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The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose)

August 14, 2024 The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose)2025-10-03T13:26:27+01:00 3 Comments idiocy, Microsoft, tips, Win7

People stopped using Windows 7 not because Microsoft ceased offering security updates; they had to do it because more and more programs that they needed suddenly started to require “Windows…

How to download full-size scans from Gallica.BnF.fr

December 26, 2020 How to download full-size scans from Gallica.BnF.fr2020-12-28T22:40:57+01:00 3 Comments tips, tricks

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

July 15, 2016 Microsoft, the keyboard repeat rate and sleeping: how to work around their idiocy2024-09-21T12:16:36+01:00 bugs, Microsoft, PC, tips

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…

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Béranger on Ideile fasciste poloneze cu privire la garanția „za butelki”: “Iată ce scrie pe FB un cetățean din Dortmund: În Germania, oamenii care lasă dozele și sticlele cu garanție în…” Jun 13, 12:37
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Turnarounds posted one more iPhone-recorded video: Lady Hear Me Tonight | The Turnarounds LIVE @ Little Lou’s (Phone Recording)…” Jun 12, 18:31
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): ““GuYi Alone” again: Being a Chinese YouTuber | My YouTube earnings, tiny life upgrades & thoughts on changing my look……” Jun 11, 22:32
Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “😻 Michael Yingling’s Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine is working again!” Jun 11, 15:59
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “They claim Ubuntu MATE isn’t really dead. Thomas Ward, on Ubuntu Discourse: Rest easy, MATE is not going away, and…” Jun 10, 14:39
Béranger on SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!: “One more verb that should have been included in the Back to using “to suggest” section: to require. As Vincent…” Jun 10, 13:38
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “10, obviously.” Jun 7, 07:53
Laurențiu on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Hi. I have a Lenovo laptop with 8g ram and Celeron cpu and I want to buy a win iot…” Jun 7, 05:33
Béranger on Not the smartest piece Euronews could have published: “Oh, there’s too much AI regulation, eh? Anthropic calls for ‘brake pedal’ before AI develops itself without human oversight: Anthropic…” Jun 5, 22:20
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Graystones video posted today: Step into a rehearsal session with The Graystones & ‪@EvanRileysings‬ – Sir Duke by ‪@steviewonder‬.…” Jun 5, 19:16
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Personally, I have the Starter Plan for a short while (before it was simply Free). I’ve always left it on…” Jun 5, 17:13
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Yes, I believe you are right. I use it more as an assistant I guess. Those tweaking options are a…” Jun 5, 11:24
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Kagi is not a translation tool. A translation tool always preserves the original style and register. The only adjustment should…” Jun 5, 10:16
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “These are the options I have in the browser: postimg.cc/XpkNHyN5” Jun 5, 08:47
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Yes, I was also referring to the fully featured Kagi translation, which I guess is included in the professional tier…” Jun 5, 08:29
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “In the Android app there’s no way to select any of these levels. It’s just: – Type: Natural, Literal. -…” Jun 4, 22:22
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Hum, really ? 🤔 It’s curious because in the browser (translate.kagi.com) I have: Basic Fast and everyday translations: ideal for…” Jun 4, 21:57
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: ““Best” is a paid feature.” Jun 4, 21:07
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “I haven’t really had any problems with the translation tool; it generally works well. If needed, if you want or…” Jun 4, 21:04
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Nope. Their translation is sometimes brilliant, but some other times completely fucked-up. Some LLMs are better at that. I still…” Jun 4, 12:09
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “I actually pay for Kagi Professional. Their translation sevice is very good once you tweak it from the settings. It…” Jun 4, 12:06
Béranger on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Nicidecum. Ringard nu are absolut nici o conotație sexuală. DEX 2009: crai: 2. Bărbat ușuratic, care se ține de chefuri,…” Jun 4, 11:53
Al Sal on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Ringard: crai bătrân.” Jun 4, 11:51
Béranger on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Asta de obicei e mai curvă și mai tânără, nu la 60 de ani. Dar poate fi.” Jun 4, 11:36
Al Sal on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Pațachină.” Jun 4, 11:33
Béranger on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Nu.” Jun 4, 11:26
Al Sal on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Sau „coțohârlă”.” Jun 4, 11:23
Béranger on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Știi că ai dreptate, țațo? Uite că nu-mi dete prin cap.” Jun 4, 09:29
Al Sal on Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI: “Pentru „rombière” nu ar merge „țață”?” Jun 4, 09:27
Alex on Erik Dubois is still on steroids: “It’s not an issue that he and people like him make such projects. The real issue is that someone is…” Jun 3, 09:09
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “💡 I just discovered that running Haruna under Debian 13 XFCE is not as simple as sudo apt install haruna.…” Jun 3, 00:05
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “I tried the released Linux Lite 8.0. It looked rather nice, with plenty of new tools. But it defaulted to…” Jun 2, 23:51
HAL on Erik Dubois is still on steroids: “Ugh, I’ll never touch stuff like that!” Jun 2, 22:16
Béranger on Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch: “Speaking of watches, in 2016 Swatch released a Roland Garros SUOZ221 watch featuring 0, 15, 30, 40 markings. Why don’t…” Jun 2, 12:14
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Sandboxing in browsers is the one decision that nobody can criticize, because it just does make sense. Web browsers are…” Jun 1, 14:15
Doojin on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “I think you are focusing on the wrong things. My point was that application-internal sandboxing is an okay security model…” Jun 1, 10:39
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Most ePub readers CANNOT EXECUTE JAVASCRIPT! This is what you don’t seem to understand. Kobo’s app and Apple’s apps can.…” Jun 1, 09:19
Doojin on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “The fact that an epub reader can execute javascript means an internal sandbox is justified. Fortunately, the internal sandbox doesn’t…” Jun 1, 06:56
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “No, ePub readers don’t need to execute anything. If you’re not Kobo or Apple, you can just ignore any JS.” Jun 1, 05:02
Doojin on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “You also don’t need to care much about sandboxing nowadays because applications like web browsers and epub readers come with…” Jun 1, 03:06
Béranger on Chess and Go channels on YouTube: “Even in chess, I dislike YouTube or Twitch personalities (I still believe they’re narcissistic), but I happened to discover Alessia…” Jun 1, 00:49
Béranger on An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty: “Young women’s looks and public behavior are not my problem, but society’s. That they dress like ultimate idiots and that…” May 31, 10:54
alecs on An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty: “It is/was merely a social construct! I think the real issue is the decline in societal incentives for maintaining respectable…” May 31, 10:42
Doojin on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “I used to obsess with computer security. I spent a lot of time on apparmor and firejail. One day, I…” May 31, 10:36
Béranger on The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle: “More than 4 years later, I was looking for a French Wordle, and the first result was wordle.louan.me: Non, mais…” May 30, 11:31
Béranger on How do you recognize a failed country, a cardboard alliance, and a civilization in decline?: “AFP supposedly asked “the NATO alliance” what can be done to improve the response to such drones. Some unnamed panty-soiling…” May 30, 11:25
Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “I forgot to add an update to this angry post: And yet, I’m using Debian 13 with XFCE. For now.” May 29, 10:42
Béranger on The umpteenth AI compromise: “It seems that using DeepSeek for everything isn’t such a great idea, judging by Gunnar Wolf’s adventures: How deep is…” May 29, 02:25
Béranger on eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!: “EU fines Temu €200m for allowing the sale of illegal products. But eMag Marketplace sells tons of counterfeit products (the…” May 28, 15:03
Béranger on Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch: “I added two mock-ups that bear a certain resemblance to the watch I saw.” May 25, 22:36
HAL on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “Well, thanks to GNOME and its team for giving us this kind of crap. When you’re trying to install something,…” May 25, 18:58
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “A new sock session, and a recap of the latest covers: • Sock Session #13: You’re No Good – Linda…” May 25, 18:06
Béranger on Grok: Kidnapping by a state is lawful everywhere: “I just learned that the concept used in Maduro’s case is called the Ker–Frisbie doctrine (Wikipedia). In brief (Google AI…” May 24, 18:46
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.5.1 was released: • Fixed Marmaduke, which was broken because of a typo. • Small changes to build.yml.” May 24, 18:27
Béranger on Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch: “The problem with these reissues is that they lack Indiglo, the one innovation that singles out Timex. Their mechanical watches…” May 24, 12:22
zugu on Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch: “I have a huge quartz watch collection – or you might call it an addiction. I’ve never been into automatic…” May 24, 12:18
0din on Dogville (2003): “I found myself rewatching Wind River (2017) and Green Book (2018) about four days ago. I always conclude that the…” May 24, 01:31
Béranger on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “I added an update on the low risk of pulling a local indexing service when installing a GNOME or KDE…” May 23, 22:26
Béranger on Dogville (2003): “It just occurred to me. Was the final talk about arrogance between the Big Man and Grace meant to symbolize…” May 23, 14:51
Béranger on Some changes in Gemini AI: “🤣 They killed ChatGPT! [r/ChatGPTPro] They just destroyed the Pro model with the new update: Uploaded 5 files, a thorough…” May 22, 14:31