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If you don’t understand it, then it’s wrong. And there’s a 98% chance that you won’t understand it.

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Debunking some myths about SSDs

July 7, 2016 Debunking some myths about SSDs2016-08-01T22:23:38+01:00
SSD seemed to be the second best invention since sliced bread and Netflix, unless we remember those OCZ SSD models that died too early after a rather small number of writes.…
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“A” for “Acer TravelMate P6”

June 20, 2016 “A” for “Acer TravelMate P6”2016-08-04T12:36:33+01:00
The shoemaker's children go barefoot, they say. As I don't have children, in my case this paradox applies to myself. I always had the cheapest computer and the cheapest smartphone that…
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I’m set for ESET

June 19, 2016 I’m set for ESET2016-08-01T22:23:12+01:00
For some time, most likely up to a year (if not more), I'll be using ESET as a security product on my laptop. Even before switching to a new laptop, I…
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I’m sorry you had to use TeamViewer

June 3, 2016 I’m sorry you had to use TeamViewer2016-08-01T22:23:03+01:00
I pity you for your need to use TeamViewer. Or RealVNC. Or Remote Desktop (Terminal Services). Heck, even Remote Assistance (Windows Desktop Sharing). I got it, you must use it…
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It’s still a long, long road…

March 26, 2016 It’s still a long, long road…2016-08-01T22:22:47+01:00
The contents and the structure are not very clear as of yet; the working title is only a first attempt at it; and the cover, obviously, is just a quick…
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Hopefully, Ransomware will reach everyone

March 25, 2016 Hopefully, Ransomware will reach everyone2022-11-09T21:55:37+01:00
It's Good Friday, it's been raining all day long, I'm a bit dizzy and certainly pissed off by this Windows thing. This laptop is overly modest with regards to the…
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Let’s get going again!

March 22, 2016 Let’s get going again!2016-08-01T22:22:13+01:00
It was about time to revive this blog. From scratch and less "bloggy" than before. On a planet subdued by Facebook and by sites like Medium, ranting almost daily is…
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Just saying…

March 7, 2016 Just saying…2016-08-01T22:22:24+01:00
...hello, I'm not dead! Not yet.
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  • Béranger on Claude Sonnet 4.5 is here!: “I just noticed that Haiku 4.5 has been made available for free, so you could use it when Sonnet 4.5…” Oct 15, 21:02
  • Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “I added an update regarding the MT7663 BT regression. And I have a plush Tux to sell or destroy.” Oct 15, 20:54
  • Béranger on When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year: “How to associate your system with your Microsoft account to benefit of the 1-year ESU: copilot.microsoft.com/shares/ezKVN2GUPBMdsyfeGTw2y.” Oct 15, 17:42
  • zugu on Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke: ““There was never any QA whatsoever, be it about the kernel, about a desktop environment, or about a distro.” -…” Oct 15, 16:05
  • Béranger on Trump’s Gaza success eclipses his China chaos: “Jeremy Bowen, BBC International editor: Trump’s role in Gaza ceasefire was decisive, but not a roadmap to peace: Without question,…” Oct 14, 23:03
  • Béranger on One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton: “From June 15, with Steven Bartlett (The Diary of a CEO): Godfather of AI: They Keep Silencing Me But I’m…” Oct 14, 22:58
  • nyckelharpa on One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton: “yeah, most of humanity interacts with noncorporeal people, with gin and tonic, or without. it may be hilarious, and then…” Oct 14, 09:40
  • Béranger on One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton: “Selected steps to keep you from falling prey to A.I.’s flattery, from Next Time You Consult an A.I. Chatbot, Remember…” Oct 14, 01:26
  • Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “Continuing my previous quest on comic strips, I questioned Grok this time, only to find out that it’s stupid and…” Oct 13, 21:12
  • Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “Asking Copilot why isn’t there any Calvin and Hobbes® 2026 Day-to-Day Calendar: copilot.microsoft.com/shares/g3ec4eDzMgbSKfeiTaoF1. From the answer, I very much appreciated…” Oct 13, 15:17
  • Béranger on One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton: “Spirits, as in gin and tonic?” Oct 13, 13:29
  • nyckelharpa on One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton: “Have you actually interacted with people who have an intense, life-changing relationship with “god” or “spirit” or “angel” that you…” Oct 13, 13:28
  • Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “Hai să pun asta și aici, ca să nu fie doar pe FB și în arhivele mele lingvistice. A trebuit…” Oct 13, 10:57
  • Béranger on One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton: “Why are we worried about people developing personal relationships with 🤖 AI chatbots and agents, but we’re OK with people…” Oct 13, 10:17
  • Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Fixed Jazz24.org’s streams; added the streams for KNKX right below Jazz24.” Oct 13, 10:08
  • Béranger on One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton: “BONUS! Yuval Noah Harari and Sir Stephen Fry met and spoke at the ‪Octopus Energy‬ Tech Summit: AI: how can…” Oct 12, 21:11
  • Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added: WDR 3, WDR 3 Jazz, WDR 3 Klassik, WDR 3 World, WDR 4.” Oct 12, 19:44
  • Laurențiu on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “Thanks!” Oct 10, 18:25
  • Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Not impossible, but everything they do is covers. And some removed covers have been remade, so…” Oct 9, 19:46
  • Octogenarian on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “You think maybe-just guessing-there might be copyright issues with those earlier videos?” Oct 9, 19:36
  • Béranger on Minor updates in Copilot and Grok: “I noticed that in a browser, Grok allows me to disable “Show Follow Up Suggestions”… but not so in its…” Oct 9, 13:22
  • Béranger on The next level of AI crap: lab robots: “Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth.” Oct 9, 07:27
  • zugu on The next level of AI crap: lab robots: “A bit offtopic: Deloitte To Repay Australian Government After AI Errors Found In Official Report.” Oct 9, 06:48
  • Béranger on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “RE-UPDATE: I added Readest to my list of e-book readers. Review included.” Oct 8, 22:14
  • Béranger on Minor updates in Copilot and Grok: “FFS, they removed the last style in ChatGPT, “Sidekick”!” Oct 8, 20:39
  • ConEst on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “I don’t think there’s a newer version than 2021 ISO. But over the time all the updates which Microsoft has…” Oct 8, 07:02
  • Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “They’re not fair: “You need to login to view this posts content.” (“posts” is grammatically wrong) I suppose this is…” Oct 7, 22:40
  • Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “By “updated ISO” you mean a newer edition than 2021?” Oct 7, 22:37
  • ConEst on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “I would like to plug My Digital Life here. Great forum for all things windows. You should try it and…” Oct 7, 22:35
  • Béranger on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “I never use Calibre’s ebook viewer. I never liked it.” Oct 7, 22:31
  • ConEst on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “Also Calibre’s ebook viewer has been improved so much over the last updates. So you can try that as well…” Oct 7, 22:30
  • ConEst on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “Try “Readest” it’s available for almost every platform.” Oct 7, 22:24
  • Béranger on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “Nu pot da sfaturi cu privire la Win11. Încă mai am de explorat modurile de curățare-optimizare a diverselor variante de…” Oct 7, 19:33
  • Béranger on Grim book 1 — a review like no other!: “Dr. Heidi Toivonen, Psychologist: What Is the Grim Hustle: An Evolving Self-help Narrative for the Tough Guys.” Oct 7, 18:40
  • Laurențiu on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “Salutare, Am o dilemă. Mi-aș lua un IoT dar nu sunt hotărât dacă 10 sau 11. Am 16ram și un…” Oct 7, 18:33
  • Béranger on When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year: “Bleeping Computer: Microsoft kills more Microsoft Account bypasses in Windows 11. The Reg: No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says…” Oct 7, 18:25
  • zugi on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “I’ve jailbroken my Kindle Oasis “10th gen” (retarded Amazon nomenclature, technically it’s the second generation of Oasis readers) and I…” Oct 7, 07:15
  • Béranger on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “I added an Update: Koodo on Android.” Oct 6, 23:20
  • Béranger on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “If it still works…” Oct 6, 22:25
  • HAL on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “KyBook 3 Ebook Reader that you give in the article seems very complete, I didn’t know it. But it seems…” Oct 6, 22:22
  • Béranger on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “Well, it seems that Prestigio doesn’t exist for iOS. By “intended platform” I meant FOR THE BOOKS! They seem to…” Oct 6, 22:20
  • HAL on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “(I suppose iOS is their “intended platform.”) Well, it seems that Prestigio doesn’t exist for iOS. PocketBook reader — it…” Oct 6, 22:05
  • HAL on A society by robots, for robots: very quick thoughts: “AI and robots. The society of the future is one by robots, for robots. Asimov predicted it 😉” Oct 6, 18:51
  • Ant Man on The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim: “Thanks. Also been checking into this Grim Hustle and its leader. I think he is establishing a form of subscription…” Oct 6, 05:21
  • Béranger on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “FB se răzbună. După Diablos Computer, acum îmi afișează reclame și cu alte firme care vând mini-PC-uri reșapate, o parte…” Oct 5, 14:06
  • Béranger on Lumo is beyond stupid. Don’t use it!: “Mistral n’est pas trop loin non plus. Je lui ai demandé des détails sur le contrôle exercé avant la Deuxième…” Oct 5, 00:05
  • Béranger on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “Ah, „buton fizic pentru oprit Wi-Fi și Bluetooth” am pe Acer TravelMate P645! Plus buton fizic de oprit microfonul! Dar…” Oct 4, 21:20
  • Béranger on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “Oh, cu „țava” am văzut! Și încă la HP EliteBook, nu la Acer! Și nu se mai fabricau „țave” de-alea.…” Oct 4, 21:16
  • Béranger on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “Am ignorat cu bună știință Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2019, căci este bazat pe versiunea 1809 (build 17763), și…” Oct 4, 21:11
  • zugu on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “Legat de treaba cu fluidul din țevi, care se tot transformă din gaz în lichid și vițăvercea, ca să țină…” Oct 4, 21:11
  • zugu on Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished: “Pentru mașinăriile mai vechi, există și Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2019 care moare abia în 2029. Se mișcă un…” Oct 4, 21:01
  • HAL on Lumo is beyond stupid. Don’t use it!: “😂 incroyable, mais génial ! 😅” Oct 4, 20:23
  • Béranger on Was I wrong in my take on packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps? Updated!: “This doesn’t make sense. Anything can fail. Flatpaks are packaged by random people. Some of them can fail. OTOH, adding…” Oct 4, 17:26
  • Chase on Was I wrong in my take on packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps? Updated!: “I have been using nothing but snaps and flatpaks for almost 2 years now without issues and I will never…” Oct 4, 16:54
  • Béranger on When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year: “Of course, it’s strange that Microsoft insists on discontinuing Win10, as long as its revenues from Windows are only about…” Oct 3, 17:32
  • Béranger on The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose): “VxKex-NEXT can do more than VxKex (which isn’t updated anymore). Let me give you an example. I sometimes need to…” Oct 3, 13:21
  • Béranger on Minor updates in Copilot and Grok: “Haha, ChatGPT ignores the instructions! I didn’t want to change its personality (all of them seem stupid), but I added…” Oct 3, 10:55
  • Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Any proofs? OTOH, too many showbiz celebrities are or have been into Scientology. No offense, but the US has one…” Oct 2, 22:42
  • Martin on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “It’s a shame they are all kids of high ranking scientologists and are being used to forward that agenda…” Oct 2, 22:39
  • Béranger on They cancelled Sabine H. for calling the emperor naked!: “Sabine H.: Academia’s Scam Problem is Getting Worse: Academic research is deteriorating at an increasing pace. We’ve talked several times…” Oct 2, 20:43

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  • ►2025 (154)
    • ► October (13)
      • Linux: More Proof It's a Pathetic Joke
      • Trump's Gaza success eclipses his China chaos
      • One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton
      • So You Know Why People Vote for Extremists in Europe
      • E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents
      • A society by robots, for robots: very quick thoughts
      • namesake vs. homonym vs. eponym vs. Romance languages
      • Un comentariu la Eugen Rădulescu (preluare de pe FB)
      • Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished
      • The next level of AI crap: lab robots
      • Lumo is beyond stupid. Don't use it!
      • 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!
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      • The shortest distro bashing and appraisal in a long while—now with added Dedoimedo!
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      • KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other rants
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      • SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
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      • Norm Finkelstein, the reasonable Jew
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      • Answering to anti-establishment people on Ukraine
      • This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis
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      • 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
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      • 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
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      • Vremea laptop-urilor și upgrade-urilor ieftine
    • ► June (1)
      • France is a woke dictatorship, and Twitter is its lackey
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      • Pisa (2008-2023)
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      • Relevanssi is the worst famous WordPress plugin in existence!
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      • WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shite
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      • Language Learning Apps and YT Channels: Season 3
      • Online learning with Udemy and Domestika, but also on YouTube!
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      • Cum se răspândesc zvonurile în retardata Românie
      • O tâmpenie românească de București
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      • 5 months into Manjaro: harmless yet unacceptable breakage
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      • Questions on the delusion of losing weight
      • De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?): panseuri
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      • The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin
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      • Mon Gaston Berger de 2017
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      • The Holo-Crypto-Meta-Virtual-Scam-Mafia
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      • 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
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      • The Anti-Elon Musk YouTube Hero
      • Are you old enough to remember Professor Balthazar?
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      • 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
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      • Instead of a smartwatch
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      • 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)
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      • We Want COVID! (Re-Updated)
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      • 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
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      • 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!
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      • 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
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      • Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTube
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      • 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)
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      • Le Twitter des cons
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      • In omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)
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      • Mon héros, le Pr Didier Raoult
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      • Until further notice...
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      • The Verdict on Wiko Robby—Weeks Later
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      • 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
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