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Lumo is beyond stupid. Don’t use it!
I never liked Lumo, but out of curiosity (or because of the cat mascot), I happen to ask it something or other once in a while. Recently, it gave me…
Minor updates in Copilot and Grok
I just noticed two updates in two of the 12 chatbots I'm using. Copilot now has 5 choices in a browser (Quick response, Think Deeper, Study and Learn, Smart (GPT-5),…
I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
Everyone swears by VirtualBox for Type 2 virtualization, most likely because it has always been free. But it's a complete piece of crap, and never was anything but a pain…
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is here!
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now available to anyone! Read the official announcement: Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5. Have some nice marketing images, too: From what I could see as a free…
Ascultați Radio Moldova online!
Cu ocazia confirmării menținerii 🇲🇩 Republicii Moldova pe o traiectorie suficient de antisovietică, m-am gândit să fac o păginuță care să faciliteze ascultarea online a celor trei posturi de 📻…
The Brian Crane Interview
I happen to like all kinds of comics, and I mentioned Pickles, the creation of Brian Crane, both in my post about GoComics and in my post on the GoComics…
Kimi’s useless “OK Computer” agent
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 is now enriched with an agent mode called “OK Computer”: Say hi to OK Computer, Kimi's agent mode 🤖🎸Your AI product & engineering team, all in…
When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year
As reported by Bleeping Computer, the consumer protection organization Euroconsumers has managed to determine Microsoft to provide one more year of free security updates to consumers in the EEA, without…
A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?
Here's a genuine problem, as per the drawing: A person who shopped at a supermarket is at point A. They could go take the bus either from the bus stop…
😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
Yeah, I know, the title seems written by a chatbot. Rest assured, the content is not. As announced almost four weeks ago, it's time for me to bid Linux farewell…
They cancelled Sabine H. for calling the emperor naked!
Sabine Hossenfelder, on YouTube: I can’t believe this really happened. From the description: “My former academic institution discontinued my affiliation with them after members of the community complained about my…
My chatbot use in the last week
In the last seven days, I needed to use several chatbots for personal reasons (no coding or anything) slightly more intensively than usual, and I was curious with regard to…
Some new AI shit: bric-à-brac
Nothing spectacular, and I wanted to report about all this stuff about a week ago, but personal issues prevented me from doing that. So here it is (better later than…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in a nutshell Founded in 2001, when Putin didn't seem such an ogre, with two official languages—Chinese and Russian—the SCO included as members, alongside China…
Claude’s new policies: a tempest in a teapot
Or is it a storm in a teacup? Either way, some people are hysteric for no good reason. Just as it has been reported by The Register, Anthropic is changing…
Sabine being Sabine, and the entanglement not being Einstein’s spooky action…
If you never heard of Sabine Hossenfelder, read my older post about her. This short one is meant to come with updates on her obsession and her raison d'être. On…
Google’s “nano-banana” & some Nvidia shit
I wasn't aware of Gemini's upgraded image editing capabilities based on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka nano-banana), “our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model.” It was announced on their blog,…
Frustrated, Exasperated, Done — Farewell to Linux Underway
Over the past months, I’ve started and kept as drafts several Linux-related posts. But frustration accumulated to the point when I just couldn't take it anymore, so I ditched them…
A chat about stablecoins, and pessimism regarding AI
I still don't believe in stablecoins! For the first topic, a bit of context. CNBC, on August 20: Crypto firms urge UK to form national stablecoin strategy to avoid falling…