Cristian Livadaru's Blog

My personal view on things

We're heading towards a dark future

Current political events are bringing up too many memories that shouldn’t be brought back. We’re heading towards a dark future, and if we continue down this path we will end up in a place I never thought would be possible again.

Enshittification of Social Media

A short talk about the current state of social media or rather it‘s Enshittification. What options are there and what are the downsides?

Fuck the war

One moment you are out and drinking a cup of coffee, the next moment you are in the middle of a war. You have done nothing wrong, your family and friends have done nothing wrong, but you are being slaughtered regardless.

Freedom of expression

Freedom of expression can be a complicated thing. Accepting that someone protests against core values of yours isn’t easy. I strongly believe that you have a right to your own opinion, but you can’t have your own facts.

Dear Austrian Bookstores, we need to talk!

Trying to do the right thing and buy local, avoiding big corporations isn’t as easy as you think. I noticed this trying to buy some books locally.

Transferring domains away from world4you

Domains transfers normally cause no downtime and no issues but if some registrar want’s to play rough it can definitely cause some headache.

The ugly side of fintech startups

Fintech is great, startups are great, everything happens so fast, progress, less bureaucracy, but is it really all sunshine and happiness? What happens if a bank decided to stop doing business in your country and you had only two months to change everything?

So, it finally happened in Austria

Bad news for all People driving a diesel car in Austria. Diesel is now more expensive the normal Gasoline On Sunday I noticed this and it didn’t change in the last days. A quick check over the internet shows that nothing changed. Well let’s see what comes next. Still waiting for a 100% electro car that can get me to work and back.


Winter is here

As expected and announced on the news, it snowed last night till today. But as every year there are some idiots, especially lory drivers, that think they are king of the road and they don’t need winter tires. Well the result of this was, as most of the time when it snows, trucks get stuck, blocking the freeway, by this blocking the complete traffic and also the cars that should clean the snow. Since last night, the A21 was blocked, thousands (as far as I can remember from the news) of people blocked on the freeway. All trucks coming from eastern europe trying to go towards germany where also blocked. The freeway S1 was a big lory parking lot. With lorries parked on the first lane and on the emergency lane for about 4 km. I would give them huge fines to driver and to the company that owns the lorries. But it’s not only the lorry drivers, also car drivers are stupid. Yes, you don’t have to have winter tires, but at least don’t be so fucking stupid to go anywhere with your car with summer tires if you see the huge snow amount on the street. If you where to fucking lazy to put on your winter tires in time, then leave your fucking car at home and use the public transport. I mean … it’s middle of november, when did you intend to put on your winter tires? March? April?


Computerworld - Just how did Microsoft get OOXML support in Eastern Europe?

This question, is simply answered by reading my blog about corruption

After the International Organization for Standardization voted to reject Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format as a standard, the detailed results from ISO member countries give us a lot of material to analyze.

Votes from South-eastern Europe and former Yugoslavia countries showed Microsoft’s domination of that market, and especially good connections with authorities because most of the national standardization bodies voted “Yes with no comments”.