Archives for January, 2025
The CPU Apocalypse: Yet Another Effect of Greed
I am sick of the endless string of vulnerabilities because of CPU design flaws. A recent sampler: Meltdown (2018), Spectre (v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, and SpectreRSB in 2018, SWAPGS…
Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?
I wanted to include a link to The Reg’s article by Liam Proven, Linux Mint Xia arrives fashionably late, in a later post, in which I wanted to investigate a…
One more time about Red Hat
On December 25, I wrote about how Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux. I mentioned that RHEL 10 Beta and CentOS Stream 10 removed most graphical desktop applications, because…
King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag
Once you get over the introductory video of the second coming of Messiah (this one), the White House's website (which is a WordPress site) gives you access to the Executive…
One more reason to use Ubuntu LTS (regardless of flavor)
Just as it was with the CUPS hysteria, a set of rsync vulnerabilities have been promptly patched for all supported LTS versions of Ubuntu, even LTS and LTS for the…
Cui îi e teamă de normalitate?
Preiau aici textul pe care l-am postat pe Facebook. Nu de alta, dar s-ar putea să fie eliminat. Nu de către fact-checking-ul care s-a cam desființat, ci de vreo interpretare…
News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic
In the version of this blog from May 2007 to Feb. 2009, most of my posts (roughly four per day!) consisted of links to external articles, including lots of political…
From column to nushell: not what I expected
The former, column, is a utility from the bsdextrautils package, whereas the latter is a shell written in Rust. There is something they have in common: they both provide nicely…
DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)
I am banned from commenting on DWW for years, and I don't remember exactly why. I don't remember to have had any interaction with Jesse Smith, but Ladislav Bodnar didn't…
Când credeam că le-am văzut pe toate…
Rolul lui YouTube a ajuns mai important decât al televiziunilor. Dacă oligofrenii sunt prostiți pe TikTok cu „producții” de 15 secunde, YouTube oferă, în afara producțiilor clasice aflate sub pragul…
Now I really developed a fear of flying!
The last week of December has seen some unfortunate aviation accidents and incidents. Not all were of the same kind, but there were too many either way. And, for the…