Homo Ludditus

Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review

As someone wrote about it, The cast marshaled for this movie is an embarrassment of riches: Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, John Leguizamo, Mia [ ]

Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all

I hated PackageKit in 2008, then I got used to it as it became omnipresent, so I just ignored it. Most people have nothing against it (it’s for your security!) [ ]

Is there an ePub apocalypse? A case study and beyond it

A chat with Gemini, what else?

KDE Bug 342056: Thunar is still a great file manager

Phoronix, yesterday: KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times: Oh, my. Batching the copy, who would have thought of that? It s not like we didn t have [ ]

One more visit to the Small Web

At first, I couldn t stay awake, so I took a forced nap. Then I woke up and noticed that I just couldn t think. I couldn t focus on anything. I felt [ ]

Il ne valait mieux pas que je comprenne le français 🙄

« It is not because you are / I love you because I do / C est pas parce que you are me / Qu I am you, qu I am you » (Renaud). I [ ]

AI and Linux: a bit of ranting

From the hundreds of URLs visited per week, here are a bunch of comments based on a very short selection of news from the last 3 weeks. I am unhappy [ ]

Future Euro banknotes: a flop?

Christine Lagarde, president of the ECB: “After 20 years, it’s time to review the look of our banknotes to make them more relatable to Europeans of all ages and backgrounds.” [ ]

From Win11 IoT 24H2 to Win10 IoT 21H2 + KB5099539: Mais quelle horreur !

Downgrading from Win11 to Win10 is not something people do, unless they do that between IoT LTSC editions of Windows, and they use UpDownTool_LTSC_v3.iso. My history with the abominable Win11 [ ]

Eu tot mai cred că CJUE este mai nașpa și decât Lia

În tot balamucul din ultima vreme, hotărârea CJUE în cauza „Lin II” a cam fost uitată, și oricum a fost percepută doar ca o lovitură binevenită împotriva odioasei Lia. Însă [ ]

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IONOS: One more time, I survived

I m not 110% sure that I restored everything just as it was, but I had to delete my blog and recreate it on IONOS, the inept hosting solution I had [ ]

Românii sunt handicapați și sugeraniști în masă

Mă văd nevoit să mă disociez de retardarea mentală a tuturor oamenilor „de bine” sau „de rău”, fie ei „pro-europeni” sau „sugeraniști”. Sunt prea proști, maică. Nu că ambasadorul Germaniei [ ]

Camomile for your Windows laptop (if you really must)

Remember when I wrote Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux? Well, how about battery life and laptop s temperature in Windows? Despite using the Balanced power plan, there s no [ ]

The CCPA and the GDPR will eventually kill Linux

I don t expect people to read carefully the details that accompany the release of Debian 13.6. It s just a bunch of updates, right? Even I couldn t be bothered, but as [ ]

File Explorer: less annoying sans Automatic Folder Type Discovery

I prefer all folders to open by default in the compact List view; some other people prefer the Detailed view by default. Either way, only morons need a folder to [ ]

Is Ubuntu LTS a bad choice?

A couple of recent news seem to show a new trend against basing a distro on Ubuntu LTS. Is this bad news, or rather a positive development? First, TUXEDO OS [ ]

OpenAI’s Playground vs. ChatGPT

I m far from being a fan of ChatGPT, and my wife isn’t one, either, but she trumped me on this one. Unbeknownst to me, she was using for quite some [ ]

Procuratura RSR contra lui Raed Arafat

Raed Arafat are multe bube în cap. A venit în România ca eroul care a început să rezolve problema inexistenței echipamentelor de descarcerare la intervențiile în cazurile de accidente rutiere. [ ]

Nu mă omor cu Bolojan, dar Justiția suge toate cele

Nu am înțeles niciodată valul de contestări în instanță ale unor decizii interne de partid. Las la o parte celeritatea cu care se judecă aceste cauze, dar nu ar fi [ ]

Chat Control 1.0 is back on!

The Soviet Union of Europe is becoming more like Mother Russia because our Duma—sorry, I meant the European Parliament—is populated by retards who fell for the “it s to protect our [ ]

250 years of hypocrisy and lies

The United States celebrates, in a jingoistic and bombastic style, an independence obtained as a rebellion against unfair taxation following the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), the Townshend [ ]

Despre cazul „Dumbrava”

Inițial am colectat opinii și mărturii pe care le-am atașat la altă postare, sub forma unor comentarii. În cele din urmă, mi-am zis că e mai bine să le transform [ ]

Perspectiva narativă pizdodiegetică

Am plecat de la acest video scurt vertical (inițial vizionat pe FB) în care Dragoș Pătraru exprimă câteva idei pertinente, zic eu; este un extras din acest video de 41 [ ]

Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux

There is an open secret that a laptop’s battery life in Linux is worse than in Windows. At least, this was true for Win7-Win10, because Win11, I m told, is worse, [ ]

Când Justiția poate suspenda tot ce vrea ea: cazul ROMATSA ● Acum și Justiția belgiană!

Cazul ROMATSA este încă una din acele situații în care România se dovedește un Absurdistan complet, țara lui Papură Vodă, regatul lui Ubu. Din nefericire, nu doar judecătoarea Liana Alexe [ ]