Tag archives for idiocy
Microsoft’s lawsuits alone should have made us ditch them
Recently, I became aware of some outrageous claims made by Microsoft in a British court. The claims are older, only the judgment is recent. Some short notes on the matter.…
ChatGPT și CCR: Deci așa, cam în vreo 15 ani…
M-am distrat puțin cu ChatGPT, dacă situația mai permite să facem haz de necaz (nu, nu permite). Iată transcrierea integrală a discuției cu agentul fără suflet și fără creier: ❶…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will make snaps unavoidable
Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, gave an interview to The Reg. The news are all bad, although some of the bad things won't happen that soon. But I'm saddened…
Cum să ieși din pușcărie înainte de termen în România: e simplu!
Sunt multe decizii ale CCR și ale ÎCCJ asupra cărora am hotărât să nu comentez pe blog (sau hotărâri asupra cărora am decis...), pentru că mi-a fost prea silă. Românii…
A €20 Linux tax: cui et quantum prodest?
After 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits and Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke, the post 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu…
Bluesabre is pathetic, and “the Xubuntu project” is retarded
Some readers might remember that, when I discussed the CVE-2021-32563 vulnerability in Thunar, I complained that Sean Davis (aka Bluesabre or bluesabredavis), who is both the Xubuntu Technical Lead and…
Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke
Let me remind you that for me… 2025 is “The Year Linux (on the Desktop) Died”: details in the post 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits,…
Trump’s Gaza success eclipses his China chaos
After having pampered Genocidal Bibi and praised the IDF in the Knesset, Trump went to the 2025 Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. But what I found concerning is his…
So You Know Why People Vote for Extremists in Europe
I'll quote from an article that comments on these masterpieces issues by Eurocrats: Free to love, free to be: the EU’s new LGBTIQ+ strategy (Directorate-General for Communication, 8 October 2025);…
The next level of AI crap: lab robots
You wouldn't believe for what reason such a thing happened: Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up. Here's the thing: Dr. Agarwal is among more than…
😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
Yeah, I know, the title seems written by a chatbot. Rest assured, the content is not. As announced almost four weeks ago, it's time for me to bid Linux farewell…
A chat about stablecoins, and pessimism regarding AI
I still don't believe in stablecoins! For the first topic, a bit of context. CNBC, on August 20: Crypto firms urge UK to form national stablecoin strategy to avoid falling…
Reforma Pilonilor II-III-IV: un furt marca Bolojan, nu OECD
Inițial, tovarășul Bolojan a invocat „cerințele OECD, în care vrem să intrăm”, pentru a justifica reforma care limitează dreptul de a retrage banii din Pilonul II de pensii private obligatorii.…
Don’t blame Microsoft for your suicidal SSD!
According to a Japanese report on X, the KB5063878 Windows 11 update is allegedly causing SSDs to become non-functional after large files are being written to them in quick sequence.…
Limbistul Mircea Badea e un bou
N-am mai scris de mult pe teme gramaticale și lexicale, mai exact de la Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări). Ei bine, o cucurigeală de-a lui Mircea…
So-called neuroscientist: we don’t have visual memories but reconstruct them à la ChatGPT
This is the teaser that got me into this: Cognitive scientist Elan Barenholtz says memory isn't retrieval. It's generation.When you remember something, you're not accessing a stored file. You're prompting…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
There is still hope in England
J.K. Rowling is well-known for her takes on the madness of the gender ideology, particularly defending such stances: ❶ Your gender is your biological sex, observed and recorded at birth,…
🤖 Gemini CLI is a hit-and-miss
The other day, I stumbled over this news: Google releases Gemini CLI with free Gemini 2.5 Pro. Now, of course, the real information is that I should head to github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli…
I asked AI how to fix America’s “undocumented” millions
Triggered by the current events in LA, but not mentioning anything about Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, I asked a couple of chatbots if they see a logical solution…