The law says you’re responsible for the snow on sidewalks. Why?
There is a thing that bothers me in “civilized countries”: if someone breaks their neck while on a public sidewalk that you don't own, you're the guilty one if the…
Am discutat scurt cu Gemini despre ninsoarea din București
Începută cu o nedumerire legată de volumul ninsorii, discuția cu Gemini s-a încheiat cu o scurtă interacțiune (o întrebare, un răspuns) care s-a referit la principii, nu doar la insuficiența…
Chatbots are mostly clueless regarding the game of GO
I was visiting Reddit for a Linux-related topic, when a thread from r/baduk was suggested to me: How is this a real eye? This is an elementary eye viability recognition…
AI and more on the Japanese note.com
I just discovered note, a popular Japanese blogging and content-sharing platform that allows users to create and publish articles, entire blogs, illustrations, photos, and videos. While in some regards it…
Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI
There are a lot of things generative AI can be blamed for, but some people seem to take this issue personally. It also seems to me that people are not…
Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!
Nicolas Kovacs, a veteran open-source IT expert and Linux instructor, and long-time advocate of CentOS (as well as Slackware), has authored four books, beginning with CentOS 5.3 and ending with…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux
I said it before: the adoption of GNOME 3 as “the” desktop was a severe betrayal of Ubuntu’s user base. But now Canonical goes even further in insulting the intelligence…
SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too
Me: This YT short claims that a SSD might lose information over time if unplugged. It's not like it's RAM, but still electrons move around. However, even if plugged in,…
Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs
I keep being disappointed by major chatbots. You see, it's not enough if such an LLM knows about those newfangled frameworks or programming languages; it has to know, or to…
Bolojan și oferta lui de nerefuzat
După ce am citit materialul avocatului Alexandru Mușătoiu „Asociații unui SRL răspund cu bunurile personale în fața ANAF”, m-am bășicat rău pe tovarășul Ilie Bolojan și m-am gândit să întreb…
A Big Beautiful Bullshit List
There are still Luddites on Earth, which is good news! Unfortunately, they have no power, and the overcomplexification of everything is going to continue. But yesterday I was stunned to…
I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?
After the last iteration through my tables from The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM, I concocted another table, meant to help me really take a…
A paper about the Boltzmann brain paradox, vulgarized by AI
In a very small nutshell, and quoting from Wikipedia, “The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it is probably more likely for a brain to spontaneously form, complete with a…
The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM
In a previous post, in the chapter “On RAM prices because of the AI madness,” I explored the possibility of purchasing a cheap laptop with 24 GB or 32 GB…
On browser wars and stupid people
After having read this comment about Firefox on 9to5Linux (it starts with “Firefox has been making a history of bad decisions”), I was reminded that I can’t use only one…
Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!
I'm not fiercely hating snaps—I’m only annoyed by them. A lot, but once they’re there, and Canonical doesn’t seem to give up (snaps won't share the fate of upstart, Mir,…
Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend
There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…
Iar îmi desființez contul eMag
Nu am scris pe blog când mi-am desființat prima oară contul eMag. Am scris doar despre cum vând ei falsuri ordinare nederanjați de nimeni. Dar povestea e că mi-am desființat…
The usual mental retard in Linux
Nothing special, just the same old. Some “error while loading shared libraries” crap. Out of curiosity, I wanted to try 4K Video Downloader Plus under Debian 13. The download page…
Flopzilla is retarded
Yesterday, all of a sudden, Firefox 147.0.2 (64-bit) became fucked up under Windows 11. It wouldn't open certain sites, which Edge would open on the same laptop. The same version…