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Trying to understand the bullshit
It's not a secret that I'm strongly against Bitcoin (I even believe cryptocurrencies at large are one of the major evils of this century), and I even disapprove of the…
Biserica, românul, vaccinul: sutana sub care s-a ascuns diavolul
Cele mai recente două postări, întâmplările ulterioare, precum și unele reacții, nu m-au convins că românii ar fi altceva decât o specie modernă de pitecantropi, dar mi-am zis să mai…
Referendum: un fiasco al TVR
Am aflat întâmplător despre noua idee (proastă) a TVR1: noua emisiune REFERENDUM, cu prima ediție pe 11 octombrie, difuzată simultan pe TVR1, TVR Internațional și TVR Moldova, precum și pe…
Românii vs. COVID-19: note de front inutile
Timpul ne arată că imbecilitatea semenilor noștri este nemărginită și se auto-depășește ori, cum s-ar fi spus în alte vremuri, a atins noi și noi culmi de progres și civilizație.…
Evil Twitter, Stupid Twitter
Once again, they restricted my (sporadic) use of Twitter. This time, their automatic snowflake protection mechanism reacted the very millisecond I posted the tweet. The recipient? A product of a…
The extra information meant he didn’t know she didn’t know…
Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle in The Guardian online is something I once used to follow for a while, until the entire thing pissed me off too much. He's no such…
I just discovered a really smart ordinary guy… on Amazon!
Not that there weren't any other intelligent people with a wide range of interests among the on this planet, but most such individuals are anonymous, unknown outside a small circle.…
România, plaiul legilor din pix (sau din pixeli)
Iar trebuie să fac ceva ce nu mai voiam a face, anume să scriu ceva în limba strămoșească, inteligibil doar pentru bizonul național. Ce să fac, blestemul de a mă…
Status mundi in tempore coronavirus
Fututi sumus atque nec ignoramus. I mean, we're fucked up, and we very well know it, but is it there still hope? I'm struggling to find the light at the…
I revealed a state secret about Jack Fartsey!
In the USSR, a joke ran as follows: a man returns after having disappeared for 15 years. “I was in jail for calling Stalin an idiot,” he says. “That's a…
China Strikes Back!
One month after we thought we have The Freedom to Blame China, some “objective journalists” try to make us return to the belief that, bats being bats, it's much more…
Everyone nowadays seems to be a fake expert
This pandemic revealed that many if not most “experts” in the fields of epidemiology, virology, public health, pharmacology, medicine are not much better than the snake oil salesmen from the…
Bitcoin’s evilness is more than Ransomware
I wanted to avoid writing about Bitcoin, for it's too ample a subject, and even a book wouldn't persuade some people on how many level Bitcoin is morally wrong and…
Linux philosophy: Twitter humour
Nothing to do with my recent post on how everything is increasingly containerized, so pretty soon nobody would care about the smoothness, lightness and usability of your preferred desktop environment.…
Bing, He Loves Me
It's a he, right? Like Jesus, huh. Because Bing loves me anyway, despite my feelings towards "him" being ambivalent. I use, depending on the mood, either of Google, DuckDuckGo, and…
How the Internet Age Has Bent Some People’s Minds
If I still needed an example of how the Internet made people stupid, even the smartest of them, today I was just served with one of the best examples. It…
Try not to get depressed these days!
Even before the pandemic, the number of ways the world is broken would have justified a moderate depression, but now things seem utterly unbearable. I was about to start writing…
The Never-Ending Story Goes On!
Nobody ever reads it, but my previous post about COVID-19 got way too long after several updates, and to go post chapter THIRTY-SEVEN I decided to start a new post.…
I Wish Me Luck
After ten months of fierce fight with dozens of Linux monsters. After times when I thought I settled for Debian 10, ArcoLinux or Salient OS. After getting nuttier thanks to…
The Mental Retard In Linux Is Real
Friday, April 23. The day when decisions wanted to be taken, because things happened. Not much did happen, and nothing really important, but I am short-fused at times. Also, Linux…