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Bypassing GoComics’ paywall

April 19, 2025 Bypassing GoComics’ paywall2025-04-19T20:42:22+01:00 No Comment comics, piracy, tips

Some two weeks ago, I noticed that introduced a paywall, something like this: you display like 14 comics, then you're asked to pay. For fuck’s sake, that’s preposterous! So I…

Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?

March 11, 2025 Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?2025-04-05T12:07:49+01:00 6 Comments comodo, Microsoft, piracy, sandboxing, security, tips, Win10, Win11

Strange things are happening: I wanted to try Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC (which is still horrendous, because it's Win11), and I learned about Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021. As…

Bypass Paywalls will never die

August 24, 2024 Bypass Paywalls will never die2024-08-28T10:18:09+01:00 8 Comments anarchy, Justice, piracy

As part of the August 23 edition of the Risky Biz News newsletter, came this news: Bypass Paywalls Clean removed: The News Media Alliance has filed a DMCA takedown notice…

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Manus doesn’t have a free tier. And it’s more expensive than anything else. They’re probably targeting business users, who might…” Apr 27, 20:34
HAL on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Perplexity, I can’t get used to it. I have it on my smartphone, but I rarely use it. It may…” Apr 27, 20:17
HAL on This is how stupid Microsoft is: “Oh, I hadn’t seen that. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know exactly, but yes, this empty folder idea seems pretty…” Apr 27, 18:06
Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “Trump did so many unbelievable things lately that I stopped mentioning them. BTW, fancy a “Trump 2028” hat? It’s only…” Apr 26, 11:29
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “I’m so freaking done with this Trump crap that I physically cringed at writing more posts on his China trade…” Apr 26, 02:05
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “I just learned that on these IoT editions, to use WSL2, one has to manually enable Hyper-V in a PowerShell…” Apr 25, 21:56
gicu on Justiția pulii și pula justiției: “Problema 1 e ca din zecile (sutele?) de contestatii una a fost aprobata. Problema 2 este ca in restul situatiilor…” Apr 25, 17:34
Béranger on Justiția pulii și pula justiției: “UPDATE: Iată că se poate! La ora la care scriu, nu am găsit la repezeală minuta, dar toată presa raportează…” Apr 25, 16:15
Sensible kek on Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu: “Să-l jupuim și să-l facem drapel!” Apr 21, 07:10
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “I forgot to clarify the 245% duty mentioned by Trump here: China faces up to a 245% tariff on imports…” Apr 18, 09:08
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Nu există bolșevism. Nu există salvare.” Apr 16, 05:30
Sensible kek on 📻 Radio Streams: “Doar un bolșevic bătrân ca tine poate crede că o să ne salveze chinezii și de oligarhii ruși și de…” Apr 16, 02:14
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Du-te pe Short Waves. E plin de Radio Beijing în diverse limbi: engleză, spaniolă, italiană, chiar și elenă.” Apr 15, 19:49
Sensible kek on 📻 Radio Streams: “Mii de streamuri și totuși nu prind Europa Liberă.” Apr 15, 19:47
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Tiny note: the exemption for electronic devices (including smartphones, computers, and other components) does not completely cancel, as thought initially,…” Apr 14, 22:49
Béranger on The suicide of the car industry: “Observer editorial for April 6, 2025: The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers…” Apr 13, 23:23
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Confusing updates regarding the UK-China relations. ● SCMP: China seeks British backing to defend international trade as Trump tariff war…” Apr 13, 22:58
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Corrections and updates to M Radio (France), now with more streams.” Apr 13, 22:29
Béranger on I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”: “I’m not impressed, mais voici 8 companii promițătoare care dezvoltă soluții AI în Europa.” Apr 13, 12:44
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Updates as comments. ● Smartphones and computers, including those coming from China, are exempt from the new tariffs imposed by…” Apr 12, 22:48
Béranger on I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”: “La folie des grandeurs IMHO: Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace. I don’t believe in shit. So far, it looks like a set…” Apr 12, 20:55
Jeo on I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”: “Stii povestea aia cu super-computerul care, intrebat fiind daca exista Dumnezeu, il trazneste pe creatorul lui si raspunde “acum exista”.…” Apr 12, 20:34
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Newsweek vs. China, sort of.” Apr 12, 12:31
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Wherever you look, you can see that China has options.” Apr 11, 16:34
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “The show must go on!” Apr 11, 11:35
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “The White House confirms that the 125% tariff on Chinese goods doesn’t include the previous 20% fentanyl-related tariff, so the…” Apr 10, 17:32
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Added some Follow-ups, after updates to It’s now 125%!” Apr 10, 12:00
zugu on Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US: “I was referring to the media, not to you.” Apr 9, 17:58
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths, originally a math teacher from Australia but now living in the UK, 🎞️Explaining the Trump…” Apr 9, 12:00
Béranger on Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US: “Hi, Captain Obvious! Of course, the idea is that every single country on the planet should buy much more from…” Apr 8, 11:35
zugu on Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US: “I like how everyone is freaking out about tariffs, and fail to see the forest for the trees. The tariffs…” Apr 8, 11:30
Sensible kek on Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US: “Am descoperit ceva semne de viață inteligentă la Contributors. Agentul Krasnov nu e pomenit, dar analiza se limitează la Europa:…” Apr 8, 07:41
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Dumbo Jumbo, on Truth Social: Yesterday, China issued Retaliatory Tariffs of 34%, on top of their already record setting Tariffs,…” Apr 7, 21:47
Béranger on Nerușinarea farmaciștilor nu are limite (și nici cea a autorităților): “To add to the list: there are antihistamines that no longer exist, so to speak. Hismanal = astemizole, discontinued in…” Apr 7, 18:38
Béranger on Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing: “I didn’t try any Llama models locally, but it’s worth noting that Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick…” Apr 7, 15:52
Béranger on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “Grok’s app for Android started rolling out in Europe on Monday, April 7. Some people have even got it one…” Apr 7, 13:20
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Trump the racketeer: “We put a big tariff on Europe. They are coming to the table; they want to talk,…” Apr 7, 11:37
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Some leaders seem to have failed to understand that Trump’s new “reciprocal” tariffs are not because of other countries’ tariffs,…” Apr 7, 00:44
Béranger on The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose): “VxKex is a set of API extensions for Windows 7 that allow some Windows 8, 8.1 and 10-exclusive applications to…” Apr 5, 12:00
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Oh. The Office of the United States Trade Representative has published “the formula” for the Reciprocal Tariff Calculations, and they…” Apr 5, 11:41
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Some more insights. ● The Economist: Ruination Day: President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc: Almost everything Mr Trump…” Apr 4, 21:27
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “I’ve added some insights on Trump’s tariffs.” Apr 3, 22:58
Béranger on Le Chat Mistral: Se iau 2-3 mazări mari, se taie în felii subțiri…: “Un alt exemplu despre cum Claude poate ajuta în privința limbii engleze (și alți boți pot!): Me: “ingredients of some…” Apr 3, 22:09
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “The current track info works again for the stations where the info is present. I removed Phoenix Country Radio (UK).” Apr 3, 20:41
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Something is broken in my radio player: the “currently playing” info isn’t shown anymore for any stream! I need to…” Apr 3, 19:39
Béranger on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: ““Ubuntu MATE is collective work made up of many people over the years.” Many of the 46 “Contributors & Special…” Apr 2, 20:59
HAL on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: “Either way, Ubuntu MATE IS Ubuntu. Whatever the desktop, the flavor, it is always Ubuntu. Even so, someone competent enough…” Apr 2, 20:46
Béranger on The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup: “Oh, now I get why people think that this move from Amazon would prevent them from removing the DRM, despite…” Apr 2, 19:54
Béranger on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “I’ve been offered Gemini 2.5 Pro for free! It seems smarter than 2.0 Flash, as it was to be expected.” Apr 1, 19:18
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Because CroonerRadio.fr is down, but the streams are fine, I replaced the thumbnails with versions that are stored elsewhere. If…” Apr 1, 17:11
Béranger on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: “On the active developers side, Linux Lite has exactly one developer. I know nothing about EndeavourOS (a couple of developers?),…” Apr 1, 15:44
Tito on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: “I am genuinely curious how many active developers and actual users (not the distro-hoppers, mind you) distros like Linux Lite,…” Apr 1, 15:04
RADU IONUT DIACONU on Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți: “Mamă, praf am fost, lipsă ochelari. Îmi cer scuze de erori, nu au fost voite. Vizavi de albaneză, iliră, dalmată……” Apr 1, 06:30
B. Stack on When a WP plugin update screws it: “I understand the frustration! Trying to use broken tools just distracts you from using the tools to talk about your…” Mar 31, 19:46
RADU IONUT DIACONU on Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți: “Buna ziua, Alexandru Nicolae se numește. Omul mi se pare decent. L-am văzut în două podcasturi răspunzând dezarmant de simplu…” Mar 31, 14:04
Alberto on Dolphin on non-KDE distros with a dark theme: the horror: “Thanks, great analysis. I fully agree with the subtitle “the horror”: trying to understand how Dolphin’s theming engine interacts with…” Mar 30, 02:06
Béranger on Nu am cu cine să votez! Voi aveți?: “România e țara pulelor belite. La 35 de ani de la Revoluție (sau Loviluție), o comisie din cadrul Secretariatului de…” Mar 28, 18:26
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “I added a note regarding Majestic Jukebox Radio (UK).” Mar 28, 17:42
Béranger on Democrația ucisă „în numele legii”: “Ah, Franța experimentează modelul României, deși Marine Le Pen chiar a fost condamnată penal, numai că decizia nu e definitivă.…” Mar 28, 15:24
Béranger on Not everyone is dumb regarding AI. But many are.: “Some people hate AI for all the wrong reasons. Here: Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks…” Mar 28, 00:17