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Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies
① Someone felt contemplative... I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch…
Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE
This post is an attempt to summarize my experiences and adventures with Linux from the last two or three weeks. Before I finalized this post, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS had been…
George Yeo and Shaun Rein talking about China and the US
Yong-Boon Yeo, aka George Yeo Yong-Boon, aka George Yeo, was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore between August 2004 and May 2011 (Wikipedia). Previously, he was Minister for Trade and…
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!…
Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend
There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…
Operation ‘Emperor of the World’
The shit-orange infused Monroe Doctrine, dubbed “Donroe Doctrine,” was not invented in the last couple of days. The term that appeared on a January 2025 cover of The New York…
I’m literally sick of this much AI
I started to write this blog post on Dec. 30, being triggered by one too many proofs of AI madness. Meanwhile, I found one more video to discuss, so I'm…
SJVN and his dogs got soft-headed
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is possibly the most famous business and technology journalist ever. I used to read him in BYTE and PC Magazine in the heyday of the PC. Lately,…
SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian
① On Sept. 21, I said that Linux will soon be history for me. ② On Oct. 13, I found more proofs that Linux has become a joke. ③ On…
SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!
In my previous post, I ended a sentence like this: “the first documentary I’m going to suggest you watch.” Later, I suddenly asked myself: why did I use this construct?…
📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…
No, this blog wasn’t hijacked. This comes from the author of 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits. But this is a public service to those…
One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton
I’m bored to death by such pieces of crap: 98 minutes of chit-chatting. As if life weren’t already too short! AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The…
😾 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…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
Insights into the AI madness — with studies, tips (UPDATED)
Since I restored my Twitter account (almost two years after being suspended, but I still maintain that I like to see tits only when I'm supposed to see tits), my…
The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!
The recently released Amazon Kiro, even if it's just a preview, is the latest shit in AI-assisted software development. I happened to download it while it was still possible (now…
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…
Dr. Martin Jan Stránský, D-zeu, AI și apocalipsa
There is also an English version of this interview: 📰 Exclusive Q Magazine. Dr. Martin Jan Stránský, neurologist, author of the book “The Rise and Fall of the Human Mind”:…
Goșu despre războiul ce va să vie
Nu știu cum se face că am aflat despre emisiunea „În fața ta” din 8 martie de-abia pe 15 martie. De fapt, știu. Nu m-am uitat nici pe site, nici…
Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs
I had a strange experience with Claude yesterday, and it made me reanalyze the reliability and the practical availability of the main AI chatbots freely available online. It’s by no…