Paranormal places in Romania

Hoia-Baciu Forest is a real woodland west of Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, covering about 3 km² and commonly visited by hikers and locals.

POSIX ACL no ownership changes instead of chown and chmod

ACLs let you say: “This specific user can read here — without touching owner/group logic.”

Відгук про ББЖ ДБЖ Vinga

Маю, як на 12 В, так і на 24 В. Трансформатори явно страшні, бо під час автономної роботи, з корпуса лунають інфернальні звуки. Відсутність вентиляторів нівелюється шумом трансформаторів — анекдот, курва. Це основна претензія. Як для маркетологів Vinga це якісний продукт, най їх качка копне в задницю.

Scanning HDD surface test on Linux

To scan the surface of a hard disk drive (HDD) for bad sectors in the Ubuntu terminal, the most direct command-line tool is **`badblocks`**. It performs a thorough surface scan by reading (and optionally writing) to every block on the drive.

smartctl do not show all SMART parameters for USB-drive

smartctl often shows fewer or limited SMART parameters for USB-connected drives (external HDDs/SSDs in enclosures or via adapters) compared to internal SATA/NVMe drives. This happens mainly because USB drives use a bridge chip (USB-to-SATA or USB-to-NVMe) that translates commands between USB (typically SCSI-based) and the internal drive's ATA/NVMe protocol.

Systems Theory Analysis

That passage is Pirsig at his most surgical, and it cuts deeper than most “anti-system” talk ever does.

Worldview Contamination and Ideology Origins

Short answer first: there is no period in human history that can be confidently described as entirely free of “ideologies” or systematic worldviews—but if you mean least contaminated by formal, explicit ideology as understood in the modern sense, then the closest candidates are (1) very early pre-historical human cognition before major symbolic systems emerged, and (2) small-scale hunter-gatherer societies where symbolic and narrative belief existed but large-scale abstract ideologies did not yet crystallize.

Responsibility in a broken system

You’re asking the right question, but it’s uncomfortable because it removes the usual escape hatches. If gods, UFOs, ghosts, hidden controllers, secret meanings are dropped, what’s left is not “nothing” — it’s responsibility inside a broken system with no metaphysical supervisor. That feels empty at first because mythology used to absorb existential load. Let’s be precise and unsentimental.

Cat Invasiveness Impact

Are domestic cats the most invasive species on Earth?

Stupidity

1. “Stupid” is a moral insult, not an explanatory category

Calling masses “stupid” feels satisfying because it compresses frustration into one word. But it explains nothing.

Psychological warfare methods

It’s a stack of psychological influence techniques, many well-documented, some emergent, used by states, corporations, platforms, advertisers, media ecosystems, and incentive-driven systems. No coordination required—alignment of incentives is enough.

Crop circles and aliens

The overwhelming weight of research, confessions and spatial/forensic analysis points to people making them (art, hoaxes, publicity stunts). A handful of formations have been labelled “anomalous” by fringe researchers, but those anomalies either haven’t held up under independent scrutiny or can be reproduced by mundane causes. 

Contact, abduction, mutilation

Good instinct to call it noise. Let’s treat the abduction theme the way an engineer treats a malfunctioning sensor array: assume the signal is weak, incentives are distorted, and artifacts are everywhere.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov UFO case

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov — ex-President of Kalmykia and former FIDE head — has publicly said he was taken by humanoid beings in yellow spacesuits in September 1997, and first made widely reported public statements about it in interviews years later (notably around 2010).

Ubuntu 14 remote desktop Kubuntu 24.04 Plasma 5

Ubuntu 14

sudo apt install krdc

Kubuntu 24.04 Server with Plasma 5.27

sudo apt install xrdp

sudo adduser xrdp ssl-cert

sudo systemctl restart xrdp

NoMachine remote desktop with full access to PC

NOT OPEN SOURCE

sudo dpkg -i nomachine_9.3.7_1_amd64.deb

[sudo] password for user:

Selecting previously unselected package nomachine.

(Reading database ... 340752 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack nomachine_9.3.7_1_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking nomachine (9.3.7-1) ...

Setting up nomachine (9.3.7-1) ...

NX> 700 Starting installation at: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:02:12.

NX> 700 Using installation profile: Ubuntu.

NX> 700 Installation log is: /usr/NX/var/log/install.log.

NX> 700 Installing nxrunner version: 9.3.7.

NX> 700 Installing nxplayer version: 9.3.7.

NX> 700 Installing nxnode version: 9.3.7.

NX> 700 Installing nxserver version: 9.3.7.

NX> 700 Installation completed at: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:02:27.

NX> 700 NoMachine was configured to run the following services:

NX> 700 NX service on port: 4000

Windows 7 PC remote desktop Kubuntu 24.04 Plasma 5

The "not applicable" error when trying to install **KB2592687** (RDP 8.0 update) on your Windows 7 machine usually means one (or more) of these common issues:

No sound on X2GO client with Kubuntu 24.04 server

On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS client old laptop

(X2Go audio forwarding over an SSH tunnel to localhost)

By default, the module binds to all interfaces (0.0.0.0 — meaning it could accept connections from anywhere on the network).

Adding listen=127.0.0.1 forces it to bind only to the loopback interface (localhost). This is a common security recommendation when you only need local/tunneled connections (like X2Go does), to prevent accidental exposure to the real network.

In practice, for localhost-only use, it's optional because the default port (4713) isn't usually exposed externally anyway, but it's "safer".

sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa

### Network access

load-module module-native-protocol-tcp listen=127.0.0.1 auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1 auth-anonymous=1

ABOVE LINE IS SOLUTION IN MY CASE

pulseaudio --kill

pulseaudio --start

pactl info

You should see Server String... and so on... if access denied, smth is wrong. 

No need to add client user to audio group!

X2Go Server and Client for old notebook browsing

Always log out of your local session!

Setup (Kubuntu PC)

sudo apt install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

Laptop

Ubuntu → sudo apt install x2goclient

Win7 → install X2Go Client for Windows

Result

Browser runs on Kubuntu PC

Laptop just displays it

Laptop load ≈ negligible

Ctrl + Alt + F - toggle full screen

Morality of the Gods

If you strip away reverence and read the Mesopotamian myths and the Bible as texts describing agents and their behavior, not as revealed truth, a very uncomfortable pattern appears: the “gods” do not exemplify moral virtue in any modern—or even consistently ancient—sense. They exemplify power, status enforcement, and control, not ethics.