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Pangram: The Atlantic’s Vauhini Vara is a complete retard

October 14, 2026 Pangram: The Atlantic’s Vauhini Vara is a complete retard2026-10-14T19:56:40+01:00 No Comment AI, idiocy, writing

The mediocre piece of fiction discussed by Vauhini Vara—a writer herself, but mostly a journalist for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine—might as well be…

Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?

October 7, 2026 Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?2026-10-15T15:21:12+01:00 5 Comments AI, apps, Claude, Linux, longread, vibecoding, Win10, Win11, writing

Hugh Howey is the author of the Silo Saga (Wool, Shift, and Dust), the science fiction series Silo (Apple TV) is based on. Not such a huge author until Apple…

✍️ LanguageTool alternatives: season finale

September 17, 2026 ✍️ LanguageTool alternatives: season finale2026-09-17T04:53:05+01:00 No Comment AI, languages, longread, SPECIAL, tips, writing

I ended my previous post in this series, ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?, with a half-hearted epilogue that included the discovery of the fact that LanguageTool…

✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?

August 26, 2026 ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?2026-09-08T12:44:32+01:00 3 Comments AI, languages, longread, SPECIAL, tips, writing

I started this post about ten days ago and posted an initial version on August 16. Meanwhile, I explored a few other solutions and tested the ones I initially considered…

Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees)

April 5, 2026 Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees)2026-04-05T22:08:45+01:00 5 Comments SPECIAL, tips, writing

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…

AI and more on the Japanese note.com

February 16, 2026 AI and more on the Japanese note.com2026-02-16T16:01:45+01:00 1 Comment AI, Claude, Gemini, Google, Japan, NotebookLM, writing

I just discovered note, a popular Japanese blogging and content-sharing platform that allows users to create and publish articles, entire blogs, illustrations, photos, and videos. While in some regards it…

HAL on Why must Debian be the only distro that works?: “Let morons prefer CachyOS, Mint, and MX Linux. You’re exaggerating a bit, though. I’m speaking for MX, at least the…” Oct 20, 19:20
Béranger on It’s time we forgot that France exists—even our entire civilization: “🇫🇷💥 A Romanian intellectual about the situation in France — Text in Romanian, but automated translations should be intelligible.” Oct 20, 17:12
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I don’t trust MX keyboards these days. MX Keys did not impress me when I touched it.” Oct 20, 02:43
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “MX Keys Mini or MX Mechanical Performance Mini.” Oct 20, 02:40
Béranger on Why must Debian be the only distro that works?: “A few words after using Fedora 45 KDE on the old Acer.” Oct 20, 02:00
Béranger on It’s time we forgot that France exists—even our entire civilization: “Aïe, toutes les bonnes gens… Europe 1 : Éric Zemmour réagit aux pillages à Paris : “Ces gens-là doivent être déchus de…” Oct 20, 01:39
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Me no like them, after so many years of using laptops. Heck, the Logitech K740 has laptop-like keys!” Oct 19, 15:24
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Ok, ok, what’s wrong with full height keys?! 😛” Oct 19, 15:22
Béranger on While I was looking away, Italy became fascist: “In a certain sense, it was well-meaning. It’s difficult to teach a highly mixed classroom. But even if pupils of…” Oct 19, 13:39
theodor on While I was looking away, Italy became fascist: “I think it’s a well-meaning law, but what’s a bit odd is that discriminates against other EU citizenships. I thought…” Oct 19, 11:07
ConEst on Why must Debian be the only distro that works?: “I predict just like dedoimedo joined the darkside with a macbook, Ludditus would join the same with Windows 11 Pro…” Oct 19, 05:55
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Sorry for the delayed reply, I was offline in weekend. How are its “Silk” keys? I hope they’re not mushier…” Oct 19, 05:32
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I DO NOT WANT FULL-HEIGHT KEYS! When my wife’s keyboard breaks, I’ll consider recommending one to her.” Oct 19, 05:29
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Well, if you want a wired keyboard, the Logitech G413 TKL might be worth considering: standard layout, quiet switches, TKL,…” Oct 19, 05:28
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “There are at least 2 Bluetooth mice that use an AA battery and have a decent DPI. 1. Genius GX…” Oct 18, 21:01
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “UPDATE 4 on the battery of my M916-STD-1K: in the end, it took it more than 8 days of intensive…” Oct 18, 17:25
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Cherry MX, 1000Hz, 1ms: what’s so special about them? Cherry MX is used by many others. As for such shit…” Oct 17, 10:16
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Over my dead body! I’m done with mechanical keyboards: very pleasant at first sight, but very annoying in the medium-to-long…” Oct 17, 10:14
zugu on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Also, check out MechanicalKeyboards.com Ducky ones are especially well regarded.” Oct 17, 08:44
zugu on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “I absolutely love Cooler Master keyboards. My Quickfire XTI (Cherry MX Brown) is well over 10 years old now and…” Oct 17, 08:42
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Unrelated talk: my wife is quite happy with this cheap ISY IGK-3000-1 Rubberdome Gaming Tastatur. It has a deep, guided…” Oct 16, 15:30
Béranger on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Everything branded as SILENT, especially mice but also keyboards, is A DEFINITE NO-GO! They are COMPLETELY UNUSABLE to me! NO,…” Oct 16, 14:51
Camil on The most practical keyboards are… not the mechanical ones!: “Right now I’m using a Keychron V3 Ultra with brown switches and it feels good, minus the stupid small horizontal…” Oct 16, 14:44
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “POST-UPDATE UPDATE: While I was listening to an Internet radio on Kubuntu 26.10, I was stupefied to see it disconnect…” Oct 16, 00:11
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “26.10 post-release update!” Oct 15, 20:48
Béranger on Now I am even more perplexed!: “Here’s a grey market I didn’t know about! It’s always useful to gain more knowledge 🙂 Thx. Unfortunately, in a…” Oct 15, 20:14
Zack on Now I am even more perplexed!: “I got it from kinguin, a personal subscription code, not a shared one, yes. It’s the only time I’ve ever…” Oct 15, 20:09
Béranger on Tiny update regarding Ubuntu 26.10 flavors—Post-release update!: “Some more fun: ❶ There will be no Linux Mint 23, but 27. Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” will be based…” Oct 14, 21:15
HAL on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “In an ideal world, yes, but derivative distributions are more practical, sexy, and more complete, with useful tools for the…” Oct 14, 17:03
Béranger on La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas: “De ce adjectivul „binecuvântat” se scrie într-un singur cuvânt, dar adjectivele „binecunoscut” și „binecrescut” sunt impuse de DOOM în formele…” Oct 14, 16:52
Béranger on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “No.” Oct 14, 08:35
Reverie72 on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “can you test mx-linux fluxbox version?” Oct 14, 07:15
Béranger on La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas: “Corect. Dar iată cum DOOM 3 face din decadă un deceniu: decadă s. f., g.-d. art. decadei; pl. decade (decada…” Oct 12, 23:59
Aldus on La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas: “Eu m-aș lua de academicieni și pe motivul că, alături de „căpșuni” ca plural la „căpșună”, au introdus „cireși” ca…” Oct 12, 23:56
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “UPDATE 3 regarding the battery levels of my 2nd Redragon mouse (M916-STD-1K): while it still looks like a calibration issue,…” Oct 12, 23:12
Béranger on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “Ideally, everyone should be using Debian, not a derivative of it. Unfortunately, Debian has these flaws: – Installing from a…” Oct 12, 19:58
HAL on From noatime to Wayland: more Linux mysteries: “I didn’t know about lazytime, but noatime is always on my Linux. if you want to break Debian, use MX!…” Oct 12, 19:11
Béranger on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “Some more observations regarding my recent interactions with chatbots: – ChatGPT behaved like a complete retard just today. – Gemini…” Oct 12, 15:56
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “simplewall is what people should actually use instead of COMODO Firewall, especially if they don’t use any antivirus (I still…” Oct 10, 23:29
Béranger on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “I am just writing a post about this. Don’t spoil the surprise. I started the post 2 days ago, but…” Oct 10, 20:37
zugu on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “Since we’re talking vibecoding, someone just vibecoded the entire Adobe Suite in Rust. And he’s also gonna do Microsoft Office.” Oct 10, 20:36
Béranger on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “I never cared about such shit, but thanks for the correction.” Oct 10, 20:29
zugu on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “Hugh Howey was actually quite popular before the Silo TV show, “Wool” was one of the first self-publishing success stories…” Oct 10, 20:28
Béranger on Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript): “Ventoy 1.1.18: “6. Fix Fedora 45 beta boot issue.”” Oct 10, 10:26
Béranger on Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?: “An update on my second Redragon mouse: frankly, I’m not satisfied! The first mouse is much better! M916-LIT-1K has a…” Oct 8, 22:47
Béranger on I quickly tested Manus AI: I guess it has potential: “Oh, fuck! Manus 2.0 is the new life of Manus! Is Manus 2.0 worth it? Perplexity answered!” Oct 8, 15:50
Béranger on Quick Luddite Notes at 70 notes!: “100 notes!” Oct 7, 18:51
Camil on Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?: “„Romanians are the only people on Earth to have more than 90% of the population writing on computers using the…” Oct 7, 06:10
Béranger on Now I am even more perplexed!: “Five months ago, Gemini helped me repair a washing machine! And I didn’t know what Nemotron 3 is, either! I’m…” Oct 6, 18:37
Zack on Now I am even more perplexed!: “In the spring of this year, I bought an annual Pro subscription to Perplexity for less than 5 euros on…” Oct 6, 17:19
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser 3.1.1: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!: “For the fun of it: 💬🕵️‍♂️ Calvin’s “Tracer Bullet” and “Tracer Bullet Returns”.” Oct 6, 14:50
Arqam on Clem is undoubtedly certifiable: “And there is one more app… https://github.com/xapp-project/velocitty” Oct 6, 02:51
HAL on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “For now, I’m mostly using Qwen for general use. It seems to be more or less okay. But I don’t…” Oct 5, 20:57
Béranger on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “$100 + Sales Tax or VAT. But as long as it’s not that bad… How can it be used for…” Oct 5, 17:03
shiggydiggy on Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me: “I’m actually very happy with Grok, both for general purpose questions, deep research (it is the best at browsing the…” Oct 5, 16:59
Béranger on Changes to Qwen I failed to notice: “More changes I noticed when using the Qwen app for Android: — On startup, Qwen Studio (ai.qwenlm.chat.android, version 2.10.0) claimed…” Oct 5, 02:00
Béranger on Linux is still booting up in 1980: ““Fedora Linux 45 replaces the legacy in-kernel console with kmscon, bringing smooth rendering, better Unicode/font support, and enhanced system stability.”…” Oct 4, 19:36
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser 3 is here!: “Version 3.1.1 was released. Details in this post: ComicStripBrowser 3.1.1: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!” Oct 4, 02:31
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “🎸 The kids from The Graystones are doing pretty well (knock on wood)” Oct 3, 20:03
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Toto – Georgy Porgy… cover by The Graystones and Evan Riley, live on August 21, with Izzy as vocalist! Evan…” Oct 3, 15:29