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😾 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 Pro. Now, of course, the real information is that I should head to and see…
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 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…
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)…
🤖 The biggest European IA conference nobody cares about
I’m not entirely sure whether what the title says is what I believe, but the fact is that El Presidente Macron El Primero wants to make France a big name…
🤖 AI: from LLMs to Enslavement ● ChatGPT lies about its Search!
When I wrote my previous post about AI, triggered by DeepSeek’s success, I did touch most aspects that I considered relevant for the current AI bubble, centered on LLMs and…
Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself
Initially, I wanted to write a long and complex feature on the generative AI engines, only to realize, as time was passing by, that such a task was becoming increasingly…
Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări)
Răcit fiind, păduri nu pot cutreiera, și nici concentrațiune prea multă nu am a dezvolta. Dar pentru că ce am de combătut a apărut pe un blog, mi-am zis să…
From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journey
This is going to look like a post using twisted logic to justify an illogical decision. But humans are not guided exclusively by what we love to call reason; they're…
Dolphin on non-KDE distros with a dark theme: the horror
While being lately into KDE, I always acknowledged that any non-GNOME-based desktop environment is perfectly usable. Two “no-go” elements: it shouldn't use Files, the dumbified version of Nautilus that makes…
How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel
I noticed this behavior of Webcamoid while I was testing the latest Ubuntu MATE , and I mentioned it here. At the time, I thought that the app was broken.…