April 2026 – Homo Ludditus

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What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain

April 1, 2026 What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain2026-04-01T22:06:32+01:00 No Comment Claude, idiocy, TypeScript

It all started from this “Devin got fired” thing: Cool, OK, but… wait, a comment is a comment, right? Well, it is, and it also isn’t, just like Schrödinger’s cat.…

Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică

April 1, 2026 Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică2026-04-01T20:21:49+01:00 No Comment dem, Grok, pe românește

E păcat că am început această discuție cu Grok în română. Chiar voiam să aflu ceva, însă ce am aflat chiar m-a uimit. Am hotărât să pun această discuție online…

Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Liam Proven, who loves XFCE for its keyboard shortcuts from the IBM/CUA era (and who’s using it with a left…” Apr 1, 21:10
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “UPDATE: Liam Proven knows more about Wimpy’s lack of “passion” towards Ubuntu MATE. In Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME…” Apr 1, 21:03
Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Added MX KDE to the comparison. (Previously, only MX XFCE was tested, but the D/L link was given for the…” Mar 31, 22:01
Béranger on Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!: “Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱” Mar 31, 21:01
greenjeans on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “No I just usually use reportbug and sent it to Debian that way. I agree that MATE needs some customizing,…” Mar 31, 20:07
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “Did you report any bug to Ubuntu MATE that ever got fixed? Ubuntu MATE has an active forum, but that’s…” Mar 31, 17:25
greenjeans on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “Mate’s not quite ready for Monty Python’s “bring out yer dead” cart quite yet, lol. The last bug I reported…” Mar 31, 17:23
Béranger on I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE: “LibreOffice vs ONLYOFFICE – Which One Is Right For You? I don’t care about the ODF format. I couldn’t find…” Mar 31, 14:00
Béranger on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Oh, I didn’t know that GNOME 50 dropped support for accessing Google Drive files. I couldn’t have known, as I…” Mar 31, 13:51
Béranger on The day GoComics went bad: “Strange thing, the Inbox Comics mail for today, March 31, managed to retrieve Garfield from GoComics, with the link pointing…” Mar 31, 12:41
HAL on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “OK, but on older or very old machines, we need something lighter, which is why we need XFCE. Not everyone…” Mar 30, 16:26
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “Why, of course, Liam Proven would be devastated if something happened to XFCE! OTOH, “resources” is more than just RAM.…” Mar 30, 15:15
HAL on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “About Ubuntu MATE, maybe some new people will answer the call and get the project back on track. We can…” Mar 30, 15:04
ng6333 on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Believe it or not — I ran into the same BT error when running Debian 13 live XFCE ISO and…” Mar 29, 12:46
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “I am so bored by all those naive analyses that only talk about Trump’s 15 points communicated by Pakistan to…” Mar 29, 02:27
Béranger on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Apparently, if you have an expensive (probably slightly north of €2,000) ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 N6506MV with Intel® Core™ Ultra…” Mar 29, 02:07
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Turnarounds, again, with a video that premieres on March 30: Runaway Baby (Bruno Mars Cover) | The Turnarounds Official…” Mar 29, 01:13
HAL on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Ah, ouai, 2 Go… Ouch, ça pique.” Mar 28, 21:29
Béranger on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Une fois customisé à fond, RAM 2 Go, disque 18 Go.” Mar 28, 21:26
HAL on Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu: “Hum, GNOME 🤔 Quelle est l’empreinte sur le système, par défaut sans après l’installation. sans toucher, et aussi une fois…” Mar 28, 21:20
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “Andrew Sterling Ansley, on FB: Next time someone says that Iran is dangerous and they need to be stopped… here’s…” Mar 28, 20:31
ConEst on Apple is still the worst of all: “Liquid glass is so bad that it’s enough to fire their entire design team and their dark mode icons look…” Mar 27, 04:45
Kimi on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “That’s hardware instability. Check you CPU & RAM with stress testing software applications such as OCCT, RamTestPro & something similar.” Mar 27, 02:28
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “Is anyone betting on an attack earlier than the announced deadline? Also, I’m pretty sure that this announcement has been…” Mar 27, 02:13
Béranger on How I chose to become Dumbo: “Controversies are good. Emacs and the GPL are bad 🙂 To me, the GNU General Public Licenses are communist. It’s…” Mar 26, 21:16
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “From a 7,000-word analysis by Bret Devereaux, ancient and military historian: Miscellanea: The War in Iran: The problem is that…” Mar 26, 20:49
John on How I chose to become Dumbo: “You are entitled to your opinion. RMS does not need any defense but for the sake of accuracy, he never…” Mar 26, 20:23
Béranger on More AI hysteria (and some tips): “I defined quantization and distillation here, but quantization was a topic in this post, so I’ll comment below. The developer…” Mar 26, 20:04
Béranger on Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing: “RAG is a PITA: From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures. After debugging, I discovered it was processing…” Mar 26, 19:30
Béranger on How I chose to become Dumbo: “This is generally correct, except that, IMO, RMS is a communist retard (and sympathetic to pedophiles). GNU and the GPL…” Mar 26, 18:43
John on How I chose to become Dumbo: “Ubuntu “sins” from the past. They will never learn. 2010 – 2017 R.I.P.: “We have no plans to fork GNOME”…” Mar 26, 18:31
Béranger on How I chose to become Dumbo: “Canonical seems to have entered self-destruction mode, albeit starting in October. Phoronix: Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader…” Mar 26, 12:40
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “The Hill: The U.S. Army has raised the maximum enlistment age to 42 and also relaxed rules on recruiting individuals…” Mar 26, 11:02
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “‘Everything After This Will Be Harder’: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Iran: McChrystal: The other part that I would bring out…” Mar 26, 00:23
Béranger on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux: “Not for me. It’s not objectively bad, but it cannot satisfy me.” Mar 25, 21:56
John on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux: “Linux Mint Mate is a good option overall.” Mar 25, 14:15
Béranger on Has Trump invaded yet?: “The spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, Ebrahim Zolfaghari: “Have your internal conflicts reached the point of you negotiating with yourselves?”…” Mar 25, 09:12
Béranger on Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?: “US-Iran war explained by Chinese AI animation: Legend of the Valley of Gold.” Mar 23, 23:21
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: ““Garuda Linux will not implement any age verification measures, since Garuda Linux’s legal jurisdictions have no laws mandating age verification.”…” Mar 23, 18:46
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