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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…
Învățăturile lui Nea Guță Basarab către părinții de adolescenți
Știu că visez frumos când spun că „soluția este educația, nu cenzura”, dar cred cu tărie că cenzura nu este o soluție pentru nici o problemă. Simțul critic sau spiritul…
Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?
Strange things are happening: I wanted to try Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC (which is still horrendous, because it's Win11), and I learned about Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021. As…
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)…
🤖 How to properly use AI as a software developer: through its API
Why, indeed, you shouldn’t use an AI chatbot to write non-open-source software, bar some code snippets and other minor adjustments, but people do it—with or without their employer's knowledge. It’s…
From column to nushell: not what I expected
The former, column, is a utility from the bsdextrautils package, whereas the latter is a shell written in Rust. There is something they have in common: they both provide nicely…
DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)
I am banned from commenting on DWW for years, and I don't remember exactly why. I don't remember to have had any interaction with Jesse Smith, but Ladislav Bodnar didn't…
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…
RetardGPT stopped working in Firefox ESR 115: what to do
Since yesterday, ChatGPT stopped working in Firefox ESR 115. Yes, I know that ESR has been rebased to 128, but this is not a valid reason to force me to…
How to download full-size scans from Gallica.BnF.fr
Online since 1997, Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France) and its partners. Among the 4 million available documents, some are scanned…
Microsoft, the keyboard repeat rate and sleeping: how to work around their idiocy
Some laptop keyboards have physical defaults that are so appropriate that there is no need to adjust the repeat rate—Microsoft's keyboard driver's defaults and the keyboard are offering a good…