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Bypass Paywalls Clean, revisited

September 4, 2026 Bypass Paywalls Clean, revisited2026-09-04T20:34:27+01:00 1 Comment anarchy, Android, Firefox, piracy, tips

I should have written this post a week ago, but it got postponed. Bypass Paywalls Clean v4.4.3.3 introduced the unblocking of HotNews.ro, the only Romanian site with “premium” content that…

A question of time in XFCE

September 4, 2026 A question of time in XFCE2026-09-04T22:01:36+01:00 No Comment Debian, Linux, MX, tips, xebian, XFCE

There was absolutely no time synchronization issue in my Debian XFCE installed from xebian-trixie-amd64.hybrid.iso, but I was made aware that in Xebian, trying to use the “Time and Date Settings”…

I’m afraid of Gemini 3.8 Flash!

September 3, 2026 I’m afraid of Gemini 3.8 Flash!2026-09-03T21:50:38+01:00 No Comment AI, Gemini

I didn’t notice that the Flash version had changed from 3.7 to 3.8 when I first asked Gemini a question earlier today. I wasn’t even aware of the announcement: Introducing…

Gemini and Qwen explained IMAX to me!

September 2, 2026 Gemini and Qwen explained IMAX to me!2026-09-02T21:27:08+01:00 No Comment Gemini, movies, Qwen

I have held a grudge against IMAX, so I put an argument “on paper” (so to speak) and fed it to Gemini and Qwen. Why the 1.43 aspect ratio? The…

Béranger on La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas: “Corect. Dar iată cum DOOM 3 face din decadă un deceniu: decadă s. f., g.-d. art. decadei; pl. decade (decada…” Oct 12, 23:59
Aldus on La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas: “Eu m-aș lua de academicieni și pe motivul că, alături de „căpșuni” ca plural la „căpșună”, au introdus „cireși” ca…” Oct 12, 23:56
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “UPDATE 3 regarding the battery levels of my 2nd Redragon mouse (M916-STD-1K): while it still looks like a calibration issue,…” Oct 12, 23:12
Béranger on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “Ideally, everyone should be using Debian, not a derivative of it. Unfortunately, Debian has these flaws: – Installing from a…” Oct 12, 19:58
HAL on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “I didn’t know about lazytime, but noatime is always on my Linux. if you want to break Debian, use MX!…” Oct 12, 19:11
Béranger on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “Some more observations regarding my recent interactions with chatbots: – ChatGPT behaved like a complete retard just today. – Gemini…” Oct 12, 15:56
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “simplewall is what people should actually use instead of COMODO Firewall, especially if they don’t use any antivirus (I still…” Oct 10, 23:29
Béranger on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “I am just writing a post about this. Don’t spoil the surprise. I started the post 2 days ago, but…” Oct 10, 20:37
zugu on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “Since we’re talking vibecoding, someone just vibecoded the entire Adobe Suite in Rust. And he’s also gonna do Microsoft Office.” Oct 10, 20:36
Béranger on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “I never cared about such shit, but thanks for the correction.” Oct 10, 20:29
zugu on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “Hugh Howey was actually quite popular before the Silo TV show, “Wool” was one of the first self-publishing success stories…” Oct 10, 20:28
Béranger on Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript): “Ventoy 1.1.18: “6. Fix Fedora 45 beta boot issue.”” Oct 10, 10:26
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “An update on my second Redragon mouse: frankly, I’m not satisfied! The first mouse is much better! M916-LIT-1K has a…” Oct 8, 22:47
Béranger on I quickly tested Manus AI: I guess it has potential: “Oh, fuck! Manus 2.0 is the new life of Manus! Is Manus 2.0 worth it? Perplexity answered!” Oct 8, 15:50
Béranger on Quick Luddite Notes at 70 notes!: “100 notes!” Oct 7, 18:51
Camil on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “„Romanians are the only people on Earth to have more than 90% of the population writing on computers using the…” Oct 7, 06:10
Béranger on Now I am even more perplexed!: “Five months ago, Gemini helped me repair a washing machine! And I didn’t know what Nemotron 3 is, either! I’m…” Oct 6, 18:37
Zack on Now I am even more perplexed!: “In the spring of this year, I bought an annual Pro subscription to Perplexity for less than 5 euros on…” Oct 6, 17:19
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser 3.1.1: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!: “For the fun of it: 💬🕵️‍♂️ Calvin’s “Tracer Bullet” and “Tracer Bullet Returns”.” Oct 6, 14:50
Arqam on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “And there is one more app… https://github.com/xapp-project/velocitty” Oct 6, 02:51
HAL on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “For now, I’m mostly using Qwen for general use. It seems to be more or less okay. But I don’t…” Oct 5, 20:57
Béranger on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “$100 + Sales Tax or VAT. But as long as it’s not that bad… How can it be used for…” Oct 5, 17:03
shiggydiggy on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “I’m actually very happy with Grok, both for general purpose questions, deep research (it is the best at browsing the…” Oct 5, 16:59
Béranger on Changes to Qwen I failed to notice: “More changes I noticed when using the Qwen app for Android: — On startup, Qwen Studio (ai.qwenlm.chat.android, version 2.10.0) claimed…” Oct 5, 02:00
Béranger on Linux is still booting up in 1980: ““Fedora Linux 45 replaces the legacy in-kernel console with kmscon, bringing smooth rendering, better Unicode/font support, and enhanced system stability.”…” Oct 4, 19:36
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser 3 is here!: “Version 3.1.1 was released. Details in this post: ComicStripBrowser 3.1.1: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!” Oct 4, 02:31
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “🎸 The kids from The Graystones are doing pretty well (knock on wood)” Oct 3, 20:03
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Toto – Georgy Porgy… cover by The Graystones and Evan Riley, live on August 21, with Izzy as vocalist! Evan…” Oct 3, 15:29
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “BT is the worst protocol ever, but for mice it’s much more useful than the traditional wireless one. ON LAPTOPS.” Oct 1, 18:08
zugu on LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?: “I just like experimenting, especially with obliterated models, that’s why I run them locally.” Oct 1, 17:49
zugu on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “I’ve had a bad streak of experiences with wireless mice, turns out it was wireless interference. Rather than spending an…” Oct 1, 17:47
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “Taking inspiration from MX: noatime,lazytime!” Oct 1, 16:03
Camil on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “Logitech Wave or MX Keys do the job for me; unless you want a mechanical kb.” Oct 1, 08:22
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “I’m a cheapskate. And I cannot use silent mice. OTOH, I have a dozen keyboards, and I hate them all.…” Oct 1, 04:26
Camil on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “The most comfortable mouse I’ve used is the oldish Corsair Harpoon, but lately the Keychron M6 gives it a run…” Oct 1, 04:22
HAL on Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript): “Note that Xebian doesn’t install either oomd or systemd-oomd. You can inspect xebian-trixie-amd64.packages and xebian-unstable-amd64.packages. Yes. And even if you…” Sep 30, 19:55
Camil on LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?: “Why would you want to run a LLM on your pc? Anyway, AI is worse than cancer + Ebola. Another…” Sep 30, 05:56
Béranger on Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript): “Oops, I initially missed the OOM changes in Ubuntu 26.10.” Sep 30, 01:50
Béranger on Quick Luddite Notes at 70 notes!: “80 notes right now!” Sep 29, 23:01
Béranger on LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?: “🤖 I literally never heard of Nemotron 3 before!” Sep 29, 22:59
Béranger on LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?: “Why would I pay such a price? Local models are shite. Also, I hate Nvidia with all my guts.” Sep 29, 21:18
zugu on LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?: “A good price for a second hand RTX 3090 is below EUR 1000, I’d say that’s a relatively OK price,…” Sep 29, 21:17
Béranger on LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?: “I hate VRAM, I hate video cards. I should also hate AI, because it’s the reason everything costs now an…” Sep 29, 19:57
zugu on LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?: “I have 12 GB of VRAM and I can run 8B and 12B models just fine, with overhead remaining for…” Sep 29, 19:53
Béranger on Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript): “Postscript: Buglandia.” Sep 29, 16:43
Béranger on Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript): “Updates and corrections: – An update regarding Ubuntu: It was Ubuntu the one that ignored my swap partition and created…” Sep 28, 12:32
Béranger on Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall: “An update on DESERT 5.5.1 and 5.5.2.” Sep 28, 00:47
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “While I was looking away, California passed Assembly Bill 1856 (CA AB1856) on September 10, 2026, to amend the state’s…” Sep 27, 16:21
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “Oh, no! Another single Chinese woman over 30 with an English-language YouTube channel! Ella Chen – “Hi, I’m Ella Chen.…” Sep 26, 16:22
Arqam on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “I packaged Warpinator, Xreader and Pix as Anylinux Appimages, you can try those and it will work without having any…” Sep 26, 07:40
Reverie72 on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “I only succesfully installed clockenstein and xepub. after installation clockenstein and xepub it not launched succcesfully. pix and xread failed…” Sep 25, 07:10
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Sept. 25, 2026 changelog: ● Removed: Radio Classique (Montréal), shut down on August 31, 2026. ● Fixed: ABC Jazz, ABC…” Sep 25, 03:47
Béranger on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “Bullshit! Bulky works in Debian 13. There is a .deb in packages.tar.gz. Also, next time, use acceptable English; I don’t…” Sep 25, 02:51
Reverie72 on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “Update: I tried on a different machine. No Xapp worked after installation. Looks like Xapps only work on LMDE and…” Sep 24, 12:37
Garknot444 on Changes to Qwen I failed to notice: “maaan that’s crazy… I hope they’re not making it fully prised like SlopGPT and others 🙁” Sep 24, 06:02
Greimas (I really should create that email domain ;-) on Quick Luddite Notes at 70 notes!: “This is very cool. It’s also lightning fast on mobile, because no crap. Have a cigar!” Sep 23, 07:47
Béranger on From whisper to whisper.cpp: “So far, I’ve been using whisper.cpp with a Whisper model. But I noticed parakeet-cli.exe, so I inferred that it can…” Sep 22, 22:38
Béranger on Rughiniș nu crede în apocalipsa AI: “Extras din Lucian Davidescu: Pe scurt: un model chinezesc sau unul foarte ieftin poate face treabă proastă la fel de…” Sep 22, 21:59
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “Another Chinese female vlogger: Summer Rain. “30 and alone.” In “I Interviewed for 6 Jobs in One Day. They All…” Sep 20, 15:50
Béranger on Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall: “I also tested DESERT_5.5.1_26.04_LTS_amd64.iso some time ago, but I kept forgetting to mention it. It has improved. More polish, fewer…” Sep 19, 02:17