Archives for 2022
Cybersecurity, VPN myths, and the GDPR idiocy
These are three distinct topics, but in my opinion they all deserve attention, and once you consider all the facts, you might conclude that so many people are barking at…
Language Learning Apps and YT Channels: Season 3
This comes as a late update to my previous post from 2021, Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links, which in turn was an update to a post…
Online learning with Udemy and Domestika, but also on YouTube!
Today another Udemy sale campaign ends, and I didn't purchase anything (strange enough, it featured courses from €11·99 for existing accounts, and from €14·99 for new students); this reminded me…
Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți
Există un cetățean numit Dan Ungureanu, care mai publică aberații pe Una din ele, cea din , mi-a sărit întâmplător în ochi și am încercat să comentez acolo chiar în…
Cum se răspândesc zvonurile în retardata Românie
Onor corupta presă audiovizuală din spațiul carpato-danubiano-pontic mă fute la creier de ceva vreme încoace cu dezinformarea putinistă care sună așa: „În Elveția, dacă depășești consumul de energie, de pildă…
O tâmpenie românească de București
Firește, numărul tâmpeniilor din România este aproape infinit, și sunt multe „cestiuni arzătoare la ordinea zilei”, inclusiv modul de compensare a facturii de electricitate, dar acum voiesc a vă prezenta…
Hibernation in Manjaro—For the Lucky Ones
Hibernation in Linux is for many years already no longer a priority for distro maintainers, kernel maintainers, video driver maintainers, and so on. Currently, the only distro that explicitly supports…
5 months into Manjaro: harmless yet unacceptable breakage
I installed Manjaro XFCE on my new HP ProDesk 400 G6 Desktop Mini PC on March 14, and it worked flawlessly and without any incident until today, August 25, when…
Scrisoare împotriva OUG 27/2022
Reiau mai jos un text privat, făcut acum public. Este suficient de anonimizat ca să poată ieși din sfera personală, și suficient de relevant pentru interesul public, afară de cazul…
Questions on the delusion of losing weight
The weight loss industry is mostly a scam. Dietary supplements supposed to help you lose weight, either by "burning your fat" or by reducing the appetite, are usually expensive and…
De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): panseuri
După recentul sejur în patrie, am rămas cu gânduri și idei neexprimate, motiv pentru care găsesc necesară o postare în limba maternă, ca să nu mai chinui varianta mea de…
42: Swimming into brainwashing and burnout
It was by pure chance that I learned of the existence of the network of tuition-free computer science schools called "42": "There are 15,000 students, studying at 40+ campuses in…
PUTIN MUST DIE!
Путин должен умереть! Idea for Russia: Despite being "the father of the Korean economic miracle", General Park Chung-hee brutally suppressed protests, arrested and tortured activists, imposed censorship. In Oct. 1979,…
The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle
I wanted to resist this viral crap (because crap it is, alright), but in the end, what the heck, we're all humans. I fail to understand why Wordle is such…
The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUS
The DLIFC (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center) prepares military linguists for the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy using incredibly intense programs. Knowing that most Americans…
The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin
As a chronic procrastinator, I started writing drafts for several blog posts, only to get muddled and never finish any. Just as I was into an XXL-sized “Explaining Putin”... the…
Mon Gaston Berger de 2017
Oui, je sais, le Questionnaire caractérologique de Gaston Berger est fortement contesté de nos jours, mais il arrive que j'aie retrouvé les résultats de ce test que j'ai fait en…