Tag archives for idiocy - Page 4
Les squatteurs et la loi qui les protège
Il y a six semaines, j'avais écrit ce billet : I wish I weren’t born in Europe. Ce faisant, j'ai oublié de mentionner le squat, sauf dans un commentaire pour un…
May Mozilla’s UX/UI designers all die of colon cancer!
This good wish of mine has been triggered by an elementary issue called scrollbars. Of course, based on how scrollbars have changed to tiny, when not hidden, elements, I should…
RetardGPT stopped working in Firefox ESR 115: what to do
Since yesterday, ChatGPT stopped working in Firefox ESR 115. Yes, I know that ESR has been rebased to 128, but this is not a valid reason to force me to…
Disturbing reads on disturbing facts (II): America
This is a completely different topic, which was originally meant to be included in yesterday’s post; however, due to its excessive length and being completely unrelated, it got its own…
Is this neuroscientist stupid? Now with a language connection!
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?…
Quick weather update
I am waiting to be told how catastrophic floods like the ones currently in force in Europe will disappear if we all just buy electric cars and give up the…
I wish I weren’t born in Europe
This is just a bit of venting, but also a measure of the exasperation I experience: life in Europe is more and more of a dystopia. I wish this nightmare…
UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage
I'm fundamentally against UEFI, against Secure Boot, against encrypted partitions and against a number of other modern obsessions. But let's talk a bit about the way Microsoft recently broke GRUB.…
Is it IONOS, is it InnoDB, or is it me?
When I moved my WordPress blog to IONOS end-2022, I was relatively satisfied, despite a bumpy start. The previous hosting was using an older MySQL, the DB was exported as…
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 24.04, 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 99.8% would be a more accurate assessment. To…
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 S.A., 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…