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I’m literally sick of this much AI

January 2, 2026 I’m literally sick of this much AI2026-01-02T05:08:45+01:00 2 Comments AI, apocalypse, bitcoin, longread

I started to write this blog post on Dec. 30, being triggered by one too many proofs of AI madness. Meanwhile, I found one more video to discuss, so I'm…

„Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian

January 1, 2026 „Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian2026-01-05T21:21:59+01:00 3 Comments apocalypse, idiocy

După catastrofa de la „Colectiv” din 2015, credeam că doar noi, românii, putem fi atât de retardați, incompetenți, nepăsători și corupți. Își putea cineva imagina că un episod (că n-am…

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Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “UPDATE: Chose faite ! It was driving me mad. One dead mouse. Gone. In small pieces. Lessons learned: ❶ Gaming mice…” Nov 5, 04:39
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “This is too much! The 2nd Redragon mouse IS A PIECE OF SHIT! It really requires a mousepad! I have…” Nov 4, 03:40
santosh on Liam Proven: Btrfs, AI, ROC, and the AMOC apocalypse: “I confess I do use btrfs on my Debian 13 system, but for a specific reason. I can’t afford top…” Nov 3, 08:13
SenileOtaku on Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux: “I LONG ago lost faith in CommieHat as a distribution. I kicked Fedora off of all but one system in…” Nov 3, 03:43
Béranger on Radio player—refactored & reborn!: “Yes. The latest playlist is always at https://ludditus.com/radio-taz/player_1.json.” Nov 2, 20:45
Greimas on Radio player—refactored & reborn!: “Thank you for this, Ludditus! I also turned your nice player data into a .m3u list complete with thumbnails, to…” Nov 2, 20:43
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser 3.1.2: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!: “ComicStripBrowser 4: GoComics is defeated!” Nov 2, 00:35
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “I added an update regarding contrib not being enabled by default in Debian, and non-free not being enabled in Xebian…” Oct 31, 22:06
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Oct. 30: You Make Loving Fun by ‪@fleetwoodmac‬ cover by The Graystones ft. ‪@EvanRileysings‬. From Sock Session #17! Performers: -…” Oct 31, 18:01
Dino on OK, so maybe the AI crash is here: now what?: “In an ideal world, AI would do exactly that: put an end to all the bullshit jobs in the world,…” Oct 31, 12:14
Béranger on Reuters doesn’t understand AI, China, markets, and bubbles: “So, when Alphabet shares tumble 13% in a single day, losing $500bn from its market value, it’s OK, but when…” Oct 29, 22:22
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser 3.1.2: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!: “Updated for the minor changes brought by v3.1.2: • GoComics: refined the message for the case of VPN blocking. •…” Oct 29, 04:18
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “One more Ubuntu mess-up! Joey Sneddon: Trash talking Ubuntu’s confusing British bin labels: It seems Ubuntu’s UK English translation team…” Oct 28, 13:27
Béranger on The Big Font Mystery—Solved?: “I forgot to mention that the Inter fonts served by Google as woff2 show up just fine on my Quick…” Oct 27, 21:40
Dino on The Big Font Mystery—Solved?: “Oh man, as a former graphic designer, I totally get the pain. Apart from one big and obvious reason, it’s…” Oct 27, 13:33
Béranger on 🤖 „Profesorul Rughiniș iarăși se întoarce din nou încă o dată”: “Oricum, toți românii care discută prin podcasturi sunt cele mai ordinare putori: nu termină ideile, propozițiile sau frazele, creează anacoluturi…” Oct 26, 22:09
Béranger on 🤖 „Profesorul Rughiniș iarăși se întoarce din nou încă o dată”: “Exagerezi. ChatBuzăianu e decât un om din popor, a auzit și el ce a auzit, asta este. Dacă Răzvan Zamfir…” Oct 26, 22:04
zugu on 🤖 „Profesorul Rughiniș iarăși se întoarce din nou încă o dată”: “Doamne, ce prost poate fi Buzăianu, mi se părea băiat isteț când vorbea despre partide, dar aici este complet depășit,…” Oct 26, 22:01
Béranger on The Big Font Mystery—Solved?: “Because I only paid $4.75 for a month (shared account), then the guy from Lahore forgot to change the password,…” Oct 26, 16:21
zugu on The Big Font Mystery—Solved?: “Off-topic, but why would you use the telemetry-infested cesspool that is Grammarly?” Oct 26, 16:18
Béranger on I survived the PHP2Shell apocalypse! But I am outraged!: “Risky Bulletin: While everyone was looking at PHP, another RCE is wrecking what’s left of the internet: About the same…” Oct 26, 02:47
Béranger on Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!: “We all need macOS 🤪” Oct 25, 22:26
HAL on Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!: “In MX, I also have this sound issue. Often, when I log into my session, the sound is automatically set…” Oct 25, 22:19
Béranger on Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!: “Dino has a fix for situations where LightDM doesn’t remember the username, which was always the case when it resumed…” Oct 25, 17:55
Béranger on Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!: “So, basically, xfce4-screensaver is a better choice than light-locker, as far as screen locking is concerned! Interesting. I have no…” Oct 25, 17:05
Dino on Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!: “Hi. I had for a long time this issue in my Debian Xfce, in which the system sound levels would…” Oct 25, 17:02
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “Of possible interest: Debian XFCE: stop blanking my screen and stop locking it!” Oct 25, 13:34
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Evan Riley: THE BEATLES – LET IT BE (Evan Riley cover).” Oct 24, 21:02
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “When installing Debian XFCE from the official debian-live-13.7.0-amd64-xfce.iso, you need to sudo apt install menulibre afterwards if you want the…” Oct 23, 20:54
Béranger on I survived the PHP2Shell apocalypse! But I am outraged!: “It was a rhetorical device, but noyce.” Oct 22, 21:44
zugu on I survived the PHP2Shell apocalypse! But I am outraged!: “neocities.org exists.” Oct 22, 18:32
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “Quite the same class: PAW3311 or PAW3395 (strange how they use 2 sensors for the same model name), 12,000 or…” Oct 22, 13:15
N3o on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “Bought Mchose G3 v2, a clone of Logitech G305, after my clicks on the G305 crapped out after a year.…” Oct 22, 13:08
HAL on Why must Debian be the only distro that works?: “Let morons prefer CachyOS, Mint, and MX Linux. You’re exaggerating a bit, though. I’m speaking for MX, at least the…” Oct 20, 19:20
Béranger on It’s time we forgot that France exists—even our entire civilization: “🇫🇷💥 A Romanian intellectual about the situation in France — Text in Romanian, but automated translations should be intelligible.” Oct 20, 17:12
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I don’t trust MX keyboards these days. MX Keys did not impress me when I touched it.” Oct 20, 02:43
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “MX Keys Mini or MX Mechanical Performance Mini.” Oct 20, 02:40
Béranger on Why must Debian be the only distro that works?: “A few words after using Fedora 45 KDE on the old Acer.” Oct 20, 02:00
Béranger on It’s time we forgot that France exists—even our entire civilization: “Aïe, toutes les bonnes gens… Europe 1 : Éric Zemmour réagit aux pillages à Paris : “Ces gens-là doivent être déchus de…” Oct 20, 01:39
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Me no like them, after so many years of using laptops. Heck, the Logitech K740 has laptop-like keys!” Oct 19, 15:24
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Ok, ok, what’s wrong with full height keys?! 😛” Oct 19, 15:22
Béranger on While I was looking away, Italy became fascist: “In a certain sense, it was well-meaning. It’s difficult to teach a highly mixed classroom. But even if pupils of…” Oct 19, 13:39
theodor on While I was looking away, Italy became fascist: “I think it’s a well-meaning law, but what’s a bit odd is that discriminates against other EU citizenships. I thought…” Oct 19, 11:07
ConEst on Why must Debian be the only distro that works?: “I predict just like dedoimedo joined the darkside with a macbook, Ludditus would join the same with Windows 11 Pro…” Oct 19, 05:55
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Sorry for the delayed reply, I was offline in weekend. How are its “Silk” keys? I hope they’re not mushier…” Oct 19, 05:32
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I DO NOT WANT FULL-HEIGHT KEYS! When my wife’s keyboard breaks, I’ll consider recommending one to her.” Oct 19, 05:29
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Well, if you want a wired keyboard, the Logitech G413 TKL might be worth considering: standard layout, quiet switches, TKL,…” Oct 19, 05:28
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “There are at least 2 Bluetooth mice that use an AA battery and have a decent DPI. 1. Genius GX…” Oct 18, 21:01
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “UPDATE 4 on the battery of my M916-STD-1K: in the end, it took it more than 8 days of intensive…” Oct 18, 17:25
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Cherry MX, 1000Hz, 1ms: what’s so special about them? Cherry MX is used by many others. As for such shit…” Oct 17, 10:16
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Over my dead body! I’m done with mechanical keyboards: very pleasant at first sight, but very annoying in the medium-to-long…” Oct 17, 10:14
zugu on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Also, check out MechanicalKeyboards.com Ducky ones are especially well regarded.” Oct 17, 08:44
zugu on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I absolutely love Cooler Master keyboards. My Quickfire XTI (Cherry MX Brown) is well over 10 years old now and…” Oct 17, 08:42
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Unrelated talk: my wife is quite happy with this cheap ISY IGK-3000-1 Rubberdome Gaming Tastatur. It has a deep, guided…” Oct 16, 15:30
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Everything branded as SILENT, especially mice but also keyboards, is A DEFINITE NO-GO! They are COMPLETELY UNUSABLE to me! NO,…” Oct 16, 14:51
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Right now I’m using a Keychron V3 Ultra with brown switches and it feels good, minus the stupid small horizontal…” Oct 16, 14:44
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “POST-UPDATE UPDATE: While I was listening to an Internet radio on Kubuntu 26.10, I was stupefied to see it disconnect…” Oct 16, 00:11
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “26.10 post-release update!” Oct 15, 20:48
Béranger on Now I am even more perplexed!: “Here’s a grey market I didn’t know about! It’s always useful to gain more knowledge 🙂 Thx. Unfortunately, in a…” Oct 15, 20:14
Zack on Now I am even more perplexed!: “I got it from kinguin, a personal subscription code, not a shared one, yes. It’s the only time I’ve ever…” Oct 15, 20:09

Archives for 2026 - Page 14

I’m literally sick of this much AI

„Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian

As a New Year’s gift, Facebook decided I don’t exist