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This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis

March 1, 2024 This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis2024-03-01T03:12:42+01:00 2 Comments apocalypse, Germany, idiocy, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Varoufakis, YouTube

Yanis Varoufakis, together with DiEM25 and MERA25 activists, recently took part in an anti-war rally in Munich, Germany. This speech is likely to have taken place on February 17, 2024:…

I decided to ignore the upcoming Apocalypse—life is too short as it is

February 24, 2024 I decided to ignore the upcoming Apocalypse—life is too short as it is2025-02-09T01:03:13+01:00 5 Comments apocalypse, China, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, YouTube

This is not the first time I promise myself to stop writing about politics and whatever I believe to be completely wrong in the society. This time, I hope, I'll…

Is an armistice in Ukraine still possible?

December 5, 2023 Is an armistice in Ukraine still possible?2023-12-05T18:52:51+01:00 No Comment apocalypse, Russia, Ukraine

If you’ve been following the news from Ukraine, the situation sucks big time: Zelenskiy bypasses General Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, by contacting his subordinates directly,…

Some more thoughts about Palestine

November 13, 2023 Some more thoughts about Palestine2023-11-13T19:38:13+01:00 1 Comment apocalypse, idiocy, Israel, Ukraine

Analysts, journalists, TV hosts, almost everyone mainstream in Europe has now decided that whoever objects to Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza must be an adept of one or more of…

PUTIN MUST DIE!

April 3, 2022 PUTIN MUST DIE!2022-04-09T23:13:01+01:00 No Comment Russia, Ukraine

Путин должен умереть! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BozvLXeEnPw Idea for Russia: Despite being "the father of the Korean economic miracle", General Park Chung-hee brutally suppressed protests, arrested and tortured activists, imposed censorship. In Oct.…

The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin

March 2, 2022 The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin2022-10-07T12:06:20+01:00 24 Comments apocalypse, longread, Russia, Ukraine

As a chronic procrastinator, I started writing drafts for several blog posts, only to get muddled and never finish any. Just as I was into an XXL-sized “Explaining Putin”... the…

Garknot444 on Changes to Qwen I failed to notice: “maaan that’s crazy… I hope they’re not making it fully prised like SlopGPT and others 🙁” Sep 24, 06:02
Greimas (I really should create that email domain ;-) on Quick Luddite Notes at 70 notes!: “This is very cool. It’s also lightning fast on mobile, because no crap. Have a cigar!” Sep 23, 07:47
Béranger on From whisper to whisper.cpp: “So far, I’ve been using whisper.cpp with a Whisper model. But I noticed parakeet-cli.exe, so I inferred that it can…” Sep 22, 22:38
Béranger on Rughiniș nu crede în apocalipsa AI: “Extras din Lucian Davidescu: Pe scurt: un model chinezesc sau unul foarte ieftin poate face treabă proastă la fel de…” Sep 22, 21:59
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “Another Chinese female vlogger: Summer Rain. “30 and alone.” In “I Interviewed for 6 Jobs in One Day. They All…” Sep 20, 15:50
Béranger on Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall: “I also tested DESERT_5.5.1_26.04_LTS_amd64.iso some time ago, but I kept forgetting to mention it. It has improved. More polish, fewer…” Sep 19, 02:17
Béranger on Did AI kill us yet?: “This idiot of Geoffrey Hinton, on CNN, keeps believing in superintelligence and in a conscious AI that would kill us…” Sep 18, 21:58
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Graystones with Evan Riley and J8KE: Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd cover. Recorded in August. Officially Sock…” Sep 18, 21:20
Béranger on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “I will personally make sure xorg will keep working in the future, even on GTK5 which will drop support for…” Sep 18, 16:16
Samueru-sama on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “Hi @Béranger I just added support for even older kernels, just like we already implement execve in userland to fix…” Sep 18, 13:34
Béranger on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “2014 is not old enough. Try 2006-2008. Try Debian 4.0. Try Slackware 96. You LITERALLY CANNOT PATCH EVERYTHING, dammit! Stop…” Sep 17, 15:17
Samueru-sama on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “They WOULD NOT WORK ON A VERY OLD DISTRO The FAQ already has several examples showing this. When new apps…” Sep 17, 15:14
Béranger on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “For some reason I can’t reply to your comment so I will write again here. The reason is that you…” Sep 17, 15:06
Samueru-sama on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “Sorry, but this was a retarded question. This is not how compatibility works. It’s always forward, not backward. “Backward compatibility”…” Sep 17, 14:56
Béranger on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “Is windows binary compat actually that good? Will a binary built in windows 11 actually work on windows 8 always…” Sep 17, 14:16
Samueru-sama on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “Thanks. If a chatbot that read documents on several solutions to this problem conflated what others did with what you…” Sep 17, 14:09
Béranger on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “Thanks. If a chatbot that read documents on several solutions to this problem conflated what others did with what you…” Sep 17, 12:52
Samueru-sama on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “Hi, I’m the creator of Anylinux-AppImages and I want to leave some corrections: Reading all this can be overwhelming It…” Sep 17, 10:08
Béranger on ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?: “Follow-up: ✍️ LanguageTool alternatives: season finale.” Sep 17, 04:55
Reverie72 on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “From all Xapp only two apps I successfully installed on Debian Trixie with Cinnamon: Clockenstein and Xepub. Maybe my skill…” Sep 17, 02:22
santosh on Anylinux AppImages—or why Windows is superior to Linux: “True. I run ClockX (analog desktop clock) on Windows which was apparently last recompiled ages back and still runs on…” Sep 16, 07:39
Béranger on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “LibreOffice should be installed from the official site. But some organizations might prefer stale, stable bugs. 🤷” Sep 15, 18:51
santosh on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “Seen this across the entire FOSS world sadly. Devs start projects, get them to a half-baked state, sometimes even almost…” Sep 15, 18:06
HAL on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “Way too many apps, three-quarters of which are useless. Only 2 or 3 might be of interest. Clem is spreading…” Sep 15, 17:54
Béranger on An experiment in antiquated blogging: “The Quick Luddite Notes reached 40 entries.” Sep 15, 15:14
Arqam on AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples): “See Anylinux AppImages.” Sep 13, 09:01
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Pink Floyd “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” cover by J8KE (12) on Santa Monica Beach.” Sep 12, 02:12
Béranger on An experiment in antiquated blogging: “The Quick Luddite Notes reached 30 entries.” Sep 12, 01:17
Béranger on Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?: “DWW has some retarded readers: They will have AI in the Linux kernel anyway!” Sep 8, 00:37
maya on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “There’s actually no information about that connection, and it actually surprised me. I haven’t tried looking for this information on…” Sep 7, 15:27
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “Savo Đorojević: The Politics of Nolan’s Odyssey: The Angel of History Looks at Troy. The original version: Politika Nolanove Odiseje:…” Sep 5, 21:29
HAL on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “I don’t know, maybe or maybe not, with the modifications (the improvements 😉) made. I was simply responding in relation…” Sep 4, 23:30
Béranger on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “So it would also take 10 GB of RAM on a 16 GB machine?” Sep 4, 22:49
HAL on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “LibreWolf instead. It follows Firefox precisely and is released just a few days after it. It is Firefox, except there…” Sep 4, 22:48
ConEst on Bypass Paywalls Clean, revisited: “It’s been a huge reason as to why I’m not able to move away from Firefox on Android. 🥲 Zapper…” Sep 4, 20:40
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Izzy is back! 🎉 The Graystones are live on Santana Row: Elton John Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On…” Sep 4, 20:28
Béranger on Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux: “I forgot that cpupower-gui covers both: the governor’s power policy and the power profile.” Sep 3, 21:34
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “I rescinded my advice on theming Qt5 and Qt6 apps under XFCE: do not install qt5ct or qt6ct unless you…” Sep 3, 21:19
Béranger on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “To which Firefox version does Waterfox 6.7.1.1 correspond? This lack of transparency is annoying. Debian 13 is still on Firefox…” Sep 3, 14:29
maya on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “Use Waterfox !!” Sep 3, 14:20
Béranger on ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?: “Finally, an “18. Epilogue?”” Sep 3, 12:13
Béranger on ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?: “Added “17. A late and final warning” (all correctors suck).” Sep 3, 02:11
Cristóbal on Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?: “GROMACS enables some cool farewells, you may read them on their source code coolstuff.cpp Window Maker contains 8 themes with…” Sep 1, 17:08
Béranger on Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?: “Offensive molecular dynamics simulation and offensive Window Maker themes?! 😮” Sep 1, 16:21
Cristóbal on Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?: “You may like to know that Gentoo still has the “offensive” USE flag. Indeed, within a recent install, the following…” Sep 1, 16:16
HAL on Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?: “Uh, Antoine Le Gonidec talking about fascism regarding AI? 😱 “fascist-backed technology”, “faced with fascism”… This gentleman is scary.” Sep 1, 15:08
Rick on ComicStripBrowser 3 is here!: “Thank you so much for this! You’re a freakin’ genius! However, I completely overdid it and got my ip address…” Sep 1, 07:43
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 3.0.0 was released. Details and updates in comments to this post: ComicStripBrowser 3 is here!” Aug 31, 14:23
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “More from Mia chen: What “Typical” Nightlife Looks Like for a Single Woman in China (Not What You Think) (12:16)…” Aug 31, 12:41
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “What about the bug in the released 26.04.1, which is actually a regression, because I saw it magically fixed back…” Aug 30, 21:31
HAL on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “The other day, I gave a quick try at a development ISO of Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stinking Stonking Stingray’, and it…” Aug 30, 21:23
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “My first Mutter-cum-Wayland bug is well alive in this collection of bugs that is ubuntu-26.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso! The screenshots of windows (not…” Aug 30, 20:48
Béranger on Odyssey Linux—not quite for me: “I fucking mentioned the graphical front-ends for xbps and runit, the control center, etc. With screenshots. And links to the…” Aug 30, 17:20
Mark on Odyssey Linux—not quite for me: “You’re judging a distro by its theme. That’s the whole post. I found this while googling, curious about why nobody…” Aug 30, 17:16
B. Stack on Dear Alice, why is macOS designed so stupidly?: “Thanks for explaining that! I’ve seen those, and obviously inferred some of reasoning for those files (and how unimportant they…” Aug 29, 04:34
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “I disagree that The Odyssey isn’t about Odysseus and that it’s about Sinon or what his presence speaks of (Spectacles,…” Aug 27, 19:04
Béranger on 8 reads on AI and Linux on the Small and Mainstream Web: “🌟 Updates on Debian and AI: – Raphaël Hertzog: Debian’s General Resolution on AI and LLM – Anarcat: A more…” Aug 26, 23:01
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “I am glad that someone finally saw in Nolan’s movie what had to be seen beyond the myth: the message.…” Aug 26, 18:52
Béranger on The miracle of the French subjunctive: “Mais je connais Ed Zitron. J’ai mentionné 5 de ses articles en janvier (après Towards the end of the year).…” Aug 26, 15:59
Greimas on The miracle of the French subjunctive: “Lis-moi ça. Je te préviens, c’est long. Ce mec est un graphomane pur et dur, un vrai, qui te pond…” Aug 26, 15:56