macOS and GNOME users, and The Reg’s readers: blinkered, or tards?
So many people are wearing blinkers (in the UK) or blinders (in the US), and we could blame two culprits instead of their innate stupidity: macOS and GNOME. It’s mostly…
Why is Dedoimedo dreaming of an impossible Linux ecosystem?
Dedoimedo can be so candid at times! Here’s Dedo acting as a regular Linux user (short version, “Luser”) and pretending to get confused by the stupid search results of the…
Claude Code destroys some software companies
Here’s a complaint I found on Reddit: I am done with this shit. I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible.…
What if I learned to use AI agents smartly and SKILL-fully? 🤔
When it doesn’t crash before answering, Gemini 4 Argon can give some useful answers. It’s not always the case, but sometimes it is. You can even throw an archive of…
🐧 Because it was possible: now nautilus-compact-list exists!
Nobody wanted to do it. Nobody missed a compact list view in Files, still codenamed nautilus, but much more stupid than its classic GNOME 2 version. If they did, they…
ComicStripBrowser 4: GoComics is defeated! + UPDATES 🤷♂️
For the first time, release 4 can bypass the Bunny Shield challenge! 🎉 🌐 ComicStripBrowser 4 is out on GitHub, with packages and binaries on SourceForge, too! Changelogs for releases…
Liam Proven: Btrfs, AI, ROC, and the AMOC apocalypse
Each time I visit Liam Proven’s articles for The Reg, I can find some real fun—even if this wasn’t the intended effect. Let me show you the latest crop. As…
Clem and Linux Mint: the good, the bad, and the mad
For once, the Linux Mint Monthly News brought some interesting news in its October 2026 edition. But only two pieces of news are worthwhile: the addition of “Hibernation” to Sleep…
Shocked me: I just learned about Cloudflare Workers’ free offer!
Gemini Argon is expensive (it can eat your 5-hour quota in 3-5 questions if you throw lots of code at it), but it can also teach you about workarounds you…
OK, so maybe the AI crash is here: now what?
I’m still not sure if AI is supposed to kill us all or whether the AI bubble will soon crash, leading to a new Great Depression of sorts. For the…
Reuters doesn’t understand AI, China, markets, and bubbles
Reuters: In China, the AI bubble has already burst: Oct 26 (Reuters) - While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries…
🤖 „Profesorul Rughiniș iarăși se întoarce din nou încă o dată”
Radu Buzăianu („Ce se întâmplă”): 📹 Profesorul Răzvan Rughiniș despre lumea AI care a început. Nu reproduc absolut tot, dar o mare parte. #1 ● Criza din educație și anxietatea…
The Big Font Mystery—Solved?
Sometimes, to make me attempt to investigate something that bothers me but does not intrigue me to the point of really awakening my interest, a chain of events needs to…
Taxa radio-TV: sunt cehii nebuni? Scurtă discuție cu Gemini Argon
Știre de la Praga: „Zeci de mii de cehi au ieșit în stradă duminică la Praga pentru a susține libertatea presei și pentru a protesta împotriva unui plan de reformă…
Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!
In three types of Debian XFCE installations, I had different variations on the topics of (1) the screen going blank after 10 minutes, despite the XFCE Power Manager having “Display…
Radio player—refactored & reborn!
The Internet radio stream player hosted by this blog has been completely overhauled, revamped, refactored, rewritten. In fact, it’s literally by no means what it was, even if it looks…
When Pro is not quite Pro—farewell, Claude in Antigravity!
I might seem unreasonable to castigate Google’s new policies towards Pro plans obtained via bundled promotions or “partner benefits,” but even if such plans were unfair to the majority of…
I survived the PHP2Shell apocalypse! But I am outraged!
OMFG! That day has come! 🧟 Wiz Inc.: PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet 🧟 Calif Research: A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities 🧟…
America doesn’t even know what to ban from China!
I initially posted this as a quick note, but I decided it deserves more attention, as Uncle Sam is literally retarded. ● The US just banned DeepSeek from government agency…
Why must Debian be the only distro that works?
My latest post on Ubuntu 26.10 flavors needed several updates, and the overall conclusion was dire: contrary to my expectations, 26.10 isn’t a better release than previous ones—quite the opposite.…