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Updates on GoComics and ComicStripBrowser

May 5, 2026 Updates on GoComics and ComicStripBrowser2026-05-05T01:42:17+01:00 No Comment apps, comics, Linux, PyQt6, tips, Win11

① On browsing GoComics.com: Bypassing GoComics’ paywall has been updated with uBlock Origin filters that currently manage to bypass the paywall in Firefox, even under Android! I'll copy here the…

I never saw anything as stupid as Git (and GitHub)

May 5, 2026 I never saw anything as stupid as Git (and GitHub)2026-05-05T00:50:25+01:00 3 Comments apocalypse, idiocy

I didn’t lose anything because of the stupidity of Git—to which GitHub adds its own limitations—except for my temper. Too many times. This could have been avoidable if I were…

I’m with stupid technology

May 2, 2026 I’m with stupid technology2026-05-03T00:48:06+01:00 8 Comments Debian, eurocrap, Google, idiocy, Linux, Ubuntu, xebian

I want to summarily address a few topics I didn't want to write about, but given the overall feeling of being pissed off by everything (mostly politics, economy, and society),…

Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!

May 1, 2026 Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!2026-05-02T21:44:16+01:00 4 Comments AI, Gemini

I just noticed in r/GeminiAI someone being puzzled by the fact that he asked Gemini (Nano Banana 2) to create an image from an attachment, and he got an image…

Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “😻 Michael Yingling’s Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine is working again!” Jun 11, 15:59
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “They claim Ubuntu MATE isn’t really dead. Thomas Ward, on Ubuntu Discourse: Rest easy, MATE is not going away, and…” Jun 10, 14:39
Béranger on SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!: “One more verb that should have been included in the Back to using “to suggest” section: to require. As Vincent…” Jun 10, 13:38
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “10, obviously.” Jun 7, 07:53
Laurențiu on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Hi. I have a Lenovo laptop with 8g ram and Celeron cpu and I want to buy a win iot…” Jun 7, 05:33
Béranger on Not the smartest piece Euronews could have published: “Oh, there’s too much AI regulation, eh? Anthropic calls for ‘brake pedal’ before AI develops itself without human oversight: Anthropic…” Jun 5, 22:20
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Graystones video posted today: Step into a rehearsal session with The Graystones & ‪@EvanRileysings‬ – Sir Duke by ‪@steviewonder‬.…” Jun 5, 19:16
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Personally, I have the Starter Plan for a short while (before it was simply Free). I’ve always left it on…” Jun 5, 17:13
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Yes, I believe you are right. I use it more as an assistant I guess. Those tweaking options are a…” Jun 5, 11:24
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Kagi is not a translation tool. A translation tool always preserves the original style and register. The only adjustment should…” Jun 5, 10:16
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “These are the options I have in the browser: postimg.cc/XpkNHyN5” Jun 5, 08:47
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Yes, I was also referring to the fully featured Kagi translation, which I guess is included in the professional tier…” Jun 5, 08:29
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “In the Android app there’s no way to select any of these levels. It’s just: – Type: Natural, Literal. -…” Jun 4, 22:22
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Hum, really ? 🤔 It’s curious because in the browser (translate.kagi.com) I have: Basic Fast and everyday translations: ideal for…” Jun 4, 21:57
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: ““Best” is a paid feature.” Jun 4, 21:07
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “I haven’t really had any problems with the translation tool; it generally works well. If needed, if you want or…” Jun 4, 21:04
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Nope. Their translation is sometimes brilliant, but some other times completely fucked-up. Some LLMs are better at that. I still…” Jun 4, 12:09
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “I actually pay for Kagi Professional. Their translation sevice is very good once you tweak it from the settings. It…” Jun 4, 12:06
Béranger on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Nicidecum. Ringard nu are absolut nici o conotație sexuală. DEX 2009: crai: 2. Bărbat ușuratic, care se ține de chefuri,…” Jun 4, 11:53
Al Sal on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Ringard: crai bătrân.” Jun 4, 11:51
Béranger on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Asta de obicei e mai curvă și mai tânără, nu la 60 de ani. Dar poate fi.” Jun 4, 11:36
Al Sal on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Pațachină.” Jun 4, 11:33
Béranger on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Nu.” Jun 4, 11:26
Al Sal on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Sau „coțohârlă”.” Jun 4, 11:23
Béranger on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Știi că ai dreptate, țațo? Uite că nu-mi dete prin cap.” Jun 4, 09:29
Al Sal on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Pentru „rombière” nu ar merge „țață”?” Jun 4, 09:27
Alex on Erik Dubois is still on steroids: “It’s not an issue that he and people like him make such projects. The real issue is that someone is…” Jun 3, 09:09
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “💡 I just discovered that running Haruna under Debian 13 XFCE is not as simple as sudo apt install haruna.…” Jun 3, 00:05
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “I tried the released Linux Lite 8.0. It looked rather nice, with plenty of new tools. But it defaulted to…” Jun 2, 23:51
HAL on Erik Dubois is still on steroids: “Ugh, I’ll never touch stuff like that!” Jun 2, 22:16
Béranger on Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch: “Speaking of watches, in 2016 Swatch released a Roland Garros SUOZ221 watch featuring 0, 15, 30, 40 markings. Why don’t…” Jun 2, 12:14
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Sandboxing in browsers is the one decision that nobody can criticize, because it just does make sense. Web browsers are…” Jun 1, 14:15
Doojin on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “I think you are focusing on the wrong things. My point was that application-internal sandboxing is an okay security model…” Jun 1, 10:39
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Most ePub readers CANNOT EXECUTE JAVASCRIPT! This is what you don’t seem to understand. Kobo’s app and Apple’s apps can.…” Jun 1, 09:19
Doojin on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “The fact that an epub reader can execute javascript means an internal sandbox is justified. Fortunately, the internal sandbox doesn’t…” Jun 1, 06:56
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “No, ePub readers don’t need to execute anything. If you’re not Kobo or Apple, you can just ignore any JS.” Jun 1, 05:02
Doojin on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “You also don’t need to care much about sandboxing nowadays because applications like web browsers and epub readers come with…” Jun 1, 03:06
Béranger on Chess and Go channels on YouTube: “Even in chess, I dislike YouTube or Twitch personalities (I still believe they’re narcissistic), but I happened to discover Alessia…” Jun 1, 00:49
Béranger on An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty: “Young women’s looks and public behavior are not my problem, but society’s. That they dress like ultimate idiots and that…” May 31, 10:54
alecs on An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty: “It is/was merely a social construct! I think the real issue is the decline in societal incentives for maintaining respectable…” May 31, 10:42
Doojin on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “I used to obsess with computer security. I spent a lot of time on apparmor and firejail. One day, I…” May 31, 10:36
Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle: “More than 4 years later, I was looking for a French Wordle, and the first result was wordle.louan.me: Non, mais…” May 30, 11:31
Béranger on How do you recognize a failed country, a cardboard alliance, and a civilization in decline?: “AFP supposedly asked “the NATO alliance” what can be done to improve the response to such drones. Some unnamed panty-soiling…” May 30, 11:25
Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “I forgot to add an update to this angry post: And yet, I’m using Debian 13 with XFCE. For now.” May 29, 10:42
Béranger on The umpteenth AI compromise: “It seems that using DeepSeek for everything isn’t such a great idea, judging by Gunnar Wolf’s adventures: How deep is…” May 29, 02:25
Béranger on eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!: “EU fines Temu €200m for allowing the sale of illegal products. But eMag Marketplace sells tons of counterfeit products (the…” May 28, 15:03
Béranger on Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch: “I added two mock-ups that bear a certain resemblance to the watch I saw.” May 25, 22:36
HAL on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “Well, thanks to GNOME and its team for giving us this kind of crap. When you’re trying to install something,…” May 25, 18:58
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “A new sock session, and a recap of the latest covers: • Sock Session #13: You’re No Good – Linda…” May 25, 18:06
Béranger on Grok: Kidnapping by a state is lawful everywhere: “I just learned that the concept used in Maduro’s case is called the Ker–Frisbie doctrine (Wikipedia). In brief (Google AI…” May 24, 18:46
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.5.1 was released: • Fixed Marmaduke, which was broken because of a typo. • Small changes to build.yml.” May 24, 18:27
Béranger on Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch: “The problem with these reissues is that they lack Indiglo, the one innovation that singles out Timex. Their mechanical watches…” May 24, 12:22
zugu on Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch: “I have a huge quartz watch collection – or you might call it an addiction. I’ve never been into automatic…” May 24, 12:18
0din on Dogville (2003): “I found myself rewatching Wind River (2017) and Green Book (2018) about four days ago. I always conclude that the…” May 24, 01:31
Béranger on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “I added an update on the low risk of pulling a local indexing service when installing a GNOME or KDE…” May 23, 22:26
Béranger on Dogville (2003): “It just occurred to me. Was the final talk about arrogance between the Big Man and Grace meant to symbolize…” May 23, 14:51
Béranger on Some changes in Gemini AI: “🤣 They killed ChatGPT! [r/ChatGPTPro] They just destroyed the Pro model with the new update: Uploaded 5 files, a thorough…” May 22, 14:31
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Claude keeps blocking accounts because “Our team found signals that your account was used by a child.” As recently as…” May 21, 21:10
Béranger on Doi fazani despre apocalipsa binomului AI + rețele sociale: “Discuții cu Gemini pe baza unor interviuri date de Mihnea Măruță și Manfred Spitzer. La jumătate de secol de când…” May 21, 21:04
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “I was too harsh on Kubuntu, right? Here’s a Redditer who has experienced worse annoyances: Its almost a month after…” May 21, 14:51