apărut un sondaj nou, care-i dă la egalitate. Până duminică mai este timp de surprize, cu Nicușor crescând…” May 13, 14:10
  • Béranger on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “Via FB: Zelensky will only meet with Putin — not other officials — if direct talks are held in Turkey,…” May 13, 11:26
  • Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Ce face dexonline e o tâmpenie sinistră, dar tocmai am observat că s-au ajustat cotele de pariuri pentru cei doi:…” May 12, 12:15
  • Béranger on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian: We support all efforts aimed at peace and hope that the parties involved will…” May 12, 12:03
  • Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Unbelievable news! US and China will temporarily lower the base tariffs on each other’s imports for a period of 90…” May 12, 11:49
  • Aldus on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Haha, intră pe dexonline să vezi ce idee genială de a-l promova pe Nicușor le-a venit ăstora! 😀 Cred că…” May 12, 03:10
  • Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Nicușorul nostru comite greșeli pe bandă rulantă. Nicușor Dan, după provocarea Roma for Democracy: ”Propun guvernului includerea reprezentanților minorităților în…” May 11, 14:59
  • Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Pentru că apocalipsa chiar vine. Iar Orbán și Netanyahu să-mi sugă pula. Despre Nicușor versus Sanador și alte spitale am…” May 11, 11:37
  • Aldus on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Nu știu de ce aveți unii impresia că vine Apocalipsa: Direcția. Pro-europenii tăi de la miting nu mai vor să…” May 11, 11:28
  • Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “Nu voi discuta substanța celor peste 4 ore de dezbateri Nicușor Dan – George Simion de la Euronews România (video;…” May 10, 01:03
  • Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “Brusc, Băse este optimist: Hai să nu fim pesimiști. Eu sper că Simion nu va fi președinte și am încredere…” May 7, 23:55
  • Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “I fail to understand ChatGPT. Its “Deep research” option, which uses o1-pro, has the same limit of 5 requests/month for…” May 6, 21:15
  • Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “A nu se da link-uri la iRealitatea sau la Simion, căci se emoționează algoritmu’ (de fapt, cred că prezența a…” May 6, 16:53
  • mgg on DistroWatch Weekly strikes again!: “AI is completely useless except for making document templates. Which removes the monotony of doing corporate speak when making documents…” May 6, 15:54
  • Aldus on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “Propun ca fiecare votant să fie ținut la izolare, în carceră, 5 zile înaintea votării, ca să nu fie influențat…” May 6, 08:56
  • Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “Note (cu completări) de pe marginea prăpastiei. ● După ce, în ultimele zile ale campaniei electorale, s-au „detonat” atât Funeriu…” May 5, 18:08
  • Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “OpenAI released a document on ChatGPT Enterprise — Models & Limits, primarily dealing with the topic of when to use…” May 4, 19:39
  • Béranger on China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…: “This is China’s weakness. But with a different age threshold, the phenomenon exists in the West, too. 🎞️ Why turning…” May 4, 16:33
  • Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Now that Qwen3 has been released (I briefly mentioned it here and in this comment), it might be worth a…” May 4, 15:53
  • Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “WordPress a fost beat și mi-a amestecat versiunile acestei postări. Sper că acum s-a fixat la ultima.” May 3, 22:45
  • Béranger on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “● Qwen3 with the default “Thinking” budget of 38,912 tokens, about your oranges: full answer. Read its full thinking, not…” May 3, 22:03
  • Aldus on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “Update on my blog, too (actually, a comment). Current Gemini finds Boris Kolesnikov, while Meta AI (now standalone) refuses to…” May 3, 21:24
  • Aldus on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “Thank you. Fixed it (hopefully).” May 3, 14:43
  • Béranger on China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…: “To further the understanding of Xi’s pragmatism, here’s Grok’s answer to an obvious question: Yes, Xi Jinping and his family…” May 3, 13:27
  • Béranger on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “At least in this case, the decision came from the web pages, not from X. And in its analysis, it…” May 3, 11:31
  • Aldus on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “Hmm, Grok 3 seems to take a different approach, at least in this case. Instead of listing several possible outcomes,…” May 3, 11:19
  • Béranger on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “Update: Grok3 is “da shit”! Qwen3-235B-A22B is not. And someone else tried the latest ChatGPT. Read the update.” May 3, 00:15
  • Béranger on UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage: “Another proof that IPv6 is broken by design: Hackers abuse IPv6 networking feature to hijack software updates: The attacks utilize…” May 1, 22:01
  • Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Ah, you might be right.” Apr 30, 18:20
  • edel on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Oh, for sure! But these agents must be going through the resumes, not the cover letters. I presume, once the…” Apr 30, 18:19
  • Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “I’m not sure the HR people, who are generally almost retarded, still read resumes. I suspect they also use ChatGPT…” Apr 30, 18:08
  • edel on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “In my pursue of a job, I decided if to speed up the cover letter by imputing my resume and…” Apr 30, 18:05
  • Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Manus doesn’t have a free tier. And it’s more expensive than anything else. They’re probably targeting business users, who might…” Apr 27, 20:34
  • HAL on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Perplexity, I can’t get used to it. I have it on my smartphone, but I rarely use it. It may…” Apr 27, 20:17
  • HAL on This is how stupid Microsoft is: “Oh, I hadn’t seen that. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know exactly, but yes, this empty folder idea seems pretty…” Apr 27, 18:06
  • Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “Trump did so many unbelievable things lately that I stopped mentioning them. BTW, fancy a “Trump 2028” hat? It’s only…” Apr 26, 11:29
  • Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “I’m so freaking done with this Trump crap that I physically cringed at writing more posts on his China trade…” Apr 26, 02:05
  • Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “I just learned that on these IoT editions, to use WSL2, one has to manually enable Hyper-V in a PowerShell…” Apr 25, 21:56
  • gicu on Justiția pulii și pula justiției: “Problema 1 e ca din zecile (sutele?) de contestatii una a fost aprobata. Problema 2 este ca in restul situatiilor…” Apr 25, 17:34
  • Béranger on Justiția pulii și pula justiției: “UPDATE: Iată că se poate! La ora la care scriu, nu am găsit la repezeală minuta, dar toată presa raportează…” Apr 25, 16:15
  • Sensible kek on Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu: “Să-l jupuim și să-l facem drapel!” Apr 21, 07:10
  • Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “I forgot to clarify the 245% duty mentioned by Trump here: China faces up to a 245% tariff on imports…” Apr 18, 09:08
  • Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Nu există bolșevism. Nu există salvare.” Apr 16, 05:30
  • Sensible kek on 📻 Radio Streams: “Doar un bolșevic bătrân ca tine poate crede că o să ne salveze chinezii și de oligarhii ruși și de…” Apr 16, 02:14
  • Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Du-te pe Short Waves. E plin de Radio Beijing în diverse limbi: engleză, spaniolă, italiană, chiar și elenă.” Apr 15, 19:49
  • Sensible kek on 📻 Radio Streams: “Mii de streamuri și totuși nu prind Europa Liberă.” Apr 15, 19:47

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  • ►2025 (74)
    • ► May (10)
      • There's more than one Windows: More “secret” editions
      • Codex, OpenAI's new bug factory
      • AI is already vibe enslaving us
      • You don't impress me much. Neither of you!
      • Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 2018
      • Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui
      • The one big mistake Xi is making right now
      • Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!
      • China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…
      • Those analysts still don't get it
    • ► April (12)
      • This is how stupid Microsoft is
      • AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news
      • Justiția pulii și pula justiției
      • Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu
      • Bypassing GoComics’ paywall
      • Azure AI: I'm too old for this shit, but Whisper works—locally
      • 🎞️ 3 x Žižek with no comments
      • I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”
      • Why China's Xi is everyone's best ally against shithead Trump
      • Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US
      • Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense
      • Le Chat Mistral: Se iau 2-3 mazări mari, se taie în felii subțiri...
    • ► March (20)
      • When a WP plugin update screws it
      • Computerul zice da. Oamenii zic nu.
      • Învățăturile lui Nea Guță Basarab către părinții de adolescenți
      • Europe 3.0: Sabin Gherman crede în Zâna Măseluță!
      • Not everyone is dumb regarding AI. But many are.
      • Viitor de aur țara noastră are! La fel și lumea...
      • Încă un mic eșec al agenților AI
      • Nu am cu cine să votez! Voi aveți?
      • Saponins from Edible Legumes, Grok, and You
      • Slobozul LLM de pe tavan
      • Dr. Martin Jan Stránský, D-zeu, AI și apocalipsa
      • The Network State + Freedom Cities: mai rău decât Novorusia!
      • Goșu despre războiul ce va să vie
      • Varoufakis believes in the Tooth Fairy, and in Putin's word
      • The Suwałki Gap, aka the Suwałki corridor, is no corridor at all!
      • Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs
      • Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?
      • Democrația ucisă „în numele legii”
      • War in Europe, Peace in Heaven?
      • The Orange Apocalypse and the EU + 5 Updates!
    • ► February (21)
      • The United States of Ruzzia + links
      • Quickest quickie: Claude 3.7 is here
      • Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing
      • Führer's Grok 3 is promising―and expensive if you need more of it 🥴
      • It's the automotive industry that might kill the BRD ➕ wahl.chat
      • The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup
      • 🤖 Mistral is a bad French “citizen”
      • How does a LLM work? These videos won't help that much ➕ Microsoft hallucinates!
      • SEO: Is Claude on my side, or it's parroting me?
      • You Don't Fool Me
      • The Führer's minions have restored my account
      • I tried to understand “no contest” without consulting Wikipedia
      • DistroWatch Weekly strikes again!
      • Et tu, Claude? Having fun with AI
      • Swimming upstream against the AI current—updated!
      • Was I wrong in my take on packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps? Updated!
      • 🤖 How to properly use AI as a software developer: through its API
      • 🤖 The biggest European IA conference nobody cares about
      • 🤖 A curt explanation on my latest choice of AI systems
      • 🤖 AI: from LLMs to Enslavement ● ChatGPT lies about its Search!
      • Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself
    • ► January (11)
      • The CPU Apocalypse: Yet Another Effect of Greed
      • Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?
      • One more time about Red Hat
      • King Trump 2.0's first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag
      • One more reason to use Ubuntu LTS (regardless of flavor)
      • Cui îi e teamă de normalitate?
      • News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic
      • From column to nushell: not what I expected
      • DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)
      • Când credeam că le-am văzut pe toate...
      • Now I really developed a fear of flying!
  • ►2024 (84)
    • ► December (6)
      • Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux
      • Magdeshit: Germany is a failure
      • Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări)
      • I might have discovered what ahedonia means
      • Este Cîcîrostanul o cîcîrocrație, sau o cîcîrotatură?
      • elementary OS, an OS for suckers
    • ► November (15)
      • Țara tâmpiților (care suntem)
      • Yes, you can be both anti-Putin and anti-Israel!
      • WordPress 6.7: idiots keep being idiots!
      • The suicide of the car industry
      • Luddism #2: From snaps to immutable and back
      • Luddism #1: From passwords to passkeys
      • Economie și finanțe: Un contabil bun poate fi pe alocuri și prost
      • Scattered thoughts about Russia and the world
      • Searching with or without AI's aid?
      • Christian Godard (1932–2024)
      • Cuza asasinul și medicina legală geto-dacă de la 1862 toamna
      • De ce nu e bine să permitem tuturor proștilor cu diplomă să dea sfaturi
      • Les jeux sont faits, rien ne va plus
      • Trump vs. Dems vs. Israel: not taking sides, just quoting
      • La peor gota fría (DANA) del siglo, y la mayor incompetencia
    • ► October (13)
      • A small collection of Romanian idioms, explained
      • AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples)
      • Nerușinarea farmaciștilor nu are limite (și nici cea a autorităților)
      • Devrais-je boycotter Carrefour Roumanie ?
      • Les squatteurs et la loi qui les protège
      • May Mozilla's UX/UI designers all die of colon cancer!
      • Moldova și UE: un Zugzwang de mai mare plânsul (cu un adaos)
      • I usually don't make predictions, but the worst is going to happen
      • Educația în România post-istorică
      • Is Linux so “fragile”? A strange experience with USB hubs
      • The tiniest Windows bug I've ever encountered
      • De data asta, numai o lovitură de stat ne mai poate salva de CCR!
      • From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journey
    • ► September (12)
      • Porsche and the “Six-Stroke Engine Patent”
      • Is this the CUPS hell? Maybe not for everyone, methinks
      • Dolphin on non-KDE distros with a dark theme: the horror
      • RetardGPT stopped working in Firefox ESR 115: what to do
      • Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (II): America
      • Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (I): Israel
      • Is this neuroscientist stupid? Now with a language connection!
      • ADHD insights for ADHD people
      • Quick weather update
      • I wish I weren't born in Europe
      • Nu, Nicușor Dan nu a rezolvat problema de clasa a patra! Actualizare: ba da!
      • It's time I said something against Ukraine (another long read)
    • ► August (10)
      • Pavel Durov: criminal, martyr, or double agent?
      • UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage
      • Is it IONOS, is it InnoDB, or is it me?
      • Bypass Paywalls will never die
      • The HARM mobile architecture
      • Le dernier des grands
      • How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel
      • Glorifying the uselessness: Oreon
      • The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose)
      • Security is a joke. Networking is a joke. Experts are a joke.
    • ► July (8)
      • How to lose even when you're right
      • What you need to know when using my custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE ISO
      • A random discovery about zypper, thanks to rpm and a deb package
      • Microsoft + CloudStrike = Death
      • Is openSUSE at crossroads?
      • One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1
      • The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!
      • I'd kill the entire Linux kernel team!
    • ► June (4)
      • SJVN made my day!
      • The shortest distro bashing and appraisal in a long while—now with added Dedoimedo!
      • Is systemd cancer? A reignited debate
      • KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other rants
    • ► May (5)
      • SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
      • Michiel Schrijver & Mark Beck: Painting styles
      • Custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE Live ISO
      • On the European subordination to the American liquefied natural gas
      • Norm Finkelstein, the reasonable Jew
    • ► April (2)
      • Yanis and the “Zionism Über Alles” Germany
      • Open-source software: the road to hell?
    • ► March (3)
      • Et tu, KDE? Vulnerable by design?
      • Answering to anti-establishment people on Ukraine
      • This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis
    • ► February (4)
      • Idei pe marginea cumpărării unei mașini: aspecte financiare
      • Jessie Inchauspé, the self-made wannabe goddess
      • I decided to ignore the upcoming Apocalypse—life is too short as it is
      • Il gattopardo azzurro: How I discovered Evgeni Gordiets
    • ► January (2)
      • Yoga, 4-6, 4-7-8 and 4-8 Breathing, and the retarded Dr. Weil
      • Israel’s Defense at the International Court of Justice is Disgusting
  • ►2023 (33)
    • ► December (2)
      • No kernel update is safe in Linux, not even an LTS one
      • Is an armistice in Ukraine still possible?
    • ► November (11)
      • How to stop the blurring of KDE's logout/shutdown and lock screens
      • Introducing an installable custom KDE Live ISO based on AlmaLinux 9.3 with kernel 6.1 from ELRepo
      • The Human Shield mantra about Gaza
      • Încă un fals martir (și sfânt!) al neamului românesc!
      • Les Français et les Suisses, parmi les plus débiles Européens
      • Some more thoughts about Palestine
      • I can hear the sound of money
      • Ce nu știați despre aparatele digitale de măsurat tensiunea (și nici despre Huawei)
      • For the last time, this is not about Hamas!
      • Corupția structurală regionalizată a Uniunii Europene
      • Falșii martiri ai neamului românesc
    • ► October (12)
      • De la Aquafresh în 3 culori, la Colgate cu șmirghel eficient
      • Comment devient-on un tout petit peu pro-palestinien ?
      • This is really starting to piss me off
      • Yanis and the Enchanted Cloud
      • I'm not sure I believe in the two-state solution
      • The YouTube Apocalypse (RE-UPDATED)
      • Middle East’s Borders Led to Wars
      • Hamas is Not Palestine
      • Gaza is Hamas
      • Chess and Go channels on YouTube
      • Istorii vechi din istorie veche
      • Forget about the EVs, here's how the EU will save the whales
    • ► August (3)
      • The Blue That Is Green (And More)
      • WordPress 6.3 broke my site and theme. Again!
      • Întâmpinând cu tristețe Festivalul Internațional de Benzi Desenate Istorice Brașov
    • ► July (1)
      • Vremea laptop-urilor și upgrade-urilor ieftine
    • ► June (1)
      • France is a woke dictatorship, and Twitter is its lackey
    • ► April (1)
      • Pisa (2008-2023)
    • ► March (1)
      • Relevanssi is the worst famous WordPress plugin in existence!
    • ► February (1)
      • WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shite
  • ►2022 (17)
    • ► October (1)
      • Cybersecurity, VPN myths, and the GDPR idiocy
    • ► September (6)
      • Language Learning Apps and YT Channels: Season 3
      • Online learning with Udemy and Domestika, but also on YouTube!
      • Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți
      • Cum se răspândesc zvonurile în retardata Românie
      • O tâmpenie românească de București
      • Hibernation in Manjaro—For the Lucky Ones
    • ► August (1)
      • 5 months into Manjaro: harmless yet unacceptable breakage
    • ► June (3)
      • Scrisoare împotriva OUG 27/2022
      • Questions on the delusion of losing weight
      • De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): panseuri
    • ► April (2)
      • 42: Swimming into brainwashing and burnout
      • PUTIN MUST DIE!
    • ► March (3)
      • The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle
      • The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUS
      • The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin
    • ► February (1)
      • Mon Gaston Berger de 2017
  • ►2021 (99)
    • ► December (16)
      • Don't Look Up—This movie is meant to scare you
      • Me désenchanter, c'est ma vocation éternelle
      • The Holo-Crypto-Meta-Virtual-Scam-Mafia
      • Soviet Winter Nostalgia
      • Îmi cam ajunge. Ce fascism ar fi fost necesar.
      • CURIA (CJUE) vs. CCR: românii sunt pesemne prea imbecili pentru a pricepe
      • Facebook Is Death!
      • Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
      • Caffeine is what kills in those energy drinks
      • I'll be back (soon?) with another cartoon (or whatever)
      • No more quality for the peripherals Made in China
      • Why Tim Cook Should Be Sodomized 24/7
      • Philippe Charles Jacquet: The Better Maestro of Solitude
      • At least, we have the masks
      • The Apple Music Awards: See Why the World Is So Fucked-Up
      • The Electric (and Autonomous) Frenzy—CNN Videos
    • ► November (19)
      • When the UNESCO creates malware: the Cookie Factory
      • The Anti-Elon Musk YouTube Hero
      • Are you old enough to remember Professor Balthazar?
      • I just discovered the junk of the Japanese junk food; it's tasty!
      • Linux Apps: The failure of Foliate
      • Linux Apps: There is Everything in Linux! (It's called FSearch...)
      • Firefox Destupidification, Take #1
      • The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE
      • The dumbification of package management in Linux
      • On Twitter, one must be woke, internationalist and obedient—or suspended!
      • Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux
      • COVID-19 Report #29: The Sonderbehandlung that won't be (or will it?)
      • Brave: the browser loved by idiots, morons, and cryptofuckers
      • COVID-19 Report #28: The Average IQ Keeps Falling
      • The Ongoing Cyberwar Nobody Talks About
      • Hating Wes Anderson with gusto
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 8: Lubuntu, Fedora 35, and more
      • Trying to understand the bullshit
      • COVID-19 Report #27: Tot în România
    • ► October (6)
      • COVID-19 Report #26: The Covidiots are still strong
      • Instead of a smartwatch
      • Do they want me to stop using computers altogether?
      • Biserica, românul, vaccinul: sutana sub care s-a ascuns diavolul
      • Referendum: un fiasco al TVR
      • Românii vs. COVID-19: note de front inutile
    • ► September (4)
      • SPECIAL: You Don't Even Know How Terrible Your Linux Distro Is!
      • Evil Twitter, Stupid Twitter
      • The extra information meant he didn’t know she didn’t know...
      • I just discovered a really smart ordinary guy... on Amazon!
    • ► August (2)
      • România, plaiul legilor din pix (sau din pixeli)
      • We Want COVID! (Re-Updated)
    • ► July (15)
      • Status mundi in tempore coronavirus
      • I revealed a state secret about Jack Fartsey!
      • Ce este azi România? O hazna, un exemplu tragic de retard mental absolut
      • The Climate Apocalypse 2021
      • “You can call me Scarlett”—and other idiots; plus Q&A with Professor Ludditus, and more
      • Cuba, mi amor (now in turmoil)
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 7: Just some thoughts...
      • No, the label Champagne hasn't been confiscated by Russia!
      • The Little Country That Could
      • China Strikes Back!
      • CA, ÎCCJ, CCR: Acronimele mafiei române
      • Should anyone really want to use Win11?
      • Patents Kill Patients (But Stupidity Kills Too)
      • Linus 1, Anti-Vaxxers 0
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 6: The death of the scrollbar
    • ► June (17)
      • Everyone nowadays seems to be a fake expert
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 5: The gaiety of having the choice
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 4: NOT trying Rocky Linux, after all
      • The Alphabet of Our Death
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 3: The Mint 20.2 Beta Triptych
      • Half-Truths, Lies, Incompetence and Idiocy Continue to Prevent a True Debate on Vaccines
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 2: Subpixel idiocy
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 1: Et tu, Fedora?
      • Bitcoin's evilness is more than Ransomware
      • Linux philosophy: Twitter humour
      • Bing, He Loves Me
      • Will we finally have the right to talk about hydroxychloroquine in good faith?
      • Fedora 34 XFCE: Are miracles still possible?
      • The Freedom to Blame China
      • From Memory's Vault: My Times With Fedora, as Béranger
      • Why Linux on the Desktop is Irrelevant in the Long Run
      • Here's how Plasma screwed my system: like a Windows virus!
    • ► May (12)
      • I had forgotten why I shouldn't trust Ubuntu... but neither many other distros!
      • Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?
      • A Community Experiment in Two Linux Distros
      • How the Internet Age Has Bent Some People's Minds
      • Try not to get depressed these days!
      • Is there a midway between Long-Time Support and quicksand?
      • Quick Experiment in “Improving” Linux Lite
      • Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTube
      • The VPN Myth
      • The Never-Ending Story Goes On!
      • A Glimpse from the Past
      • What Reddit has taught me about Arch Linux
    • ► April (5)
      • I Wish Me Luck
      • The Mental Retard In Linux Is Real
      • I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?
      • Theming my Salient OS
      • Looking for purity in Arch Linux
    • ► March (1)
      • The Long Road to Linux-Only (Not Excluding a Bit of WINE)
    • ► February (1)
      • COVID-19: Winning the War, but Losing All the Battles
    • ► January (1)
      • Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links
  • ►2020 (20)
    • ► December (1)
      • How to download full-size scans from Gallica.BnF.fr
    • ► November (2)
      • The Last Sleep of the Civilization Part II
      • The Last Sleep of the Civilization Part I
    • ► October (2)
      • The Sorry State... and the Quick Fix
      • Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From You
    • ► September (1)
      • Le Twitter des cons
    • ► August (2)
      • When Italian Design rhymes with kitsch
      • Don't trust the magazines on choosing an OCR
    • ► July (2)
      • 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather Depressingly
      • KDE and Debian aren't exactly my cup of tea; or should they?
    • ► June (1)
      • Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is Worse
    • ► May (1)
      • In omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)
    • ► April (3)
      • Mon héros, le Pr Didier Raoult
      • End of World Diary N°4: Le monde est tellement con, yet the future is interesting
      • Back to China
    • ► March (4)
      • End of World Diary N°3: China Just Won
      • I really don't have what to do at home #lockdown
      • Beyond the Point of No Return: We're Losing the Battle
      • 2020: The Year The World Ended
    • ► January (1)
      • Internet Radio, Mon Amour
  • ►2019 (9)
    • ► August (2)
      • 24-Hour Shifts: A Planet of Fools
      • What divides the Internet is not math
    • ► April (2)
      • Choosing the right poison
      • 24 h with Huorong, a week with Comodo 12, a year with Bitdefender 2019 (or not)
    • ► March (1)
      • Living Dangerously: CCAV 2.0 Beta
    • ► February (4)
      • The day the Chinese puzzles took over
      • Should you live with no sense of smell...
      • Carracci—what else?
      • Nostalgia & Fun With Calculators
  • ►2018 (1)
    • ► February (1)
      • Until further notice...
  • ►2017 (10)
    • ► October (1)
      • Crypto-mining is the new adware, only worse
    • ► September (1)
      • Learning a language in 200 hours?
    • ► August (2)
      • Guessing the weather forecast
      • Finding happiness in simple gizmos
    • ► July (2)
      • The coffee saga goes on—Summer Edition
      • Kaspersky is one more time a valid choice
    • ► April (3)
      • How I Came to Hate Nova Launcher
      • Going into Nougat and Motorola–rather unexpectedly
      • Panda, mon amour–true advanced security for 19.99 €/yr
    • ► February (1)
      • Android Apps: What I Use
  • ►2016 (22)
    • ► December (2)
      • The End of My Search for What Can't Be Found
      • Inissia Kapselmaschine, was sonst?
    • ► September (2)
      • The myth of the well-administered German city
      • 4G is meant to kill the last trace of common sense in communications
    • ► August (5)
      • The most annoying bug in Outlook 2016
      • Why Telekom.de mobile phone contracts should be forbidden by law
      • The Verdict on Wiko Robby—Weeks Later
      • The Hyperloop is snake oil
      • Low-RAM Marshmallow—One Week Later
    • ► July (6)
      • Marshmallow with 1 GB of RAM—Yes, You Can!
      • Nolite mittere high-tech ante porcos
      • Microsoft, the keyboard repeat rate and sleeping: how to work around their idiocy
      • On smartphone sensors
      • The world is swarming with incompetents...
      • Debunking some myths about SSDs
    • ► June (3)
      • “A” for “Acer TravelMate P6”
      • I'm set for ESET
      • I'm sorry you had to use TeamViewer
    • ► March (4)
      • It's still a long, long road...
      • Hopefully, Ransomware will reach everyone
      • Let's get going again!
      • Just saying…

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