Archives for October, 2026
Shocked me: I just learned about Cloudflare Workers’ free offer!
Gemini Argon is expensive (it can eat your 5-hour quota in 3-5 questions if you throw lots of code at it), but it can also teach you about workarounds you…
OK, so maybe the AI crash is here: now what?
I’m still not sure if AI is supposed to kill us all or whether the AI bubble will soon crash, leading to a new Great Depression of sorts. For the…
Reuters doesn’t understand AI, China, markets, and bubbles
Reuters: In China, the AI bubble has already burst: Oct 26 (Reuters) - While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries…
🤖 „Profesorul Rughiniș iarăși se întoarce din nou încă o dată”
Radu Buzăianu („Ce se întâmplă”): 📹 Profesorul Răzvan Rughiniș despre lumea AI care a început. Nu reproduc absolut tot, dar o mare parte. #1 ● Criza din educație și anxietatea…
The Big Font Mystery—Solved?
Sometimes, to make me attempt to investigate something that bothers me but does not intrigue me to the point of really awakening my interest, a chain of events needs to…
Taxa radio-TV: sunt cehii nebuni? Scurtă discuție cu Gemini Argon
Știre de la Praga: „Zeci de mii de cehi au ieșit în stradă duminică la Praga pentru a susține libertatea presei și pentru a protesta împotriva unui plan de reformă…
Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!
In three types of Debian XFCE installations, I had different variations on the topics of (1) the screen going blank after 10 minutes, despite the XFCE Power Manager having “Display…
Radio player—refactored & reborn!
The Internet radio stream player hosted by this blog has been completely overhauled, revamped, refactored, rewritten. In fact, it’s literally by no means what it was, even if it looks…
When Pro is not quite Pro—farewell, Claude in Antigravity!
I might seem unreasonable to castigate Google’s new policies towards Pro plans obtained via bundled promotions or “partner benefits,” but even if such plans were unfair to the majority of…
I survived the PHP2Shell apocalypse! But I am outraged!
OMFG! That day has come! 🧟 Wiz Inc.: PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet 🧟 Calif Research: A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities 🧟…
America doesn’t even know what to ban from China!
I initially posted this as a quick note, but I decided it deserves more attention, as Uncle Sam is literally retarded. ● The US just banned DeepSeek from government agency…
Why must Debian be the only distro that works?
My latest post on Ubuntu 26.10 flavors needed several updates, and the overall conclusion was dire: contrary to my expectations, 26.10 isn’t a better release than previous ones—quite the opposite.…
It’s time we forgot that France exists—even our entire civilization
Everyone knows by now what anarchic destruction took place in France over the last few days, in parallel with, and fueled by, the inept student protests (lycéens, secondary-school students, actually).…
While I was looking away, Italy became fascist
Sì, davvero. The Italian government has set a 30% cap on foreign students in first-grade classes in elementary and secondary schools, effective starting with the 2027/2028 school year! Google’s AI…
The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!
“You’ll never guess which keyboards prove to be the best for me!” I was about to use such a clickbait-style title because it would have been true. When reality contradicted…
Pangram: The Atlantic’s Vauhini Vara is a complete retard
The mediocre piece of fiction discussed by Vauhini Vara—a writer herself, but mostly a journalist for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine—might as well be…
Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!
As I mentioned nearly two weeks ago, my Debian 13 XFCE remains rock-solid, while my old Acer serves as a testbed for various distros. What I did was to install…
La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas
Am hotărât să scriu această postare în ciuda silei pe care o am față de problema apărută din neant a unui „supat”. Viralizarea discuției este tipică imbecilizării contemporane, iar gogoașa…
China, China, China! Including Taiwan…
Excerpts from the South China Morning Post’s “Beijing’s policy advisers map out how post-reunification Taiwan could be governed”: In 2019, President Xi Jinping became the first Chinese leader to publicly…
Welcome to post-literacy!
These are excerpts from an NYT “Interesting Times” podcast episode where the guest was the Times of London columnist James Marriott, and the host was Mary Harrington. The full video…