Tag archives for idiocy
What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain
It all started from this “Devin got fired” thing: Cool, OK, but… wait, a comment is a comment, right? Well, it is, and it also isn’t, just like Schrödinger’s cat.…
The Reg’s sinophobia is pathetic
I read The Reg for articles by Liam Proven and by SJVN. So far, I've used the global RSS, which includes the whole crap posted by all kinds of idiots:…
Kiro seems to have gone amok
If I ever considered paying something to use Kiro ($20, not $200), it was high time I reconsidered. I happened to discover, by pure accident (I visited Reddit), that the…
Windows users and “experts” are dumb as shit and lazy
I'm not saying that Microsoft was right to do what they did. They have always been wrong in the last 20 years, starting with Vista. (And not only that. From…
IONOS and the non-existent Deutsche Qualität
This blog is hosted by IONOS.fr, a subsidiary of the German IONOS (formerly 1&1), merely because French is a language I can really understand and use, not just get headaches…
Random shitheads who use AI to monetize shit
As I logged in on GitHub, I was suggested one so-called trending repository. It was FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinterV2. I then discovered harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo, at some point “number one shit of the day”! GitHub…
Privacy aside, LLMs don’t learn when they could (and should)
I might be wrong. Maybe I don't understand that what I would do is not feasible or shouldn't be done this way. But the way these chatbots talked made me…
Colecționarul de Căcat
Matei Udrea, care din 1993 a avut o lungă carieră de jurnalist de sport, și care prin 2017 încă mai găsea că e interesant să pierzi timpul oamenilor vorbind despre…
Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma
On March 10, they released Fedora Linux 44 Beta, the first solid opportunity for people to see what's going to be new in Fedora 44, once released sometime in April.…
LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE vs. Markdown: FAIL!
There was some enthusiasm lately regarding the newly added Markdown capabilities in LibreOffice. Oh, Markdown will bring peace on Earth! (LaTeX failed at that task long ago.) Examples: Liam Proven…
AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain
Știre: Statul român pune bonurile fiscale pe blockchain, ca ANAF să poată verifica datele direct într-un registru digital validat criptografic: Ministerul Finanțelor și Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale s-au apucat să…
Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!
Just as I thought that the worst thing that could happen to humankind and the worst possible thing in America was Donald J. Trump, wokism in Socialist California struck again!…
Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!
On YouTube, there are thousands of channels with the following characteristics: They stream music 24/7 or for 2, 3, 8, 12 hours, after which they create another live stream that…
One year later, DWW is run by the same shitheads
I know I'm banned from commenting on DistroWatch Weekly. It's been years since I was not allowed to leave even the most innocent comment there, regardless of the name used,…
I needed to vent about Calibre
On the one hand, Kovid Goyal is a hero: Calibre is the preferred e-book editor and converter on planet Earth. On the other hand, he is one of the most…
The law says you’re responsible for the snow on sidewalks. Why?
There is a thing that bothers me in “civilized countries”: if someone breaks their neck while on a public sidewalk that you don’t own, you’re the one at fault if…
Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI
There are a lot of things generative AI can be blamed for, but some people seem to take this issue personally. It also seems to me that people are not…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux
I said it before: the adoption of GNOME 3 as “the” desktop was a severe betrayal of Ubuntu’s user base. But now Canonical goes even further in insulting the intelligence…
A Big Beautiful Bullshit List
There are still Luddites on Earth, which is good news! Unfortunately, they have no power, and the overcomplexification of everything is going to continue. But yesterday I was stunned to…
On browser wars and stupid people
After having read this comment about Firefox on 9to5Linux (it starts with “Firefox has been making a history of bad decisions”), I was reminded that I can’t use only one…