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Cookie Policy (EU)

March 5, 2023 Cookie Policy (EU)2023-03-05T01:07:06+01:00

This Cookie Policy was last updated on February 21, 2024 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland

1. Introduction

Our website, https://ludditus.com (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

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3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

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Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook and Twitter are located in the United States.

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      • Minor updates in Copilot and Grok
      • I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
    • ► September (12)
      • Claude Sonnet 4.5 is here!
      • Ascultați Radio Moldova online!
      • The Brian Crane Interview
      • Kimi's useless “OK Computer” agent
      • When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year
      • A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?
      • 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
      • They cancelled Sabine H. for calling the emperor naked!
      • My chatbot use in the last week
      • Some new AI shit: bric-à-brac
      • Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
      • How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
    • ► August (11)
      • Claude's new policies: a tempest in a teapot
      • Sabine being Sabine, and the entanglement not being Einstein's spooky action…
      • Google's “nano-banana” & some Nvidia shit
      • Frustrated, Exasperated, Done — Farewell to Linux Underway
      • A chat about stablecoins, and pessimism regarding AI
      • O ciudățenie a limbilor franceză și spaniolă
      • Reforma Pilonilor II-III-IV: un furt marca Bolojan, nu OECD
      • Dan, căpitan de plai: președintele „umpic” simpatizant legionar
      • Don't blame Microsoft for your suicidal SSD!
      • Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI
      • La dispariția unui spectru
    • ► July (18)
      • It ain't no freedom, and it'll be even less of it
      • Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!
      • Limbistul Mircea Badea e un bou
      • Insights into the AI madness — with studies, tips (UPDATED)
      • Alibaba outsmarts DeepSeek in AI offerings
      • The magic of Amazon's Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!
      • The AI doom is nigh
      • Alte preluări de pe Facebook: Ceaușescu și David
      • Chatboții sunt „camere de ecou”
      • Xi on AI and EVs, as interpreted by Bloomberg and Claude
      • Žižek, l'inutile, contre l'IA, l'inutile
      • Understand your future master: Xi, father and son
      • Psihologie socială și suveranisme — preluări de pe FB
      • Venice, Wyoming—home of the AI
      • So-called neuroscientist: we don't have visual memories but reconstruct them à la ChatGPT
      • The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
      • There is still hope in England
      • Scientists can be smart and stupid at the same time
    • ► June (15)
      • 🤖 Gemini CLI is a hit-and-miss
      • A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones
      • Comentarii grafomaniace pe alt blog
      • Understanding Israel, Trump, and the “negotiations with Iran”
      • Thoughts about BRICS+, China, and Europe—and the US
      • Bibi + Donald + Iran = 💣
      • Copilot, Mistral, Gpt4All: more AI letdowns. Back to Claude?
      • Israel is the land of love
      • Grim book 1 — a review like no other!
      • I asked AI how to fix America's “undocumented” millions
      • Un nou geniu al Carpaților: moi-même
      • The zombified Claude Explains, and more Anthropic shit
      • Trying to understand the stupid Chinese AI censorship
      • Cât de inutil poate fi AI
      • Meet the retarded prophet of the AI Apocalypse
    • ► May (21)
      • Student, dar nu absolvent? Să înțelegem CV-ul lui Nicușor
      • Claude's dirty secrets and... Grok would kill for money!
      • Curtea Constituțională a legalizat corupția în România
      • 🤩 Claude can now search the Web for everybody!
      • The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim
      • The questionable industry of online AI training gig jobs
      • It's not the liberal order that we're losing, and the decline didn't start with Trump
      • Vibe coding just got cheaper
      • The Three Shitheads (and us)
      • Claude 4 is here!
      • I quickly tested Manus AI: I guess it has potential
      • There's more than one Windows: More “secret” editions
      • Codex, OpenAI's new bug factory
      • AI is already vibe enslaving us
      • You don't impress me much. Neither of you!
      • Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 2018
      • Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui
      • The one big mistake Xi is making right now
      • Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!
      • China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…
      • Those analysts still don't get it
    • ► April (12)
      • This is how stupid Microsoft is
      • AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news
      • Justiția pulii și pula justiției
      • Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu
      • Bypassing GoComics’ paywall
      • Azure AI: I'm too old for this shit, but Whisper works—locally
      • 🎞️ 3 x Žižek with no comments
      • I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”
      • Why China's Xi is everyone's best ally against shithead Trump
      • Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US
      • Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense
      • Le Chat Mistral: Se iau 2-3 mazări mari, se taie în felii subțiri...
    • ► March (20)
      • When a WP plugin update screws it
      • Computerul zice da. Oamenii zic nu.
      • Învățăturile lui Nea Guță Basarab către părinții de adolescenți
      • Europe 3.0: Sabin Gherman crede în Zâna Măseluță!
      • Not everyone is dumb regarding AI. But many are.
      • Viitor de aur țara noastră are! La fel și lumea...
      • Încă un mic eșec al agenților AI
      • Nu am cu cine să votez! Voi aveți?
      • Saponins from Edible Legumes, Grok, and You
      • Slobozul LLM de pe tavan
      • Dr. Martin Jan Stránský, D-zeu, AI și apocalipsa
      • The Network State + Freedom Cities: mai rău decât Novorusia!
      • Goșu despre războiul ce va să vie
      • Varoufakis believes in the Tooth Fairy, and in Putin's word
      • The Suwałki Gap, aka the Suwałki corridor, is no corridor at all!
      • Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs
      • Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?
      • Democrația ucisă „în numele legii”
      • War in Europe, Peace in Heaven?
      • The Orange Apocalypse and the EU + 5 Updates!
    • ► February (21)
      • The United States of Ruzzia + links
      • Quickest quickie: Claude 3.7 is here
      • Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing
      • Führer's Grok 3 is promising―and expensive if you need more of it 🥴
      • It's the automotive industry that might kill the BRD ➕ wahl.chat
      • The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup
      • 🤖 Mistral is a bad French “citizen”
      • How does a LLM work? These videos won't help that much ➕ Microsoft hallucinates!
      • SEO: Is Claude on my side, or it's parroting me?
      • You Don't Fool Me
      • The Führer's minions have restored my account
      • I tried to understand “no contest” without consulting Wikipedia
      • DistroWatch Weekly strikes again!
      • Et tu, Claude? Having fun with AI
      • Swimming upstream against the AI current—updated!
      • Was I wrong in my take on packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps? Updated!
      • 🤖 How to properly use AI as a software developer: through its API
      • 🤖 The biggest European IA conference nobody cares about
      • 🤖 A curt explanation on my latest choice of AI systems
      • 🤖 AI: from LLMs to Enslavement ● ChatGPT lies about its Search!
      • Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself
    • ► January (11)
      • The CPU Apocalypse: Yet Another Effect of Greed
      • Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?
      • One more time about Red Hat
      • King Trump 2.0's first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag
      • One more reason to use Ubuntu LTS (regardless of flavor)
      • Cui îi e teamă de normalitate?
      • News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic
      • From column to nushell: not what I expected
      • DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)
      • Când credeam că le-am văzut pe toate...
      • Now I really developed a fear of flying!
  • ►2024 (84)
    • ► December (6)
      • Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux
      • Magdeshit: Germany is a failure
      • Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări)
      • I might have discovered what ahedonia means
      • Este Cîcîrostanul o cîcîrocrație, sau o cîcîrotatură?
      • elementary OS, an OS for suckers
    • ► November (15)
      • Țara tâmpiților (care suntem)
      • Yes, you can be both anti-Putin and anti-Israel!
      • WordPress 6.7: idiots keep being idiots!
      • The suicide of the car industry
      • Luddism #2: From snaps to immutable and back
      • Luddism #1: From passwords to passkeys
      • Economie și finanțe: Un contabil bun poate fi pe alocuri și prost
      • Scattered thoughts about Russia and the world
      • Searching with or without AI's aid?
      • Christian Godard (1932–2024)
      • Cuza asasinul și medicina legală geto-dacă de la 1862 toamna
      • De ce nu e bine să permitem tuturor proștilor cu diplomă să dea sfaturi
      • Les jeux sont faits, rien ne va plus
      • Trump vs. Dems vs. Israel: not taking sides, just quoting
      • La peor gota fría (DANA) del siglo, y la mayor incompetencia
    • ► October (13)
      • A small collection of Romanian idioms, explained
      • AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples)
      • Nerușinarea farmaciștilor nu are limite (și nici cea a autorităților)
      • Devrais-je boycotter Carrefour Roumanie ?
      • Les squatteurs et la loi qui les protège
      • May Mozilla's UX/UI designers all die of colon cancer!
      • Moldova și UE: un Zugzwang de mai mare plânsul (cu un adaos)
      • I usually don't make predictions, but the worst is going to happen
      • Educația în România post-istorică
      • Is Linux so “fragile”? A strange experience with USB hubs
      • The tiniest Windows bug I've ever encountered
      • De data asta, numai o lovitură de stat ne mai poate salva de CCR!
      • From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journey
    • ► September (12)
      • Porsche and the “Six-Stroke Engine Patent”
      • Is this the CUPS hell? Maybe not for everyone, methinks
      • Dolphin on non-KDE distros with a dark theme: the horror
      • RetardGPT stopped working in Firefox ESR 115: what to do
      • Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (II): America
      • Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (I): Israel
      • Is this neuroscientist stupid? Now with a language connection!
      • ADHD insights for ADHD people
      • Quick weather update
      • I wish I weren't born in Europe
      • Nu, Nicușor Dan nu a rezolvat problema de clasa a patra! Actualizare: ba da!
      • It's time I said something against Ukraine (another long read)
    • ► August (10)
      • Pavel Durov: criminal, martyr, or double agent?
      • UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage
      • Is it IONOS, is it InnoDB, or is it me?
      • Bypass Paywalls will never die
      • The HARM mobile architecture
      • Le dernier des grands
      • How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel
      • Glorifying the uselessness: Oreon
      • The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose)
      • Security is a joke. Networking is a joke. Experts are a joke.
    • ► July (8)
      • How to lose even when you're right
      • What you need to know when using my custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE ISO
      • A random discovery about zypper, thanks to rpm and a deb package
      • Microsoft + CloudStrike = Death
      • Is openSUSE at crossroads?
      • One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1
      • The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!
      • I'd kill the entire Linux kernel team!
    • ► June (4)
      • SJVN made my day!
      • The shortest distro bashing and appraisal in a long while—now with added Dedoimedo!
      • Is systemd cancer? A reignited debate
      • KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other rants
    • ► May (5)
      • SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
      • Michiel Schrijver & Mark Beck: Painting styles
      • Custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE Live ISO
      • On the European subordination to the American liquefied natural gas
      • Norm Finkelstein, the reasonable Jew
    • ► April (2)
      • Yanis and the “Zionism Über Alles” Germany
      • Open-source software: the road to hell?
    • ► March (3)
      • Et tu, KDE? Vulnerable by design?
      • Answering to anti-establishment people on Ukraine
      • This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis
    • ► February (4)
      • Idei pe marginea cumpărării unei mașini: aspecte financiare
      • Jessie Inchauspé, the self-made wannabe goddess
      • I decided to ignore the upcoming Apocalypse—life is too short as it is
      • Il gattopardo azzurro: How I discovered Evgeni Gordiets
    • ► January (2)
      • Yoga, 4-6, 4-7-8 and 4-8 Breathing, and the retarded Dr. Weil
      • Israel’s Defense at the International Court of Justice is Disgusting
  • ►2023 (33)
    • ► December (2)
      • No kernel update is safe in Linux, not even an LTS one
      • Is an armistice in Ukraine still possible?
    • ► November (11)
      • How to stop the blurring of KDE's logout/shutdown and lock screens
      • Introducing an installable custom KDE Live ISO based on AlmaLinux 9.3 with kernel 6.1 from ELRepo
      • The Human Shield mantra about Gaza
      • Încă un fals martir (și sfânt!) al neamului românesc!
      • Les Français et les Suisses, parmi les plus débiles Européens
      • Some more thoughts about Palestine
      • I can hear the sound of money
      • Ce nu știați despre aparatele digitale de măsurat tensiunea (și nici despre Huawei)
      • For the last time, this is not about Hamas!
      • Corupția structurală regionalizată a Uniunii Europene
      • Falșii martiri ai neamului românesc
    • ► October (12)
      • De la Aquafresh în 3 culori, la Colgate cu șmirghel eficient
      • Comment devient-on un tout petit peu pro-palestinien ?
      • This is really starting to piss me off
      • Yanis and the Enchanted Cloud
      • I'm not sure I believe in the two-state solution
      • The YouTube Apocalypse (RE-UPDATED)
      • Middle East’s Borders Led to Wars
      • Hamas is Not Palestine
      • Gaza is Hamas
      • Chess and Go channels on YouTube
      • Istorii vechi din istorie veche
      • Forget about the EVs, here's how the EU will save the whales
    • ► August (3)
      • The Blue That Is Green (And More)
      • WordPress 6.3 broke my site and theme. Again!
      • Întâmpinând cu tristețe Festivalul Internațional de Benzi Desenate Istorice Brașov
    • ► July (1)
      • Vremea laptop-urilor și upgrade-urilor ieftine
    • ► June (1)
      • France is a woke dictatorship, and Twitter is its lackey
    • ► April (1)
      • Pisa (2008-2023)
    • ► March (1)
      • Relevanssi is the worst famous WordPress plugin in existence!
    • ► February (1)
      • WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shite
  • ►2022 (17)
    • ► October (1)
      • Cybersecurity, VPN myths, and the GDPR idiocy
    • ► September (6)
      • Language Learning Apps and YT Channels: Season 3
      • Online learning with Udemy and Domestika, but also on YouTube!
      • Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți
      • Cum se răspândesc zvonurile în retardata Românie
      • O tâmpenie românească de București
      • Hibernation in Manjaro—For the Lucky Ones
    • ► August (1)
      • 5 months into Manjaro: harmless yet unacceptable breakage
    • ► June (3)
      • Scrisoare împotriva OUG 27/2022
      • Questions on the delusion of losing weight
      • De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): panseuri
    • ► April (2)
      • 42: Swimming into brainwashing and burnout
      • PUTIN MUST DIE!
    • ► March (3)
      • The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle
      • The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUS
      • The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin
    • ► February (1)
      • Mon Gaston Berger de 2017
  • ►2021 (98)
    • ► December (16)
      • Don't Look Up—This movie is meant to scare you
      • Me désenchanter, c'est ma vocation éternelle
      • The Holo-Crypto-Meta-Virtual-Scam-Mafia
      • Soviet Winter Nostalgia
      • Îmi cam ajunge. Ce fascism ar fi fost necesar.
      • CURIA (CJUE) vs. CCR: românii sunt pesemne prea imbecili pentru a pricepe
      • Facebook Is Death!
      • Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
      • Caffeine is what kills in those energy drinks
      • I'll be back (soon?) with another cartoon (or whatever)
      • No more quality for the peripherals Made in China
      • Why Tim Cook Should Be Sodomized 24/7
      • Philippe Charles Jacquet: The Better Maestro of Solitude
      • At least, we have the masks
      • The Apple Music Awards: See Why the World Is So Fucked-Up
      • The Electric (and Autonomous) Frenzy—CNN Videos
    • ► November (19)
      • When the UNESCO creates malware: the Cookie Factory
      • The Anti-Elon Musk YouTube Hero
      • Are you old enough to remember Professor Balthazar?
      • I just discovered the junk of the Japanese junk food; it's tasty!
      • Linux Apps: The failure of Foliate
      • Linux Apps: There is Everything in Linux! (It's called FSearch...)
      • Firefox Destupidification, Take #1
      • The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE
      • The dumbification of package management in Linux
      • On Twitter, one must be woke, internationalist and obedient—or suspended!
      • Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux
      • COVID-19 Report #29: The Sonderbehandlung that won't be (or will it?)
      • Brave: the browser loved by idiots, morons, and cryptofuckers
      • COVID-19 Report #28: The Average IQ Keeps Falling
      • The Ongoing Cyberwar Nobody Talks About
      • Hating Wes Anderson with gusto
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 8: Lubuntu, Fedora 35, and more
      • Trying to understand the bullshit
      • COVID-19 Report #27: Tot în România
    • ► October (6)
      • COVID-19 Report #26: The Covidiots are still strong
      • Instead of a smartwatch
      • Do they want me to stop using computers altogether?
      • Biserica, românul, vaccinul: sutana sub care s-a ascuns diavolul
      • Referendum: un fiasco al TVR
      • Românii vs. COVID-19: note de front inutile
    • ► September (4)
      • SPECIAL: You Don't Even Know How Terrible Your Linux Distro Is!
      • Evil Twitter, Stupid Twitter
      • The extra information meant he didn’t know she didn’t know...
      • I just discovered a really smart ordinary guy... on Amazon!
    • ► August (2)
      • România, plaiul legilor din pix (sau din pixeli)
      • We Want COVID! (Re-Updated)
    • ► July (14)
      • Status mundi in tempore coronavirus
      • I revealed a state secret about Jack Fartsey!
      • Ce este azi România? O hazna, un exemplu tragic de retard mental absolut
      • The Climate Apocalypse 2021
      • “You can call me Scarlett”—and other idiots; plus Q&A with Professor Ludditus, and more
      • Cuba, mi amor (now in turmoil)
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 7: Just some thoughts...
      • No, the label Champagne hasn't been confiscated by Russia!
      • The Little Country That Could
      • China Strikes Back!
      • CA, ÎCCJ, CCR: Acronimele mafiei române
      • Patents Kill Patients (But Stupidity Kills Too)
      • Linus 1, Anti-Vaxxers 0
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 6: The death of the scrollbar
    • ► June (17)
      • Everyone nowadays seems to be a fake expert
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 5: The gaiety of having the choice
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 4: NOT trying Rocky Linux, after all
      • The Alphabet of Our Death
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 3: The Mint 20.2 Beta Triptych
      • Half-Truths, Lies, Incompetence and Idiocy Continue to Prevent a True Debate on Vaccines
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 2: Subpixel idiocy
      • Adventures in Linux Ep. 1: Et tu, Fedora?
      • Bitcoin's evilness is more than Ransomware
      • Linux philosophy: Twitter humour
      • Bing, He Loves Me
      • Will we finally have the right to talk about hydroxychloroquine in good faith?
      • Fedora 34 XFCE: Are miracles still possible?
      • The Freedom to Blame China
      • From Memory's Vault: My Times With Fedora, as Béranger
      • Why Linux on the Desktop is Irrelevant in the Long Run
      • Here's how Plasma screwed my system: like a Windows virus!
    • ► May (12)
      • I had forgotten why I shouldn't trust Ubuntu... but neither many other distros!
      • Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?
      • A Community Experiment in Two Linux Distros
      • How the Internet Age Has Bent Some People's Minds
      • Try not to get depressed these days!
      • Is there a midway between Long-Time Support and quicksand?
      • Quick Experiment in “Improving” Linux Lite
      • Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTube
      • The VPN Myth
      • The Never-Ending Story Goes On!
      • A Glimpse from the Past
      • What Reddit has taught me about Arch Linux
    • ► April (5)
      • I Wish Me Luck
      • The Mental Retard In Linux Is Real
      • I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?
      • Theming my Salient OS
      • Looking for purity in Arch Linux
    • ► March (1)
      • The Long Road to Linux-Only (Not Excluding a Bit of WINE)
    • ► February (1)
      • COVID-19: Winning the War, but Losing All the Battles
    • ► January (1)
      • Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links
  • ►2020 (20)
    • ► December (1)
      • How to download full-size scans from Gallica.BnF.fr
    • ► November (2)
      • The Last Sleep of the Civilization Part II
      • The Last Sleep of the Civilization Part I
    • ► October (2)
      • The Sorry State... and the Quick Fix
      • Modern Times, Here I (Slowly) Run Away From You
    • ► September (1)
      • Le Twitter des cons
    • ► August (2)
      • When Italian Design rhymes with kitsch
      • Don't trust the magazines on choosing an OCR
    • ► July (2)
      • 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather Depressingly
      • KDE and Debian aren't exactly my cup of tea; or should they?
    • ► June (1)
      • Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is Worse
    • ► May (1)
      • In omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)
    • ► April (3)
      • Mon héros, le Pr Didier Raoult
      • End of World Diary N°4: Le monde est tellement con, yet the future is interesting
      • Back to China
    • ► March (4)
      • End of World Diary N°3: China Just Won
      • I really don't have what to do at home #lockdown
      • Beyond the Point of No Return: We're Losing the Battle
      • 2020: The Year The World Ended
    • ► January (1)
      • Internet Radio, Mon Amour
  • ►2019 (9)
    • ► August (2)
      • 24-Hour Shifts: A Planet of Fools
      • What divides the Internet is not math
    • ► April (2)
      • Choosing the right poison
      • 24 h with Huorong, a week with Comodo 12, a year with Bitdefender 2019 (or not)
    • ► March (1)
      • Living Dangerously: CCAV 2.0 Beta
    • ► February (4)
      • The day the Chinese puzzles took over
      • Should you live with no sense of smell...
      • Carracci—what else?
      • Nostalgia & Fun With Calculators
  • ►2018 (1)
    • ► February (1)
      • Until further notice...
  • ►2017 (10)
    • ► October (1)
      • Crypto-mining is the new adware, only worse
    • ► September (1)
      • Learning a language in 200 hours?
    • ► August (2)
      • Guessing the weather forecast
      • Finding happiness in simple gizmos
    • ► July (2)
      • The coffee saga goes on—Summer Edition
      • Kaspersky is one more time a valid choice
    • ► April (3)
      • How I Came to Hate Nova Launcher
      • Going into Nougat and Motorola–rather unexpectedly
      • Panda, mon amour–true advanced security for 19.99 €/yr
    • ► February (1)
      • Android Apps: What I Use
  • ►2016 (22)
    • ► December (2)
      • The End of My Search for What Can't Be Found
      • Inissia Kapselmaschine, was sonst?
    • ► September (2)
      • The myth of the well-administered German city
      • 4G is meant to kill the last trace of common sense in communications
    • ► August (5)
      • The most annoying bug in Outlook 2016
      • Why Telekom.de mobile phone contracts should be forbidden by law
      • The Verdict on Wiko Robby—Weeks Later
      • The Hyperloop is snake oil
      • Low-RAM Marshmallow—One Week Later
    • ► July (6)
      • Marshmallow with 1 GB of RAM—Yes, You Can!
      • Nolite mittere high-tech ante porcos
      • Microsoft, the keyboard repeat rate and sleeping: how to work around their idiocy
      • On smartphone sensors
      • The world is swarming with incompetents...
      • Debunking some myths about SSDs
    • ► June (3)
      • “A” for “Acer TravelMate P6”
      • I'm set for ESET
      • I'm sorry you had to use TeamViewer
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Vibe-coding with Kiro led to this:
● Comic Strip Browser for GoComics on GitHub
● Comic Strip Browser for GoComics on this blog
● Comics Kingdom Easy Browser on GitHub
● Comics Kingdom Easy Browser on this blog
● PyQt6 Comic Strip Browser for GoComics on GitHub
● PyQt6 Comic Strip Browser for GoComics on this blog (updates for 1.1.1 and 1.1.3)

My longest post on languages

SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!

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