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While I was looking away, Italy became fascist

October 19, 2026 While I was looking away, Italy became fascist2026-10-19T02:40:43+01:00 2 Comments apocalypse, Italy

Sì, davvero. The Italian government has set a 30% cap on foreign students in first-grade classes in elementary and secondary schools, effective starting with the 2027/2028 school year! Google’s AI…

Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I don’t trust MX keyboards these days. MX Keys did not impress me when I touched it.” Oct 20, 02:43
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “MX Keys Mini or MX Mechanical Performance Mini.” Oct 20, 02:40
Béranger on Why must Debian be the only distro that works?: “A few words after using Fedora 45 KDE on the old Acer.” Oct 20, 02:00
Béranger on It’s time we forgot that France exists—even our entire civilization: “Aïe, toutes les bonnes gens… Europe 1 : Éric Zemmour réagit aux pillages à Paris : “Ces gens-là doivent être déchus de…” Oct 20, 01:39
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Me no like them, after so many years of using laptops. Heck, the Logitech K740 has laptop-like keys!” Oct 19, 15:24
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Ok, ok, what’s wrong with full height keys?! 😛” Oct 19, 15:22
Béranger on While I was looking away, Italy became fascist: “In a certain sense, it was well-meaning. It’s difficult to teach a highly mixed classroom. But even if pupils of…” Oct 19, 13:39
theodor on While I was looking away, Italy became fascist: “I think it’s a well-meaning law, but what’s a bit odd is that discriminates against other EU citizenships. I thought…” Oct 19, 11:07
ConEst on Why must Debian be the only distro that works?: “I predict just like dedoimedo joined the darkside with a macbook, Ludditus would join the same with Windows 11 Pro…” Oct 19, 05:55
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Sorry for the delayed reply, I was offline in weekend. How are its “Silk” keys? I hope they’re not mushier…” Oct 19, 05:32
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I DO NOT WANT FULL-HEIGHT KEYS! When my wife’s keyboard breaks, I’ll consider recommending one to her.” Oct 19, 05:29
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Well, if you want a wired keyboard, the Logitech G413 TKL might be worth considering: standard layout, quiet switches, TKL,…” Oct 19, 05:28
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “There are at least 2 Bluetooth mice that use an AA battery and have a decent DPI. 1. Genius GX…” Oct 18, 21:01
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “UPDATE 4 on the battery of my M916-STD-1K: in the end, it took it more than 8 days of intensive…” Oct 18, 17:25
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Cherry MX, 1000Hz, 1ms: what’s so special about them? Cherry MX is used by many others. As for such shit…” Oct 17, 10:16
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Over my dead body! I’m done with mechanical keyboards: very pleasant at first sight, but very annoying in the medium-to-long…” Oct 17, 10:14
zugu on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Also, check out MechanicalKeyboards.com Ducky ones are especially well regarded.” Oct 17, 08:44
zugu on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I absolutely love Cooler Master keyboards. My Quickfire XTI (Cherry MX Brown) is well over 10 years old now and…” Oct 17, 08:42
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Unrelated talk: my wife is quite happy with this cheap ISY IGK-3000-1 Rubberdome Gaming Tastatur. It has a deep, guided…” Oct 16, 15:30
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Everything branded as SILENT, especially mice but also keyboards, is A DEFINITE NO-GO! They are COMPLETELY UNUSABLE to me! NO,…” Oct 16, 14:51
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Right now I’m using a Keychron V3 Ultra with brown switches and it feels good, minus the stupid small horizontal…” Oct 16, 14:44
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “POST-UPDATE UPDATE: While I was listening to an Internet radio on Kubuntu 26.10, I was stupefied to see it disconnect…” Oct 16, 00:11
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “26.10 post-release update!” Oct 15, 20:48
Béranger on Now I am even more perplexed!: “Here’s a grey market I didn’t know about! It’s always useful to gain more knowledge 🙂 Thx. Unfortunately, in a…” Oct 15, 20:14
Zack on Now I am even more perplexed!: “I got it from kinguin, a personal subscription code, not a shared one, yes. It’s the only time I’ve ever…” Oct 15, 20:09
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “Some more fun: ❶ There will be no Linux Mint 23, but 27. Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” will be based…” Oct 14, 21:15
HAL on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “In an ideal world, yes, but derivative distributions are more practical, sexy, and more complete, with useful tools for the…” Oct 14, 17:03
Béranger on La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas: “De ce adjectivul „binecuvântat” se scrie într-un singur cuvânt, dar adjectivele „binecunoscut” și „binecrescut” sunt impuse de DOOM în formele…” Oct 14, 16:52
Béranger on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “No.” Oct 14, 08:35
Reverie72 on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “can you test mx-linux fluxbox version?” Oct 14, 07:15
Béranger on La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas: “Corect. Dar iată cum DOOM 3 face din decadă un deceniu: decadă s. f., g.-d. art. decadei; pl. decade (decada…” Oct 12, 23:59
Aldus on La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas: “Eu m-aș lua de academicieni și pe motivul că, alături de „căpșuni” ca plural la „căpșună”, au introdus „cireși” ca…” Oct 12, 23:56
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “UPDATE 3 regarding the battery levels of my 2nd Redragon mouse (M916-STD-1K): while it still looks like a calibration issue,…” Oct 12, 23:12
Béranger on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “Ideally, everyone should be using Debian, not a derivative of it. Unfortunately, Debian has these flaws: – Installing from a…” Oct 12, 19:58
HAL on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “I didn’t know about lazytime, but noatime is always on my Linux. if you want to break Debian, use MX!…” Oct 12, 19:11
Béranger on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “Some more observations regarding my recent interactions with chatbots: – ChatGPT behaved like a complete retard just today. – Gemini…” Oct 12, 15:56
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “simplewall is what people should actually use instead of COMODO Firewall, especially if they don’t use any antivirus (I still…” Oct 10, 23:29
Béranger on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “I am just writing a post about this. Don’t spoil the surprise. I started the post 2 days ago, but…” Oct 10, 20:37
zugu on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “Since we’re talking vibecoding, someone just vibecoded the entire Adobe Suite in Rust. And he’s also gonna do Microsoft Office.” Oct 10, 20:36
Béranger on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “I never cared about such shit, but thanks for the correction.” Oct 10, 20:29
zugu on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “Hugh Howey was actually quite popular before the Silo TV show, “Wool” was one of the first self-publishing success stories…” Oct 10, 20:28
Béranger on Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript): “Ventoy 1.1.18: “6. Fix Fedora 45 beta boot issue.”” Oct 10, 10:26
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “An update on my second Redragon mouse: frankly, I’m not satisfied! The first mouse is much better! M916-LIT-1K has a…” Oct 8, 22:47
Béranger on I quickly tested Manus AI: I guess it has potential: “Oh, fuck! Manus 2.0 is the new life of Manus! Is Manus 2.0 worth it? Perplexity answered!” Oct 8, 15:50
Béranger on Quick Luddite Notes at 70 notes!: “100 notes!” Oct 7, 18:51
Camil on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “„Romanians are the only people on Earth to have more than 90% of the population writing on computers using the…” Oct 7, 06:10
Béranger on Now I am even more perplexed!: “Five months ago, Gemini helped me repair a washing machine! And I didn’t know what Nemotron 3 is, either! I’m…” Oct 6, 18:37
Zack on Now I am even more perplexed!: “In the spring of this year, I bought an annual Pro subscription to Perplexity for less than 5 euros on…” Oct 6, 17:19
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser 3.1.1: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!: “For the fun of it: 💬🕵️‍♂️ Calvin’s “Tracer Bullet” and “Tracer Bullet Returns”.” Oct 6, 14:50
Arqam on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “And there is one more app… https://github.com/xapp-project/velocitty” Oct 6, 02:51
HAL on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “For now, I’m mostly using Qwen for general use. It seems to be more or less okay. But I don’t…” Oct 5, 20:57
Béranger on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “$100 + Sales Tax or VAT. But as long as it’s not that bad… How can it be used for…” Oct 5, 17:03
shiggydiggy on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “I’m actually very happy with Grok, both for general purpose questions, deep research (it is the best at browsing the…” Oct 5, 16:59
Béranger on Changes to Qwen I failed to notice: “More changes I noticed when using the Qwen app for Android: — On startup, Qwen Studio (ai.qwenlm.chat.android, version 2.10.0) claimed…” Oct 5, 02:00
Béranger on Linux is still booting up in 1980: ““Fedora Linux 45 replaces the legacy in-kernel console with kmscon, bringing smooth rendering, better Unicode/font support, and enhanced system stability.”…” Oct 4, 19:36
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser 3 is here!: “Version 3.1.1 was released. Details in this post: ComicStripBrowser 3.1.1: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!” Oct 4, 02:31
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “🎸 The kids from The Graystones are doing pretty well (knock on wood)” Oct 3, 20:03
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Toto – Georgy Porgy… cover by The Graystones and Evan Riley, live on August 21, with Izzy as vocalist! Evan…” Oct 3, 15:29
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “BT is the worst protocol ever, but for mice it’s much more useful than the traditional wireless one. ON LAPTOPS.” Oct 1, 18:08
zugu on LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?: “I just like experimenting, especially with obliterated models, that’s why I run them locally.” Oct 1, 17:49