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…
An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty
This is an essay meant to complement my controversial take on Fjord’s Palme d'Or and my other politically incorrect opinions that are scattered throughout the blog. I used WPS Office…
Gemini: De ce Europa federală nu poate fi dorită de Germania
Niciodată nu știi ce poți afla dintr-o conversație mai lungă cu un chatbot. Astăzi am plecat de la marota unor influențări români care insistă că „în țările civilizate” nu se…
Palme d’Or for Mungiu’s Fjord: Cannes conned by a wily movie!
At first, I thought Cristian Mungiu had produced and directed the wrong movie. After a summary analysis, I decided that his choice was a deliberate trick and that they have…
GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows
While the new Lenovo placidly runs Debian 13 XFCE installed via Xebian Trixie (not Unstable), there’s still an Acer that has not received any Windows yet and runs MX XFCE.…
Dogville (2003)
I used to avoid Lars von Trier’s shitty experiments called films, as they usually tend to be manifestations of his mental insanity. But I happened to decide to watch Dogville…
Bucureșteanul și intersecțiile
Am observat în spațiul public online românesc o chestiune recurentă pe care nu am abordat-o până acum fiindcă mă enervează. Cum mi-a sărit în față ieri pe Reddit, mi-am zis…
The umpteenth AI compromise
I can't even remember how many times I changed my choice of chatbots in everyday use. Every time one chatbot angered me, I wanted to replace it, but each chatbot…
Did Gemini Pro really get that worse? 4 threads to test it!
I just had 3 conversations with Gemini Pro Extended Thinking. It all started from my refusal to watch two videos about Claude skills, but the first thread evolved into covering…
Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch
I don’t use chatbots to write either texts or code for me. For code, Gemini CLI wasn’t bad when I used it, and Qwen Code was very decent, too, but…
Some changes in Gemini AI
While everyone is expecting Gemini AI 3.5 to be released tomorrow, May 19, at Google I/O 2026, some changes took place in advance. Starting on May 17, 2026, there are…
What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
This idea might come as a shock to those who noticed that I was quite a heavy user of Kimi lately. I mostly used it for answers that involved distilling…
Fedora Linux just rejected the idea of an LTS kernel!
I had my suspicions that Fedora Linux is maintained by a bunch of morons who misinterpret or interpret too strictly Red Hat’s requirements, but now I have the proof that…
Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian
Since the home page of Xebian insists that this Debian blend (not derivative!), “with only a thin layer for artwork and configuration that differs from Debian,” is “based on Debian Unstable/sid,” I…
Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?
I’m not a huge fan of Kagi's products and services. Their web search is not free. Kagi Translate seems to be temporarily free, and it usually performs great translations, except…
Is Debian the Answer?
What I meant is this: Is Debian the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? The context is that of a new Linux local privilege escalation…
Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies
① Someone felt contemplative... I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch…
My Lenovo’s resume-after-sleep bug fixed in one minute
Somewhere, I mentioned the fact that my new, cheap but premium-finished Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 had a single issue under Kubuntu 26.04 LTS: resuming after sleep would break Bluetooth. I…
Updates on GoComics and ComicStripBrowser
① On browsing GoComics.com: Bypassing GoComics’ paywall has been updated with uBlock Origin filters that currently manage to bypass the paywall in Firefox, even under Android! I'll copy here the…