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✍️ 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 2 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…

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
Cozy on 8 reads on AI and Linux on the Small and Mainstream Web: “The Zane St. John reverse engineering write-up was pretty good! I was already aware of the residential proxy services many…” Aug 24, 18:19
Béranger on The miracle of the French subjunctive: “Es-tu une vraie personne, ou une IA qui met son cul sur la commode ?” Aug 24, 13:48
Greimas on The miracle of the French subjunctive: “Pas courante cette subtilité de langue… Ça m’a fait plaisir que tu la susses!” Aug 24, 13:45
Béranger on Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux: “Red Hat’s Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora. Really? Does anyone want their Wi-Fi card to…” Aug 24, 02:43
edel on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “All true, but in today’s phones that is not an issue. The fact that Firefox for Android is not as…” Aug 23, 20:18
ConEst on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “Apparently it’s a well known bug. Bug 1752594 – [meta] Tabs reload too often in Firefox for Android (Opened 4…” Aug 23, 20:09
ConEst on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “I know right!! I’m stuck with it because of all the features you mentioned. I use “Send All Tabs” to…” Aug 23, 20:04
Béranger on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “Nope. It’s the only browser I’m using on Android! Add-ons: uBlock Origin, Google Search Fixer, YouTube High Definition. Mozilla account…” Aug 23, 17:17
ConEst on Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡: “It’s the worst f***ing browser on Android. RAM optimization is so bad, it made me question my phone’s ability to…” Aug 23, 17:13
Béranger on Amendamentele Grădinaru și Fritz în deciziile CCR: Gemini: “Sorin Ioniță are un comentariu interesant pe FB: Fritz I și Fritz II 🔴 În cuvinte complicate, ca să nu…” Aug 23, 12:08
Béranger on Amendamentele Grădinaru și Fritz în deciziile CCR: Gemini: “CCR a publicat motivarea! DECIZIA nr.883 din 17 august 2026 (PDF). 35 de pagini, din care 24-35 constituie opinia separată…” Aug 21, 23:51
Béranger on I stopped believing in Ukraine, whatever that means: “Absolutely. Ukraine never started a war! (Only Putin and his minions spread false claims.) But there’s a catch with “if…” Aug 21, 16:59
Bill Dietrich on I stopped believing in Ukraine, whatever that means: “Now, please tell me how Ukraine is not like Russia? Ukraine didn’t start the war, and if Ukraine falls then…” Aug 21, 13:37
Béranger on AI and Linux: a bit of ranting: “Regarding the “GPT went rogue” hysteria, here’s a rather useless interview conducted by Ezra Klein with Helen Toner, director of…” Aug 21, 08:37
Béranger on Securitatea Wi-Fi-ului public: mituri vs. realitate: “Ben, c’est parce que j’ai mené cette conversation en roumain, vu que les campagnes de sensibilisation discutées étaient adressées au…” Aug 20, 18:09
HAL on Securitatea Wi-Fi-ului public: mituri vs. realitate: “Un subiect, un articol, care pare interesant, dar de ce să nu-l fi făcut în engleză? Este un subiect care…” Aug 20, 18:02
HAL on Odyssey Linux—not quite for me: “Hmm, I haven’t tried it, but your screenshots don’t make want to. Ugly, horrible, poorly put together… Same for the…” Aug 19, 22:17
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “For those interested in the myths of the ancient Greeks, here is a selection of videos. ❶ MUST-WATCH: Empire •…” Aug 17, 22:32
ConEst on A shorter visit to the Small Web: “I feel like I have been exposed to a whole new kind of web. Thanks a lot for this.” Aug 17, 09:36
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “La vreo 13 zile după ce a bătut câmpii la Val Vâlcu, Irina Margareta Nistor a dezvoltat măgăriile ei mult…” Aug 13, 19:09
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “GuYi went to Huaqiangbei in an attempt to repair her failing MSI laptop. There, she explored the huge electronics market,…” Aug 13, 09:23
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “Posted in Sept. 2025, this video lists every Odysseus adaptation before Christopher Nolan’s movie, while praising the 1968 Italian version:…” Aug 13, 09:06
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “Handicapata planetei, traducătoarea de filme distribuite de Securitate, se cacă pe Odiseea lui Nolan într-un interviu luat de Val Vâlcu:…” Aug 13, 08:55
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Your suggestions are quite interesting. I’ll give them a thought, although the way the app is designed, it might be…” Aug 12, 22:05
GARY GOCEK on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Just an enhancement request, since I don’t see another place to add this and there is no contact info on…” Aug 12, 22:01
Béranger on Despre cazul „Dumbrava”: “G4Media citează din motivația Curții de Apel care a desființat controlul judiciar și a respins integral propunerea de arestare a…” Aug 12, 11:29
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “Ezra Klein: Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul — ‘The Odyssey’ is the political movie of the decade. Transcript:…” Aug 10, 21:20
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “It’s understandable that you are bothered by such pronunciations. However, although it corresponds to Ὀδυσσεύς, Odysseus is more than a…” Aug 9, 08:31