Was I wrong in my packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps assessment?
I don’t even remember how many times I insisted—because a Luddite has to be conservative, and Linux used to observe the KISS principle anyway—that the right thing to install software…
🤖 How to properly use AI as a software developer: through its API
Why, indeed, you shouldn’t use an AI chatbot to write non-open-source software, bar some code snippets and other minor adjustments, but people do it—with or without their employer's knowledge. It’s…
🤖 The biggest European IA conference nobody cares about
I’m not entirely sure whether what the title says is what I believe, but the fact is that El Presidente Macron El Primero wants to make France a big name…
🤖 A curt explanation on my latest choice of AI systems
Few people managed to read my two previous mega-posts on AI models (from Feb. 1 and Feb. 6), with added comments and updates to the text. They were supposed to…
🤖 AI: from LLMs to Enslavement ● ChatGPT lies about its Search!
When I wrote my previous post about AI, triggered by DeepSeek’s success, I did touch most aspects that I considered relevant for the current AI bubble, centered on LLMs and…
Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself
Initially, I wanted to write a long and complex feature on the generative AI engines, only to realize, as time was passing by, that such a task was becoming increasingly…
The CPU Apocalypse: Yet Another Effect of Greed
I am sick of the endless string of vulnerabilities because of CPU design flaws. A recent sampler: Meltdown (2018), Spectre (v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, and SpectreRSB in 2018, SWAPGS…
Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?
I wanted to include a link to The Reg’s article by Liam Proven, Linux Mint Xia arrives fashionably late, in a later post, in which I wanted to investigate a…
One more time about Red Hat
On December 25, I wrote about how Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux. I mentioned that RHEL 10 Beta and CentOS Stream 10 removed most graphical desktop applications, because…
King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag
Once you get over the introductory video of the second coming of Messiah (this one), the White House's website (which is a WordPress site) gives you access to the Executive…
One more reason to use Ubuntu LTS (regardless of flavor)
Just as it was with the CUPS hysteria, a set of rsync vulnerabilities have been promptly patched for all supported LTS versions of Ubuntu, even LTS and LTS for the…
Cui îi e teamă de normalitate?
Preiau aici textul pe care l-am postat pe Facebook. Nu de alta, dar s-ar putea să fie eliminat. Nu de către fact-checking-ul care s-a cam desființat, ci de vreo interpretare…
News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic
In the version of this blog from May 2007 to Feb. 2009, most of my posts (roughly four per day!) consisted of links to external articles, including lots of political…
From column to nushell: not what I expected
The former, column, is a utility from the bsdextrautils package, whereas the latter is a shell written in Rust. There is something they have in common: they both provide nicely…
DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)
I am banned from commenting on DWW for years, and I don't remember exactly why. I don't remember to have had any interaction with Jesse Smith, but Ladislav Bodnar didn't…
Când credeam că le-am văzut pe toate…
Rolul lui YouTube a ajuns mai important decât al televiziunilor. Dacă oligofrenii sunt prostiți pe TikTok cu „producții” de 15 secunde, YouTube oferă, în afara producțiilor clasice aflate sub pragul…
Now I really developed a fear of flying!
The last week of December has seen some unfortunate aviation accidents and incidents. Not all were of the same kind, but there were too many either way. And, for the…
Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux
I wanted to write this about two weeks ago, but I just got sort of apathetic. Well, what I wanted to say has to be said, so here it is:…
Magdeshit: Germany is a failure
How is Germany not a failed state? How was it possible for the security services not to be able to make impossible such terror attacks like the one in Magdeburg?…
Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări)
Răcit fiind, păduri nu pot cutreiera, și nici concentrațiune prea multă nu am a dezvolta. Dar pentru că ce am de combătut a apărut pe un blog, mi-am zis să…