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Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile

April 12, 2026 Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile2026-04-12T22:39:35+01:00 2 Comments colors, pe românește

Întotdeauna am bombănit cu privire la nuanțele de turcoaz. Deci da, am o problemă cu unele culori. Hai să mai bat câmpii cu privire la două culori. Corai, căci estem…

Is this neuroscientist stupid? Now with a language connection!

September 17, 2024 Is this neuroscientist stupid? Now with a language connection!2024-09-17T20:28:55+01:00 6 Comments colors, idiocy, internet, languages

This is to complement an older post of mine, The Blue That Is Green (And More). Here's what I just read in the Guardian: Do you see blue or green?…

The Blue That Is Green (And More)

August 28, 2023 The Blue That Is Green (And More)2025-01-17T00:29:53+01:00 3 Comments CASIO, colors, idiocy, internet, tissot, watches

Posted originally on Facebook, this is one of those “I'm at war with the world” things, simply because my eyes are trained to perceive and judge colors in terms of…

Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The same Carl Richell, with an update: The amended CO SB51 bill with a strong exemption for open source distros…” Apr 25, 21:04
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “OK, so I needed to update the list of 3 chatbots in current use.” Apr 25, 04:05
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “💡 Testing to see whether a chatbot gives “rizz” as one of the possible answers to this prompt: “There was…” Apr 25, 02:09
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “I outsmarted both Grok and Qwen! I needed a solution to a technical (web-related) problem. Grok Fast was completely useless…” Apr 25, 02:08
HAL on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Same here. Exactly the same.” Apr 24, 23:42
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Grok tries to piss me off. I wasn’t able to get a non-Fast answer in days! Maybe the days of…” Apr 24, 23:30
HAL on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “It’s difficult to find a “small, snappy everyday AI chatbot” that’s without flaws. Unfortunately, that’s true. 😞 Nevertheless, it seems…” Apr 24, 17:49
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Nuance: Kimi Instant, even in version 2.6, can be too stupid, and it might try to reason by looping endlessly…” Apr 24, 00:10
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76, on Mastodon: I received the amended Colorado Age Attestation bill. * Open source…” Apr 22, 01:26
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “I just went down to 3 chatbots: Here’s why.” Apr 21, 18:14
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.4.0 was released. Cumulative updates and changes include: 2.4.0: • Simplified the scaling down of huge comics. • Defined…” Apr 20, 01:46
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “YouTube has been occupied by the Chinese! Is this a propaganda op by the Chinese government masquerading as genuine personal…” Apr 19, 22:54
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Lofi Girl (Wikipedia: “formerly ChilledCow until 2021”) is maybe the only set of (improperly labeled) lo-fi music livestreams (not only…” Apr 19, 22:31
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “POLITICO: Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it. Piotr Müller, a Polish…” Apr 17, 23:24
Béranger on Spusele și nespusele lui Rughiniș cu privire la AI: “Răzvan Rughiniș se întoarce! Cum ne manipulează creatorii Inteligenței Artificiale (49:52) Capitole: 00:00 INTRO 04:50 Cum ar trebui să ne…” Apr 16, 12:42
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Bad news regarding the US and the EU: ● Linuxiac: Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire…” Apr 16, 09:16
Béranger on Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile: “Parcă ar fi catifeaua unor scaune de cinema-teatru-operă de odinioară.” Apr 15, 12:17
Aldus on Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile: “Uite ce știam eu că este culoarea purpuriu (sau roșu-purpuriu): mostră. Cred că așa erau colorate mantiile unor regi din…” Apr 15, 12:01
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Total Commander? Nope. I don’t use orthodox (dual-panel) file managers, and a smartphone is even less suitable for that than…” Apr 15, 10:39
dan on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “thanks for your thoroughly comeback. sadly, nothing is now like it used to be. sad times we are living. regarding…” Apr 15, 10:31
edel on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “As all that rage is justified, make one note, any, and I mean it, with any Democratic leader nothing would…” Apr 13, 22:42
Béranger on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “It gets better and better. Now Trump is Jesus (he deleted this shit, but everyone saw it):” Apr 13, 13:32
Ned on As a New Year’s gift, Facebook decided I don’t exist: “(After resisting joining for years before this), I got cancelled about 16 years ago, after having the account a few…” Apr 13, 04:22
Ned on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “Thank you for existing. Keep on raging; it makes me feel less alone and therefore a particle less in despair.” Apr 13, 04:18
Béranger on The day GoComics went bad: “I added a note to clarify that the JS barrier used by GoComics to prevent the direct downloading of pages…” Apr 12, 22:59
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Rotring Tikky isn’t anymore what it used to be. I found some Rotring Tikky III mechanical pencils in a supermarket.…” Apr 11, 00:07
Béranger on The Claude Apocalypse has been averted—Dario Amodei is a nice guy, just like Donald Trump: “Apparently, Anthropic believed there would be people interested in reading this 245-page System Card: Claude Mythos Preview.” Apr 10, 11:48
Béranger on Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang: “GPU-accelerated Linux terminal apps, ligatures, and “Linux terminals built for coding agents”: a chat with Kimi. It even talked “about…” Apr 9, 20:41
Béranger on Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!: “Maybe Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang would help.” Apr 9, 14:04
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Passed all those tests 🙂” Apr 8, 21:02
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “The Spectacle crash has officially been fixed in Plasma 6.6.4. Look for the commit regarding layer-shell-qt. It literally reads, “Fix…” Apr 8, 05:57
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “Issue #42796: [MODEL] Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates ● Discussion on Hacker News…” Apr 7, 22:40
edel on Today, I visited China (online): “Oh… Spain. Unfortunately I am not traveling any longer, so perceptions get biased now. The real number is, of course,…” Apr 7, 07:32
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “On medical leave? In what country? Not so many in Germany or Romania. But very low spirited indeed.” Apr 7, 03:23
edel on Today, I visited China (online): “Last time I was in China was more than a decade ago and by then already 90% of bikes I…” Apr 6, 23:51
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Ah, you’re a mechanical pencil person! B and 2B are very pleasant to use. Many low-quality HB leads are often…” Apr 5, 22:52
Béranger on SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too: “Regarding the 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies, 2 media types, 1 offsite), Christopher Barnatt came up with an updated version…” Apr 5, 21:38
dan on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “I enjoy writing with Penac CCH-3 0.7 mm and Rotring Tikky II 0.5 mm with Staedtler 2B (I don’t like…” Apr 5, 13:09
Béranger on No more quality for the peripherals Made in China: “Today, one of the 3 mice I’m using is an ultra-light Redragon K1NG LITE M916W-LIT-1K, and I love it! OTOH,…” Apr 4, 22:59
Béranger on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “Well, in the 1990s, in Slackware, I used to build my kernels. I never built a kernel in the last…” Apr 4, 22:56
EJ W on No more quality for the peripherals Made in China: “I am a gamer, and I completely agree with everything you said about gamer products, the consumers are fools, they…” Apr 4, 17:45
Alex on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “He is a Gentoo developer actually. I was a Gentoo user for too many years (I’m not “normal” 😀) and…” Apr 4, 12:10
Béranger on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “A fabulous article indeed, especially if you follow the links! I pondered over a few topics, but eventually I decided…” Apr 4, 00:20
Béranger on AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain: “Ministerul Finanțelor insistă în retardul lor mental: „BF-CHAIN oferă cetățenilor un control direct și transparent asupra bonurilor fiscale primite.”” Apr 3, 21:53
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “If it’s CVE-2023-52076, then the problem is in the design of such viewers: This vulnerability is capable of writing arbitrary…” Apr 3, 21:18
Béranger on Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică: “Regnele regnă. Reginele reginează sau reginesc.” Apr 3, 19:29
zugu on Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică: “Eu regnez, tu regnezi, el regnează.” Apr 3, 19:27
Dmknght on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “IMO, any application that works with untrusted data needs AppArmor profiles. For example, there was a path traversal in Atril,…” Apr 3, 13:38
Dmknght on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Completely agree with this. On server side, malicious activities are usually executed by “www-data/nginx” user (at least for web servers).…” Apr 3, 13:25
Alex on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “A great article on the topic: Greybeard’s tomb: the lost treasure of language design.” Apr 3, 10:12
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The first time I heard the Graystones was mid-December a few months ago. A few videos had already been taken…” Apr 3, 03:08
Béranger on Apple is still the worst of all: “Minimalistic mobile OSes should be the rule in the age of web apps. However, for security reasons, authenticators (I’m using Microsoft…” Apr 3, 00:31
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Fixed/updated logos and added a few more streams.” Apr 3, 00:28
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “A few more insights (UPDATE 3).” Apr 3, 00:14
JimboBob on Apple is still the worst of all: “I liked Firefox OS and still own that ZTE phone. It doesn’t work much now of course. Since then, I…” Apr 3, 00:11
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “A few insights on Claude Code added at the end (UPDATE 2).” Apr 2, 20:30
Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Added Debian XFCE and Xebian stable to the comparison.” Apr 1, 22:59
Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Liam Proven, who loves XFCE for its keyboard shortcuts from the IBM/CUA era (and who’s using it with a left…” Apr 1, 21:10
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “UPDATE: Liam Proven knows more about Wimpy’s lack of “passion” towards Ubuntu MATE. In Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME…” Apr 1, 21:03
Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Added MX KDE to the comparison. (Previously, only MX XFCE was tested, but the D/L link was given for the…” Mar 31, 22:01