Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡
Firefox 154 on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2 Build 19044.7663. With only 4 tabs, it takes 3 GB of RAM: Facebook, Outlook, Gemini, and my blog. Information retrieved via…
The miracle of the French subjunctive
This is a quick-and-dirty complement to my post in Romanian, În care discut cu Gemini ciudățeniile conjunctivului în franceză și italiană. This time, I questioned ChatGPT in English to see…
Lumo 2.0 is still Chinese, and Euria is even dumber
I wrote about Lumo in August 2025, then in October, with occasional updates as comments on the respective posts. I repeatedly noted that Lumo used, even if not always, self-hosted…
I stopped believing in Ukraine, whatever that means
I might look like an ass, but I’m sick of the war in Ukraine, which is also in Russia these days. I supported Ukraine from day one, and I’ve been…
Siemens: the One Flop or the One Hope for Europe?
Not long ago, ZDF broadcast an 18-minute documentary titled Warum sich Siemens gerade für immer verändert (“Why Siemens is changing forever right now”). Only after I concocted this automated but…
Securitatea Wi-Fi-ului public: mituri vs. realitate
Unii cretini mă iau la pulă (în comentarii pe care nu le aprob) când postez conversații cu chatboți, dar această discuție este informativă și nu am detectat halucinații în ea.…
Amendamentele Grădinaru și Fritz în deciziile CCR: Gemini
Discuția cu Gemini se poate citi și aici. Am pus doar 3 întrebări, iar ulterior am revenit cu a patra. ❶ Eu: Există vreo țară europeană în care legislația anticorupție…
Random new and old Linux news
Not my usual self, but consistent with it, I hereby offer a collection of news and comments related to Linux. Anchors work by using a section's number (e.g., #3). 1…
A shorter visit to the Small Web
If you have never heard of Kagi's Small Web, read my post from the 10th of May. The current tiny selection of links: ❶ Unattributed.cc: Tech Sucks! Victim in Denial!…
From whisper to whisper.cpp
I have used OpenAI’s Whisper a couple of times, with satisfactory results. I mentioned my Debian/Ubuntu setup in a post from 16 months ago: python3 -m venv whisper_env source whisper_env/bin/activate…
The NYT is as reliable as Pangram (meaning it ain’t)
There are very few mainstream sources one can trust when it comes to AI, and the NYT recently proved it's not one such source. This is the article that irritated…
✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?
I've been using LanguageTool for a very long time. Unfortunately, there is no longer a free tier for their Firefox add-on. From their announcement: “We have made the difficult decision…
Odyssey Linux—not quite for me
Odyssey Linux is a Void-based distro that seems to be the result of some heavy work by a single person. It just worked in my quick test, so why did…
Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review
As someone wrote about it, The cast marshaled for this movie is an embarrassment of riches: Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, John Leguizamo, Mia…
Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all
I hated PackageKit in 2008, then I got used to it as it became omnipresent, so I just ignored it. Most people have nothing against it (it’s for your security!)…
Is there an ePub apocalypse? A case study and beyond it
A chat with Gemini, what else? ❶ Ludditus: Back in the day, when ePub readers included models from Sony (PRS-300, 350, 500, 505) and many other brands, I was rabid…
KDE Bug 342056: Thunar is still a great file manager
Phoronix, yesterday: KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times: Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files).…
One more visit to the Small Web
At first, I couldn't stay awake, so I took a forced nap. Then I woke up and noticed that I just couldn't think. I couldn't focus on anything. I felt…
Il ne valait mieux pas que je comprenne le français 🙄
« It is not because you are / I love you because I do / C'est pas parce que you are me / Qu'I am you, qu'I am you » (Renaud). I…
AI and Linux: a bit of ranting
From the hundreds of URLs visited per week, here are a bunch of comments based on a very short selection of news from the last 3 weeks. I am unhappy…