Archives for 2025 - Page 2
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,…
Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100
Despite my previous post Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?, in which I established that Win11 would be a better fit for my newer Acer, and…
Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?
As I was scratching my balls, I had this revelation: what if we are fools to want to install Win11 on CPUs that are officially unsupported? Sure, they're not supported…
SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!
In my previous post, I ended a sentence like this: “the first documentary I’m going to suggest you watch.” Later, I suddenly asked myself: why did I use this construct?…
Microsoft’s lawsuits alone should have made us ditch them
Recently, I became aware of some outrageous claims made by Microsoft in a British court. The claims are older, only the judgment is recent. Some short notes on the matter.…
Cum „vorbesc” boții prostănaci limba română + English update
Pentru că am postat pe FB un link la o discuție cu Copilot, iar acea discuție începea cu „Mi se pare mie, sau serialul The Knick a fost uitat destul…
Comics Kingdom Easy Browser
This is the sibling of the web version of the Comic Strip Browser for GoComics, which needed a counterpart for ComicsKingdom.com, which hosts the comics syndicated through King Features Syndicate,…
Comic Strip Browser in your browser!
Even myself, a huge fan of local, standalone apps, I have to admit that nowadays almost everything is a web app. And the Comic Strip Browser app, a PyQt6 software…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.3: new strips!
I released two new versions of my Comic Strip Browser one after another the same day. That's because 1.1.2 added 6 new strips, but 1.1.3 had to remove an older…
ChatGPT și CCR: Deci așa, cam în vreo 15 ani…
M-am distrat puțin cu ChatGPT, dacă situația mai permite să facem haz de necaz (nu, nu permite). Iată transcrierea integrală a discuției cu agentul fără suflet și fără creier: ❶…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will make snaps unavoidable
Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, gave an interview to The Reg. The news are all bad, although some of the bad things won't happen that soon. But I'm saddened…
eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!
Un prieten a luat țeapă cumpărând de pe eMag o contrafacere ordinară vândută de un terț, dar expediată de eMag din depozitele proprii. Omul s-a gândit să inițieze un retur…
Ce-i în Gulă și-n căpulă: nasoale
Permiteți să raportez! În unele sâmbete, mai spre prânz, așa, dau pe stream-ul de Internet al Radio GoldFM, unde băieții lui Cozmin Gușă bagă niște reluări de editoriale și dezbateri…
On the AI Apocalypse: ARTE documentaries & NYT interviews
“Big Tech is bad. Big AI will be worse.” It already is! Obviously, it's all about controlling us. When this is not enough, AI will replace (some of) us. “Democratic…
Cum să ieși din pușcărie înainte de termen în România: e simplu!
Sunt multe decizii ale CCR și ale ÎCCJ asupra cărora am hotărât să nu comentez pe blog (sau hotărâri asupra cărora am decis...), pentru că mi-a fost prea silă. Românii…
A €20 Linux tax: cui et quantum prodest?
After 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits and Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke, the post 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu…
📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…
No, this blog wasn’t hijacked. This comes from the author of 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits. But this is a public service to those…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.1: new features and new bugs!
Exactly three months ago, I wrote The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app! It was meant to introduce a PyQt6 Linux app for browsing a selection of…