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Why Tim Cook Should Be Sodomized 24/7

December 9, 2021 Why Tim Cook Should Be Sodomized 24/72021-12-09T11:51:57+01:00 Technical 2 Comments
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,…
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Nostalgia

Philippe Charles Jacquet: The Better Maestro of Solitude

December 6, 2021 Philippe Charles Jacquet: The Better Maestro of Solitude2021-12-07T12:20:59+01:00 Nostalgia No Comment
My shortlist of depicters of solitude includes names of the magnitudes of Edward Hopper and of Giorgio de Chirico; but here's a French contemporary painter that makes me relate to…
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Political

At least, we have the masks

December 6, 2021 At least, we have the masks2022-01-04T17:14:04+01:00 Political 1 Comment
A new study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute and Cornell University shows that FFP2 marks offer surprisingly effective protection against SARS-CoV-2. This is by all means great news,…
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Miscellanea

The Apple Music Awards: See Why the World Is So Fucked-Up

December 3, 2021 The Apple Music Awards: See Why the World Is So Fucked-Up2021-12-03T16:23:38+01:00 Miscellanea No Comment
This planet has absolutely no future not just because people are so stupid as to praise the cryptoshit, to invent NTFs (for idiots), to purchase a non-existing yacht in a…
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Technical

The Electric (and Autonomous) Frenzy—CNN Videos

December 2, 2021 The Electric (and Autonomous) Frenzy—CNN Videos2021-12-02T10:56:04+01:00 Technical No Comment
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…
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Miscellanea

When the UNESCO creates malware: the Cookie Factory

November 30, 2021 When the UNESCO creates malware: the Cookie Factory2021-11-30T18:54:50+01:00 Miscellanea No Comment
Officially, “The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialised agency of the United Nations aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, the…
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Technical

The Anti-Elon Musk YouTube Hero

November 30, 2021 The Anti-Elon Musk YouTube Hero2021-11-30T21:00:57+01:00 Technical 1 Comment
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,…
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Nostalgia

Are you old enough to remember Professor Balthazar?

November 30, 2021 Are you old enough to remember Professor Balthazar?2021-11-30T10:36:05+01:00 Nostalgia 2 Comments
The good old Professor Balthazar and his marvelous inventing machine were known in the former Yugoslavia, (West) Germany, Romania, Italy, Switzerland (in Italian), the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Portugal,…
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Miscellanea

I just discovered the junk of the Japanese junk food; it’s tasty!

November 30, 2021 I just discovered the junk of the Japanese junk food; it’s tasty!2021-11-30T09:48:06+01:00 Miscellanea No Comment
Normally, this should have been a subject for Twitter, but being blocked for a week, I resorted to the only censorship-free place: my blog. I normally don't care about Asian…
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Technical

Linux Apps: The failure of Foliate

November 29, 2021 Linux Apps: The failure of Foliate2021-12-19T00:27:29+01:00 Technical 5 Comments
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…
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Linux Apps: There is Everything in Linux! (It’s called FSearch…)

November 28, 2021 Linux Apps: There is Everything in Linux! (It’s called FSearch…)2021-11-28T23:29:10+01:00 Technical No Comment
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…
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Technical

Firefox Destupidification, Take #1

November 28, 2021 Firefox Destupidification, Take #12021-11-28T22:52:56+01:00 Technical 14 Comments
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…
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The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE

November 25, 2021 The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE2021-11-26T01:33:10+01:00 Technical No Comment
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…
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The dumbification of package management in Linux

November 25, 2021 The dumbification of package management in Linux2021-11-30T11:29:42+01:00 Technical No Comment
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…
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On Twitter, one must be woke, internationalist and obedient—or suspended!

November 25, 2021 On Twitter, one must be woke, internationalist and obedient—or suspended!2022-01-04T17:14:41+01:00 Political No Comment
The fucking retards did it again. Some fucktards, after calling me names (I blocked them, but of course I didn't report them!), as good neo-marxists and snitches, have reported a…
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Technical

Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux

November 20, 2021 Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux2021-11-24T01:03:11+01:00 Technical 15 Comments
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…
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Political

COVID-19 Report #29: The Sonderbehandlung that won’t be (or will it?)

November 17, 2021 COVID-19 Report #29: The Sonderbehandlung that won’t be (or will it?)2022-01-04T17:14:35+01:00 Political 1 Comment
Continuing from the previous installment, I can't say I'm surprised by the latest news. To cope with the Fourth Wave, "ministers in Northern Ireland have voted to introduce mandatory Covid…
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Brave: the browser loved by idiots, morons, and cryptofuckers

November 17, 2021 Brave: the browser loved by idiots, morons, and cryptofuckers2021-11-17T22:53:21+01:00 Projects 2 Comments
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…
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Political

COVID-19 Report #28: The Average IQ Keeps Falling

November 15, 2021 COVID-19 Report #28: The Average IQ Keeps Falling2022-01-04T17:14:50+01:00 Political 2 Comments
There is no way “the new normality” would ever resemble anything close to the idea of normality, but if worse comes to worst, it's all the fault of the idiots,…
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Technical

The Ongoing Cyberwar Nobody Talks About

November 11, 2021 The Ongoing Cyberwar Nobody Talks About2021-11-17T09:04:00+01:00 Technical 2 Comments
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…
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Comments & Updates

  • Béranger on Scrisoare împotriva OUG 27/2022Soluție locală și temporară: mutare la Hidroelectrica, care pentru clienții casnici are o ofertă „verde” imbatabilă, cu componenta de achiziție
  • marius on Questions on the delusion of losing weightPostul cu saruri minerale indelungat e cel mai eficient, in special pentru balene unde orice dieta e futila, foamea dispare
  • Béranger on Questions on the delusion of losing weightÎntr-o vreme, mă chinuiam să țin socoteala caloriilor cu o app. Fiecare felie de pâine și de parizer, fiecare măslină,
  • gicu on Questions on the delusion of losing weightCorect. La asta cred ca organismul se poate educa. Si odata format un obicei alimentar bun, sa-l pastram. Iar caloriile
  • Béranger on Questions on the delusion of losing weightIntermittent fasting, then. Să zicem mâncat între 7:00 și 15:00, adică o fereastră de 8 ore din 24.
  • gicu on Questions on the delusion of losing weightCorpul se adapteaza la foame. O perioada (cam 10 ani) n-am mai mancat nimic de pe la 15.00 pana a
  • Béranger on Questions on the delusion of losing weightNu. Mișcare există. Nu ajută. Ăia 10.000 de pași pe zi. La cumpărături dus-întors, gen. Mâncatul „pe jumătate”: funcționează (la
  • gicu on Questions on the delusion of losing weightMai pune si niste miscare in ecuatie, o ora sau mai mult/zi si ai rezolvat problema. Dieta si atat nu
  • Béranger on De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): gânduri rebeleDa, dar JBP are o scuză pentru demisie. Și, în genere, mai are o scuză.
  • Marin, client Mécontent de la divinité (qui a porté plainte mille fois) on De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): gânduri rebeleCred ca religia e o stare intermediara a mintii umane, undeva intre creierul primitiv si creierul modern, o incercare de
  • Béranger on De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): gânduri rebeleAșa sunt eu, greu de citit. De-aia am renunțat să mai scriu articole lungi în engleză, dar câteva tot voi
  • gicu on De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): gânduri rebeleSi in final rasa galbena va conduce Pamantul .... Asta ca sa ne reintoarcem la Biblie :) Greu de citit
  • Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle[UPDATE]: More games, and a mystery solved!
  • Béranger on Linux Apps: The failure of FoliateNo, it's not necessarily a wrong expectation. Most ePub files are tested on iPad/iPhone, and I assume they at least
  • Jack on Linux Apps: The failure of FoliateWhen 99.9% books work on the softwares mentioned, and 2 out of your 25K epubs don't then probably its not
  • Michael on Adventures in Linux Ep. 2: Subpixel idiocyIn Ubuntu 18.04 I get decent results with FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35 cff:no-stem-darkening=1 autofitter:warping=1" added to /etc/environment At least it makes full hinting
  • Jim on Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTubeI take it all back! Re-read a few times, and had a few chuckles with a less serious head on
  • Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle[UPDATE] More cheating!
  • Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle[UPDATE] I just discovered another German clone: 6mal5.com.
  • Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle[UPDATE] On March 30, 2022, I noticed a bug in Wordle.

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Giorgio de Chirico. Immagini metafisiche
it was amazing
Giorgio de Chirico. Immagini metafisiche
by Riccardo Dottori
Questo libro di complessa analisi e interpretazione dei dipinti di Giorgio de Chirico è unico nel suo genere, e fortunatamente anche come e-book (non necessariamente per Kindle; l’ePub costa 9,99 euro all’IBS) comprende immagini di buona…
Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? [nouvelle édition]
it was ok
Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? [nouvelle édition]
by Pierre Bayard
Après avoir lu « La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres » et « L’affaire du chien des Baskerville » (lu en anglais : Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles), je suis définitivement persuadé que la rigueur…
Histoire de la Chine : Des origines à nos jours
really liked it
Histoire de la Chine : Des origines à nos jours
by John King Fairbank
Une bonne introduction à l’histoire de Chine.
The Eighth Detective
liked it
The Eighth Detective
by Alex Pavesi
What eighth detective (or what eight detectives, in the UK edition)? You’ll understand towards the end of this unusual book which mainly consists of 7 stories, which per se are not that bad, so if one would only read the odd chapters fro…
Marseille Une ville sous influences
it was ok
Marseille Une ville sous influences
by Pierre Boisserie
Assommante comme histoire et très médiocre graphiquement, cette BD demeure assez instructive pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Marseille. Mais ça, seulement si le prétexte d’une balade à travers la Marseille qui engendre une discussion en…
La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres
it was ok
La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres
by Pierre Bayard
J’avoue n’avoir pas encore lu « Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ? » (c’est pour bientôt), mais j’ai été séduit par « L’affaire du chien des Baskerville » (que j’ai lu en anglais : Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the…
L'homme de l'année 1989 - 16 - L'inconnu de la place tiananmen
did not like it
L’homme de l’année 1989 – 16 – L’inconnu de la place tiananmen
by Jean-Pierre Pécau; Gin
Cette aberration est de la propagande pure. Je sais que cette collection n’est pas censée décrire la réalité, mais au sujet des évènements de Tiananmen, un peu plus de discernement s’imposerait.En admettant qu’il s’agisse d’un massacre…

Le Trésor du Cygne noir
really liked it
Le Trésor du Cygne noir
by Guillermo Corral
Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber - Mais où est Kiki ? N/B
liked it
Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber – Mais où est Kiki ? N/B
by Robber
On ne peut nier ni l’effort ni le talent, mais après avoir lu la version en couleurs dans Spirou, cette version noir et blanc, complètement redessinée par rapport à celle en couleurs, ne me satisfait nullement.
Les Spectaculaires Prennent l'Eau
really liked it
Les Spectaculaires Prennent l’Eau
by Régis Hautière
Les Spectaculaires Dépassent les Bornes
really liked it
Les Spectaculaires Dépassent les Bornes
by Régis Hautière
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
it was amazing
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
by Sophie Hannah
I dare say it’s only with the fourth “New Poirot” that Sophie Hannah finally managed to reach a cunningness comparable to that of the Grande Dame of Golden Age’s Crime. The first three attempts were of unequal quality in my view: I rated…

 


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