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The Mental Retard In Linux Is Real

Friday, April 23. The day when decisions wanted to be taken, because things happened. Not much did happen, and nothing really important, but I am short-fused at times. Also, Linux […]

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I Wish Me Luck

After ten months of fierce fight with dozens of Linux monsters. After times when I thought I settled for Debian 10, ArcoLinux or Salient OS. After getting nuttier thanks to […]

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The Never-Ending Story Goes On!

Nobody ever reads it, but my previous post about COVID-19 got way too long after several updates, and to go post chapter THIRTY-SEVEN I decided to start a new post. […]

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Try not to get depressed these days!

Even before the pandemic, the number of ways the world is broken would have justified a moderate depression, but now things seem utterly unbearable. I was about to start writing […]

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How the Internet Age Has Bent Some People’s Minds

If I still needed an example of how the Internet made people stupid, even the smartest of them, today I was just served with one of the best examples. It […]

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Bing, He Loves Me

It’s a he, right? Like Jesus, huh. Because Bing loves me anyway, despite my feelings towards “him” being ambivalent. I use, depending on the mood, either of Google, DuckDuckGo, and […]

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Linux philosophy: Twitter humour

Nothing to do with my recent post on how everything is increasingly containerized, so pretty soon nobody would care about the smoothness, lightness and usability of your preferred desktop environment. […]

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Bitcoin’s evilness is more than Ransomware

I wanted to avoid writing about Bitcoin, for it’s too ample a subject, and even a book wouldn’t persuade some people on how many level Bitcoin is morally wrong and […]

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Everyone nowadays seems to be a fake expert

This pandemic revealed that many if not most “experts” in the fields of epidemiology, virology, public health, pharmacology, medicine are not much better than the snake oil salesmen from the […]

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China Strikes Back!

One month after we thought we have The Freedom to Blame China, some “objective journalists” try to make us return to the belief that, bats being bats, it’s much more […]

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I revealed a state secret about Jack Fartsey!

In the USSR, a joke ran as follows: a man returns after having disappeared for 15 years. “I was in jail for calling Stalin an idiot,” he says. “That’s a […]

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Status mundi in tempore coronavirus

Fututi sumus atque nec ignoramus. I mean, we’re fucked up, and we very well know it, but is it there still hope? I’m struggling to find the light at the […]

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România, plaiul legilor din pix (sau din pixeli)

Iar trebuie să fac ceva ce nu mai voiam a face, anume să scriu ceva în limba strămoșească, inteligibil doar pentru bizonul național. Ce să fac, blestemul de a mă […]

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I just discovered a really smart ordinary guy… on Amazon!

Not that there weren’t any other intelligent people with a wide range of interests among the 7.9bn on this planet, but most such individuals are anonymous, unknown outside a small […]

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The extra information meant he didn’t know she didn’t know…

Alex Bellos’s Monday puzzle in The Guardian online is something I once used to follow for a while, until the entire thing pissed me off too much. He’s no such […]

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Evil Twitter, Stupid Twitter

Once again, they restricted my (sporadic) use of Twitter. This time, their automatic snowflake protection mechanism reacted the very millisecond I posted the tweet. The recipient? A product of a […]

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Românii vs. COVID-19: note de front inutile

Timpul ne arată că imbecilitatea semenilor noștri este nemărginită și se auto-depășește ori, cum s-ar fi spus în alte vremuri, a atins noi și noi culmi de progres și civilizație. […]

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Referendum: un fiasco al TVR

Am aflat întâmplător despre noua idee (proastă) a TVR1: noua emisiune REFERENDUM, cu prima ediție pe 11 octombrie, difuzată simultan pe TVR1, TVR Internațional și TVR Moldova, precum și pe […]

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Biserica, românul, vaccinul: sutana sub care s-a ascuns diavolul

Cele mai recente două postări, întâmplările ulterioare, precum și unele reacții, nu m-au convins că românii ar fi altceva decât o specie modernă de pitecantropi, dar mi-am zis să mai […]

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Trying to understand the bullshit

It’s not a secret that I’m strongly against Bitcoin (I even believe cryptocurrencies at large are one of the major evils of this century), and I even disapprove of the […]

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Hating Wes Anderson with gusto

Wes Anderson is likely to be a genius, which is probably why I hate him so much. Or maybe The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) is what made me a h8r: […]

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I just discovered the junk of the Japanese junk food; it’s tasty!

Normally, this should have been a subject for Twitter, but being blocked for a week, I resorted to the only censorship-free place: my blog. I normally don’t care about Asian […]

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When the UNESCO creates malware: the Cookie Factory

Officially, “The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialised agency of the United Nations aimed at promoting world peace and security through international...

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The Apple Music Awards: See Why the World Is So Fucked-Up

This planet has absolutely no future not just because people are so stupid as to praise the cryptoshit, to invent NTFs (for idiots), to purchase a non-existing yacht in a […]

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Caffeine is what kills in those energy drinks

Contrary to what many people believe, it’s not the taurine that killed all those young people who were taking one can too many of energy drinks. It’s not even the […]

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Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

When I wrote The VPN Myth half a year ago, I expressed my preference for Windscribe VPN, which includes features such as R.O.B.E.R.T., a customizable advanced DNS and IP level […]

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Facebook Is Death!

When I first heard of the so-called Facebook Papers, I failed to understand what’s the whole fuss about: wasn’t it already old news that Facebook is harmful to humankind? What […]

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Don’t Look Up—This movie is meant to scare you

At first, I thought this film to be your typical American crap, especially as the cast includes too many big names. Most of them, really, weren’t necessary, but I just […]

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Until further notice…

…let’s consider the contents of the previous posts as outdated. For the time being I have no motivation to correct or update them, nor to add new posts.

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Carracci—what else?

I failed to update the blog with the coffees I’ve tried since the last post on this topic. I’ll only tell you what I settled for: Carracci. Despite the fact […]

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Should you live with no sense of smell…

…you’d be missing quite a lot. I happen to be a person to whom the olfactory and the tactile senses are crucial—not that I could imagine myself blind or deaf, […]

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The day the Chinese puzzles took over

I’m really furious when people don’t bother to look for the original source of whatever they’re posting on the Internet (I feel I have a duty). I’m also angry at […]

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Choosing the right poison

About one week ago I had exactly 50 types of tea at home. By tea, I don’t only understand black-oolong-green-white tea, but also the various plant infusions that are actually […]

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24-Hour Shifts: A Planet of Fools

Since I already posted today on an issue involving both logic and common sense, here’s another one, in the context of a human tragedy in Romania where it has been […]

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I really don’t have what to do at home #lockdown

That is, not counting the thousands of e-books, the thousands of scanned comic books, the thousands of movies (MKV/MP4/AVI), of music (MP3), etc. Tens of thousands of each. Oh, and […]

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In omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)

Sono nato inglese ma morirò italiano, said five years ago the most famous language teacher in Italy. Nobody thought though that this would happen so soon. Here’s a text I […]

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Le Twitter des cons

I’ve given up Facebook long ago; now I have the proof that Twitter isn’t any better anymore. A little social experiment proved to be “the last straw” (so to speak). […]

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Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links

More than three years ago, I discussed a few apps meant to help you learn a foreign language; while I still believe the best way to learn a language is […]

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Mon Gaston Berger de 2017

Oui, je sais, le Questionnaire caractérologique de Gaston Berger est fortement contesté de nos jours, mais il arrive que j’aie retrouvé les résultats de ce test que j’ai fait en […]

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The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin

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 […]

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The Miraculous Language Courses of the US Military + BONUS

The DLIFC (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center) prepares military linguists for the U.S. Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy using incredibly intense programs. Knowing...

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The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle

I wanted to resist this viral crap (because crap it is, alright), but in the end, what the heck, we’re all humans. I fail to understand why Wordle is such […]

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De la japonezi, prin Jordan Peterson, spre Dumnezeu (sau Michel Onfray?):...

După recentul sejur în patrie, am rămas cu gânduri și idei neexprimate, motiv pentru care găsesc necesară o postare în limba maternă, ca să nu mai chinui varianta mea de […]

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Questions on the delusion of losing weight

The weight loss industry is mostly a scam. Dietary supplements supposed to help you lose weight, either by “burning your fat” or by reducing the appetite, are usually expensive and […]

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5 months into Manjaro: harmless yet unacceptable breakage

I installed Manjaro XFCE on my new HP ProDesk 400 G6 Desktop Mini PC on March 14, and it worked flawlessly and without any incident until today, August 25, when […]

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O tâmpenie românească de București

Firește, numărul tâmpeniilor din România este aproape infinit, și sunt multe „cestiuni arzătoare la ordinea zilei”, inclusiv modul de compensare a facturii de electricitate, dar acum voiesc a vă...

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Cum se răspândesc zvonurile în retardata Românie

Onor corupta presă audiovizuală din spațiul carpato-danubiano-pontic mă fute la creier de ceva vreme încoace cu dezinformarea putinistă care sună așa: „În Elveția, dacă depășești consumul de energie,...

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Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți

Există un cetățean numit Dan Ungureanu, care mai publică aberații pe Contributors.ro. Una din ele, cea din 31.08.2022, mi-a sărit întâmplător în ochi și am încercat să comentez acolo chiar […]

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Online learning with Udemy and Domestika, but also on YouTube!

Today another Udemy sale campaign ends, and I didn’t purchase anything (strange enough, it featured courses from €11·99 for existing accounts, and from €14·99 for new students); this reminded me […]

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Language Learning Apps and YT Channels: Season 3

This comes as a late update to my previous post from 2021, Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links, which in turn was an update to a post […]

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