Archives for December, 2025
Post-Christmas depression
There's nothing too serious, just my joie de vivre. The usual occasions to celebrate, such as the Christmas, the New Year's Eve, my birthday, and the Easter, ceased being festive…
Linux system cleaners, you said? Yeah, not a big fan of them
I stopped using CCleaner for Windows years ago, even before Avast purchased Piriform. Today, everything owned by Avast is pure garbage, but there are many ways to perform some form…
The most retarded AI failure is LanguageTool, not the chatbots
I am so sick of the inconsistency of LanguageTool that I asked ChatGPT about my experiences with LT and, to my surprise, it said that it's a known issue and…
SJVN and his dogs got soft-headed
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is possibly the most famous business and technology journalist ever. I used to read him in BYTE and PC Magazine in the heyday of the PC. Lately,…
Cenzura, o extremă urgență în România (ca să parafrazez)
În loc ca cenzura să fie interzisă în UE, aceasta este de fapt încurajată. Vezi de pildă Directiva (UE) 2019/790 a Parlamentului European și a Consiliului din 17 aprilie 2019…
Bad news in Ubuntu land, Nemo was retarded, and more
This is one of my shorter posts on Linux, and it contains 4 topics. Bad news regarding Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and its flavors From the mailing list for technical-board --…
Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall
Last time, I produced yet another Bible-long story of anything and everything, where I ended up stranded in MX for lacking the nerve to start over with Debian XFCE proper.…
SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian
① On Sept. 21, I said that Linux will soon be history for me. ② On Oct. 13, I found more proofs that Linux has become a joke. ③ On…
Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!
Correction: I didn’t even know about Claude Desktop for Windows and macOS! Or, if I knew, I guess I might have believed it was only available for paying customers. While…
A blast from the past: how AI failed me
Here’s the comic strip Blondie, by Dean Young & John Marshall, for the day of December 5, 2025: Doesn’t it remind you of anything? You must be too young then.…
The EU and Romania compete in dissing China
This is not the first adversarial or hostile gesture of the European Commission against China, even if the decision of the Council of the EU doesn't mention China by name,…
Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake
From the December 11, 2025, Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and moderated discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Johann Wadephul in Berlin: And how is…
RECORDER, Justiția, prescripția și cazul Vanghelie
Din numeroasele cazuri discutate în documentarul RECORDER „Justiție capturată” (menționat pe scurt într-un comentariu), aș vrea să discut „cazul Vanghelie”, pentru că se încadrează perfect în modelul discutat în postarea…
One more retarded Swiss chatbot: Euria
That is, even more retarded than Proton’s Lumo, which is opaque as to which LLMs are used, and unbelievably dumb. But the Swiss persevere: Euria: the free, sovereign AI assistant…
Șase scurte note despre AI
Firește, nu este doar impresia mea că LLM-urile astea de uz general devin tot mai stupide. Probabil că sunt mai mulți factori care contribuie la acest fenomen, de la „AI…
Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea
În seara de 1 Decembrie, Mircea Badea a avut pentru prima oară în viața lui mintea pe-acasă, și ne-a povestit romanțat un episod de istorie. Înregistrarea emisiunii a ajuns pe…
I tried Inbox Comics, and I liked what I saw
A reader suggested I try Inbox Comics, a free and ad-free service that would send you daily the comics of your choice from a list of over 400 (currently, 439)…
Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!
I just lost €12.99 because of Google Play Store, despite having in theory many more rights than the Americans, as the responsible entity in my case is Google Commerce Limited,…