June 2020 – Homo Ludditus

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Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is Worse

June 3, 2020 Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is Worse2020-06-03T14:41:27+01:00 Technical 21 Comments

Some time ago I said to myself that I should definitely switch to Linux. Returning from Win7 to Win10 in the times of a pathetic 2004 (but which Windows update…

Michael on Adventures in Linux Ep. 2: Subpixel idiocyIn Ubuntu 18.04 I get decent results with FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35 cff:no-stem-darkening=1 autofitter:warping=1" added to /etc/environment At least it makes full hinting
Jim on Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTubeI take it all back! Re-read a few times, and had a few chuckles with a less serious head on
Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle[UPDATE] More cheating!
Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle[UPDATE] I just discovered another German clone: 6mal5.com.
Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle[UPDATE] On March 30, 2022, I noticed a bug in Wordle.
Béranger on The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUSSome interesting considerations, selected from When we talk about emotions and plurilingualism: "My mother says I'm becoming 'English'. This hurts
Béranger on The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of PutinTwo things to read: — A Twitter thread by Garry Kasparov, starting here and collected on a single page here.
Béranger on The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUSIt seems that I forgot to bash Jay Leno for being just your regular (and dumb) English speaker that pronounces
Béranger on The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUSPaul Jorgensen, the guy behind Langfocus, often compares languages in pair, and you'd be surprised to find how many differences
Béranger on The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of PutinAre you a writer for Sputnik?
mirciulica on The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of PutinBoth you and Bill know very well that the reason "every able man" is staying in Ukraine is because they
Béranger on The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of PutinA joke from Moscow: "According to Putin the special military operation is really a conflict btw Russia and NATO about
Béranger on The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of PutinYou're right, Zelensky is merely your "normal" president, just a politician like everywhere in the world. Corrupt, he only cares
mirciulica on The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of PutinThe last thing I want is to find myself in agreement with Le Pen's daughter but what exactly you find
Béranger on The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin[EVEN MORE] I'm increasingly tired of Putin's baseness and of our impotence regarding this monster. I also believe we should
Béranger on What Reddit has taught me about Arch Linux(Fuck you, Fred. You're an oaf.)
Béranger on Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?You seem to be targeting Debian, although no .deb packages are available. Too bad cafe-desktop is not in AUR (with
ZenWalker on Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?I am working in CAFE desktop, it is a MATE fork (since 1.24) which works with CTK (fork from gtk
Béranger on Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?Nice to learn that CTK+ exists, but what is its purpose? Should GTK3 become unmaintained and with unfixed vulnerabilities, I
ZenWalker on Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?I am working in a gtk3 fork since some time ago: https://github.com/cafe-desktop/ctk I ported some applications and it just works.

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Giorgio de Chirico. Immagini metafisiche

Giorgio de Chirico. Immagini metafisiche

by Riccardo Dottori

Questo libro di complessa analisi e interpretazione dei dipinti di Giorgio de Chirico è unico nel suo genere, e fortunatamente anche come e-book (non necessariamente per Kindle; l’ePub costa 9,99 euro all’IBS) comprende immagini di buona…

Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? [nouvelle édition]

Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? [nouvelle édition]

by Pierre Bayard

Après avoir lu « La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres » et « L’affaire du chien des Baskerville » (lu en anglais : Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles), je suis définitivement persuadé que la rigueur…

Histoire de la Chine : Des origines à nos jours

Histoire de la Chine : Des origines à nos jours

by John King Fairbank

Une bonne introduction à l’histoire de Chine.

The Eighth Detective

by Alex Pavesi

What eighth detective (or what eight detectives, in the UK edition)? You’ll understand towards the end of this unusual book which mainly consists of 7 stories, which per se are not that bad, so if one would only read the odd chapters fro…

Marseille Une ville sous influences

by Pierre Boisserie

Assommante comme histoire et très médiocre graphiquement, cette BD demeure assez instructive pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Marseille. Mais ça, seulement si le prétexte d’une balade à travers la Marseille qui engendre une discussion en…

La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres

by Pierre Bayard

J’avoue n’avoir pas encore lu « Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ? » (c’est pour bientôt), mais j’ai été séduit par « L’affaire du chien des Baskerville » (que j’ai lu en anglais : Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the…

L'homme de l'année 1989 - 16 - L'inconnu de la place tiananmen

L’homme de l’année 1989 – 16 – L’inconnu de la place tiananmen

by Jean-Pierre Pécau; Gin

Cette aberration est de la propagande pure. Je sais que cette collection n’est pas censée décrire la réalité, mais au sujet des évènements de Tiananmen, un peu plus de discernement s’imposerait.En admettant qu’il s’agisse d’un massacre…

Le Trésor du Cygne noir

by Guillermo Corral

Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber - Mais où est Kiki ? N/B

Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber – Mais où est Kiki ? N/B

by Robber

On ne peut nier ni l’effort ni le talent, mais après avoir lu la version en couleurs dans Spirou, cette version noir et blanc, complètement redessinée par rapport à celle en couleurs, ne me satisfait nullement.

Les Spectaculaires Prennent l’Eau

by Régis Hautière

Les Spectaculaires Dépassent les Bornes

by Régis Hautière

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

by Sophie Hannah

I dare say it’s only with the fourth “New Poirot” that Sophie Hannah finally managed to reach a cunningness comparable to that of the Grande Dame of Golden Age’s Crime. The first three attempts were of unequal quality in my view: I rated…

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