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The HARM mobile architecture
The ARM architecture is the future, they say. It's mostly that CISC is inefficient, and RISC lives a new life, especially since Apple’s M1 CPU. Back in the day, at…
How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel
I noticed this behavior of Webcamoid while I was testing the latest Ubuntu MATE , and I mentioned it here. At the time, I thought that the app was broken.…
The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose)
People stopped using Windows 7 not because Microsoft ceased offering security updates; they had to do it because more and more programs that they needed suddenly started to require “Windows…
Security is a joke. Networking is a joke. Experts are a joke.
I'm so tired of reading all the time about IT security issues. The tissue of our society, which is networked computing, is a Gruyère cheese; it's Achilles' heel. When it…
How to lose even when you’re right
The populace is stupid and superficial by definition. I'm not sure if 98% of people are the basis of Idiocracy, or whether would be a more accurate assessment. To the…
A random discovery about zypper, thanks to rpm and a deb package
It happens to me to discover some quirks and facts by accident. Today, something that made me question the design of zypper, a crucial openSUSE tool! Here's the full story,…
Microsoft + CloudStrike = Death
The culprit for the current global Windows outage that affected banks, airlines, hospitals, and many other services and industries since the early morning of Friday, July 19, CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor,…
Is openSUSE at crossroads?
Just when I thought that openSUSE was free from stupid corporate decisions, their main sponsor, SUSE , came with a strange request: openSUSE should “stop using the SUSE brand”! WTF…
One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1
Not because I was younger. Not because of the simplicity of both DOS and 16-bit Windows. Not because I loved a lot Borland's IDEs, with their ncurses-like Turbo Vision UI,…
SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
In the last year and half, I thought I could stop the distro-hopping, but very recently it turned out it wasn't the case. Since there are criteria and thoughts about…
Yanis and the “Zionism Über Alles” Germany
Yes, I know it's not kosher to compare Israel to Nazi Germany. But I also know that Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing since 1948 (Nakba), and of apartheid at…
Et tu, KDE? Vulnerable by design?
I never thought I'd discover such a stupid design decision in KDE. I didn't even learn about it on Planet KDE, but on KDE's Facebook public group, which I joined…
This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, together with DiEM25 and MERA25 activists, recently took part in an anti-war rally in Munich, Germany. This speech is likely to have taken place on February 17, 2024:…
Idei pe marginea cumpărării unei mașini: aspecte financiare
Această postare a apărut inițial pe Facebook, unde oricum nu sunt citit de nimeni, cum nu sunt citit nici aici. Dar nu contează, hai să mă repet și aici. Iată…
No kernel update is safe in Linux, not even an LTS one
Lately, all sorts of Linux-related sites have oohed and aahed (they more liked whined, actually) regarding a bug in kernel LTS. The bug has been reported by Debian, but it's…
How to stop the blurring of KDE’s logout/shutdown and lock screens
Voltaire's La Bégueule (1772) begins thus: “Dans ses écrits un sage Italien / Dit que le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” (The better is the enemy of the good.) Previously,…
The Human Shield mantra about Gaza
If you look at my posts tagged Israel, you'll notice how my stance has gradually changed in these 6 weeks of war in Gaza. To explain it, I'll quote a…
Les Français et les Suisses, parmi les plus débiles Européens
L'énigme L'autre jour, ou plus exactement le 8 novembre, sur le groupe FB Les Amis de la bande dessinée, le groupe !, Jean Brouillard publie l'épisode « Jean Richard enquête » paru dans…
Some more thoughts about Palestine
Analysts, journalists, TV hosts, almost everyone mainstream in Europe has now decided that whoever objects to Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza must be an adept of one or more of…
I can hear the sound of money
I hate writing so negatively about so many things, but it just so happens that people are stupid, evil, or both. In this particular case it's about health, patents, slowness…