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PUTIN MUST DIE!

April 3, 2022 PUTIN MUST DIE!2022-04-09T23:13:01+01:00 No Comment Russia, Ukraine

Путин должен умереть! Idea for Russia: Despite being "the father of the Korean economic miracle", General Park Chung-hee brutally suppressed protests, arrested and tortured activists, imposed censorship. In Oct. 1979,…

The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin

March 2, 2022 The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin2022-10-07T12:06:20+01:00 22 Comments apocalypse, longread, me-myself-and-I, Russia, Ukraine

As a chronic procrastinator, I started writing drafts for several blog posts, only to get muddled and never finish any. Just as I was into an XXL-sized “Explaining Putin”... the…

Soviet Winter Nostalgia

December 26, 2021 Soviet Winter Nostalgia2021-12-28T19:31:35+01:00 No Comment movies, Russia

For someone who lived in a "formerly communist" Eastern European country, hence a victim of the forced "Bolshevization" of a third of Europe, it might seem bizarre (or a sort…

No, the label Champagne hasn’t been confiscated by Russia!

July 11, 2021 No, the label Champagne hasn’t been confiscated by Russia!2022-01-04T17:16:24+01:00 No Comment law, Russia

From now on, I guess I'd prefer the Russian propaganda and check their claims rather than assuming that the Western disinformation is anything but a too hot Cold War. Vladimir…

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Giorgio de Chirico. Immagini metafisiche

Giorgio de Chirico. Immagini metafisiche

by Riccardo Dottori

Questo libro di complessa analisi e interpretazione dei dipinti di Giorgio de Chirico è unico nel suo genere, e fortunatamente anche come e-book (non necessariamente per Kindle; l’ePub costa 9,99 euro all’IBS) comprende immagini di buona…

Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? [nouvelle édition]

Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? [nouvelle édition]

by Pierre Bayard

Après avoir lu « La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres » et « L’affaire du chien des Baskerville » (lu en anglais : Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles), je suis définitivement persuadé que la rigueur…

The Eighth Detective

by Alex Pavesi

What eighth detective (or what eight detectives, in the UK edition)? You’ll understand towards the end of this unusual book which mainly consists of 7 stories, which per se are not that bad, so if one would only read the odd chapters fro…

Marseille Une ville sous influences

by Pierre Boisserie

Assommante comme histoire et très médiocre graphiquement, cette BD demeure assez instructive pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Marseille. Mais ça, seulement si le prétexte d’une balade à travers la Marseille qui engendre une discussion en…

La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres

by Pierre Bayard

J’avoue n’avoir pas encore lu « Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ? » (c’est pour bientôt), mais j’ai été séduit par « L’affaire du chien des Baskerville » (que j’ai lu en anglais : Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the…

L'homme de l'année 1989 - 16 - L'inconnu de la place tiananmen

L’homme de l’année 1989 – 16 – L’inconnu de la place tiananmen

by Jean-Pierre Pécau; Gin

Cette aberration est de la propagande pure. Je sais que cette collection n’est pas censée décrire la réalité, mais au sujet des évènements de Tiananmen, un peu plus de discernement s’imposerait.En admettant qu’il s’agisse d’un massacre…

Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber - Mais où est Kiki ? N/B

Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber – Mais où est Kiki ? N/B

by Robber

On ne peut nier ni l’effort ni le talent, mais après avoir lu la version en couleurs dans Spirou, cette version noir et blanc, complètement redessinée par rapport à celle en couleurs, ne me satisfait nullement.

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

by Sophie Hannah

I dare say it’s only with the fourth “New Poirot” that Sophie Hannah finally managed to reach a cunningness comparable to that of the Grande Dame of Golden Age’s Crime. The first three attempts were of unequal quality in my view: I rated…

Béranger on Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTubeThe situation, as I see it, is as follows: 1. I used to be a huge fan of Xfce. Not
Bob on Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTubeThat's the problem, for me, at least. I'm not excited about anything in the IT arena, lately. Fedora is tied
Béranger on Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the UglyAs I said, one of the reasons for a VPN was to unblock RAI. Unfortunately, circumventing the geo-blocking doesn't work
Bob on Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly@ Béranger I had PIA before it was purchased and immediately left due to Kape's sordid background. Currently, I use
Béranger on Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTubeHow about Fedora KDE Spin?
Bob on Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTubeI just found your blog and have to agree with you about the Void Linux developers; they are a rude,
Béranger on Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the UglyMARCH 2023: Mediaset.it blacklisted Private Internet Access (PIA).
Béranger on Relevanssi is the worst famous WordPress plugin in existence!I only used <![CDATA[]]> in a blog post when I wasn't using WordPress. I used to prefer TinyMCE, especially as:
B. Stack on Relevanssi is the worst famous WordPress plugin in existence!<p>Nested interpretable (sp?) text is complicated. Have you ever used xml? [!cdata] or something was required to allow a field
Béranger on WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shiteGeocities was better :)
nik on WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shiteOctober CMS? (Laravel?) or stick to Perl, Python systems, don't know. Good luck.
Béranger on WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shiteYeah, I'm so sick of WordPress and of everything. and another thing for visitors’ webgui. Well, what other thing? I'm
nik on WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shiteYou could check NixOS Guix or move to BSDs :) Consider a headless CMS and another thing for visitors' webgui.
GrumpyOtaku on Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?And here I was joking (or maybe just half-joking) there needed to be a fork of GTK, and one name
gicu on WordPress likes to break my site, because such software is just shiteI wish you luck! Nu stiam ce-i cu tine de nu mai scrii. Si uite de aia nu "prinde" *nix
Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: WordleI added references to Le Décodeur, with screenshots.
James Hart on The viral game that makes you feel smart: WordleQuardle means Wordle quadruple. The principles of the game remain the same--players assume a five-letter word every day, and the
Susan Lester on I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?Hahaha! Me a GNOME fan? OMG I hate it!!! As for iLinux OS it's all a matter of taste! I
Béranger on I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?I thought you were a GNOME fan. Either way, are you kidding me? The website screams “poor taste”; the screenshots
Susan Lester on I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?A must test MATE derivative is iLinux OS iLinuxos.com.