March 2022 – Homo Ludditus

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The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle

March 20, 2022 The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle2022-06-07T14:38:48+01:00 8 Comments android, apps, games, languages, Linux

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

March 19, 2022 The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUS2022-03-20T15:17:48+01:00 3 Comments languages

The DLIFC (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center) prepares military linguists for the U.S. Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy using incredibly intense programs. Knowing that most…

The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin

March 2, 2022 The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin2022-10-07T12:06:20+01:00 24 Comments apocalypse, longread, Russia, Ukraine

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…

edel on Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?: ““Israel’s future is very bleak” is the only thing I could bet on. Some thoughts: Alternative 1) It wins all…” Mar 15, 14:40
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “I agree on firewalls and everything else (except for the MacBook)! But when someone installs a distro with a desktop…” Mar 15, 08:06
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Zero BSODs here with 8 GB, but even the IoT edition of Win11 is demanding in CPU and RAM.” Mar 15, 08:02
ConEst on LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE vs. Markdown: FAIL!: “This is just too funny at this point 😀” Mar 15, 06:38
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: ““Less bad” was the criteria for me when I went back to windows.” Mar 15, 06:35
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “When I was on fedora, I noticed it only got usable after like 2-3 months from its stable update. By…” Mar 15, 06:34
Cozy on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Nothing to show here, but like the bot said, it’s really only practical for servers. Same goes for firewalls too…” Mar 15, 05:23
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Regarding systemd GUI management tools, I forgot to mention a few outliers, which I added as UPDATE: ① MX: “MX…” Mar 14, 22:45
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “SJVN steps in: Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids’ IDs before booting: A new wave of age verification…” Mar 14, 17:04
Béranger on Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux: “Liam Proven’s attempt at comparing ZRAM and ZSWAP: RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it. As expected,…” Mar 14, 16:56
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “After some more KDE-related updates, Spectacle still crashes on exit and, of course, it creates 36 QMLC files as soon…” Mar 14, 16:08
KrapDE on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “They probably know how to program, but they are dumb who live on another planet and have no idea how…” Mar 14, 14:08
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Oh, the EXT4 performance is closer to XFS than ever in Linux 7.0 Git:” Mar 14, 13:20
alecs on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Democrația nu înseamnă că nu ești violat, înseamnă că majoritatea decide cine te violează.” Mar 14, 04:38
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Bibi is unstoppable: Les frappes israéliennes menées au Liban depuis le 2 mars ont fait 773 morts et 1 933…” Mar 14, 01:24
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “France24 tocmai făcea socoteala că pentru un litru de motorină care costă €2.05 la pompă, statul e responsabil pentru €1.05…” Mar 14, 01:20
Béranger on On browser wars and stupid people: “Oh, I forgot about this relic! It does work, but it doesn’t always serve the purpose. I collect watermark-free Bing…” Mar 13, 21:11
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Varianta mea de istorie scurtă pe care am pus-o ca descriere la un extras video pe FB: În 1953, CIA…” Mar 13, 20:58
foobar on On browser wars and stupid people: “In Firefox, you can press Ctrl+I, then select “Media” to see all images on a page.” Mar 13, 18:38
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Oui, chef !” Mar 13, 00:05
HAL on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “I told you not to trust Fedora and/or KDE! Perhaps the most “secure”, with the reservations you mention, is XFCE.…” Mar 12, 23:52
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Nu mai pot să mă uit la absolut nici un canal de știri românesc. Hai, poate la un buletin de…” Mar 12, 19:04
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “N-ai cum să te opui, că doar nu ești cu Putler și cu Ayatolahii! (Jeff Stahler) Dar există o soluție…” Mar 12, 12:57
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Al Jazeera: Could Iran be using China’s highly accurate BeiDou navigation system? Why wouldn’t they? China needs oil! We all…” Mar 12, 04:46
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Am o critică măruntă: ai scris „Atenție: în contextul războiului cu Iranul!” Corect ar fi fost: „Atenție: în contextul războiului…” Mar 12, 01:40
Aldus on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Eu sunt chiar tranșant pe subiectul ăsta. Pe scurt, no way! Pe larg, aici (articol + comentarii). Și asta pentru…” Mar 11, 23:48
Béranger on Is openSUSE at crossroads?: “Ouch, SUSE might be for sale.” Mar 11, 22:23
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Uh, MidnightBSD’s initial reaction was not what it seemed to be, even if it changed twice. First time: California residents…” Mar 11, 22:20
Béranger on Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux: “ZRAM becomes more and more interesting. In October 2025, I used Zswap (not ZRAM!) in Lubuntu 25.10. In December 2025,…” Mar 11, 18:30
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The Reg: Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks. Carl Richell: Today, I met…” Mar 11, 00:55
Béranger on I might not be human, after all: “Indeed, it was painful to choose between such “masterpieces.”” Mar 10, 22:20
Jeo on I might not be human, after all: “Both human and AI written passages offered for evaluation sound artificial and pretentious to me. That is no good quality…” Mar 10, 21:50
Béranger on AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE: “Her, who? Her? as machines age, it gets worse over time. With a separate /home partition, the OS can be…” Mar 10, 19:38
HAL on AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE: “Ubuntu? Would you like to go with her, given her (possible? probable?) future direction? 😳 Well, Fedora… pff, but maybe…” Mar 10, 19:34
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Narratives: Trump’s vs. Iran’s. Trump: Trump is speaking about Iran again in Florida, a couple of hours after saying the…” Mar 9, 22:51
Drath on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “I genuinely enjoy AI music, though not the youtube streaming stuff, but weekly tops on suno and udio. That is…” Mar 9, 11:07
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was a true Nostradamus!” Mar 8, 20:50
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “I very much liked JFS myself! But you already knew that.” Mar 8, 20:27
HAL on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “In the past, I used XFS and liked it, but I also used JFS, which I preferred. I never had…” Mar 8, 20:26
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I’d rather believe you’re masochistic… or maybe you invented a new religion, and you stick to it. This is not…” Mar 8, 20:12
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Believe me, I’m a big fan of the K.I.S.S. principle. What you consider (in theory) “unnecessary complications,” for me (in…” Mar 8, 19:15
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “George Carlin is eternal!” Mar 8, 14:56
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I’m mostly focused on unnecessary complications. Are you familiar with The Incredible Machine, or you’re too young for that? You…” Mar 8, 14:52
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Ok, just a few more clarifications based on daily technology use: a) IMHO, you’re very focused on the performance issue…” Mar 8, 14:48
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I asked Kimi about native booting from a VHDX. Its answer includes, among other things: The bootloader (bootmgr) uses a…” Mar 8, 10:49
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “This is merely the “Australia syndrome”: censoring the access to social networks. But Carl Richell’s statement applies here, too: “The…” Mar 8, 10:20
Aldus on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Raed Arafat isn’t falling behind either. He was ridiculed in Romania, but it’s bizarre how suddenly all the governments of…” Mar 8, 09:09
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Fair points. But what a twisted design to have Windows use a VHD/VHDX file instead of a partition. Not only…” Mar 8, 07:05
Aldus on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Okay, I see you’re strongly opinionated about this, which I can’t be. Because, just like you, I’ve never tried this…” Mar 8, 05:22
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way (Phoronix): “XFS came out on top followed by EXT4, F2FS, and…” Mar 8, 02:47
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I asked Kimi: VHD/VHDX with dynamic disk allocation: I don’t understand how this works. On a normal filesystem, say an…” Mar 8, 02:27
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: ““whenever you reinstall Windows (or install it on a new PC)” – I do not (re)install Windows. Like, ever. Maybe…” Mar 8, 01:08
Aldus on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I really like the system described by VRBF. I’ve never used it myself, but it looks excellent: you create the…” Mar 8, 01:03
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “The NYT, about Iranian President’s Apology: Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president, had just apologized on state television on Saturday morning…” Mar 8, 01:01
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “System76 on Age Verification Laws is an excellent read! I don’t care about their hardware and I dislike their COSMIC…” Mar 8, 00:13
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “For flash memory-based disks (NVMe, SSD), the overhead of writing to a file is practically negligible. It’s about the raw…” Mar 7, 21:05
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Ok, understood. But to prevent anyone from coming here and getting incorrect or imprecise information, some clarifications: 1. BootICE appears…” Mar 7, 19:23
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “It just occurred to me that what these bastards want really requires control at the OS level. It’s not enough…” Mar 7, 16:28
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “1. I can’t even find an OFFICIAL SITE for BootICE. Only fuck-ups. Pathetic. 2. Writing to a file should be…” Mar 7, 16:14
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “An important observation: when you natively boot from a VHD, the only “virtual” thing is the C: drive. Everything else…” Mar 7, 16:00

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