March 2026 – Page 2 – Homo Ludditus

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I might not be human, after all

March 10, 2026 I might not be human, after all2026-03-10T00:53:18+01:00 2 Comments AI, books, Claude

I just took this quiz in The New York Times: Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. It involves choosing, for each of the five pairs of…

Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!

March 7, 2026 Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!2026-03-07T14:41:07+01:00 11 Comments AI, apocalypse, fedora, idiocy, Linux, longread, Mint, SPECIAL, Ubuntu, USA, woke

Just as I thought that the worst thing that could happen to humankind and the worst possible thing in America was Donald J. Trump, wokism in Socialist California struck again!…

Curiouser and curiouser…

March 6, 2026 Curiouser and curiouser…2026-03-07T00:52:40+01:00 18 Comments Apple, Linux, Nvidia, Win10, Win11

Why do I feel the need to comment on Dedoimedo’s latest post? Well, because I disagree with a fundamental premise that led to a questionable conclusion. It has to do…

Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!

March 3, 2026 Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!2026-03-03T21:07:25+01:00 7 Comments AI, apocalypse, idiocy, music, YouTube

On YouTube, there are thousands of channels with the following characteristics: They stream music 24/7 or for 2, 3, 8, 12 hours, after which they create another live stream that…

Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?

March 3, 2026 Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?2026-03-18T14:10:38+01:00 9 Comments Budgie, Dedoimedo, ergonomics, GNOME, KDE, Linux, MS-DOS, SPECIAL, systemd, tiling, WinBoat

Random musings triggered by Dedoimedo's recent Linux, product and the art of essence, a philosophic piece on the “tragic self-sabotage that hampers the potential growth and proliferation of the Linux…

În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul

March 2, 2026 În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul2026-03-02T22:57:58+01:00 6 Comments history, Iran, Israel, pe românește, YouTube

În decembrie, vă băgasem un episod de istorie povestit de Mircea Badea. Mă rog, varianta lui. De data asta, Dragoș Pătraru avu niscai opinii referitoare la războiul din Iran. Din…

Béranger on Băi, chiar nu-i mai suport pe români (preluări de pe FB): “Am mai dat multe bălării pe FB, dar preiau doar cel mai recent comentariu: Armata israeliană distruge toate podurile DIN…” Mar 23, 00:30
Béranger on namesake vs. homonym vs. eponym vs. Romance languages: “When “the eponymous” means “the aforementioned”: gemini.google.com/share/3f115de46789.” Mar 22, 22:23
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The Orwellian Establishment seems to be winning: Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls. systemd: #40954:…” Mar 22, 16:48
Béranger on Student, dar nu absolvent? Să înțelegem CV-ul lui Nicușor: “Ma che cazzo significa questa stronzata?! Horea Mihai Bădău: Nicușor Dan, président de la Roumanie, a été admis en doctorat…” Mar 22, 11:31
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “In the new formula, Separate Ways by Journey, cover by The Graystones 2026. Grayson – drums Evan Riley – vocals…” Mar 22, 04:21
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “No, it didn’t work well. Nyarch was a red herring.” Mar 22, 03:55
Béranger on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “I didn’t and won’t try Lumo ever again, but I disagree on ChatGPT: I literally never use it anymore. I…” Mar 21, 23:52
RaúlTheFish on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “Your experience with Grok is the same than mine with Copilot 😂. I switched to ChatGPT, it works ten times…” Mar 21, 23:49
VRBF on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “I apologize for bothering you with my suggestions and questions. You can rest easy — this is the final comment…” Mar 21, 22:00
Béranger on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “You didn’t fucking read my chat with Claude Sonnet 4.6 Extended! Yes, Windows 10 and therefore Windows Server 2022 can…” Mar 21, 21:28
VRBF on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “Well, I asked the same question to Claude Haiku 4.5 (duck.ai), and this was the answer: Windows Server 2022 does…” Mar 21, 21:19
Béranger on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “Does Windows Server 2022 include better support for hybrid CPUs? Claude: Short answer: no, not really. Windows Server 2022 is…” Mar 21, 20:00
VRBF on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “Another interesting possibility to test would be Server 2022. It appears (though I couldn’t be entirely sure) that Intel Thread…” Mar 21, 19:53
Béranger on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “Too long, and I have no desire to tweak Windows’ scheduler! I had a not-entirely-relevant chat with Claude on the…” Mar 21, 10:45
VRBF on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “Maybe you shouldn’t permanently rule out Win10 LTSC for your 2023 Acer. Support for hybrid CPUs is certainly more advanced…” Mar 21, 02:10
Jim Tatters on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “I was getting ready to say you were wrong but…. 1 and 2 (wasted space in configuration) Yep, going back…” Mar 20, 20:42
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “I’m glad you asked. Here’s what I dislike about Cinnamon: ❶ There is a lot of wasted horizontal space in…” Mar 20, 19:45
Jim Tatters on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “The gnome plus dash to panel looks just like cinnamon in linux mint. I don’t understand the hate for cinnamon,…” Mar 20, 19:10
Thomas on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “Thanks :^) I’ll try that and keep an eye on this page as well!” Mar 20, 11:28
Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “Indeed, it doesn’t work anymore; I should update the post. You might want to try comic-strip-browser-web and comics-kingdom-easy-browser.” Mar 19, 22:53
Thomas on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “I’ve been using the uBlockOrigin solution without problem for a while but it’s stopped working. I just tried the Tampermonkey…” Mar 19, 22:49
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Le Chat Mistral disappointed me repeatedly and annoyingly, so I stopped using it one more time. The free tier never…” Mar 19, 15:44
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Linuxiac: Linux Distributions Begin Blocking Brazil Access Over New Digital Law. My initial feeling: This is exactly what everyone should…” Mar 19, 14:17
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions (Phoronix):” Mar 19, 14:12
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Another tiny update lists two TUI (Terminal User Interface) apps: systemd-manager-tui and isd.” Mar 18, 14:12
Béranger on Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?: “The fun goes on: Yanis Varoufakis joined Chris Hedges and foreboded evil: How the Iran War Will Cause a Global…” Mar 17, 14:15
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Dictator Lukashenko’s prophecy from one year ago was top-notch. Here’s what he answered to Steve Rosenberg (at 11:10): You bashed…” Mar 17, 14:09
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Update on KDE Plasma 6.6.2 in Fedora 43: With all the updates available as of March 17, Plasma is still…” Mar 17, 02:29
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “UPDATE: The Dash to Panel miracle! In which I discovered that enabling “Ungroup applications” not only separates active windows from…” Mar 17, 02:14
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Oh, my, now that you mention it, I had some fun reading these Fedora bug reports: Bug 2394999 – gnome-epub-thumbnailer…” Mar 16, 22:08
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “No, no, what I meant is: “as customizable by using Nyarch Customize and with other minor customizations by hand (Thunar,…” Mar 16, 21:22
HAL on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “could a customized GNOME, supplemented with a decent file manager, be usable by those who hate GNOME? That should probably…” Mar 16, 21:19
monogram on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Hi! Do you know about the new unhinged idiotic GNOME’s “sandboxed” glycin thumbnailers and loaders infecting the gdk-pixbuf lib and…” Mar 16, 18:16
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The Resistance is shaping up! John McCardle, IT Specialist at NASA, has created Ageless Linux, a Debian derivative, in order…” Mar 16, 13:47
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “As much as I despise Jesse Smith, he’s right in All about age verification laws and Linux: You might be…” Mar 16, 07:26
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “It’s partly fault of my usage as well (maybe). I compress my files and upload and use handbrake too sometimes…” Mar 15, 19:22
Jeo on No luck, plenty of fun, and you’ll definitely die! (You, not them.): “You can’t beat what is in everybody’s head already. They just told it. Clearly. And the conclusion is clear, too:…” Mar 15, 17:00
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Indeed, by “convergence” they meant “the PC is dead, the tablet is the future!” The tablet is nowhere, and even…” Mar 15, 16:42
Cozy on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “In a way, you do have the option to disable and remove those services, albeit it’s not presented in a…” Mar 15, 16:38
edel on Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?: ““Israel’s future is very bleak” is the only thing I could bet on. Some thoughts: Alternative 1) It wins all…” Mar 15, 14:40
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “I agree on firewalls and everything else (except for the MacBook)! But when someone installs a distro with a desktop…” Mar 15, 08:06
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Zero BSODs here with 8 GB, but even the IoT edition of Win11 is demanding in CPU and RAM.” Mar 15, 08:02
ConEst on LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE vs. Markdown: FAIL!: “This is just too funny at this point 😀” Mar 15, 06:38
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: ““Less bad” was the criteria for me when I went back to windows.” Mar 15, 06:35
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “When I was on fedora, I noticed it only got usable after like 2-3 months from its stable update. By…” Mar 15, 06:34
Cozy on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Nothing to show here, but like the bot said, it’s really only practical for servers. Same goes for firewalls too…” Mar 15, 05:23
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Regarding systemd GUI management tools, I forgot to mention a few outliers, which I added as UPDATE: ① MX: “MX…” Mar 14, 22:45
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “SJVN steps in: Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids’ IDs before booting: A new wave of age verification…” Mar 14, 17:04
Béranger on Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux: “Liam Proven’s attempt at comparing ZRAM and ZSWAP: RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it. As expected,…” Mar 14, 16:56
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “After some more KDE-related updates, Spectacle still crashes on exit and, of course, it creates 36 QMLC files as soon…” Mar 14, 16:08
KrapDE on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “They probably know how to program, but they are dumb who live on another planet and have no idea how…” Mar 14, 14:08
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Oh, the EXT4 performance is closer to XFS than ever in Linux 7.0 Git:” Mar 14, 13:20
alecs on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Democrația nu înseamnă că nu ești violat, înseamnă că majoritatea decide cine te violează.” Mar 14, 04:38
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Bibi is unstoppable: Les frappes israéliennes menées au Liban depuis le 2 mars ont fait 773 morts et 1 933…” Mar 14, 01:24
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “France24 tocmai făcea socoteala că pentru un litru de motorină care costă €2.05 la pompă, statul e responsabil pentru €1.05…” Mar 14, 01:20
Béranger on On browser wars and stupid people: “Oh, I forgot about this relic! It does work, but it doesn’t always serve the purpose. I collect watermark-free Bing…” Mar 13, 21:11
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Varianta mea de istorie scurtă pe care am pus-o ca descriere la un extras video pe FB: În 1953, CIA…” Mar 13, 20:58
foobar on On browser wars and stupid people: “In Firefox, you can press Ctrl+I, then select “Media” to see all images on a page.” Mar 13, 18:38
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Oui, chef !” Mar 13, 00:05
HAL on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “I told you not to trust Fedora and/or KDE! Perhaps the most “secure”, with the reservations you mention, is XFCE.…” Mar 12, 23:52