Tag archives for SPECIAL
A cursory look at WPS Office
Years ago, I quite liked Kingsoft Office. I remember I have used it under Win7 and Android. Since the suite became WPS Office (from Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheets, not from “Wonderfully…
An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty
This is an essay meant to complement my controversial take on Fjord’s Palme d'Or and my other politically incorrect opinions that are scattered throughout the blog. I used WPS Office…
Palme d’Or for Mungiu’s Fjord: Cannes conned by a wily movie!
At first, I thought Cristian Mungiu had produced and directed the wrong movie. After a summary analysis, I decided that his choice was a deliberate trick and that they have…
What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
This idea might come as a shock to those who noticed that I was quite a heavy user of Kimi lately. I mostly used it for answers that involved distilling…
Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian
Since the home page of Xebian insists that this Debian blend (not derivative!), “with only a thin layer for artwork and configuration that differs from Debian,” is “based on Debian Unstable/sid,” I…
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…
ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!
It all started with a vibe-coded PyQt6 app that refused to build or to run under Windows, but it worked satisfactorily under Linux. It navigated in the archives of 15…
Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang
While I abhor OpenClaw for reasons I won’t list here, there are some advantages of it over more traditional agentic AI workflows. To oversimplify, let’s say it’s a shift from…
Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees)
I am a scribbler in the literal (not literary) sense: I need paper to organize my thoughts and to make lists or just to jot down something, even if eventually…
Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱
Via Reddit, via Hacker News: Claude Code's source code has been leaked! 🗄️src.zip Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry! Code: https://t.co/jBiMoOzt8G…
The day GoComics went bad
Having subscribed to Inbox Comics, I noticed that today, March 28, their daily mail claimed that most comics weren't updated. In the past, their system did have occasional glitches for…
How I chose to become Dumbo
Anyone remember where I left off in my blog post about Nyarch Linux? I planned to install Nyarch GNOME on my new Lenovo, using Nyarch Customize and Dash to Panel…
How acidic is your coffee?
Over the last decades, there’s been this trend of telling people that they should try eating “alkaline foods” and drink alkaline water and alkaline teas. Here in Germany, there is…
Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma
On March 10, they released Fedora Linux 44 Beta, the first solid opportunity for people to see what's going to be new in Fedora 44, once released sometime in April.…
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!…
Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?
Random musings triggered by Dedoimedo's recent Linux, product and the art of essence, a philosophic piece on the “tragic self-sabotage that hampers the potential growth and proliferation of the Linux…
SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?)
In my various rants about Linux, I leaned towards Debian, as described for instance here. After I purchased another cheap but very decent laptop, I declared that it will be…
The law says you’re responsible for the snow on sidewalks. Why?
There is a thing that bothers me in “civilized countries”: if someone breaks their neck while on a public sidewalk that you don’t own, you’re the one at fault if…
A Big Beautiful Bullshit List
There are still Luddites on Earth, which is good news! Unfortunately, they have no power, and the overcomplexification of everything is going to continue. But yesterday I was stunned to…
On browser wars and stupid people
After having read this comment about Firefox on 9to5Linux (it starts with “Firefox has been making a history of bad decisions”), I was reminded that I can’t use only one…