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 7 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 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

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…

John on SPECIAL: You Don’t Even Know How Terrible Your Linux Distro Is!Linux is so fragmented it's not even a legitimate excuse to have so many distributions. Many are just tweaks of
Béranger on Porsche and the “Six-Stroke Engine Patent”You should oppose your claims to the USPTO. Honestly, I am against most patents, if not all of them, as
Mark A Sokalski on Porsche and the “Six-Stroke Engine Patent”My patent (US 10,119,463 B3; Nov. 6, 2018) is not included in the citations. Clearly, this design conceived (stolen?) using
Béranger on 📻 Radio StreamsIn the 12th documented update of the radio player list of stations, I added extra streams for a Romanian music
Béranger on UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakageSince I ended this post with a take on the uselessness of IPv6 in most cases, take a look at
Béranger on From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journeyDedoimedo, Oct. 4. 2024: Linux desktop freezes, pm_runtime_work hogged CPU error. In brief, he encountered an IPv6 issue on his
Béranger on Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (I): IsraelAt last, someone, be it Macaroni, had the guts to say STOP SENDING WEAPONS TO NETANYAHU! For fear of being
Béranger on From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journeyI forgot about one more way to install and update packages because I never used it, and I'm not sure
Béranger on From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journeyYou can use QEMU 5.2.0 from December 2020 to run Windows 3.11 from November 1993. With networking and Internet Explorer
Béranger on Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (I): IsraelPiers Morgan seems to have become mentally retarded, which is how he probably was all the time. For a while,
Béranger on From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journeyThe new installer in Ubuntu MATE 24.04, which is the same as the one in the main Ubuntu flavor (only
Béranger on Quick weather updateBjørn Lomborg made a return, and he explained the issue of the heavier EVs in Real Time with Bill Maher.
Béranger on Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (I): IsraelEven if the world almost unanimously agrees that Iran is a bad actor and its regime is harmful even to
Béranger on It’s time I said something against Ukraine (another long read)It’s time I said again that Russia is a murderous regime: official documents obtained by The Insider confirm Navalny was
Béranger on Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (II): AmericaCouncil of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly recognises Julian Assange as a ‘political prisoner’ and warns against the chilling effect of his
Béranger on Bypass Paywalls will never dieOh, Invidious? On the contrary, I want YT to suggest me videos based on what I already watched. This is
Béranger on From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journeyEnergy saving? The entire RAM is powered, regardless of whether it holds data we rely on or random values. OTOH,
shishimo eregon on Bypass Paywalls will never dieThanks for the great article. As a freelance PRIV/SEC SE, I love to see articles like this. Invidious is great,
edel on From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journeyNot a specialist on this, but while having a low base RAM consumption is a good sign and commendable, both
Béranger on From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journeyNewcomers should definitely check out Larry Bushey's excellent Ubuntu MATE Guide: https://guide.ubuntu-mate.org/ It covers version 22.04 LTS, but the differences