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42: Swimming into brainwashing and burnout
It was by pure chance that I learned of the existence of the network of tuition-free computer science schools called "42": "There are 15,000 students, studying at 40+ campuses in…
The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle
I wanted to resist this viral crap (because crap it is, alright), but in the end, what the heck, we're all humans. I fail to understand why Wordle is such…
The Holo-Crypto-Meta-Virtual-Scam-Mafia
Until very recently, I wasn't au courant with the connection between Elrond and Holoride, and I also wasn't fully aware that the nightmarish future that awaits us is really a…
I’ll be back (soon?) with another cartoon (or whatever)
I should have used a manga thumbnail, because it's a Japanese design, however Made in China (the price also corresponds to a Chinese product). I just received it, and so…
No more quality for the peripherals Made in China
All the keyboards are Made in China, and all the mice are Made in China, so what's new? What's new is that since 2016-2018, the quality of them all is…
Why Tim Cook Should Be Sodomized 24/7
I don't want to suggest that his sexual preferences (or is it God's greatest gift to him, as the motherfucker once said?) have anything to do with his business practices,…
The Electric (and Autonomous) Frenzy—CNN Videos
My only comment is that this thing is totally crazy, and I'm not even talking of how badly an electric car society would scale up (good luck when the power…
The Anti-Elon Musk YouTube Hero
There aren't many people willing to attract everyone else's bullying for not praising the fake gods of our times, of which Elon Musk and Greta Thunberg are the most prominent,…
Linux Apps: The failure of Foliate
Reading books in the ePub format is one of the major technological breakthroughs as far as I am concerned (did I tell you about my 25k ePub files?). I couldn't…
Linux Apps: There is Everything in Linux! (It’s called FSearch…)
Whoever doesn't know David Carpenter's Everything doesn't know what they're missing. Whoever relies on Windows' search feature is an ignorant, a naive, a lazy person, or a moron. Most people…
Firefox Destupidification, Take #1
Have you ever noticed that sometimes Firefox saves the image files as WEBP, even when that image has the extension JPG? Well, that's stupid, but you can change that. Using…
The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE
No, I am not part of the religious “systemd is evil” war. I won't be using Devuan, and the fact that MX Linux defaults to sysvinit is actually a disadvantage…
The dumbification of package management in Linux
This was bound to happen. When a bunch of smart idiots (sic!), and all kinds of narcissistic, arrogant YouTube icons and influencers are more important than the other people, this…
Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux
Since I was using almost exclusively laptops since 2001, I failed to notice that in Linux, suspend-to-disk (hibernation) lost momentum, as everyone is using suspend-to-RAM (sleep). This is a huge…
Brave: the browser loved by idiots, morons, and cryptofuckers
When I first met the browser Brave, I thought it to be a Chinese app. With such a name and such a logo, what was I to believe? It wasn't…
The Ongoing Cyberwar Nobody Talks About
No, this is not about the overall increase in malware and ransomware attacks we're witnessing on in recent years. It's about something that I believe has happened in the last…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 8: Lubuntu, Fedora 35, and more
I procrastinate a lot (good to know I'm a pro at something), but after a couple of weeks of pondering, here I am, trying to recall and report my recent…
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…
Do they want me to stop using computers altogether?
In the long run, we're all dead. Meanwhile, can we still enjoy life and computers, or should we bend to the new religions, including the containerization of everything? Containers might…
SPECIAL: You Don’t Even Know How Terrible Your Linux Distro Is!
Long time no see, so I'm going to synthesize here the experiences and the epiphanies I had with Linux in the last couple of months. You should be at least…