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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?…
Comics Kingdom Easy Browser
This is the sibling of the web version of the Comic Strip Browser for GoComics, which needed a counterpart for ComicsKingdom.com, which hosts the comics syndicated through King Features Syndicate,…
Comic Strip Browser in your browser!
Even myself, a huge fan of local, standalone apps, I have to admit that nowadays almost everything is a web app. And the Comic Strip Browser app, a PyQt6 software…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.3: new strips!
I released two new versions of my Comic Strip Browser one after another the same day. That's because 1.1.2 added 6 new strips, but 1.1.3 had to remove an older…
A €20 Linux tax: cui et quantum prodest?
After 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits and Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke, the post 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu…
📖 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…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.1: new features and new bugs!
Exactly three months ago, I wrote The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app! It was meant to introduce a PyQt6 Linux app for browsing a selection of…
😾 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…
How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in a nutshell Founded in 2001, when Putin didn't seem such an ogre, with two official languages—Chinese and Russian—the SCO included as members, alongside China…
Reforma Pilonilor II-III-IV: un furt marca Bolojan, nu OECD
Inițial, tovarășul Bolojan a invocat „cerințele OECD, în care vrem să intrăm”, pentru a justifica reforma care limitează dreptul de a retrage banii din Pilonul II de pensii private obligatorii.…
Dan, căpitan de plai: președintele „umpic” simpatizant legionar
Nu-l urmăresc prea des pe Mircea Badea, însă tocmai am făcut-o. Dumnezeul ateilor mi-a dat un bobârnac, și-i mulțumesc. Nu am prins începutul emisiunii, dar văzând ce am văzut, am…
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…
🤖 Gemini CLI is a hit-and-miss
The other day, I stumbled over this news: Google releases Gemini CLI with free Gemini 2.5 Pro. Now, of course, the real information is that I should head to github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli…
Comentarii grafomaniace pe alt blog
Pre când cetățeanul portocaliu al lumii învârtea minciunile întru amăgirea persanilor ceia, ca să nu-și dea seama de atacul TikTok asupra unor instalații nucleare capabile să producă 60% U-235, peste…
Grim book 1 — a review like no other!
Following my previous post “The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim,” I’ve received a complimentary evaluation copy of the book “Grim Begins: The Hero’s Journey of a Russian…
The zombified Claude Explains, and more Anthropic shit
When Claude Explains, then it doesn't anymore! I’m not sure when was it that Anthropic launched its Claude Explains sort of blog, but between June 3 and 5 every single…
Bypassing GoComics’ paywall
Some two weeks ago, I noticed that GoComics.com 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…
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…
Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing
I never thought I’d be doing that, especially as it doesn’t make sense on a €400 laptop that lacks a proper GPU and VRAM: i3-1215U with Intel graphics (ADL GT2)…