MiKTeX fiasco

Since about 2017 MiKTeX throws SSL error 35 when trying to update or install packages. It has never been addressed. The severity of this error is 'catastrophic' as it leave users unable to compile their documents that use not yet installed packages.

What do you call developers who abandon their users and offer no solution to a complete showstopper bugs? I call them inconsiderate scumbags.

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Genius degenerates rule our world

Sheer arrogance of Virtualbox developers, who hide behind "volunteer" status on their support forum, redlines every time someone has feedback for them. Their response is always the same: it is the way it is and we are content with it. If you are not then bugger off.

As I had enough with FOSS developers lashing out at me for giving them feedback, my revenge is this blog: I write whatever I feel and think, and no one can ban or deride me for that. So, here we go.

If you, Virtualbox developers, are so genius that you are beyond reproach, then it should have been blatantly obvious for you that if one paused a VM and saved its state, then the paused state has to be part of the saved state. It's a state after all. But no, you do not save the paused state. In you demented, retarded genius, you do not give a thought to the importance or significance of the pause that is on the machine at the moment of saving. The user pauses it FOR A REASON, you dumb shits! When the machine is later restored, it must remain in the paused state. Or at least give us a check box: to unpause or not. Too hard, geniuses?

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Another Linux lie: we have remote desktop

Truth: you do not.

The developer of xrdp only tests his contraption with Gnome. Why he does it is beyond me, but that is what he says: he only cares about the desktop that he uses himself, and the rest of Linux users can go and kill themselves, for all he cares.

That asshole knows since Fedora 20 that he introduced a bug that killed all other desktops (KDE, LXCE, MATE) but up to the current Fedora 36? 37? 38? Whatever it is. Long story short, for many years he still does not bother to test his shitty code with any other desktops, and they do not work.

Anybody in Eastern Europe willing to pay that asshole a visit and break his legs? Just kidding. Don't do it: he does not deserve your loving care.

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Another Linux lie: we have antivirus software

Truth: you do not.

Enter Klamav, a KDE frontend for Clamav. In you divine wisdom, you, genius FOSS developers, decided to sunset old versions of Clamav by removing its update mirrors. The idea is to force us to upgrade to the latest version. Genius is as genius does, yeah? Not so fast.

Some of us are UNABLE to upgrade because we run older versions of Linux OS. Thus you cut us off the AV software.

So what does it have to do with Klamav? Well, the message about the mirrors being inaccessible contains a URL to check for new information, and that message is non-selectable. To add insult to injury, they also restructured their web site and removed the old /doc/mirrors-faq.html that the message mentions.

The sheer disdain for your users is showing in you having them re-type the whole URL by hand instead of copying and pasting, only to find out that the information is gone, and they've been hung out to dry. Are you still sure that you are as genius as you deem yourself? You are dumb assholes, in my books.

By the way, Clamav is a product of CISCO. How considerate of you!

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