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There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions

May 20, 2025 There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions2025-05-20T04:47:52+01:00 2 Comments Microsoft, tips, Win10, Win11

In an unexpected post on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, I described two special, yet official editions of Windows that have some…

Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory

May 16, 2025 Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory2025-05-17T01:00:30+01:00 No Comment AI, apocalypse, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, tips

There was a lot of talk about this shit, and now it went live: Introducing Codex: “A cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered…

AI is already vibe enslaving us

May 14, 2025 AI is already vibe enslaving us2025-05-16T22:42:33+01:00 2 Comments AI, apocalypse, eco, idiocy, Wikipedia

Time and again, we're told that AI hallucinates, that it's unreliable, that it can't write reliable code, nor could it replace meaningful jobs. And yet… Satya Nadella, on April 29,…

You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!

May 11, 2025 You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!2025-05-12T00:48:37+01:00 5 Comments eurocrap, Russia, Ukraine, USA

❶ Putin: “We offer Kyiv to resume direct talks without any preconditions starting from May 15 in Istanbul.” ❷ Zelenskyy, take 1: “It is a positive sign that the Russians…

Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 2018

May 11, 2025 Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 20182025-05-11T17:50:42+01:00 No Comment China, eurocrap, USA, varoufakis

I’m an easy prey for YouTube’s algorithms, and I was just presented with an excerpt from an address by Yanis Varoufakis to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts on May 9,…

Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui

May 11, 2025 Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui2025-05-20T17:36:52+01:00 10 Comments apocalypse, CîCîRostan, pe românește

Majoritatea românilor nu sunt conștienți de gravitatea situației și de miza alegerilor din 18 mai. Mai mult de jumătate din populație a votat extremist în primul tur (Simion plus Ponta),…

The one big mistake Xi is making right now

May 7, 2025 The one big mistake Xi is making right now2025-05-07T19:36:11+01:00 No Comment China, eurocrap, Russia, USA

There might be more important things to worry about right now, but I thought of wasting some time with one that bothers me. And yes, it's about comrade Xi. I…

Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!

May 3, 2025 Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!2025-05-20T17:36:59+01:00 6 Comments apocalypse, CîCîRostan, idiocy, pe românește

Aceste două tururi de scrutin vor fi ultimele din viața mea în care voi vota, DACĂ voi vota, și asta nu pentru că mă va călca trenul. Dar m-am săturat…

China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…

May 2, 2025 China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…2025-05-03T20:50:22+01:00 2 Comments AI, Alibaba, Baidu, China, Ernie, eurocrap, Qwen, USA

There are only a few thoughts that I wanted to express since some time already. Nothing too fancy, just some basic ideas. My recent “love for China” started before the…

Those analysts still don’t get it

May 1, 2025 Those analysts still don’t get it2025-05-01T11:53:45+01:00 No Comment AI, apocalypse, elon_musk, idiocy, USA

I just happened to read this opinion by Quinn Slobodian in The Guardian: “MAGA’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future.” Yes, it does. Of course…

Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Simion a primit ordinul de mobilizare. Pardon, de contestare. Circul Mare din Moscova prezintă spectacolul „CîCîRostanul se întoarce!” Sau nu.…” May 20, 17:34

Béranger on There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions: “There are specific distros that don’t boot; they’re very few. There is also a list of compatibility (or even two),…” May 20, 07:31

zugu on There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions: “I use a lot of older hardware, and Ventoy sometimes cannot boot certain Linux distros, which boot just fine from…” May 20, 06:26

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “FINALLY, OpenAI plans to combine multiple models into GPT-5, ending the stupid spread into GPT-4o, GPT-4.5, o4-mini, o4-mini-high and all…” May 19, 23:58

Béranger on The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup: “I have the confirmation that Epubor Ultimate 3.0.16.x can remove the DRM from any Kindle book downloaded under Windows by…” May 19, 20:33

Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Oops, China puts heavy 75% tax on US imports of vital engineering plastic: The levies on polyformaldehyde copolymers were made…” May 19, 10:08

Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Bun, apocalipsa se amână. Nu putem spune că „54% din români au votat rațional”. Căci o treime nu au votat…” May 19, 09:12

Béranger on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “Russia-Ukraine talks end after less than two hours in Turkey (Reuters): The first direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine…” May 16, 15:01

Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Să recunoaștem că democrația nu selectează nici persoanele cele mai competente, nici pe cele mai oneste. David Wengrow, coautor împreună…” May 15, 20:13

Béranger on AI is already vibe enslaving us: “Grok3, hallucinating in technicolor: xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa. What’s not to like?” May 15, 19:45

HAL on AI is already vibe enslaving us: “The history of “vibe coding” is frightening. As for finding the right Wiki link, we have to admit that it’s…” May 14, 19:36

Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Sondajele nu acoperă diaspora. Dar nu au corespuns niciodată realității nici măcar în țară.” May 13, 17:03

Béranger on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “Oui. Zelensky l’exigeait.” May 13, 17:01

HAL on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “So Putin will not be there, as I already said. Parce que certains pensaient vraiment qu’il serait là ? Bon,…” May 13, 16:59

Aldus on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Păi, a apărut un sondaj nou, care-i dă la egalitate. Până duminică mai este timp de surprize, cu Nicușor crescând…” May 13, 14:10

Béranger on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “Via FB: Zelensky will only meet with Putin — not other officials — if direct talks are held in Turkey,…” May 13, 11:26

Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Ce face dexonline e o tâmpenie sinistră, dar tocmai am observat că s-au ajustat cotele de pariuri pentru cei doi:…” May 12, 12:15

Béranger on You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!: “Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian: We support all efforts aimed at peace and hope that the parties involved will…” May 12, 12:03

Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Unbelievable news! US and China will temporarily lower the base tariffs on each other’s imports for a period of 90…” May 12, 11:49

Aldus on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Haha, intră pe dexonline să vezi ce idee genială de a-l promova pe Nicușor le-a venit ăstora! 😀 Cred că…” May 12, 03:10

Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Nicușorul nostru comite greșeli pe bandă rulantă. Nicușor Dan, după provocarea Roma for Democracy: ”Propun guvernului includerea reprezentanților minorităților în…” May 11, 14:59

Béranger on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Pentru că apocalipsa chiar vine. Iar Orbán și Netanyahu să-mi sugă pula. Despre Nicușor versus Sanador și alte spitale am…” May 11, 11:37

Aldus on Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui: “Nu știu de ce aveți unii impresia că vine Apocalipsa: Direcția. Pro-europenii tăi de la miting nu mai vor să…” May 11, 11:28

Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “Nu voi discuta substanța celor peste 4 ore de dezbateri Nicușor Dan – George Simion de la Euronews România (video;…” May 10, 01:03

Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “Brusc, Băse este optimist: Hai să nu fim pesimiști. Eu sper că Simion nu va fi președinte și am încredere…” May 7, 23:55

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “I fail to understand ChatGPT. Its “Deep research” option, which uses o1-pro, has the same limit of 5 requests/month for…” May 6, 21:15

Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “A nu se da link-uri la iRealitatea sau la Simion, căci se emoționează algoritmu’ (de fapt, cred că prezența a…” May 6, 16:53

mgg on DistroWatch Weekly strikes again!: “AI is completely useless except for making document templates. Which removes the monotony of doing corporate speak when making documents…” May 6, 15:54

Aldus on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “Propun ca fiecare votant să fie ținut la izolare, în carceră, 5 zile înaintea votării, ca să nu fie influențat…” May 6, 08:56

Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “Note (cu completări) de pe marginea prăpastiei. ● După ce, în ultimele zile ale campaniei electorale, s-au „detonat” atât Funeriu…” May 5, 18:08

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “OpenAI released a document on ChatGPT Enterprise — Models & Limits, primarily dealing with the topic of when to use…” May 4, 19:39

Béranger on China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…: “This is China’s weakness. But with a different age threshold, the phenomenon exists in the West, too. 🎞️ Why turning…” May 4, 16:33

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Now that Qwen3 has been released (I briefly mentioned it here and in this comment), it might be worth a…” May 4, 15:53

Béranger on Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!: “WordPress a fost beat și mi-a amestecat versiunile acestei postări. Sper că acum s-a fixat la ultima.” May 3, 22:45

Béranger on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “● Qwen3 with the default “Thinking” budget of 38,912 tokens, about your oranges: full answer. Read its full thinking, not…” May 3, 22:03

Aldus on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “Update on my blog, too (actually, a comment). Current Gemini finds Boris Kolesnikov, while Meta AI (now standalone) refuses to…” May 3, 21:24

Aldus on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “Thank you. Fixed it (hopefully).” May 3, 14:43

Béranger on China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…: “To further the understanding of Xi’s pragmatism, here’s Grok’s answer to an obvious question: Yes, Xi Jinping and his family…” May 3, 13:27

Béranger on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “At least in this case, the decision came from the web pages, not from X. And in its analysis, it…” May 3, 11:31

Aldus on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “Hmm, Grok 3 seems to take a different approach, at least in this case. Instead of listing several possible outcomes,…” May 3, 11:19

Béranger on Searching with or without AI’s aid?: “Update: Grok3 is “da shit”! Qwen3-235B-A22B is not. And someone else tried the latest ChatGPT. Read the update.” May 3, 00:15

Béranger on UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage: “Another proof that IPv6 is broken by design: Hackers abuse IPv6 networking feature to hijack software updates: The attacks utilize…” May 1, 22:01

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Ah, you might be right.” Apr 30, 18:20

edel on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Oh, for sure! But these agents must be going through the resumes, not the cover letters. I presume, once the…” Apr 30, 18:19

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “I’m not sure the HR people, who are generally almost retarded, still read resumes. I suspect they also use ChatGPT…” Apr 30, 18:08

edel on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “In my pursue of a job, I decided if to speed up the cover letter by imputing my resume and…” Apr 30, 18:05

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Manus doesn’t have a free tier. And it’s more expensive than anything else. They’re probably targeting business users, who might…” Apr 27, 20:34

HAL on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Perplexity, I can’t get used to it. I have it on my smartphone, but I rarely use it. It may…” Apr 27, 20:17

HAL on This is how stupid Microsoft is: “Oh, I hadn’t seen that. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know exactly, but yes, this empty folder idea seems pretty…” Apr 27, 18:06

Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “Trump did so many unbelievable things lately that I stopped mentioning them. BTW, fancy a “Trump 2028” hat? It’s only…” Apr 26, 11:29

Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “I’m so freaking done with this Trump crap that I physically cringed at writing more posts on his China trade…” Apr 26, 02:05

Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “I just learned that on these IoT editions, to use WSL2, one has to manually enable Hyper-V in a PowerShell…” Apr 25, 21:56

gicu on Justiția pulii și pula justiției: “Problema 1 e ca din zecile (sutele?) de contestatii una a fost aprobata. Problema 2 este ca in restul situatiilor…” Apr 25, 17:34

Béranger on Justiția pulii și pula justiției: “UPDATE: Iată că se poate! La ora la care scriu, nu am găsit la repezeală minuta, dar toată presa raportează…” Apr 25, 16:15

Sensible kek on Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu: “Să-l jupuim și să-l facem drapel!” Apr 21, 07:10

Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “I forgot to clarify the 245% duty mentioned by Trump here: China faces up to a 245% tariff on imports…” Apr 18, 09:08

Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Nu există bolșevism. Nu există salvare.” Apr 16, 05:30

Sensible kek on 📻 Radio Streams: “Doar un bolșevic bătrân ca tine poate crede că o să ne salveze chinezii și de oligarhii ruși și de…” Apr 16, 02:14

Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Du-te pe Short Waves. E plin de Radio Beijing în diverse limbi: engleză, spaniolă, italiană, chiar și elenă.” Apr 15, 19:49

Sensible kek on 📻 Radio Streams: “Mii de streamuri și totuși nu prind Europa Liberă.” Apr 15, 19:47