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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…
Grok m-a lămurit cum funcționează de fapt frigiderele
Există o mare diferență între gândirea unui inginer electronist și cea a unui inginer frigotehnist din secolul 21, iar următoarea discuție cu Grok mi-a permis în cele din urmă să…
Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!
Nicolas Kovacs, a veteran open-source IT expert and Linux instructor, and long-time advocate of CentOS (as well as Slackware), has authored four books, beginning with CentOS 5.3 and ending with…
SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too
Me: This YT short claims that a SSD might lose information over time if unplugged. It's not like it's RAM, but still electrons move around. However, even if plugged in,…
Upscaler: upscaling the easy way
As I was browsing Flathub, it recommended Upscaler to me. Its website is proud to announce to the world that the developer of this app is a mentally insane individual:…
I tried Inbox Comics, and I liked what I saw
A reader suggested I try Inbox Comics, a free and ad-free service that would send you daily the comics of your choice from a list of over 400 (currently, 439)…
Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100
Despite my previous post Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?, in which I established that Win11 would be a better fit for my newer Acer, and…
📖 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…
E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents
I have always favored, literally for decades, the ePub file format for e-books and ranted against Amazon's various Kindle-specific e-book formats. And, oh boy, they have changed in time: from…
I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
Everyone swears by VirtualBox for Type 2 virtualization, most likely because it has always been free. But it's a complete piece of crap, and never was anything but a pain…
Ascultați Radio Moldova online!
Cu ocazia confirmării menținerii 🇲🇩 Republicii Moldova pe o traiectorie suficient de antisovietică, m-am gândit să fac o păginuță care să faciliteze ascultarea online a celor trei posturi de 📻…
Insights into the AI madness — with studies, tips (UPDATED)
Since I restored my Twitter account (almost two years after being suspended, but I still maintain that I like to see tits only when I'm supposed to see tits), my…
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…
🤖 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…
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…
The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim
A blog was originally meant to work as an online journal; social networks didn’t exist when the “weblogs” were invented. Well, let’s make this post exactly this: a report about…
Vibe coding just got cheaper
I hate vibe coding, but how I feel is irrelevant. The world is a broken hamster wheel, and it spins faster and faster. After OpenAI's Codex, there’s a new “bug…
There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions
In an unexpected post on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, I described two special, yet official editions of Windows that have some…
Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory
There was a lot of talk about this shit, and now it went live: Introducing Codex: “A cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered…
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…